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I'm mostly ambivalent about nitro pours, probably mostly because I do the vast majority of my drinking at home.

I am genuinely happy there's a community that proves me wrong, and I sincerely hope it continues to do so.

There is not.

I do! Lupulin shift is real! In truth, I enjoy basically everything but sours. Some of the beers I enjoy are wilder rides than others, of course. Meeting the people you want to drink beer--or TRPG--with where they are seems like the right approach to me.

There are a lot of beers (and arguably some beer styles) that are craft beer darlings but are not where one should start. I mean, I once described a specific double IPA as tasting like a pine cone wrapped in barbed wire and dipped in grapefruit juice--and that was a beer that I liked.

I will snark on BigBeerCorp and its tendency to assimilate small breweries and turn them into names on a label, but I will also say it's OK to drink the beer you enjoy drinking.

So basically you're unable to imagine how an experience you haven't had can change your outlook and maybe your behavior. Noted.

Yeah, it's like when your FLGS closes. You can still get the stuff, but ...

If you say that you find it nigh-impossible because of how it interacts with your neurology, I believe you. (Not arguing--it's just a possibility you didn't include.)

Oh, that is a bummer. I don't homebrew--I didn't have the physical space for it when I was most into beer--but it's a hobby I respect the heck out of.

I just recently read a book where the author spent a week riding along with a long-haul trucker in the US, and I get the feeling the experience changed his outlook on a lot of things, and might have made him a better driver in some ways. Honestly, just driving (even co-driving) a rented truck...

Oh, gawds, I'm flashing on craft beer fifteen years ago ...

Neither playing guitar nor GMing is a recreational impossibility, I concur.

Look, I ended up on bass for reasons, OK? (Seriously, good post.)

I think someone really new to GMing--especially someone without much experience as a player, or without much variance in that experience--might latch onto the first mostly reasonable advice they find, and then other advice might need to make sense to them before they apply it. I don't think...

I think someone really new to GMing--especially someone without much experience as a player, or without much variance in that experience--might latch onto the first mostly reasonable advice they find, and then other advice might need to make sense to them before they apply it. I don't think...

I think there is perhaps a difference between unwilling to cook any dish not from one's native cuisine and, I dunno, preferring to cook dishes from a cuisine you're familiar with. I'm a pretty experienced hobby cook, and there are things I'm not at all willing to deal with preparing, for reasons...

In my own case, the game is working for me and for the players at my table, and I don't persistently have more energy than it takes to run the two 5e/ToV campaigns I'm running. It's also not exactly "forever," but that's a different thing.

On the one hand, I'd expect people who enjoyed one trick-taking game to enjoy several. On the other hand, bridge specifically has some complexity especially around the bidding and its use as communication--and that might be a thing people who were really into bridge might not be eager to miss...

There's "hard" that's enjoyable and worth the effort, and there's "hard" that isn't. I'm no good at all at chess, and I don't enjoy playing it. I enjoyed music until my ears went to crap, and I was a pretty good musician at times, and I picked stuff up pretty quickly. There are prodigies who are...