Denied.

Extreme weather phenomenon. Something about a wave reveberation.

We are. But thank you for the concern.

Congratulations. Having high level characters and well rounded players does make everything smoother. If you’ve had those, I envy you. But not much.

I’ve managed a couple of games but I always made my plots to willfully accomodate chaos. I like to reward stupidity and recklessness. After a couple of disastrous events, the table tends to settle down and the mood tends to loosen up.

I’m fairly comfortable saying we have different approaches to playing and play directing. Which is good.

That is scripting.

Are we playing a campaign or renacting the Lord of the Rings?

Live for the chaos and mayhem. Expect it. Thrive from it. And tell the players that if their precious avatar dies, it’s on them, exclusively.

A campaign should be built around goals, capable of being moved around, delayed or put ahead of schedule as needed.

The players are walking in the campaign blind. It’s not their concern if a random action - that may be completely in line with their character - ampers, deviates or collapses the entire campaign.

Set wide goals, expect mayhem, have fun. Anything more than this is wishful thinking.

DnD is no more just dungeons and dragons. The moment it becomes an open world, the players roam around and do mischief.

If you want to play out your dream campaingn, write a book. It will never play as you expect or want. Unless you have the play fully scripted, with fixed roles and outcomes, it will derail.

You’re welcome to down vote to your content.

I made a promise to myself that no matter what, I would love my children. It’s not my life, it is their life to live and find happiness and fullfillement. And if my children are happy, I am happy. Nothing more, nothing less.

Try store brand first. I have first hand experience with Lidl and it’s good. But then again, my mouth is very tolerant regarding care.

From my country, Portugal, I can recommend Pasta Medicinal Couto.

It’s a staple from decades ago. Never used it but people who do swear by it.

And after this, I think I have to try it.

I live in an area where fires are frequent and aerial cables plentiful.

Once in a while, a crew comes around and picks up all the broken cable. But considering these are mostly glass, non insulated cables, I’d risk it just becomes another inert part of the soil.

Hopefully, there will be a retrieval plan, after all the madness ends.

There’s another unnecessary organization. And an evil one, at that.

Someone has a tender spot.

Nope. Grow a mind and learn proper insult, hot breath.

You mind doing me a favour? Please.

Stop calling cops pigs. It’s idiotic, ridiculous and insultuous towards actual pigs.

If you feel the need to throw insults, do so; just make use of some imagination. Don’t be afraid of being baroqe.

Call them door kickers, grave fillers, trigger jockeys, wall jumpers… Say they’re as sharp as an army boot or that they’re a waste of fresh air or unneeded space filling.

Just make it an actual insult, not a comparison to an animal that does not deserve it.

Or better yet, despise them to such a point that you make the word cop an insult by itself.

There is nothing simple in removing a nation from a treaty, even more when it involves such degree of integration as we have in the EU. Remember Brexit. It was a complete disaster.

Saying there is a need to remake this or that institution is also not a good idea.

UN as it exists is undermined. Either all countries of good faith band together and forcefully ignore the treaties on which the alliance predicates in order to force change or those countries simply ignore UN and create a new international organization, with the same purpose but with more muscle and bite behind it. In my view, the UN could evolve to what could become a global federation and the prototype of a unified, transnational, government.

Regarding the EU, it is by default, to my knowledge, an ever evolving organism. New agreements, treaties, etc, are constantly being drafted, negotiated, etc. It is, very obviously and objectively, a large, cumbersome, slow beast but it has created very good initiatives that have created good outcomes for all.

But the bulls will only either kill you or break a few bones if you don’t get out of their way. Here, the “bulls” make sure to corner you and pummell you down, just for the thrill of it.

That is essentialy the principle of good faith.

Unfortunately, good faith only goes so far and things have reached a tipping point where clear cut, non dependent of votes and agreements, sanctions and limitations to members states are established.

My own country prefers to pay an yearly fine instead of ending the double taxation in place on fuels.

Hungary is veering further and further towards a totalitarian regime. Arguing that people voted for it is an empty reply. The country is plunging into the completely opposite direction of what a democratic state is.

So stripping the country of its voting rights is not enough.

That’s Easter. But since you mention it, there was a time when coal was to be given to the bad kids, which by default were all the non-white and not poor kids.

Bigoted enough for you? I grew up still listening echos of that shit.

I think it is mandatory. There is a very precise rite to declare a pope as deceased.

I was taughy any sentence fragment between commas is added, yet not vital, information to a sentence, capable of being removed without taking away any crucial information conveied.

It fits the rules.

And, commas also act as a way to convey the rithym you intend your sentences to be read.

I have a really hard time reading english and not feel rushed to do it.

There is being atheist and there is being anti-theist.

The way you express yourself, it seems you lean more into the second. Which I find intriguing because in order to be anti-theist, you first need to give any value to the theist claims.

As you do seem very invested in supporting and uplifting those that are wronged by a creed, why do you opt to attack any and all believer, by default, instead of trying to find people that share your exact concerns?

It doesn’t matter if someone takes Santa Claus, the Krampus, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy as real or if they hold the hope of meeting again their loved ones after they die. People are here, today, living, breathing, suffering.

The bending and changing of those same “holy” precepts is what allows people to diverge abd evolve the way they understand others and the world.

Anti-theism fell out of favour in the 2010’s. Too much vitriol. Reason does not cancel hope and dreams but it should cancel hollow arguments, including those reason itself raises.