Other mentioned similar but be sure to make sure you spend regular time with just your partner. don't fall into the trap of each other 'babysitting' whilst the other goes out for fun.
I've only recently really started to bring my hardware back home and only have a few TB. I don't mind purchase price for hardware, but it's the power consumption that's an issue. Especially as our electricity has gone up 60% a few months ago, and likely going up again October.
My day job is scooping up film data, and if my last 15 years here has shown me anything were always going to need more disk. Staying at 4k the be lovely.
I to do this. phone permanent DNB. Even during working hours, although then its in eye shot to the side of my monitor. So i can see stuff there, but can choose whether to answer or not.
Its been immense in combating the constant 24x7 messages i get from work. Its been pretty useful as well in just telling people drop your message to my teams, it won't wake me up and i'll get to it when i get a chance.
Only a few limited number of people on my favourites (which bypasses this)
I kinda get that. But why not just tidy that UI up, and make it a good viewing experience and who knows maybe more of us will watch the seasons they have available and rent/purchase the ones that aren't. Instead of the car wreck of a UI experience
I can't imagine anyone at 'Amazon Video' actually uses the service, else they'd realise that the UI is horrific...and whole service is terrible. I only have it as its "free" with my delivery options.
Interestingly it was the thing that steered me away from alcohol. Being a brit i think we're prone to that. But Sunday night has always been RP night for me. Whatever is happening in my life, thats 'my time' and of course the wife and friends too. What else we supposed to do with Sunday nights, everyone is home and just waiting until Monday morning work.
Hanging out with friends, eating a food delivery, telling jokes and story is peak fun in my opinion. Back in the 90s when this started that was my one night a week i weren't drinking so really helped me claw back from every night boozing. A net win on all fronts.
Sorry i missed your second question. Plenty of characters are still alive. Characters retire into NPC formats, generally once they are lords and such. There is only so many apocalypses you can have to challenge high level characters. They can come on "screen" in other campaigns. They generally have their own faction that they operate off camera.
New characters sometimes opt to be sons of earlier characters of their own, or of other players characters. It works quite well.
I have had to add a magical plant, which when processed, slows the aging process. I felt a bit harsh killing retired characters, so the rich and powerful tend to not age too much. Some players are fine with their characters to die off, but thats there choice.
Lastly we sometimes dust off old characters to deal with major problems or just for mainly RP type sessions.
Its a little crunchier. However from the GM perspective its a lot better to run. The math behind the system is real strong, which isn't something you get from RP systems. Its not like PF or 3.5 where there can be massive power differences between characters.
Combat is a lot more interesting, its not just roll d20's burning down the HP of whatever you fighting. I tend to find that 5e battles seem very same-ish.
Plenty. Early days, from a GM perspective my mindset was the risk of death had to be genuine and meant victories we're more to enjoy.
Over the years I've relaxed a lot away from that. Its not often nowadays that players die. I don't run published adventures, and don't always keep things within the appropriate difficulty range. However i will always give opportunities to withdraw or escape if its something a little too tough.
Some systems are a lot more flexible on what each party can handle but things like PF2E the math behind the system is strong and you can easily gauge what they can't handle.
My setting is live from the mid 90s. I've stayed in the same town, so hasn't had the same complications of his moves. We've got nearly 400 years of in campaign history. We've migrated through a lot of systems (currently PF2E). Its something I'm proud of, and its always pleasant when non RP nights end up with others talking of epic moments in our games from over the years.
Friends who've sadly past are immortalised through the deeds of their characters as well, obviously not to take anything from their RL activities but its nice to speak of those who've moved on from the real world, whose exist as NPCs
This is giving me some flashbacks to starting a course at college on Film Studies. I left after a few weeks, the constant over analysis was too much. Let me enjoy (or hate) the movie is please. It does seem weird to me that the creatives involved would put so much effort into things that the bulk of the population won't interpret.
I'm late 40s gamer, and been through a lot of this. My key to this, is pretty much only playing games that have defined endings. Keeps me away from MMOs, and FPS shooters with seasonal/ladder systems. This has helped a lot. I occasionally relapse but I'm very mindful of it, since I've been in the grip of EVE addiction so badly haha. best of luck
I'll piggy back here, I'm quite an anti religion person (people doing that in their own privacy, all power to you). But i mainly say that to state that overly religious preachy stuff in books usually irks me. Stormlight archives is my favourite series
I hope the above came across as positive, it was meant that way
Isn't this the truth. Over Christmas family was around and someone loaded the dishwater and put it on economical or whatever the 'easy wash' mode was called, i chuckled knowing they might as well waved the dirty dishes in the sky for an equilavent wash. Its like, why are the other options even there...Intensive wash, every time.
Yeah, games get more brutal the further we go back.
Never had microtransactions in my day, bah! I say spending a lot of my childhood money in Arcade machines haha. Which are equally brutal in giving you maybe 1 minute of game play for your coin
Nicely put. DF is simply the best game I've ever played, and I've been hooked by many from many genres. The stories told within are insane.
I only play it every couple of years when the desire catches me, yet still patreon to DF. This is what games should be.
Obviously an insane barrier of entry, took me a few goes to 'get it' and even now i barely get it despite playing many varingly 'fun' forts. I watched many youtube lets plays to make different aspects be learnt.
totally. i did this back in 2009. 20% pay cut, to reclaim 50% of my day (in just travel time).
And for that, they've got someone who rarely is off sick, isn't too bothered if work runs over my usual office hours...and I've rejected multiple "in the office" jobs for up to twice my wages.
Back in 2009 i took a £10k pay cut as my deal to work from home.
That was easy math back then, not only was i reclaiming 4 hours of my life...but the train season ticket was £6k which at that tax bracket made it £10k.
I'd wager people in similar positions could do such a thing to sweeten the deal if needed
Agreed.
One of my favourite manager types didn't have the first clue about the actual details of what we did. But he did listen to expert advice from the team beneath him and act on it. Bring the appropiate expert to meetings where it might be relevant and like you say, it can actually work.
Obviously in an ideal world they'd know some basic bits, but if faced with the choice of a micromanager or a clueless person who listens to expert opinion i'll take the latter.