Player: "I cast Detect Problematic."

GF (Game Facilitator, as the term Game Master is in itself problematic): "Okay, you instantly go blind because everything is problematic."

Player, weeping: "I know..."

Maze of Reality
A curse item that appears to be Sandra's Safespace.  Instead of entering a safe space the people are forced to face reality head on and accept the truth for what it is.  To avoid this fate you must escape the maze like dungeon.  Those that fail suffer red pilled alignment and will gladly vote for Trump.  The worst become black pilled and will target the other pcs.  Either way unplayable unless you want to have a conservative campaign.

Quote from: myleftnut;1086605I live in Portland.  Antifa doesn't control shit.  It's just a bunch of people who don't want to get a fucking job like the rest of us.

Also are you serious about all that other shit you said or are you just trying to get lulz?

Greetings!

You know, I'm just amazed at how all of these young 21, 25, 20-ish and even people in their 30's manage to live a month without a job, let alone many months, or years--all without having a job and making money. It just boggles me.

How the fuck do these people eat? *What* the fuck do they eat? I can spend $100/week on food, without thinking about it much at all. That doesn't count obviously going out to lunch and dinner several times, as well as breakfast and morning coffees. ($400+/month for food).

How do they get around, with no money for gas? I can spend $100/week on gas for my vehicle, easily. ($400/month for vehicle gas).

Cell Phones cost money; $50 to $150/month. ($50/month).

Lights, Cable, Internet. Easily $100/month, without cable, or $250/month with cable. ($250/month).

Auto Insurance: $100/month, easy. ($100/month).

Gym Membership: $50/month. ($50/month).

My minimum expenses there are roughly $1250/month, not counting rent/mortgage, and funding nothing social or fun, like going out on dates, movies, drinks, game books, cigars, none of that. In general, toss in another $800 for share of rent, and so on. Add a $150 in bare-minimum spending money and miscellaneous, and it comes to $2200/month. Just to cover all of the necessities, and a bare few extras. I've been doing this program more or less since I was 17 years old. Paying bills, working, and working harder to do more than just get by. When I was married and owned a house in Norwalk, CA, I was taking care of half the mortgage, at $1200/month. The total monthly mortgage was $2200/month. Years later, a nice apartment in a nice section of Santa Ana, CA, was running $1400/month. Again, I was paying over 50% of the monthly rent with the girlfriend at the time. Plus all the bills and more.

How the fuck are these people even *functioning* in a society and home life, where they are not making at least close to the figures I put up? The figures I put up are also pretty minimal, watching the budget, nothing crazy or extravagant. Geesus, doing laundry at a laundry mat is like, $10 bucks. Or more. That's just weekly laundry for *me*--women, naturally, spend even more money if they are using a laundry mat.

It just boggles me how all of these young adults manage to get by without having a fucking job. Even more sharp, why the fuck would you enjoy being fucking broke and poor? Why the fuck would that even ever be acceptable? There's been more than one occasion where I have needed extra money, to pay off debts, get ahead, rebuild savings, whatehaveyou, where I went and got a second job, usually within two weeks, and raking in more money within a month. Working 14, 16 hour days, for months at a time. Being fucking broke and poor is no fun, and you have to always work hard to take care of your fucking life and make progress, and get stronger, month by month, year by year.

It's difficult for me to even comprehend these fucking lazy slugs in their 20's and 30's. Fucking pathetic losers.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Quote from: SHARK;1086627Greetings!

You know, I'm just amazed at how all of these young 21, 25, 20-ish and even people in their 30's manage to live a month without a job, let alone many months, or years--all without having a job and making money. It just boggles me.

How the fuck do these people eat? *What* the fuck do they eat? I can spend $100/week on food, without thinking about it much at all. That doesn't count obviously going out to lunch and dinner several times, as well as breakfast and morning coffees. ($400+/month for food).

How do they get around, with no money for gas? I can spend $100/week on gas for my vehicle, easily. ($400/month for vehicle gas).

Cell Phones cost money; $50 to $150/month. ($50/month).

