Random Things I Think About Sometimes

 I wish I could stop thinking sometimes. I just wish there were a switch to turn off every thought, whisking away every anxiety. I swear just my thoughts are the source of 99 percent of the strife I go through.

I found it among (ತ⁠_⁠ʖ⁠ತ) a box of books I needed to put away for my mom's work (where I'm volunteering over the summer). What intrigued me initially was the simple plain blue cover. It wasn't trying to stand out. So I picked it up and before filing it away I flipped to a random page. That page happened to be #52. That page and the following chapter were nothing particularly special; they presented no groundbreaking arguments or insights of any kind. By all reason, I should have put up that book immediately. So that's exactly what I did. But the book did not leave my mind. For some irritating reason it stuck nagging at me. Until finally I convinced myself to dig it out and bring it home. And then I read it, as one sometimes does with books. I quickly discovered a few things. One, it was old. The last time it had been checked out before being donated to my mother's work was 1977, and the earliest dates 1966.  I finished reading it in two days, it took me longer than...

      In short, LOVED IT! I prepped a short quest using the guidelines in the PDF, only took two-ish hours. I made it pretty silly, the players had to go into the Forest of Love and Cuddles to retrieve Mr. Timberwhiskers the cat for Ms. Timberwimbers. It followed a fairly linear progression from Point A---> Points B or C---> Point D (finale) and Point C--->Point E (optional). Throughout they battled huge stuffed Valentines stuffed animals, unicorns, and other generally bright and love themed enemies. They wiped out some cat gangsters (RIP Demarcus the bipedal cat). Then they tracked down Mr. Timberwhiskers, who prefers to go by Dr. Deathatron 9001. They retrieved Dr. Deathatron 9001 and returned him to Mr. Timberwhiskers. But that's enough of my brief overview of the session.     So, what did I like about Starglow now that I've played it? I still love it, I think basically everything I thought that the game would do well in the review was true...

     So I saw this as a poll on r/polls (I might grab the link later) and the results were astonishingly close. Something like 2.2k people voted for the chimp, while 3.2k voted for the humans. The specifics of the rules were no weapons, the humans exercise often, and the chimp is bloodlusted. Anyway I don't know the full physical capabilities of a chimp, but I do know one could probably easily take out 3-4 humans in a fight. But 7? No way, even if the chimp leaps on one, the other 6 can beat the shit out of it. The one guy might die if he can't get medical attention but 7 dudes would surely overpower a chimp. Anyway that's just my not-an-expert opinion on the matter.

 I absolutely love this game. I would highly recommend for anyone looking for something unique and highly flavorful. The mechanics reward fast fast fast high-risk gameplay. Players nearly always succeed and are encouraged to push the boundaries of their abilities, to take risks essentially.      Coming from the OSR and 5e mainly, this game is like a breath of fresh air. I'm excited to introduce it to my regular group. Also a good amount of DM advice for running the game is present, which is always amazing. My main critique is, maybe more player options. Not really a critique, but adding in more options for each character to be unique would make the character creation more intersting. Although this does add in more work because for any ability you need another mirror version for the glitched class.          The game might be hard to run for a new DM or inexperienced group. I guess I should get into the actual specifics of the game. E...

If I'm bored I'll count the number of cars on the interstate. I have a few rules though (I also don't just count cars). From now on the person playing the game will be referred to as "the counter." 1. The vehicle must be on the road (roughly) parallel from the one the counter is on. 2. The vehicle must be moving in the opposite direction from the counter. 3. The vehicle must be the main driver of it's movement. (So those big trucks with like 10 other cars on them or a boat being towed don't count) 4. The only vehicles that are valid to be counted by the counter must be viewed from the window closest to the left or right of the counter that is also in direct view of the road mentioned in #1. All these rules are completely arbitrary and pretty pointless, I just follow them because they click the right dopamine buttons on the inside. My high score is around 700 before I just got really really bored.  Please let me know if there are any loopholes here. Or don...

     So I took a practice test yesterday. To be honest I felt horrible, I've been sick the past few days so I was not in peak condition. But I say that's a good thing, any mistake I'm prone to I would of made because I didn't have the energy to avoid it; I'll see the full scope of my issues so to speak.     Anyway when I graded it, my results were pretty much what I expected. Really bad, way worse than my second time taking the ACT. I guess I should go over my journey so far before going into right now.     I took it once, totally bombed got like a 22 or something, 17 in math blah blah it was not good. I knew I could do better so I took it again without studying except brushing up some algebra stuff, and got a 29 this time. So working with that as my baseline I decided to start taking practice tests. Anyway I don't think I need to even bother studying the reading section because I got a 36 on it, but the other sections (looking at you math) c...

     I always worry when I make my title for anything, mainly about the capitalization. I don't know how to out it into words so here's an example: If I wanna make a post title for some Reddit post about I don't know, ACT prep or something, should it look like this, "Seeking Tutor For ACT Prep, Help Wanted/DMs Open." or, "Seeking tutor for ACT prep, help wanted/DMs open." or, "Seeking Tutor for ACT Prep, Help Wanted/DMs Open."      I guess I did put it into words, but anyway, I worry which one looks better, which one is grammatically correct. I guess grammar is less of an issue and more the vibe of the title. It probably doesn't matter anyway and I'm the only person who notices. But I'll still spend sometimes twice as long     I've gotten better at this, not stressing about it anyway.      Anyway I'm definitely not overusing anyway this is my first blog post and I will write down other things I wanna talk about, that way I...