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I've been job searching lately, and a job in my area is to be a "Budtender" for a local Marijuana Shop. It requires a college education.

Pretty sure Russian police are comparable to American police in murderousness. Except ours are much more corrupt.

Do Russian police flip the fuck out and murder people in cold blood for seemingly no reason at all? Or bust into the homes of innocent people and light the place up? I'm actually asking, I don't know what they do over there in Russia.

A really stupid thing to be happy about: just being motivated enough to re-make a resume and start job searching again. Like, I'm feeling like that's the essence of being alive, just being concerned enough about your own welfare to try to keep living. I'm going through these job listing that are written in the typical, ambiguous corporate bullshit-ese that I'm so familiar with and hate so much, but I'm thinking "If I can slog through these without complaining, that proves that this is the most not-depressed I've ever been."

Fingers crossed, no jinxes.

I've been recently inspired lately. Something about it frequently feeling like I have to exert serious effort just to move my legs, and my natural gait getting deformed by how overweight and unbalanced I am, has convinced me to exert a bit more effort on myself. I haven't had any processed sugars in like, five days or something, and I've been going out on lengthy walks outside, with even a little bit of light jogging thrown in here and there (but no more than that jesus my body can't handle it) and I'm already feeling pretty good and more mobile.

Placing the onus of climate change on individuals is laughable. If the cause is not championed by government, who in turn force reform onto industries and businesses and try to encourage other countries to do the same, all the well-intentioned environmentalists of the world will just have to keep watching the world burn.

I've been enjoying WoolieVS on youtube lately, as they're playing through the improved Disco Elysium w/ voice acting now. The patch notes however have informed me that there's more than that, there's new content as well... so damnit I have to replay the game and play it faster than Woolie in order to get to the new content before he does.

So the new playthrough of DE is fucking awesome. Just so much good shit, SO MUCH that I keep stumbling over new things where I thought I had completely plumbed out every last little bit of content. This is such an excessive, absurd, perfectionist-to-the-extreme level of polish, I can't help but appreciate every little bit. This is one of those games where you get WAY more than you could ever initially expect; it's just such a precious jewel of a game that just keeps on giving.

Quote from: scriver on April 23, 2021, 05:06:54 pm

. Even common house cats are lethal to ordinary people.

Wait what? What's your idea of "ordinary people"? I , as a reasonably able bodied adult male, feel reasonably confident that I'd be able to kick to death any animal significatively smaller than me. With a stick the range of things I could bludgeon to death increases significatively.

He probably means Commoners, whose stats stipulate they have exactly 1d8 health, averaging 4 hp, and a housecat can do 1d1 damage in an attack. It only takes on average 4 cat scratches to kill a normal peasant, they're really just pathetically weak.

Quote from: JoshuaFH on April 22, 2021, 11:00:06 am

My One Shot went over really well! Everyone had a lot of fun and it turned out great. One of my players powerbombing an enemy from a 20ft guard tower right at the start really set the tone for the rest of the encounter.

Nice! What was the premise?

I was a player in a "Lost Mines of Phandelver" campaign, and one thing leads to another, and we're homebrewing the fuck out of what is a meant to be a linear and railroaded module. One player is going to be missing for this week's session, and I'd expressed interest in DM'ing myself at some point, so he offered that I take over as DM for one week, constructing a scenario that was relevant to what was happening currently.

Basically, an NPC had asked the crew to handle some Cultists, and ORDINARILY this would mean kicking them out of the little shack they'd occupied, but I expanded that to be a fortified compound with several buildings and multiple encounters throughout. My own character was mysteriously absent for this oneshot, so my DM brought over his own character from an entirely different campaign, and I ran the entire thing for them. They quite enjoyed themselves, from the impromptu Pro Wrestling, to the totally pointless pony I placed in the middle of a field, to the cleric getting jumped by four zombies, and the final encounter with the Cult Elite, where it was revealed little by little that the Cultists weren't just evil bad guys, but plausible good guys that had interpersonal relationships with eachother and a pet cat. All the Cultists except the leader were killed, who was captured alive. Next week I'm returning as a player and my DM is taking the reins again, so he gets to work with the results of that one shot.

I really enjoyed it, and I think everyone enjoyed it. Though I didn't get to surprise anyone with a Mimic encounter I had prepared though, I wanted to do that but the session ran over our normal schedule by an hour and so intended encounters had to be pruned off the agenda so that everything could be wrapped up in one night.