Tar_alcaran

I think this is a hard ethical question. On the one hand, my leather hiking shoes are 15 years old and on their third pair of soles, where my regular walking shoes made from synthetics are basically worn out after three years.

On the other hand, no cows were killed even if I wear them out more.

So, one dead cow? or a pile of forever-trash?

I mean, we are kinda shit at it. I'd have preferred if we just sent all this stuff on day one. I prefer the current situation over just letting Putin get away with it, but on the grand scale of things, we're barely scoring a passing grade.

I'm a chemist, and I've been gifted beaker tea-glasses and water glasses. They have been made for drinking, have never even been close to a lab, and yet drinking from a beaker makes me actually physically nauseous. It's 100% psychosomatic, I know it's fine, but my instincts scream at me not to do this, and I actually become nauseous when I drink water from a beaker.

So it's pretty easy not to

In outer space

I absolutely cannot figure out what to do in order to fix an Apple computer when it’s bugging out

Buy a new one, duh

Robin DiAngelo has an amazing book called White Fragility. It's not super thick, and unfortunately everyone who desperately needs to read it will refuse to even look at the title.

You're... Reading a lot of things I never said.

I can fucking tell you run a 30 second timer. This is absolutely the mindset of someone with a 30 second timer.

You want everyone to have quick turns, so you set up a timer

The timer wasn't imposed from upon the high seat of the Almighty GM, it's a thing everyone at the table decided on, because we all want to keep the combat flowing. I know it must look impossible to you, but all the players like taking their turn, and not waiting. Hell, one of the players brings the thing.

one of your players is using fireball over and over. As if it's a default action they took due to being rushed. Like I said would happen in the first place.

Nobody is "taking Fireball as a default action". I said nobody wanted to wait for someone to look up a commonly used spell yet again, when you could have done that before, or just made a note or something. You literally just made this up after ignoring half of my paragraph.

I find it interesting that you say "the onus is on [the players]" as a benefit, because the main problem you listed for actually talking to them is that they might say you were at fault if you forget. You want it to be that, if anything goes wrong, it's only because of what other people did. You don't want to be responsible.

You are right that nobody at the table, including me, wants to take the responsibility for someone else paying attention. We're all adults, and neither our children or parents are at the table. We're there to play a game, not to constantly remind other adults of what they're supposed to do.

Also, small detail, it's a 30 second timer to START. We don't watching someone do stuff, we mind watching someone look at paper.

I don't understand why people wanting things to move along upsets you so much? Is a timer such a horrible thing that it actually makes you angry at someone who doesn't play like you do? I called the reply snobby because you seem to believe we are Doing It Wrong, and that's an incredibly snobby thing to do.

Wow that's an incredibly snobby snobby answer, and I'll just assume it just came out wrong somehow.

And honestly, I couldn't agree less. I don't want to make everyone's problem that Sally Slowpoke isn't paying attention or taking a super long time. I want them to fix it themselves.

Poking the next person creates a reliance, and worse, an excuse ("they didn't poke me, how was I supposed to know?"), putting down a timer makes it clear that the onus is on you. If you didn't pay attention, that's your fault.

And I'll go one further: I think it's very disrespectful to make everyone wait while you read stuff that you could have read earlier. If you need to check the exact requirements of some obscure spell, sure. But if you need to look up Fireball for the 6th time this game and we all have to wait again while you do it, that's kind of a dick move.

I run a 30 second timer before you have to start doing stuff. If you're not finished, that's fine, but you have to do a thing within 30 seconds. I don't want everyone waiting because you didn't prepare, when they all did.

Minor correction: racist blackface black Pete isn't a Christmas tradition. Also, we've had a big national talk about it, and now the only people who actually do blackface are the actual racists and the rest of us hate them.

The idea of a timer is that you already do that, so that you're ready to go when yours comes up.

And I don't know any GM who won't give you a break from the timer if the person who went before you changed something huge. Like, if someone summoned a demon, you blew up a bridge, you get some extra time to work out a new turn..

I'm sorry, minister Bayraktar?!

Plattduutsch and Gronings/Drents (dialects from the northern Netherlands) are basically so compatible that as long as nobody is writing, the speakers can just understand eachothers.