I mean I’m kind of afraid of the world. This planet has earthquakes and volcanoes and pandemics and tsunamis and prions and cancer and war and landmines and maybe a big asteroid every billion years.
No reason not to enjoy everything we’ve got, of course. It’s still the best home.
Mormonism?
Daycares if you grew up in the 90s
Nobody wearing those granny panties is talking about sex
Coffee?
Mormons, jehovas witnesses, probably other religions too
There is a krishna restaurant nearby, they have excellent food but no coffee (nor carbonated water for some reason).
Don’t play Dungeons and Dragons or Satan will get you.
*don’t play DnD with a killer DM.
Unless you’re into that. (I assure you, it’s way more exciting if you let me occasionally kill a character. I promise it won’t happen too often, and it’ll be in the oneshots… which i tune to be challenging.)
but if you play with a carebear DM… you’ll get fluff campaigns.
Killer DMs are fine, so long as they show up with a stack of character sheets and you know what you’re getting into. There’s a D&D variant called “Kobolds Ate My Baby” where you immediately respawn the turn after you die as a new Kobold and charge right back into the mix.
if you play with a carebear DM… you’ll get fluff campaigns
Story heavy campaigns with generous rules for resurrection and a focus on social interaction over combat give you more time to engage in high drama. When you’re not worried about a bad die roll ending a character arc, you don’t feel the urge to minmax in order to have fun and can play up the fluffier aspects of the game.
Perma-Death also tends to mean more when it happens less often. Having an “In Memoriam” game for a beloved character means a bit more than throwing half a dozen alts into a ditch.
Yup!
So, like during Covid, I might have gone a little stir crazy, and built my own little universe with this massive (and tweaked-as-they-went) collection of story arcs. I used stardrifter’s rules
I touch one of those characters and I’m a dead dm. But they’ve been playing those characters for years now.
The way I’ve learned to do it is to build some sort of resurrection system in as the game progresses. The one shot style single-night campaigns with fresh characters, those are where I’m allowed to create new and interesting (and usually hilarious) ways for them to die.
15 years sober here. Alcohol is not an option for me.
I understand. I understand that means mo fo me!
Joking aside, I need to quit, also. Tomorrow, I’ll do it tomorrow.
The important thing is you have discovered this and are comfortable with that knowledge. That in and of itself is a big deal.
yes, the lesson here was self-discovery-- as difficult a lesson as that was.
i admit that i’ve been through a similar one myself. i quit heroin 20 years ago.
Congrats on staying clean!
thanks!
Was about to say this.
Alcohol is one heck of a mixed bag., at best.
Of the things on the graphic, alcohol is the one that can do the most actual self damage.
Congratulations, sincerely.
I’ve been on the world since before I can remember. It used to be pretty fun, honestly, but I can tell it’s just eating my soul away bit by bit. Unless something changes soon there won’t be anything left.
Tap for /s
Just kidding, I hate this place. I really am happy for you though. It’s not easy.
Did religion get you there? I don’t recall anything about it in church. In fact they SERVED alcohol at my church.
Baptists forbid all alcohol, they’re a pretty significant percentage of Christians in the US.
What’s the context of the coffee taboo?
Mormons is my guess
Don’t forget: Science fiction
Fast food (and while it’s bad for you, I’m not gonna die from having it once dude)
Video games (especially Pokemon)
All of these things were seen as bad around the people I grew up with. But, even my mom realised it was mostly bullshit and let me play Pokemon.
- Anime
- D&D
- Secular music
- Public-schoolers
- Questions
I, too, am disappointed by the lack of D&D on this infographic. Plus it needs more Ozzy.
Coffe!? How? I am a little bit confused
I think that one is for the Mormons? I’m like 85% sure they think caffeine is against their religion.
Yeah, that one’s a Mormon thing. The rule only covers coffee and tea if you want to be pedantic about it, though there are many ‘spirit of the law’ type people who avoid caffeine entirely.
Correct.
Source: Last Podcast on the Left had an excellent series on mormonism.
im an exmo, yeah that’s basically it. The “doctrine” we get that from says:
And again, hot drinks are not for the body or belly.
this was “interpreted” as caffeine specifically, probably because the cult leaders didn’t want to give up hot cocoa.
