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me monday gods and see if that works i feel ya bird from the comic strip speed bump via reddit i think i prefer boz scaggs earworm to katrina and the waves from metzgercartoons back in the early 2000s a local radio station did a stunt where they played this kid rock song for 24 hours straight i was not amused from imgflip and something else but i can t read it you know which generation you re part of by which song pops into your head first from 9gag oh yes that is so me from reddit yeah sorry about that bird from memebase well something must have worked since i no longer have that song stuck in my head posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes sunday july 13 2025 does romance give you the squick well it does for me oh not in real life irl i m a softie who enjoys romance not necessarily romance novels mind you but i meant the concept itself yes yes i know somebody alert my wife i also don t mind having romance in video games because for me that s a personal choice if you want to romance an npc go ahead if you don t you don t what i meant was romance in pencil and paper rpgs although to a lesser extent romance between two players in an mmo as well this was sparked by a video that popped up the other day concerning d d and romance yes i follow ginny di s youtube videos no i didn t get into her videos from critical role but rather i stumbled on her channel when she progressed to other rpg topics the algorithm looked at my viewing history and thought you know there s this woman who dyes her hair that you might find insightful and here i am she does have some great and insightful comments on a variety of rpg topics and between her pointy hat stephanie plays games kelsey dionne bob world builder and several other 20s and 30s content creators i feel that our ttrpg hobby is in good hands for the future i guess the reason why i watched ginny s video was due to my own experience with romance in a d d game if you ve been around this blog for a while you might recall i was part of a long running d d 3 0 campaign as in a 20 year old campaign when our dm got together with us to hash out what the campaign would be about there were a few ground rules we decided upon low to mid level magic use the greek and egyptian pantheons for the campaign and world building some roleplaying in character but not pure amateur thespian hour and absolutely no romance that last one was a hard no from us players as we were all dating and or married and we really just wanted to focus on a campaign with no romantic escapades involved we ve had romantic subplots in our campaign back in college and when it s involving people who are actually dating irl who then break up it gets really ugly really fast therefore just keeping things platonic would make it easier for everybody we players figured that with the ground rules set we were ready to play things worked out okay for a while and outside of us using im to play this was 2001 2 after all things seemed to progress decently well after a couple of years however our dm began trying to slip in romantic subplots and the occasional conan esque nudity into the game we all knew our dm who was a bit of a horndog back in college so we just figured it was him being him and we didn t take the rather obvious bait we kind of kept things at bay until a new player joined the group for a few years he was a coworker of the dm and he wanted to play a bard you can see where this is going right yeah they both went there the bard started wanting to screw every woman he met and this began to wear on us this isn t what we wanted and we definitely didn t ask for it and it kept diverting us from the actual campaign then the dm started having npcs hit on my character and i began having to be more forceful in my nipping of those subplots in the bud the rest of us began talking among ourselves about whether we need to take a stand with the dm and then the problem solved itself the new player had to stop playing and just like that the division mostly evaporated mostly the dm still would try to sneak in some opportunities for romance here and there but we ignored them and kept the game focused on the campaign in the last few months of our campaign before it ended however the dm began to ratchet up the opportunities and the pg 13 nature of those encounters i won t lie and say otherwise but after 20 years we players had had enough there were several other things that contributed to our decision to want to end the campaign but one of the top complaints on our list was that the dm kept pushing the romance and sexual angles on us i think it needs to be said that we re all adults and we can handle adult themes however people have to buy into the concept of romance and shenanigans or you re risking a lot by trying to push it on people when they don t want it i personally would have to be in the right frame of mind to accommodate an rpg campaign with romance and i ll also freely admit that i am not an actor in that i would have issues separating the character s from the player s i probably could do it if i were in say a play or musical or something but in a ttrpg that d be harder okay that s tabletop rpgs but mmos hoo boy that s an entirely different kettle of fish if asmongold s your dad nixxiom i m a jelly doughnut outside of occasionally being hit on by some oversexed player i ve never been in a romantic situation with another mmo player before and you can t not realize that there s another player on the other end which separates it from npc romances such as the companion romances in swtor mmo rp romances are going to be with another character and the specter of erp and goldshire s lion s pride inn hovers over everything there s this too and yes i ve kept this from an old meme monday just because some people can make it work but i m almost completely certain that i can t but if you not me for certain want