Lights, Cable, Internet. Easily $100/month, without cable, or $250/month with cable. ($250/month).

Auto Insurance: $100/month, easy. ($100/month).

Gym Membership: $50/month. ($50/month).

My minimum expenses there are roughly $1250/month, not counting rent/mortgage, and funding nothing social or fun, like going out on dates, movies, drinks, game books, cigars, none of that. In general, toss in another $800 for share of rent, and so on. Add a $150 in bare-minimum spending money and miscellaneous, and it comes to $2200/month. Just to cover all of the necessities, and a bare few extras. I've been doing this program more or less since I was 17 years old. Paying bills, working, and working harder to do more than just get by. When I was married and owned a house in Norwalk, CA, I was taking care of half the mortgage, at $1200/month. The total monthly mortgage was $2200/month. Years later, a nice apartment in a nice section of Santa Ana, CA, was running $1400/month. Again, I was paying over 50% of the monthly rent with the girlfriend at the time. Plus all the bills and more.

How the fuck are these people even *functioning* in a society and home life, where they are not making at least close to the figures I put up? The figures I put up are also pretty minimal, watching the budget, nothing crazy or extravagant. Geesus, doing laundry at a laundry mat is like, $10 bucks. Or more. That's just weekly laundry for *me*--women, naturally, spend even more money if they are using a laundry mat.

It just boggles me how all of these young adults manage to get by without having a fucking job. Even more sharp, why the fuck would you enjoy being fucking broke and poor? Why the fuck would that even ever be acceptable? There's been more than one occasion where I have needed extra money, to pay off debts, get ahead, rebuild savings, whatehaveyou, where I went and got a second job, usually within two weeks, and raking in more money within a month. Working 14, 16 hour days, for months at a time. Being fucking broke and poor is no fun, and you have to always work hard to take care of your fucking life and make progress, and get stronger, month by month, year by year.

It's difficult for me to even comprehend these fucking lazy slugs in their 20's and 30's. Fucking pathetic losers.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Agreed. I'm 25 and I turn 26 in June. I am living with my mother and am unemployed, and believe me, it fucking sucks to not have any direction or purpose in life.

It's gotten so bad for me that I eventually rose to the occasion and started working with the Virginia Disability And Rehabilitative Services to enter a state-sponsored trade school program for disabled adults who are residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

It is a school where you live on campus and you first learn life skills and after completing that program, you enter a job skills program of your choice to learn a trade or certified job skill.

I've been doing loads of paperwork, dealing with bureaucracy, and generally playing "hurry up and wait" to get into this school, and yet despite the tedium of it all, it is fucking worth it.

A week ago, I was at the DARS regional office here in Roanoke and I had to take an aptitude test.

Fortunately, it went well for me and I now fully qualify for the school programs. In a few weeks, I will be returning to that office to find out the date of when I ship out to the school.

The reason why I chose to jump through all the hoops and wade through all the red tape of dealing with the state is because I want to improve myself and do something with my life. I can't stand being a jobless NEET and would not wish that upon anyone.

And for some reason, the spoiled hipsters in ANTIFA scorn the idea of honest work or learning a viable job skill (whether it be a trade skill or a viable college degree such as a STEM major) and choose to be lazy and whiny basement dwellers. I just can't comprehend it, I really can't.

I had to live with my parents for most of my 20's and I'm just now starting to branch out into the adult world, these losers choose to live with their parents well into their 30's.

Eh, maybe I'm letting the ANTIFA losers get to me. I mean, they're blindly throwing away their lives so they can LARP as Bolsheviks, but I'm trying to improve my life.

I'm going to be moving out of the house fairly soon, I'll be learning a job skill, and I now have a girlfriend.

Despite all my Alex Jones-esque ramblings, I must admit things are starting to look up for me and I am thankful that my life is finally showing tangible signs of improvement.

@SHARK

First of all thank you for your service.  Second I have the answers you seek. Those people have rich parents and live with the comfort of knowing no matter how much they fuck up, they have a golden parachute to bail them out. Theres a strange phenomenon here in Portland that I haven't encountered anywhere else. Certainly not back east where I'm originally from.  We have a whole generation of young adults who appear to be homeless when in fact they have trust funds. It's bizarre.

