Our group had a GM who would always create a GMPC, but instead of being the deus ex machina to fix everything, his character was designed to get the party in trouble and distract them from what they were trying to do. A walking plot complication. And no matter how hard we tried to get rid of that character - leave…

“We certainly won’t get involved in that,” he said, when asked if the company would seek concessions or incentives for the developments from Indian officials. “Not at all.”

If they don’t hug your ankles, they’re pants. I guess. Semantics.

Can everyone start barking every time our embarrassment of a president and his racist anti-science cronies talk? That would be awesome.

My husband used to prefer booths because they often get you out of traffic areas and usually have better cushioning on the seats. But health issues have meant his girth has expanded in recent years, and most booths have fixed table surfaces that don’t give him enough room to sit comfortably. We now ask for the…

It’s been said by many already, but it’s the dog owners that you have to look out for. They think everything their precious pooch does is adorable, including barking at everything and sometimes even biting, jumping on everyone, and getting into everything. I’m crazy about dogs, but I do not want to deal with those…

Now I wish my group could have something like this, a “filler” campaign for when people are absent. It could be made up of unconnected one-shots instead of an overarching story, and would give me an opportunity to play all the characters I’ve imagined that wouldn’t fit comfortably into a long-term heroic campaign.

How fortuitous to find this article. I had never heard of Poppy until yesterday, when my spouse and I watched a Good Mythical Motning video featuring Rhett and Linc interacting with Poppy. Now I am slightly less confused.

I’m so much in agreement with this! I hate this trend of every dining establishment having televisions. If I want to watch tv while I eat, I’ll stay home. I already have my smart phone to distract me if I need a distraction.

My spouse and I both have lymphedema in our feet. We have to take our shoes off sometimes before it becomes painful. Flying increases the swelling. Don’t assume all people who take their shoes off are inconsiderate jerks.

Thanks there are a lot of people here who are bitter and unable to focus on the main goal - GETTING OUT.

I know! After I finished grad school I got a job right away to keep me housed and fed while I looked for my “real” job in my degree field. After I made the decision that I wasn’t willing to move elsewhere, I got another job, not in my degree field. I’ve been there for 20+ years. I like the people and it’s interesting…

Hey, it’s a costume drama. Isn’t there a clause in Helena’s contract that says she has to be in all British-cast costume dramas?

They don’t get the point that for a society to produce generous individuals, society itself must be generous.

These folks have all created wonderful costumes. But every time I see one of these compilations, I feel there’s something missing. All of the cosplayers are young, attractive, and cosplaying characters from media. 90% of them are also white. Why aren’t there more people of color? Where are people who cosplay amazing o…

I grew up during a time period where gas stations had attendants who pumped your gas for you, and that was the norm for everywhere in the US until the 1970s at least. But once gas pumps started appearing at convenience stores and gas stations stopped having attendants pump the gas (and wash your windows and top up…

I’ve been really fortunate not to experience that kind of thing as an adult, perhaps because I don’t fit the conventional standards of female attractiveness. But when I was eleven there was a boy in my school who used to walk up behind me in the hallway while we were transferring between classes almost every day, and…

I spend more time with my coworkers than I do with my family and friends. I’d rather keep those two groups separate. A few years ago one of my closest friends and I were teammates under the same supervisor. I’m glad now that we no longer work at the same company and our friend time can just be about friendship and not…

I’m not sure it’s just the complacent who are the problem. I suspect there are plenty of selfish people lacking compassion in the middle class as well as the 1%.

I never did much leg-jiggling when I was younger. It seemed odd to me to see other people doing it, and I noticed a prevalence of that action among young men.