It’s religion, so it doesn’t have to make any sense, that’s what’s great about it.
Would iced coffee be okay then? Or they decide hot meant caffeine?
Iced coffee is also not allowed if it has caffeine
Mormons aren’t allowed hot drinks. I wonder if anyone’s made an exception for cold brew.
Hot drinks is the scriptural term, but is officially interpreted as “coffee bean” and “tea leaf”.
So you could have peppermint tea, but not tiramisu.
Are Mormons also against alcohol?
Yeah, no tea either. Guess they get their 8 cups a day.
So, sake served in the proper Japanese way would be double heresy for them
tbf, even without religion, coffee still keeps me up at night
Isn’t that it’s point?
I mean, tarot is fucking stupid as well.
No, tarot is a fantastic card game : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tarot_card_games&diffonly=true
Cartomancy using a tarot game cards is stupid though.
Holy shit, Tarot was a game all this time? Time to buy a pack and get some people for a game night!
There’s also a really really old type of rpg similar to DnD that can be played with a rare kind of tarot deck called a Minchiate (97 card deck)
Do you have a link to that game? I can’t seem to find it.
Sorry, no link - read it from a library book about card game history.
From my recollection:
I do remember it was called “Oracolo” and was played in Italy, normally by family members for the younger kids. It’s part of other “story games” people would play using the bigger tarot card decks especially (something played since Mamluk deck days). You’d basically start a story about how the person is a traveler, and make up the story on the fly based off what you drew from the deck, and the kid would respond as well and then a dice would be rolled to see if they’re successful.
With Oracolo, the goal was to make it to old age and die peacefully as you go through life. You’d do this by going through the entire deck, with pips being bonuses or negatives that would be used (like, if you had chosen to be a carpenter, and got a 3, then that might be how much furniture you sold and how successful you currently are).
Every card you passed through would get set aside, with the exception of Death, which would always get shuffled back in if you survived. Death would always be the final card.
There’s other story games too people would play too. This is where the idea of using Tarot decks for divination came from actually during the Victorian era (as these story games were primarily played in Latin descendant speaking countries such as France, Spain, and Italy).
My own dad would sometimes play a story game his dad taught him using an old Tarocco Siciliano deck we had (the one that uses cups, clubs, coins, and swords). Although his was a Christian version where the goal was both survive and to go to heaven, and used more as a morality type game.
Neat, the only RPG system that I know of that uses cards is Castle Falkenstein, but a normal 13x4 deck
May I suggest you use the french tarot rules ? If there is a French community near you, you may find players among them.
Here are the rules translated in English : https://www.pagat.com/tarot/frtarot.html
And an excellent one at that!
Fair point.
Atheist utilitarian technology professional here. I read tarot. Not because I believe anything mystical is coming through the cards. They just happen to be a very rich and rounded set of symbology to lay out and use to talk through a topic. I have never had anyone walk away from one of my readings without saying “that was more interesting than I thought it was going to be.” Of course my style is very interactive and I involve them a lot as we go. Of course others out there take an oracular approach that’s utter horseshit.
“I play therapist by telling my clients they are the decrepit goblin that stumbled into the stinky swamp and ask them if they want to try to get out of it by using the enchanted axe or call upon the great dragon to lift them up.”
Why is that in quotes? Is that a reference to something?
I’ll leave you to figure it out, or give up.
Things can be interesting, and still utter nonsense.
Unpossible. (Goes back to playing RPGs and reading isekai)
You didn’t understand. You seem to think that belief in magic or future reading or some other stuff is necessary to play tarot, but that’s not true.
You can use the cards instead as a brainstorming tool that helps you direct your thinking into new avenues that you haven’t considered so far. No bullshit necessary.
Sure, but you can do that with anything.
And I go to the Cathedral’s confessional for therapy, my chiropractor for all health ailments, and my life coach and CrossFit trainer tells me joint pain is just weakness leaving the body
And I’m FINE! Not fucked up at all.
Alcohol addiction is pretty fucking dangerous.
That’s not what the meme says
I’m in fear of that hairy underwear.
