Miles O'Brien

Funny Spock

Oh god please no

Give me socially awkward, trying to be funny but not quite getting it yet Spock.

Sorry about that sensor glitch, I’ll get right on repairs.

I’ve got to figure out how they keep slipping past the isolation matrix…

If that’s what you took away from my comments, have fun I guess.

I told him the game focuses on the group and if he’s not part of the group then he won’t be playing, and since that first game he has participated, with few issues popping up.

I probably could have been clearer before we even got to the table that if you aren’t playing with the group then you aren’t playing, rather than just expect them to stick with a group on their first game.

I told him multiple times that if he was going to try and do his own thing, he won’t be participating with the group, and the group is the entire focus of the game.

I suppose I could have made it more explicit that he could join the group or he could leave the game.

I should add that that was many games ago, and he has since begun participating, although he often tries to go his own way and threatens to leave the group constantly, but so far he hasn’t actually tried leaving the group unless it was agreed upon for strategy reasons. (they split up inside a crypt in the most horror movie fashion possible)

let people roll to see if something happens

Oh god so many DMs in the past have done this, and I just roll my eyes every time.

Like I’m okay if you want to roll your own dice behind the screen to see if we get attacked overnight, but that should be the only kind of “roll to see what happens” going on.

I really need to do some kind of team building exercise before a game, something that they’ll want to do, but requires teamwork, just to demonstrate the point that they need to work together.

When my first character did the whole “I’m gonna be all by myself because I’m a lone wolf” thing, the DM let me go off and the totally unexpected happened and my character got into a scuffle he wasn’t prepared for, but a group sure would have been.

I started running games for my wife and her niblings, and the oldest boy is getting into that “I’m such a rebel” phase where they think they’re bad ass for taking slightly longer to do a chore than needed and say “no” the first time you ask them to do something.

He thought it was hilarious to have a character that refused to join the rest of the group, so I said “okay, you can stay at the inn if you want” and then proceeded to intentionally ignore anything he was saying or doing, leaving him out of rolls, and never addressing him.

He’s 12 and started literally crying to his mother about how we’re all being mean to him. Apparently “he had the opportunity to participate and chose not to” wasn’t a good enough response to his mother. I stand by my choice. Although my wife managed to convince me to let him “rejoin” at the next town/session.

He doesn’t pull that shit anymore though, when he’s playing he’s playing or he gets shut out again.

Genuine question to anyone reading: does that make me a bad DM? If so, suggestions on how to handle it?

I’m a big fan of “you all wake up in loincloths sitting in a wagon, hands bound” and as long as someone at the table can roll higher than a 1, they can break free.

Or something attacks them while they’re all in a tavern

Basically I’m a fan of “you could ignore having your shit kicked in, but will you?” since so many players would stop at nothing.

Fallout NV had the right idea. “Where’s that little fucker who shot me in the head?!”

It works at the current 93 billion light years of observable universe (46ish in every direction)

38 digits of pi can get the circumference of the visible universe to within a single hydrogen atom.

10 digits gets the diameter of the earth to within an inch.

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So I’m gonna go looking once I hit “post”, but anyone got any links to specific cams?

Edit: I found https://www.openoceans.org/web-cams

Shiny!

You know, it’s always funny when sci-fi shows have doctors that refer to current year medical practices as “barbaric” or “Savage”, but honestly looking back just 50 years? Same feeling.

200 years ago, the local “doctor” will probably tell you to take a swig of the bottle he just dumped on your wound, because he’s gotta saw it off. Hopefully they at least washed it since it’s last use.

200 years from now? Eh. Doc will wave a light over it, you’ll be fine.

My wife thinks I’m obsessed too.

She’s right, of course.

But she doesn’t have to remind me of it…

Joke’s on her, I turned her into a nerd. She bought the silmarillion.

Every time I see a post like this I go pat my Ruger MPR and tell it it’s just as good.

I’m not complaining I love seeing other setups because it gives me ideas. 10/10, love the setup.

How do you like shorter foregrips vs longer? I tend to go with longer just for the extra grip I get, is there any particular reason behind a shorty?

I’ve been wanting to get a decent holo/magnifier combo, maybe as a canted sight on my AR or a main sight for my PCC, but they all seem to be so expensive. You have to pay for quality though, I’ve seen cheap holos shatter on people at the range.

I’m exactly like that.

Can’t remember important things from a week ago, but I could tell you the plot of any random Farscape episode if I see 5 seconds of it.

Also it wasn’t 20…years… August 2000 oh… Oh god… If you’ll excuse me I’m going to go curl up in a ball for a bit and have an existential crisis about a show I enjoyed as a teenager having the audacity to remind me of my age.

Yes.

They were out of sync with the rest of the galaxy for at least 3 months, as that’s how long the Tok’ra have been trying to contact them. 10-12 hours per loop, being generous with the time frame, he got smashed in the face about 200 times.

I say this a bit louder than normal whenever I notice someone is zoning out. I think it’s funny, we have a little chuckle, and move on.

I’m hoping someday to find someone who knows what it’s from.

Legitimately my favorite episode.

Nobody can ever know teal’c’s pain.