Miles O'Brien

I would argue you can absolutely disprove it, empirically. By demonstrating. Just do the thing and go “wow it didn’t take forever!”

I haven’t read it in full in well over 15 years, but that comment made me go find it.

I am not okay today if this is making me cry and I just woke up an hour ago…

I love it

But I don’t want to date a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

Oh wait, that’s a different kind…

It’s called Dragon Storm, and it’s funny you mention friends inventing it because my family does know the only living creator. It’s been an interesting story with all the legal issues and tracking down business partners.

The game is very much modeled after D&D. It has some basic campaigns you can run, and has some general background lore.

The premise is that there’s are weird magic storms that pop up sometimes (Dragon Storms) and make some people (who have dragon blood) turn into magical creatures like werewolves, unicorns, Pegasus, as well as regular animals like wolves and horses. It’s more than those couple, but it’s been quite some time since I played and am having trouble recalling things I didn’t personally have as characters… They later added dragon-kin that are either full-blooded dragons that take humaoid forms, or descendants of dragons that banged humanoids in humanoid form. Those tend to be more powerful.

You use cards and dice to do things and have character sheets to keep track of stats.

I personally think the game is too rigid in its rules and world building, with the card aspect. I’ve had players argue with me over whether I’m allowed to alter stats of things on the cards for the narrative. I’ve had plenty of players meta-game with their memory of the cards. “Rule 3.14” is the Dragon Storm “Rule of Cool”

It was fun to play growing up, though I wish my family had also played D&D.

A ttrpg with cards and people usually bring minifigs and map grids, if not DM supplied custom maps.

I can help you out with 2 of those 3 things!

There’s a D&D-like game that I used to play that actually has education requirements to read different languages. If your background didn’t give you the trait, you had to learn from someone who knew how to read.

It made for some interesting role-playing when normally intelligent people were playing illiterate characters.

And nothing of value was lost.

Personally I choose to believe violet08 is a robotic cat, and simply pretending to be a woman in hornyposting mode because they enjoy trolling.

Because the kind of brain that thinks “I deserve all this money” is broken, and not even close to resembling the brain that thinks “I should use the extra money I have to help others”

The two things are incompatible. Shit, I wouldn’t even feel comfortable showing my face to employees who don’t earn close to what I take. I’d be too ashamed that I’m essentially stealing from them since I’m not doing to work of 20 people (let alone 150,000) by myself.

The brain that doesn’t have that shame doesn’t even think about others, unless it’s in the context of “how can I exploit this”

And what country are you from where racism is not an issue?

No really, where, because a non-racist place to live sounds fantastic, especially nowadays.

I mean, you’re the weirdo accepting random liquids from someone.

This is my only issue with having three dogs.

I only have two hands.

So if I come home and they all want attention, I have to split pets between all of them in short intervals or they start pushing each other (and me) around trying to get attention. Or rather, the biggest one pushes in and the smaller two have to climb over themselves to get to my other hand.

I’m not a fan of nukes.

I say we get about 1,000 people, some bulldozers, and then squish everything into one big pile in the middle. That should be enough, but we can always run over it a few times with a steamroller for good measure.

Call it “Mt. Capitalism” or maybe “Mt. Inheritance” and leave it as a warning.

You need another stone that has gaps slotted into it to slide against the cupped stone. That helps keep things flat. Not perfect but good enough for my knife making hobby.

I don’t need computers to eat.

Yet.

Always a good idea. You never know when surprise wish twists will show up.

I imagined it more like “the show is now your real life” but definitely didn’t specify “not becoming an actor to play a part” but yeah.

Iwas envisioning something like Firefly, the Expanse (but less dangerous) or literally any game where the plot involves you being on a small cargo-capable ship with light guns and tons of questionable illegal mods.

Let’s be honest, I was picturing the Millennium Falcon…

He should have wished to be the protagonist in his very own sci-fi space show set on a “light freighter” style of ship.

Then you’re guaranteed at least two romance options (four, if you swing more than one way), your own ship, and plot armor.