Lets just say I don't agree. I find paper so frustrating. I lose it, or I can't decipher what I've written. I forget it on some sessions... It's an ADHD disaster. But with a laptop, even if I forget it, I can still use my phone to access the character.
I even use digital dice rollers when it's not a PITA to share the results with the rest of the table.
Hey, you. You’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right?
Why would it be banned?!
I honestly can't remember the last time someone in one of my groups used pen and paper. Mostly (but not always) the dice have remained though!
I learned as a GM to set expectations.
"I don't want to have to fight and force you in to making this game work, because even though I'm GMing, I'd like to enjoy myself too. You need to create a character that will want to stick around with the rest of the group. You don't have to all get on, or have deep attachments, you just need a character that I won't have to railroad"
That's not common in Shadowrun... 30+ years playing and running that game, and I've never encountered it!
Exactly. I'm not running to chrome with it's defanged ad blockers and Google stink.
Are they amazing, or are they superb?
Being in a straight appearing relationship with a guy. I felt like my queerness was completely lost, and I hated the assumptions that people started making about me and the relationship.
Only openly queer relationships for me thank you!
Exactamente por que uso comunidads como esto! Necesito practicar mas espanol, por que es dificil a practicar dia a dia en Australia
People see the same ideas echoed over and over again, and eventually it shapes how they think. That’s why regular, everyday people, people who aren’t even political start parroting right-wing talking points. Even my kids and their friends are saying this stuff.
You are 100% correct on this part.
The problem is, arguing with them magnifies that effect, it doesn't challenge it.
That's not to say you shouldn't push back. I don't mean smile and agree, or just ignore them. Deplatforming works, protests work, proud visibility works, civil disobedience works. Responding negatively works. Making it so that there is a social cost to being a transphobe works.
But debating them isn't any of those things. Debating them is engaging with them, and in the act of arguing with you, they actually solidify the beliefs they already hold, and this is especially true of heavily polarised issues. Here's some research on it https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01623-8 (PDF link), and an article that goes in to the topic a bit https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/why-is-it-that-even-proven-facts-cant-change-some-peoples-minds
As much as it feels right to argue with them, all you are doing is strengthening their already held beliefs when you do. It might feel like its helping, but it isn't. You'll read my response, and you'll likely go "screw that, you're wrong, I'm going to keep arguing". And that's the exact effect I'm talking about at play. Every time you argue with someone, they have that same internal reaction to your comments, no matter what you say, or how strongly you believe it.
We're in Eurovision, we're in Europe :P
A week? Those are rookie numbers!