Hiroshima style okonomiyaki

You can make the recipe much simpler by omitting some of the ingredients, but don’t skip out on the sauces, noodles, cabbage, or egg. You can also add whatever else you want. I typically make vegetarian variants that don’t use fish flakes or bacon. And dried yakisoba noodles are adequate; I usually go with Sapporo Ichiban Chow Mein (picture of the packaging, it says yakisoba in Japanese)

SodFi was the best I could come up with. Runners up follow.

Grasspunk if you’re uncreative

Grimgrass or Grassdark if the grass is the only thing that keeps hell from interrupting FTL travel.

Plantfall if you like bad plays on words.

I hate multiplayer in pretty much any game where there’s a lot of menuing. And being able to wander off? There’s a reason you don’t split the party IRL and it holds here. Having a shopping session also is boring IRL and it is here, too. Oh, there was important plot stuff happening? I didn’t know the other person was in a conversation.

Groundhog Day is one of my favorites. I like the romance in it but implications of off screen events do a lot of heavy lifting. Phil spends years getting to know Rita, has many intimate conversations with her (e.g. boathouse), invests time into her interests (French poetry), and does this without reciprocation (resets, slaps). While it starts off expecting a payoff, it turns into genuine understanding, admiration, and affection.

That being said, it is very one-sided. Rita has no reason to fall for him in the single day she experienced even though the audience knows how amazing his change has been. She doesn’t really have an arc and is already a fully developed person, so it feels like she’s just there to help with Phil’s arc.

I’ve added Map to my list and I’m looking forward to a different type of romance in it, so thank you for the recommendation!

My partner is recovering from surgery so lots of couch time has meant some odd choices as of late. Physical 100 is a reality show/contest about mostly Korean strongmen and women doing physical difficult tasks like pushing a wooden boat up a ramp. I don’t envy the editors that have to make two dudes each holding a 100kg stone Atlas style for two hours entertaining, but we ended up watching 8 episodes of it and will be finishing it up soon.

Also enjoyed The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. It was charming and short, and I really liked some of the special effects feeling like they’re from a play. I’m looking forward to the other ones in the series.

Ah, typically it’s DMs that alter mechanics and approve homebrew. If I were running a campaign, and I had a player saying “I want to change the rules so you have to run the game a certain way,” it would be a huge red flag.

If a player wants to play in a certain way, it’s not usually the mechanics that prevents them. Your example where you picked a ranger that didn’t fit what was going on in the campaign, that seems like a failure of communication. The DM allowed you to think wearing a snorkel in the desert was a good idea. I don’t think having a class with snorkel AND fins would have helped in the desert and I don’t think the fins would have forced the DM to put a river in to suit the diver class. I don’t think it’s unreasonable or unpleasant for the DM to say: this is a dessert campaign, you’re not going to want a 60 pound tank on your back for this even though it’s very helpful in a situation where you’re trying not to drown.

I don’t think restricting what can be done or changing mechanics would make that DM any better or make communication any less necessary or force the DM to make changes to the campaign.

Again, it’s best when collaborative and avoiding unpleasant conversations leads to just as many problems in d&d as it does in any relationship. Rules aren’t going to help if there’s not communication.

The mechanics in d&d are mostly about combat and skill checks because as a player you get to decide how you behave and the mechanics are there to have a framework for that. If players aren’t acting like you want them to as a DM and you feel like it’s a good idea to enforce your desires through changing the mechanics, you’re going to disappoint yourself and frustrate your players. If you want a certain style of role playing, that’s something you can discuss with players, but it’s ultimately collaborative as opposed to enforceable.

Please select all squares with a tortoise that you flipped out it’s back and type the reason you’re not helping in the box below.

For me, the practice wasn’t enjoyable. I’m the type of person that cannot stick to things for their rewards if it’s not enjoyable. That’s not to say I can’t stick to things, it’s just the doing itself has to be enjoyable. I’ve been doing a martial art for over twenty years now but I just kept showing up because I enjoyed it.

Will they be able to afford their own place and have access to healthcare? I’ve got siblings that have failed to launch even after several attempts. It’s possible this isn’t a failure of parenting.

But if it is fixable, you may want to check out William Glasser’s writings on the workless (I forget what books of his he writes about it in). Be warned that it’s not mainstream psychology and I don’t generally think that his views on medication and several other things are good, but the specific ideas about how to deal with a household member that doesn’t contribute or take care of themselves might have something useful for you. From what I can remember, it’s things like making ingredients available but not prepared foods so they get into the habit of doing things. (Naturally, this is a super bad idea if there’s a different issue like depression that should be dealt with first.) That may be difficult to do with apps and streaming services where there’s very little between a person and food/entertainment, but you might get some new ideas.

Restin Majere

I wish I had that luck. I’ve managed to curate a lot of people I can tolerate, but trying to add to that is super hard. A random person I was introduced to managed to complain about immigrants three times in ten minutes to me in front of my POC partner. Another person I am stuck with occasionally breathing the same air with wanted to tell me all of Fox’s talking points on trans people and disagreeing with her was a hateful attack and proved I ALWAYS had a problem with her. It’s so much work to separate wheat from chaff that my search for good people is paused. Hopefully I’ll have the spoons to try more soon, but it’s so draining.

Does the camera still work? Could do some time lapse stuff with it.

Just heading to bed on the west coast of the US. I’m surprised there aren’t some Aussies kicking about.

Beds have a head and a foot, so the head is fore and the foot aft.

Two to four.

Me, too. I carry earplugs and that helps a little in crowded places. Communicating with shower buddies is always tough, though. Especially when there’s a crowd.

Just as soon as we no longer need to drive.

4 made up functions that didn’t exist last time I asked in a programming question.

Is it a lie if you can’t disprove it?