I broke a player’s brain in college playing DND where an NPC just lied to her.

She’d asked where so-and-so was. NPC didn’t like her or her faction, so he just lied and said he’d taken up boxing. This isn’t an especially credible lie because so-and-so was a lightweight nerd. But she says okay and goes tearing up the local boxing clubs, and can’t find the guy.

She’s like “where is he?”

Me: “you don’t see him, and no one’s even heard of him.”

Her: “but the guy said he was here”

Me: “he did”

Her: “so where is he”

Me: “doesn’t look like he’s here”

Her: “but he said he was”

Me: “he did say that”

Her: “so why isn’t he here?”

This went on for a while until one of the other players got impatient and said “the guy who doesn’t like you maybe lied to you! Or was wrong! Can we move on please??”

Is it better to skip work entirely or go and just goof off? Probably the former?

Do you think the people that send junk like “hi” or “quick chat?” get annoyed when they’re the recipient? Or they just think it’s normal?

Fuck cars. I’d be pissed if I lived there

I don’t have any useful advice but I’m sorry for your frustrations. It’s okay to be sad about it!

I feel like this topic somehow aligns with the form of a 2017 Twitter screenshot posted on tiktok posted on Lemmy.

At one of the bigger groceries I’ve been to, the wheels would lock up if you got too far from the store. Well, we’d parked outside that range so the wheels locked up and I had to awkwardly drag the full cart to the car.

Being a good person, I went to drag it back to the return spot. The wheels did not unlock. Dragged it all the way back anyway.

But given this, I can see why someone might just abandon their cart if the wheels are locked.

Pretty much every time I go to one of the local grocery stores I see a crew of firefighters roll up in their truck buying food.

I just link people to good posts I find on here.

You’re not going to get a typical apathetic person to change anything.

know your rights! All three of them!

You have the right not to be killed

Murder is a crime!

Unless it was done by a police man…

The clash from 1982 still timely

“There must be in-groups that the law protects but does not bind, and out-groups that the law binds but does not protect.” That’s all it is. That’s all it’s ever been.

They are worse than villains from a child’s story.

On the one hand, better late than never.

On the other, the Republican party has been the party of maximum scumbag since like Nixon.

What kind of dysfunctional sad sack would buy a game out of spite?

This doesn’t seem like a hot take unless your ambient temperature is very unusual.

…what? Go do something else instead of watching YouTube-style content then. Read a book. Take up knitting. Do crosswords.

You can live a full life without Internet videos.

I had a guy do this once when I was struggling to get my laundry bag into my cart. He just used his free hand to steady the cart for me, but didn’t stop his phone call.

They dehumanize them. You probably wouldn’t feel that bad about killing a rat or cockroach.

I wonder if McCain is dishonest, stupid, or both. I think both, but stupid is the dominant mechanism here. I think she’s too idiotic to grasp that all things have a political context and subtext, even when it’s not an explicit “vote for XYZ”. But maybe she gets that and is just being dishonest for clout.

Either way I hope she goes away and never impacts the world again.

I was hoping step 2 was going to be “and then they don’t leave”, but your plan is pretty good too.

Turning off almost all notifications, running adblock , and ditching social media (except Lemmy, if that counts) , seems to really limit the damage.

I am a few steps removed from his social circle. I’ve never met him, but a few friends of mine have. They all have said he’s a sincerely good person.

Now, that’s just a second hand story from the Internet, but for my part that’s helping me be optimistic about him.