Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[gnarlygninja]

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?

There are a lot of qualifiers in this sentence, and they all lead up to a scenario that is not necessarily the one being described in the message I responded to.
But even in this scenario, the shortest answer is: Because people who regularly speed are naughty words and I don't feel a need to accommodate their behavior.

 

[prabe]

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.

On hiking trails, the rule is that the people going uphill have the right of way. That should not be relevant on a paved path such as you seem to be describing.

 

[prabe]

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

Ya know, I get the sense you and I have very different preferences, very different things we want from TRPGs. You'd plausibly enjoy their tables more than you would mine. (I am sincerely not offended, and not intending offense.)

 

[Scribe]

Ya know, I get the sense you and I have very different preferences, very different things we want from TRPGs. You'd plausibly enjoy their tables more than you would mine. (I am sincerely not offended, and not intending offense.)

I dont know, maybe? I'm pretty easy at the game side, and just let things ride most of the time.

 

[Cadence]

There are a lot of qualifiers in this sentence, and they all lead up to a scenario that is not necessarily the one being described in the message I responded to.
But even in this scenario, the shortest answer is: Because people who regularly speed are naughty words and I don't feel a need to accommodate their behavior.

<Checks description in rules>

And so that would be Lawful?

<Channels stories of DMs giving PCs alignment conundrums>

How does that work in the states where it is illegal to be in the farthest left lane except to pass?

<Not a serious question, so feel free to drive past>

 

[prabe]

I dont know, maybe? I'm pretty easy at the game side, and just let things ride most of the time.

Fair: I might be wrong about whether and how our preferences overlap, how compatible we'd be at a TRPG table. I think my bigger point is that someone might prefer to game with people who share their preferences, more than they prefer to game with people they actually like.

 

[Scribe]

Fair: I might be wrong about whether and how our preferences overlap, how compatible we'd be at a TRPG table. I think my bigger point is that someone might prefer to game with people who share their preferences, more than they prefer to game with people they actually like.

Yeah, thats my point.

 

[trappedslider]

I don't understand this comment.

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

Listen to this and save money: You don't need to buy to complain

 

[Velderan]

I don't understand this comment.

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

If I've learned one thing on the internet, it's that you're not a fan if you're not complaining.

 

[gnarlygninja]

<Checks description in rules>

And so that would be Lawful?

<Channels stories of DMs giving PCs alignment conundrums>

How does that work in the states where it is illegal to be in the farthest left lane except to pass?

<Not a serious question, so feel free to drive past>

In a more measured response, I probably wouldn't be in the left lane in that scenario to begin with. It's just not one I encounter very often, since the only time the road would be that empty where I live is in the dead of night and the people wanting to go faster than me wouldn't be tailgating me, they'd have already be doing 90 mph up the right lane.