I’ve heard laser toys aren’t that good in the long run, since they never get to catch anything which can lead to frustration and poor behaviour or dissatisfaction.
If you’re playing with a laser toy, sometimes during and particularly towards the end of the session, point it at another toy or a piece of food/a treat so they can successfully grab/kill/eat something.
Each day you/the sitter can split up maybe half the dry food and hide small piles around the house for her to search for and find during the day: in window sills, open wardrobes, under a piece of paper on the living room table… check on the hiding spots and if she missed any select an easier location for the next pile.
Unless the wife has confirmed it, I’d assume he’s cheating… it’s just such a classic cheater-story.
To earn a lot of money, you need a lot of time.
Of there was a way to earn a lot, safe and fast, everyone would be doing it.
The people eho do earn a lot of money fast are either extremely lucky (you are not) or extremely rich in contacts and opportunities (i don’t think you are based in this question, but that may change).
The people who make real, big reliable money, have absolutely no need to sell their story, so anyone promising to make you rich if you just pay them for a course, mentorship, life coaching etc, are lying. The only money they make is the same money you give them.
The people who share their “rich lifestyles” and how-tos for free, are doing so for ad-revenue and sponsorships. They are lying about how to get to their level of money.
Basically, there are no short cuts and no easy money. Especially if you have a basic level of moral integrity and choose not to victimise other people.
You earn a lot of money by earning a little money, and not spending all of it. Save it or grow it (safe index funds for example), or spend it to get yourself into higher earnings (specialised education, necessary training, learning a different language, moving for better opportunities, etc).
Moving (new positin, new employer, new career path, new city or new country) is often necessary to earn more relatively fast.
It seems like one of these problems lies at least partly with you. As in, you allow it to be an issue, and you have the ability to remove the issue.
I’m not trying to be rude just constructive, so bear with me! I’m speaking from my own experiences and what little I know from the post so I may be way off. If so feel free to disregard or correct me.
My first few sessions literally any time I tried to cast something, this other player told me I really shouldn’t. […] At a certain point I just started doing nothing but regular attacking.
Just because other people have an opinion doesn’t mean you have to follow or fold to it. I get it can be hard to put your foot down as a new player, especially if they are loud or belligerent about it, but this is YOUR character and your choice to make. You decide what to do on YOUR turn. It doesn’t make any sense for your character to not use magic, and the other player isn’t that characters master or mentor or something, right?
You can stop this issue of not being able to cast spells, in at least three ways:
Let them voice their opinion and their worry, then do whatever you had planned to do regardless. In the end it is your choice.
Have an above-table conversation. Tell either that player in person or the whole group that you would like to practice playing without their help for a while. That making mistakes is a part of the game and part of learning, and you want to play your character immersively without the meta-gaming of discussing your turn with the table, unless you specifically ask for suggestions.
Talk to the DM. Ask them to talk to the table to minimise meta-gaming and let each player take their turn after how they choose to play it.
Point 2 and 3 can also be something to try to see f the DM and/or players are interested in more roleplay (suggest having discussion like inventory and strategy in character instead of above table, or suggest facing some smaller recognisable enemies in addition to the large terrifying entities, etc).
” actually Bless isn’t as useful as this other thing, but hey if you WANT to use bless I don’t GUESS it would hurt…”
I hate to say it, but I have these tendencies… it’s not my favourite personal trait. I get way to engaged, speak out of turn on impulse, sometimes interrupts, then catch myself and try to reel it in by affirming that whatever I have just said the other person get to decide for themselves (see this whole comment for example). Perhaps this person is the same and the miscommunication comes from what tone they use and/or what tone you interpret/hear? If so things can improve by talking about how you communicate while playing. Or perhaps they are actually being passive-aggressive - but here’s hoping!
Regarding the campaign itself… sometimes it’s just not a good match. Sometimes the expectations and interests and playstyles are too different and not worth trying to compromise on. And since this is your first table it might well be worth trying to find another table, another DM and another genre. You’re not obliged to stay just because there wouldn’t be enough players left without you. It’s not a job, it’s a hobby and it should be enjoyable for you.
If you want you can ask your table and DM if you can try DMing a short campaign or one-shot. Being in that position can give you a lot of insights of what you want from your next game as well as how to be a better player. It’s fun, but nerve-wracking!
Good luck with everything.
To expand on asking about work culture, also ask about work/life balance: what policies the company have for it in general and what the manager specifically does to foster it.
