Thomas Shey's latest activity

Not even necessarily then. There's such a thing as being too close to the problem.

Yeah, I've got the same problem. I suspect my mix of mild undiagnosed ADHD/OCD doesn't help. These days I really try to stick the...

Thanks for the hug! I hope you don't end up in a psych ward. On the plus side for me, I've been able to spend an unhealthy amount of...

I think that the difference is origin, rather than effect. The former tends to come from condescension, whereas the latter is simple...

If you tend to picky, pedantry is just the more intellectual version of that. And it can't help but get self-referential in discussion...

From the inside. From the outside it may sometimes be hard to separate. But actual trolling has a different deliberate intent.

I can't speak for @hawkeyefan, of course, but since we seem to be fairly aligned in our preferences, I would say for me the impact of...

I've never been particularly hesitant to say so. As long as people understand I can shift from one stance to another with the same...

And I think chances are, they're wrong. People are really, really bad at understanding when something will have an influence on them...

Because most of the time, I don’t feel the events of play the way my character does. Certainly not to the extent or depth that they do...

Its not the only beast where the process is presented as stupidly simple, though D&D is certainly a poster child for it in most cases.

To be fair, some of them might like to be able to do that, but they consider the need to mechanize the process too high a price to pay...

I am not particularly convinced everyone in this discussion does want that, at least to any degree that matters.

it is absolutely a rough period to be searching for a job. To the degree its ever been a good time.

So the charity I work for is closing down this year. I'll be losing my job ("made redundant" as they say around here) at the end of the...