Back on topic:

Bumper sticker activist
Cardboard sign activist

Quote from: SHARK;1086627Greetings!

You know, I'm just amazed at how all of these young 21, 25, 20-ish and even people in their 30's manage to live a month without a job, let alone many months, or years--all without having a job and making money. It just boggles me.

How the fuck do these people eat? *What* the fuck do they eat? I can spend $100/week on food, without thinking about it much at all. That doesn't count obviously going out to lunch and dinner several times, as well as breakfast and morning coffees. ($400+/month for food).

How do they get around, with no money for gas? I can spend $100/week on gas for my vehicle, easily. ($400/month for vehicle gas).

Cell Phones cost money; $50 to $150/month. ($50/month).

Lights, Cable, Internet. Easily $100/month, without cable, or $250/month with cable. ($250/month).

Auto Insurance: $100/month, easy. ($100/month).

Gym Membership: $50/month. ($50/month).

My minimum expenses there are roughly $1250/month, not counting rent/mortgage, and funding nothing social or fun, like going out on dates, movies, drinks, game books, cigars, none of that. In general, toss in another $800 for share of rent, and so on. Add a $150 in bare-minimum spending money and miscellaneous, and it comes to $2200/month. Just to cover all of the necessities, and a bare few extras. I've been doing this program more or less since I was 17 years old. Paying bills, working, and working harder to do more than just get by. When I was married and owned a house in Norwalk, CA, I was taking care of half the mortgage, at $1200/month. The total monthly mortgage was $2200/month. Years later, a nice apartment in a nice section of Santa Ana, CA, was running $1400/month. Again, I was paying over 50% of the monthly rent with the girlfriend at the time. Plus all the bills and more.

How the fuck are these people even *functioning* in a society and home life, where they are not making at least close to the figures I put up? The figures I put up are also pretty minimal, watching the budget, nothing crazy or extravagant. Geesus, doing laundry at a laundry mat is like, $10 bucks. Or more. That's just weekly laundry for *me*--women, naturally, spend even more money if they are using a laundry mat.

It just boggles me how all of these young adults manage to get by without having a fucking job. Even more sharp, why the fuck would you enjoy being fucking broke and poor? Why the fuck would that even ever be acceptable? There's been more than one occasion where I have needed extra money, to pay off debts, get ahead, rebuild savings, whatehaveyou, where I went and got a second job, usually within two weeks, and raking in more money within a month. Working 14, 16 hour days, for months at a time. Being fucking broke and poor is no fun, and you have to always work hard to take care of your fucking life and make progress, and get stronger, month by month, year by year.

It's difficult for me to even comprehend these fucking lazy slugs in their 20's and 30's. Fucking pathetic losers.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

No, SHARK; open up, and tell us how you really feel.  Please, share your pain with the rest of the group.

Quote from: myleftnut;1086635We have a whole generation of young adults who appear to be homeless when in fact they have trust funds. It's bizarre.

Portlandia said it best:  "Portland - where young people go to retire."

Pajama Boy

[ATTACH=CONFIG]3368[/ATTACH]

Size/Type:   Humanoid
Hit Dice:   1 hp
Initiative:   None
Speed:   30 ft.
Armor Class:   10
Attack:      None
Special Attacks: SJ Vocabulary
Skills:   Listen (and Believe) +20
Feats:   Wokeness, Improved Self-deprecation
Environment:   Parent's basement, coffee shop
Organization:   Gang of students (2-4), Various friends on social media (100-223)
Challenge Rating:   0
Alignment:   Lawful SJ
Advancement:   See below

A pajama boy is a first or second year student at an American university, visiting his parents for the Thanksgiving and/or Christmas holiday. During these events, he will complain that the holiday is representative of America's racist and colonialist history, and talk non-stop about politics, even though various family members have asked him not to. He will ruin the family gathering by talking about what he learned this semester in his Gender Studies class, until Drunk Uncle (see p. 76) tells him to STFU and he runs to his room to post on Twitter.