My guess is he got lazy or uninspired and let an LLM do the writing?
Seems like the material gen-AI would put out, based on the sheer volume - decades! - of unfunny jokes it would have been trained on.
She might be bored? If they’re meowing for no reason and walking around with no real goal, ill play with em until they’re too tired to meow and walk around. Easy fix!
Scary, Sporty, Baby and Posh. The main head is Ginger.
The only ones expected to remain unbiased in a spectator sport are the judges.
Do you enjoy the neck-and-neck matches where you remain neutral and don’t care about the result more or less or the same than the ones where youre actively cheering for one player? I mean during the game, not how it feels afterwards.
Personally I tend to root for the underdog, so my allegiance can change mid-game. I never dare go to live mass-appeal sporting events like football, because I’ll inevitably get beat up when I start cheering for the opponent in the wrong section.
I very much enjoy the emotional roller-coaster, but I also don’t care one bit the moment the game ends and will cheer for the winner regardless so I don’t suffer regardless of who wins.
Perhaps you can try taking a few minutes after a match to analyse why the winner won so you can appreciate their plays to understand and accept the result, and (mentally or verbally) congratulate them on winning to practice letting go of your own disappointment and being happy for them.
I think they could specify rule five to disallow questions that would be answered on the first page of any search engine or on the Q&A on a relevant site, but more complex questions like this should be allowed.
But I guess it’s easier to have a strict rule and look the other way/allow some posts to break it as long as no one complains, rather than to have loose/non-specific rules and constant arguments with OP+community about which side every post falls on and have to make a different judgement call for every complaint.
In addition to the previous replies:
Try to prepare for situations where you know you’re likely to become impatient and give yourself a little peptalk on what will happen, why you want to remain calm, and how you will respond when getting frustrated instead of snapping.
Like if a kid is really slow a tying their shoes, before asking them to put on their shoes, take a deep breath, tell yourself that “I want to give them the opportunity to practice without me stressing them out. We might be late, but it’s just a matter of minutes, these things will happen. If I am getting annoyed I will take a deep breath and go wash my hands and smile at myself in the mirror because I didn’t snap. If they want help I will be happy to explain how to do it as if it was the first time. They will do it their own way in their own time, but it will get done”. Unclench your jaw and lower your shoulders, then slow your speaking voice to be extra calm and unstressed when entering the situation that will likely make you impatient.
Always repeat to yourself “They will do it their own way in their own time, but it will get done”.
Haha I see, easy mixup! Lactose, aka milk sugar, maybe? Or milk protein?
There is lactic acid in plenty of food as well, but it’s often produced synthetically and not from milk products, so you don’t necessarily need to avoid those products if you’re allergic to milk.
In Europe if an ingredient contains lactose (or some of the other most common allergens like nuts or shellfish), it’ll be written in bold font, so if it’s not bold it’s fine. I don’t know if it’s the same elsewhere though?
When names are known I think names and “they” are enough. When names are unknown a pronoun separated by age could be useful to pick someone out of a crowd. When talking about a bunch of unknown people of similar age, perhaps something referring to their order of appearance?
“What do you think those people over there were talking about? First said something to Second who laughed, but Third didn’t seem amused. First nudged Third but they just picked up their phone and First left them alone. Second said something general and shrugged. About two minutes later Third interrupted First and Second to show them the phone which seemed to prove what First had said was wrong. Fourth joined just as First left for the bathroom.”
I’ve never heard of anyone being allergic to lactic acid before. Are you allergic to it? Do you have a reaction to lactate in your blood or muscles in general or of it rising during exercise?
I would start by looking for Egyptian embassies in China and vice versa. If there are none, that can be a clue hinting towards a frosty relationship, and you can search further into why there are none and when there was one last and why it closed.
If there are embassies they might have materials on current political dealings.
The UN can also be a source for global politics.
You may have to dig through very dry online archives or email someone working at your source to find the material you’re looking for.
That really sucks, I’m sorry.
WordPress is probably the most well known blog hosting platform. Start there.
No, women don’t know other people’s feelings (unless they’ve been told).
Some women are very good at guessing, or interpreting signals, just as some women are terrible at it. Most women, like most humans, are better at interpreting emotions in people they already know very well as opposed to strangers, but it’s still a guess regardless of how close to the truth it is.
Maybe some women are supernatural mind-readers, but most I’ve met have been regular humans, with regular human powers.