Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Mannahnin]

Yeah. Even within geek spaces there are, unfortunately, ridiculous hierarchies. Raiders look down on regular pve players. Pvp teams look down on pvp battleground players. Etc.

This version of the chart is 23 years old now!

I remember when I was first reading Brunching Shuttlecocks, back in the late 90s.

 

[trappedslider]

I think it's been long enough that I can say without hurting anyone's feelings: The people of Pompeii were not good at playing the floor is lava.

 

[el-remmen]

I was just looking at my records for my in-person gaming group and realized, I only awarded XP once in 2024 and so far only once in 2025 (with slim to no chance it will happen again before 2026).

 

[payn]

I was just looking at my records for my in-person gaming group and realized, I only awarded XP once in 2024 and so far only once in 2025 (with slim to no chance it will happen again before 2026).

You still use XP?

 

[Umbran]

You still use XP?

Or have some restrictions on when you choose to award it?
Or is the group not doing things you reward experience for?

 

[trappedslider]

You still use XP?

No, i upgraded to win 10 finally

 

[el-remmen]

You still use XP?

Yes.

Or have some restrictions on when you choose to award it?

I award XP at the end of each adventure or (or more rarely) significant portion of a longer adventure, and there is some downtime.

Or is the group not doing things you reward experience for?

They earn XP every session but I just keep track of it.

 

[pukunui]

I think it's been long enough that I can say without hurting anyone's feelings: The people of Pompeii were not good at playing the floor is lava.

That’s debatable, since Pompeii was buried by volcanic ash, not lava.

 

[Maxperson]

"Do you even PC bro?"

 

[pukunui]

My goodness me, what a day! My oldest daughter has finally flown the coop, and I took the day off to help her move. She insisted on doing all the packing herself and so it took longer than I was expecting ... and then we drove for an hour through rainy day afternoon traffic to her new place, only for her to discover she'd left her house key behind at my house. So we had to leave the truck there and drive all the way home (another hour) to get the key, then go back to her new place (another hour). The unpack was quick because she had friends helping. Then I had to drive back home again through the rush hour traffic (a fourth hour in traffic). I also had to extend the moving truck rental to the next day since I wasn't going to be able to return it before they closed. Needless to say, I am utterly exhausted!

To make matters worse, the stress and awkwardness of the truck's big, nearly horizontal steering wheel have aggravated my left neck and shoulder. I'm really hoping that it doesn't result in a return of the bursitis + pinched nerve double whammy I experienced back in 2023 (that was a result of spending hours power-washing my driveway and then getting a massage; woke up the next morning with my neck and shoulder on fire. Couldn't sleep for weeks ... took months of physiotherapy and painkillers and a steroid shot to overcome.)