We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case.

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I find that my players take a lot of cues from the scenario. If there’s an obvious way for them to get involved, and a clear benefit to the character, they jump in. If not, they treat it as part of the world and continue about their business. But they are relatively passive, story-wise and expect a bit of railroading to tell them where to go.

I did this for my Waterdeep: Dragonheist campaign. The paper was yellow journalism through and through: they misspelled PC names, misattributed actions, and obviously supported one of the factions. It was a lot of fun. I fully recommend it.

I generally listen and compare it to what I do.

If it’s useless, I silently feel smug and superior. If there’s something good, then I try to take it onboard.

You can never have enough doves

It’s a preview, so that doesn’t seem too surprising. Like the post says, you can switch back to the regular client pretty easily.

We’re not monolithic. No generation is. Those movies were kinda popular, but they found their success with a subset of the generation, not the entire group.

Just like every other generation, when we’re relatively comfortable (or exhausted from daily survival), we don’t have time to foment revolution.

A musk concentrator as some call it

Crafting. And jumping games.

This post has a lot of serious answers to what is essentially a “no”:

In the UK, there is a non-virtual contingency plan, or at least there was. If the internet shuts down, the people who know how it works will meet up in a pub outside London and decide what to do, says Murdoch.

“I don’t know if this is still the case. It was quite a few years ago and I was never told which pub it was.”

Eh. I’d put it at $20. It’s a fun novelty, but it’s not something most people would get much value from. Okay, me. It’s not something I’d get much value from.

Our society over-values sex, but there’s a pretty hefty biological component as well. Bodies want what they want. Different people feel it to different degrees at different times of their life.

Physical activity. Go play a sport. Get platonically sweaty with a bunch of other people. I found that helped. Hanging out with people sort of worked for me as well, but not to the same degree.

If you’re in a social leagues, you might even be able to meet someone.

I’d echo what others have said: if you’re having difficulty forming and maintaining romantic relationships, you might want to try therapy or some deep introspection.

I’ve only played rogue once, but they seem to have a niche as being sneakier than the rest of the party. They pile levels into detecting traps, sneaking, and getting those sweet backstabs (or whatever the class feature is called).

You’re right that adventurers often steal liberate, but rogues in D&D have a bit more than that going on.

Lum would be a nice nod to the classics.

These are fantastic. The hat+mannequin seems like it would have a lot of RP potential. Ditto for the midlife crisis.

About a million people.

News about my city. TTRPGs. Home repair.

I’ve tried to kick up conversation in appropriate communities here, but I don’t get comments.

TTRPGs mostly take place in the players’ imagination. They work well online (for me) because I’m a little less self conscious when I’m not physically with people.

Edit: to answer your question, all of them. Recently, I’ve played Cyberpunk RED and D&D 5e online. They absolutely worked.

Anime was a breath of fresh air in the 80s and 90s. The mechs were amazing. The aesthetic was different from what we’d grown up with. The shows were more adult than kids/teens got to see at the time.

I can totally understand why Maximum Mike would have done that.