#old and grumpy

was that, yes, of course, horrible things were still happening all the time

but

without the need to fill the constant airtime of 24 hours a day, 7 day a week news

there was a whole lot less speculation.

people didn't go in front of the camera to talk about what could be happening for hours and hours between bursts of getting/reporting actual, solid news

and while I do understand this could be a big misremembering

I usually put a lot of effort to be positive and spread positivity around instead of hate or criticism. But I recently saw a video that just left me with a bad aftertaste and I need to know if I'm cooked or if anyone here agrees with me.

I know nothing about the person that's in this video, and I don't mean this as an attack on him in any way.

So, I like to watch the wired "xx support" YouTube videos when they're about something in interest in. This is the one that rubbed me the wrong way:

Is it just me or are most of his takes..... bad? Outdated and/or incredibly vague and not actionable. Like, "listen to your players" and "have fun" are genuinely good directions, but do nothing on their own. What does listening to the players mean? Incorporate their ideas, suggestions and wishes into the story. Decide on a tone that everyone likes and stick to it.

Or, for the first session, I would advise a new GM to clearly set expectations: "It's my first time at this, I will make mistakes, please be patient and supportive"

Probably the best advice he gives is about how to avoid a tpk: "Make it clear to the players that the fight is hard and they can be killed if luck turns against them and they don't run." but then again, this also grinds my gears because it's working around a problem that shouldn't be there in the first place: if we're playing a story-focused campaign, tpk should just not be possible, unless it's a good story moment, and 0layers should decide that, not the dice. And if we're playing a challenge-focused campaign then every fight should potentially be deadly. But a tpk also shouldn't be an unexpected disappointment, but rather part of the possible outcomes.

Maybe im just old and grumpy and tired of hearing the same shit discussion over and over again, but I feel a lot of what he says is wishy-washy and not useful, and better games than dnd solved those issues decades ago.

Why in the everloving *fuck* is there so much astarion x tav in those tags?

If Astarion must be involved with Tav and Gale, regardless of the combo, just put it under fucking bloodweave x tav.

OR

Keep it specifically astarion x tav or gale x tav if the other origin character is minor to the ship or something.

Edit: if it's a headcanon post with multiple ships, this doesn't apply.

Also, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT EXISTS