Mmmmm. Sweet sweet lead sugar.
Miles O'Brien
Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I’ve spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.
Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.
Just don’t ask who what’s in the pattern buffer.
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I’ve gone a step up, and am inhaling chunks of metal.
(I operate a saw cutting aluminum and have decided to wear a face mask but should probably wear a respirator instead)
Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Thanks I hate itEnglish398·2 months agoThis looks more like someone did it on purpose.
They’re all shifted down by one
Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Charging to tour rental properties...English12·2 months ago$250 non refundable application deposit?
LMAO I’d sooner torch the rental property than pay just to APPLY to hopefully live there.
Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Charging to tour rental properties...English60·2 months agoMy wife and I were looking at realtors and one told us we would need to provide our credit card info to look at properties, and I just laughed and said “go fuck yourself” and hung up.
The only valid response, IMO.
The fact that people actually pay this shit is infuriating.
Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•You don’t see articles like this about moms with two jobs who still manage to take care of their kidsEnglish603·2 months agoLol nvidia CEO couldn’t do my job for an hour.
I am absolutely confident that I could do his job for an hour.
The empty chair in his office does his job just as easily, too.
You can tell me all about the meetings and deals they have to worry about but ultimately, by the time a company gets that large, it could run itself without a c-suite for quite some time.
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t wish my legs looked that good in a dress.
Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•The people who voted for Zohran Mamdani are also taxpayers.English111·3 months agoOK, boomer
Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto Privacy@lemmy.ml•US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visasEnglish71·3 months agoshould be impeached
Impeached and then executed for treason.
Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto RPGMemes @ttrpg.network•Splitting the party from session 1English5·4 months agoIf that’s what you took away from my comments, have fun I guess.
Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto RPGMemes @ttrpg.network•Splitting the party from session 1English7·4 months agoI 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.
Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto RPGMemes @ttrpg.network•Splitting the party from session 1English12·4 months agoI 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)
Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto RPGMemes @ttrpg.network•Splitting the party from session 1English41·4 months agolet 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.
Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto RPGMemes @ttrpg.network•Splitting the party from session 1English5·4 months agoI 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.
Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto RPGMemes @ttrpg.network•Splitting the party from session 1English3·4 months agoI absolutely used to be that “my character is a quiet rogue-ish type that definitely wasn’t modeled after Aragorn when he was introduced at the Prancing Pony mixed with Robin hood” who always “had to be convinced” to join, and nobody ever called me out for it. I honestly wish they had because that’s annoying as fuck and you miss out on playing an actually fully developed character.
Nowadays I tend to be less tactful that you are, but essentially tell people the same thing, or literally beat their characters over the head with ambushes.
Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto RPGMemes @ttrpg.network•Splitting the party from session 1English25·4 months agoI 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?
Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto RPGMemes @ttrpg.network•Splitting the party from session 1English201·4 months agoI’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?!”
Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Roommate refuses to use my body wash cause it's not "manly"English2·4 months agoA hypothetical response when someone complains that they can’t use a certain soap over a mildly flowery scent.
Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Roommate refuses to use my body wash cause it's not "manly"English52·4 months ago“If you’re too insecure to wash your nasty-ass stank smell off because of a nice smell, you ARE a bitch, and a whiny one at that. When you grow up to be a REAL man, my body wash will still be there, not giving a shit about what dangles between your legs or what you think is or isn’t manly.”
Well… Neck. Close enough?