Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Velderan]

Not so much here this time, but it never ceases to amaze me that people buy TTRPG books and then complain about aspects of the game they'd easily have known were a thing if they looked at the free quick start the publisher provides.

 

[Scribe]

Not so much here this time, but it never ceases to amaze me that people buy TTRPG books and then complain about aspects of the game they'd easily have known were a thing if they looked at the free quick start the publisher provides.

I'm guilty of this at times, its not till the full product is in my hands that I ever really sit and look things over in depth only to find that its offends me in some way or another.

All the more amusing since I just complained last page about people not understanding what they have...hmm.

 

[MoonSong]

If you're going exactly the speed limit in the passing lane and don't realize you need to move out of the way until you're being tailgated, I fear you may be the problem in this scenario.

To take notes, what am I suppossed to do in the situation? (For real, honest question) For both my safety and not breaking the law.

 

[Mannahnin]

To take notes, what am I suppossed to do in the situation? (For real, honest question) For both my safety and not breaking the law.

So just to confirm, this is a road with multiple lanes traveling in the same direction, correct?

If so, best practice is normally that the leftmost lane* be reserved for passing. So you wouldn't normally be lingering in the passing lane and won't have to worry about people tailgating you, because they can just use the passing lane and neither of you bother the other. If you are in the process of passing someone slower when a speed demon comes up behind you, simply complete your pass and move over to the right to let them by.

*(or rightmost lane, for countries which drive on the left)

 

[gnarlygninja]

To take notes, what am I suppossed to do in the situation? (For real, honest question) For both my safety and not breaking the law.

Apparently a hot take, but considering you mentioned "in the city", I think you're fine and the people doing 90 in that scenario are definitely the problem.

 

[Cadence]

Apparently a hot take, but considering you mentioned "in the city", I think you're fine and the people doing 90 in that scenario are definitely the problem.

Does feel to me like 90 is probably ridiculous in any city in any case! That being said, Chicago suburbs do have an interstate with up to 14 lanes going through them where the left lane is just cars doing 90+ sometimes. (I am sometimes not sure Illinois actually does have any state police, appearances in the Blues Brothers not withstanding).

I guess the question is - if the right lane has space and doesn't have a lot of people turning into it and you aren't passing people and you aren't planning on getting in the center turn lane and there are folks who want to go faster piling up behind you - why stay in the left lane in any 4-lane (2 each way) situation?

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Not so much here this time, but it never ceases to amaze me that people buy TTRPG books and then complain about aspects of the game they'd easily have known were a thing if they looked at the free quick start the publisher provides.

I don't understand this comment.

The entire reason I buy TTRPG books is to have something to complain about!

 

[Cadence]

Tangential to lane usage:

A decade or so ago, one that really got me was a rash of pedestrians walking x-abreast on a path or sidewalk towards someone who was walking singly all the way to the right (possibly up against hedges or a wall or fence). The groups (or couples) would apparently expect the lone people to step off the path or in some cases apparently flatten against the wall.

It finally got to the point where if they were very old or very young or bigger than me I would still try to get out of the way as much as possible. In several other cases they seemed exceedingly surprised that they weren't deferred to when they crashed into my shoulder and that no I wouldn't apologize*.

It wasn't a problem before that year or after, and I have no idea what odd social thing caused it. Or maybe I just had a temporary gray man aura.


* I did sympathize with one member of a couple when the other one who ran into me became completely unglued. That was a case where the only choice for me would be to climb up on a 3' wall next to the path to avoid it.

 

[Scribe]

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I'd rather game with people I have on ignore, than at your table, and that's saying something.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Tangential to lane usage:

A decade or so ago, one that really got me was a rash of pedestrians walking x-abreast on a path or sidewalk towards someone who was walking singly all the way to the right (possibly up against hedges or a wall or fence). The groups (or couples) would apparently expect the lone people to step off the path or in some cases apparently flatten against the wall.

It finally got to the point where if they were very old or very young or bigger than me I would still try to get out of the way as much as possible. In several other cases they seemed exceedingly surprised that they weren't deferred to when they crashed into my shoulder and that no I wouldn't apologize*.

It wasn't a problem before that year or after, and I have no idea what odd social thing caused it. Or maybe I just had a temporary gray man aura.


* I did sympathize with one member of a couple when the other one who ran into me became completely unglued. That was a case where the only choice for me would be to climb up on a 3' wall next to the path to avoid it.

As a general rule, people are stupid. But they are individually stupid.

When people are together, you do not determine the group stupidity by addition. No, stupidity grows exponentially.