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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bawylie" data-source="post: 7829787" data-attributes="member: 6776133">Sometimes my neighbors are loud at night and keep me up when I’m trying to sleep. That sucks. There’s an extent to which their actions are stealing some peace from me. See, I didn’t consent to that arrangement of them being loud while I try to sleep. And there’s not a whole lot I can do to make them not do the things I don’t like them doing. There are some options, sure, but unless they voluntarily agree to keep it down, I can’t go on in their homes and turn off their music. Also, sometimes I’m loud at night and keep them up while they’re trying to sleep and they didn’t agree to that arrangement and that sucks. And there’s not a lot they can do about it. What I can do is pop in some ear plugs, close some windows, and/or run some white noise. That helps. It’s different when you play d&d. In that case, you’ve all agreed to abide by certain rules and conventions. But there’s stuff happening all the time that causes me to lose immersion. Someone has a call from a spouse. Someone has a call from nature. Someone needs another beer (it’s me. I’m someone). Maybe the kids are at it again in another room. Real disruptions. I lose immersion all the time. When it comes down to it though, that’s on me. It’s unreasonable to tell another player “hey don’t pee right now, I’m really into this scene.” It’s unreasonable to ask someone to ignore their spouse. All I can fairly do is re-engage my own immersion, knowing that I’ll lose it again at the next interruption, and deciding for myself how much or how little that should annoy me and whether it is worth it to continue playing under those circumstances.Oh, and the most immersion breaking rule in the game is that every class is a wizard now.</blockquote>

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