What's in a name?

Practicing character interaction and couple poses with Beau and Yasha

Dude... allow me to add to your trove.

Look, this post has been wildly more popular than I thought it deserved, apparently at least in part because "don't burden others; be independent" is far more ingrained in people than I realized. So here's the thing: society works when people help each other. Helping others gives people a chance to know each other, and gives them an investment in the people they help. Helping creates bonds. People enjoy helping, and you are doing a good by letting them help you if they so wish.

A horrifyingly few years ago I realized asking for help builds trust, too.

If I ask you for

Brennan’s NPC game is always on point but he’s done such a fantastic job with Lady Aranessa.

That's me in the corner

ive become the friend that's too woke after saying it's weird that anomaly games are experiencing a cross-breeding with border control games without addressing the fascist politics being critiqued by the border control games so we end up with stuff like "animal hospital", a game where you work in a hospital, and have to take patients, but some of the patients that come in seeking aid are actually eldritch monsters, pretending to be patients so they can prey on the weak and vulnerable.

If you're sober and don't drink, you can ask that people don't drink around you or to not be invited to events where there will be drinking. You can remove yourself from situations where there's drinking because it makes you uncomfortable.