more detail about doing romance rp in mmos yes it s wow but applicable in all of them there s this i guess knowing my limitations is a good thing and that i m not planning on putting myself into a situation where they would get tested if you can handle it more power to you i think i ll just go do my own thing instead and leave the romance in mmos to y all oh and because i couldn t resist here now you ll never hear that old sonny and cher song the same way although i have made some attempts to check out the genre because the only way to know if you ll like it is to try it ironically enough i think that between the two of us i m the romantic one that doesn t mean that i m not as clueless as the next guy in trying to figure out if someone is hitting on me actually my son nicknamed mr oblivious or captain oblivious due to his cluelessness about such things is a chip off the old block spouses and significant others who are playing the other toon you re romancing kind of get a pass on this since you re obviously thinking of the other person who you re already romantically involved with they don t need me to tell them that but consider it just an observation that i m happy the next generation has taken the reins from us older folks and run with it in the same way that i m proud my kids have engaged with the hobby over the years for all of the get offa my lawn sort of behavior from the old guard who are as old or older than me i just wanted to get it out there that i m happy they re showing their love for the hobby and contributing to its overall success and maybe this year i ll get a chance to run into one of them at gen con it also goes without saying that some of the old guard have opened their arms to the new generation of content creators people like matt colville professor dm and baron de ropp could have circled their collective wagons and been assholes toward the new blood but they haven t and our hobby is all the better for it the dm was married to one of the players in fact if you re not an adult it goes without saying that parental guidance is strongly suggested my oldest once attended an rpg game session in high school with some acquaintances and all of the guys there tried to hit on her character and by extension her she got really creeped out and that was the end of that posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels d d memes music musings romance rpgs videos wow thursday july 10 2025 i sure could use some lemonade with the summer doldrums in full swing i ve been busy taking care of some yardwork as well as other small projects that doesn t mean i ve been neglecting operation spread the love mind you but i ve had my mind on a lot of other things than just leveling toons on the anniversary servers i may have to move azshandra s hearthstone location away from darkshore although it does provide me a quick way of reaching darnassus the levels are current as of july 9 2025 when the weather reaches 95f 35c with the heat index soaring to 102f 39c being outside isn t that pleasant i can t have honest to goodness real lemonade sugar you know but i ve made do with the zero sugar variety you know what also makes this weather miserable bugs lots of gnats and mosquitos and other bugs that annoy and sting and bite at you while you re trying to get rid of weedy shrubs that are choking out the shrubs and trees you d planted years ago i d not really had a chance to maintain that part of the yard very much over the last few years so it had gotten into such a mess that i could put it off no longer hacking through the weeds with a reciprocating saw and a generic cutting blade made my job a bit easier but with the miserable heat on the july 4th holiday i was pretty much spent by around 11 30 am and i still was stubborn enough to want to finish cutting part of the grass as well before i called it a day so i retreated inside and drank some fluids to recharge a bit there it was world of warcraft tempting me to just go and play for a little while inside the air conditioned house because of course it was i m still not sure how i fended off that urge to just play for a couple of hours away from the heat and humidity but i finished my drink and went out and got the grass cut before mid afternoon rolled around the leveling process in operation spread the love can feel like that yardwork at times you know it s a grind but it s part of the process once you get through you ll feel better and more confident in understanding how to play your class none of the quests in the l30s or l40s are earth shaking by any stretch of the imagination and to my mind that s a good thing the world doesn t have to be in the balance to have an enjoyable time and even if the grind can feel oppressive at times once you get through you ll be able to look back at how the effort was worth it but that grind can get annoying there s no sugarcoating that it s also not helped by mages and warlocks rounding up mobs in the area and wiping them off the map while you re unable to finish the quests you re on on days like that and there have been a lot of them it s good to have another place to go to in the meantime such as gnomeregan i d originally thought i might hit l50 on toons by august but that might be optimistic maybe october at this rate gee i wonder why like an idiot i didn t go out to the hardware store and get a wood cutting blade until monday which then made the trimming process go much faster with a lot less effort i still had to haul away the brush to one side of the yard where it ll stay until i can break it down for removal it ll likely take 3 4 weeks worth of trash removal to get that stuff all cleared out posted by redbeard at 9 45 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels operation spread the love wow classic anniversary newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom pages home about parallel context 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