Tar_Alcaran

That’s not soap, they’re holystoning the porch.

You’re… Reading a lot of things I never said.

I can fucking tell you run a 30 second timer. This is absolutely the mindset of someone with a 30 second timer.

You want everyone to have quick turns, so you set up a timer

The timer wasn’t imposed from upon the high seat of the Almighty GM, it’s a thing everyone at the table decided on, because we all want to keep the combat flowing. I know it must look impossible to you, but all the players like taking their turn, and not waiting. Hell, one of the players brings the thing.

one of your players is using fireball over and over. As if it’s a default action they took due to being rushed. Like I said would happen in the first place.

Nobody is “taking Fireball as a default action”. I said nobody wanted to wait for someone to look up a commonly used spell yet again, when you could have done that before, or just made a note or something. You literally just made this up after ignoring half of my paragraph.

I find it interesting that you say “the onus is on [the players]” as a benefit, because the main problem you listed for actually talking to them is that they might say you were at fault if you forget. You want it to be that, if anything goes wrong, it’s only because of what other people did. You don’t want to be responsible.

You are right that nobody at the table, including me, wants to take the responsibility for someone else paying attention. We’re all adults, and neither our children or parents are at the table. We’re there to play a game, not to constantly remind other adults of what they’re supposed to do.

Also, small detail, it’s a 30 second timer to START. We don’t watching someone do stuff, we mind watching someone look at paper.

I don’t understand why people wanting things to move along upsets you so much? Is a timer such a horrible thing that it actually makes you angry at someone who doesn’t play like you do? I called the reply snobby because you seem to believe we are Doing It Wrong, and that’s an incredibly snobby thing to do.

Wow that’s an incredibly snobby snobby answer, and I’ll just assume it just came out wrong somehow.

And honestly, I couldn’t agree less. I don’t want to make everyone’s problem that Sally Slowpoke isn’t paying attention or taking a super long time. I want them to fix it themselves.

Poking the next person creates a reliance, and worse, an excuse (“they didn’t poke me, how was I supposed to know?”), putting down a timer makes it clear that the onus is on you. If you didn’t pay attention, that’s your fault.

And I’ll go one further: I think it’s very disrespectful to make everyone wait while you read stuff that you could have read earlier. If you need to check the exact requirements of some obscure spell, sure. But if you need to look up Fireball for the 6th time this game and we all have to wait again while you do it, that’s kind of a dick move.

I run a 30 second timer before you have to start doing stuff. If you’re not finished, that’s fine, but you have to do a thing within 30 seconds. I don’t want everyone waiting because you didn’t prepare, when they all did.

The idea of a timer is that you already do that, so that you’re ready to go when yours comes up.

And I don’t know any GM who won’t give you a break from the timer if the person who went before you changed something huge. Like, if someone summoned a demon, you blew up a bridge, you get some extra time to work out a new turn…

Is that the gold leg or the silver leg?

Good idea!

I agree that’s it’s a valid game mechanic. It’s just one I don’t like.

It’s a small piece of the gameplay, but the randomness it forces rather than just always using OP moves gives it a lot of replayability.

This was basically the reason for me to never play it again (with the dreadfully poorly made “socializing” part a close second). I absolutely hate when my strategy has to be based on randomness and I need to hope for a good card to do the thing I want.

It’s absolutely a deckbuilding game, just not a roguelite deckbuilder.

I’ve heard this is basically the same reason why autocad will never move away from their fucking terrible UI. Too many people have spent too many hours getting really good at using it, and the investment cliff is too big now.

Did the Proud Boys not understand

No

Between Anonymous, Occupy, and proud boys all using the same mask, the only shared symbolism for the Guy Fawkes mask is really “resistance” of some kind. Which is so broad, it’s hard to call it a symbol at all.

5e, the game that’s basically written around epic heroism isn’t gritty and dark enough? Shock. Gasp.

Is there an official Dark Sun setting for 5e yet?

Charcoal isn’t as bad as wood, it creates less smoke and the most complex chemicals are already gone. Gas is better, since it burns much cleaner, and electric obviously doesn’t create any gasses at all.

On the other hand, grilling and smoking red meat means dripping fat, which means smoke, meaning you create a whole new set of PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), which you breathe in and get stuck to the meat and those are carcinogens. On top of that, red meat is already not too great for you. Eating burned food (charring) is also really unhealthy.

But assuming you don’t spend every day breathing mostly bbq-smoke and gasses, I wouldn’t worry about this too much. If your main diet is home grilled beef over self-made charcoal, you definitely need to reevaluate your lifestyle choices though.

I work in hazardous materials handling and safety, and I studied chemistry. I’ve done a lot of soil remediation and I’m pretty up to date on how we (Europeans) handle the safety of our air, food and water.

So, good news: your air hasn’t been cleaner since basically we started burning coal. Your drinking water hasn’t been this safe since, oh, pre-agrarian times. Your food is probably less nutritious per gram thanks to faster growing food, but your diet is (potentially) better than any human has ever had (depending on your personal choices).

That said, there are some things I avoid like the plague:

• Swimming in open water. It’s (potentially) full of parasites, toxic algae, human and cattle feces and chemical runoff. Probably not all at once, but still. YMMV if you don’t live near the sea, mountain streams are much cleaner then those at the river delta.

• Home grown food from urban gardens. Your soil is probably completely untested, and the idea of “maybe I shouldn’t just pour chemical waste out of the window” is barely 4 decades old. And that’s counting the dubious quality of planter soil that is basically unregulated, and what people use as decoration. (Do NOT use wooden railroad ties or tires as planters for food). And of course what people use as pesticides isn’t exactly closely monitored either.

• Drinking water from wells, springs etc. see all the above.

• Ordering anything with wish/aliexpress that comes in contact with food. You know that stuff is completely unregulated, why the hell would you lick it? Nobody knows what it’s made of.

And there’s one thing I don’t avoid, but it’s super unhealthy: wood fires. Yeah, a hearth or a campfire is awesome, but the smoke is super fucking bad for you. The carcinogens are stronger and last longer than in cigarettes, and its a hell of a lot more of them. I lie to myself and say it’s worth it though, and that I don’t do it every day, and other bad excuses.

I can promise you it’s not nearly as bad as not taking your insulin.

I think you’re confusing volatile organic compounds like chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and HFCFs with general aerosols. CFCs destroy the ozone layer, and are banned worldwide.

Aerosola are just droplets in a gas. Clouds are aerosols. They’re perfectly safe to use in general, assuming the droplets and the gas are safe.

You make clotted cream from milk? Doesn’t that take like a week? Don’t you usually start with some form of cream?

I mean, I made it once from double cream, but they don’t sell that here in the Netherlands, and it’s so not worth the time compared to just buying a jar of clotted cream.

More power to you though!

And more

It’s achieved by saying, “I know you don’t really mean that” when someone says some weird shit

And what if, as frequently happens, they do in fact mean it?

So, how DO you have a conversation with a group that thinks you or your friends aren’t people?