The special attack of the pajama boy is the SJ vocabulary, which consists of various phrases like sealioning, gaslighting, mansplaining, check your privilege, and Not a Good Fit for the Community, which mean anything he wants them to mean. This attack has the effect of eliciting praise and "plus ones" from others of a Lawful SJ alignment, or mockery and contempt from anyone with a job.

Pajama boys do not advance. After second year, they become White Knights (p. 45) or Walkaways (p. 97.)

Is this going to be the game where the players create and control their individual NPC and PC is an alignment?

Quote from: kythri;1086641Portlandia said it best:  "Portland - where young people go to retire."

Yeah, let's be real here. Portland would be great if it weren't for all the fucking leftist trust-fund hipsters LARP'ing as hobos.

You live in Oregon, right? If you live in the Portland area, you have my sympathies and condolences.

People on the Religious Right would compare Seattle and Portland to Sodom and Gomorrah, but I wouldn't insult either Sodom or Gomorrah like that by comparing them to the Left Coast.

This book must have as many pages as possible; and should require a +1 Strength score or better, to be carried one-handed.  It can also be used to inflict Bludgeoning damage at-will.

Quote from: Doc Sammy;1086632Agreed. I'm 25 and I turn 26 in June. I am living with my mother and am unemployed, and believe me, it fucking sucks to not have any direction or purpose in life.

It's gotten so bad for me that I eventually rose to the occasion and started working with the Virginia Disability And Rehabilitative Services to enter a state-sponsored trade school program for disabled adults who are residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

It is a school where you live on campus and you first learn life skills and after completing that program, you enter a job skills program of your choice to learn a trade or certified job skill.

I've been doing loads of paperwork, dealing with bureaucracy, and generally playing "hurry up and wait" to get into this school, and yet despite the tedium of it all, it is fucking worth it.

A week ago, I was at the DARS regional office here in Roanoke and I had to take an aptitude test.

Fortunately, it went well for me and I now fully qualify for the school programs. In a few weeks, I will be returning to that office to find out the date of when I ship out to the school.

The reason why I chose to jump through all the hoops and wade through all the red tape of dealing with the state is because I want to improve myself and do something with my life. I can't stand being a jobless NEET and would not wish that upon anyone.

And for some reason, the spoiled hipsters in ANTIFA scorn the idea of honest work or learning a viable job skill (whether it be a trade skill or a viable college degree such as a STEM major) and choose to be lazy and whiny basement dwellers. I just can't comprehend it, I really can't.

I had to live with my parents for most of my 20's and I'm just now starting to branch out into the adult world, these losers choose to live with their parents well into their 30's.

Eh, maybe I'm letting the ANTIFA losers get to me. I mean, they're blindly throwing away their lives so they can LARP as Bolsheviks, but I'm trying to improve my life.

I'm going to be moving out of the house fairly soon, I'll be learning a job skill, and I now have a girlfriend.

Despite all my Alex Jones-esque ramblings, I must admit things are starting to look up for me and I am thankful that my life is finally showing tangible signs of improvement.

Greetings!

Outstanding! Good to hear, my friend!

Sammy, keep at it. Don't back down, don't get lazy, don't give up! Study, work, and improve. And work harder. Work brings stability, independence, pride, and dignity, man. I don't care if your job is pushing a broom, mopping floors, and taking the trash out. It's all good, man. Have some pride, do a good job no matter what you are given to do. Over time, with loyalty, discipline, hard work, and responsibility, your life will improve, Sammy. Gauranteed.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Quote from: myleftnut;1086635@SHARK

First of all thank you for your service.  Second I have the answers you seek. Those people have rich parents and live with the comfort of knowing no matter how much they fuck up, they have a golden parachute to bail them out. Theres a strange phenomenon here in Portland that I haven't encountered anywhere else. Certainly not back east where I'm originally from.  We have a whole generation of young adults who appear to be homeless when in fact they have trust funds. It's bizarre.

Back on topic:

Bumper sticker activist
Cardboard sign activist

Greetings!

Thank you, my friend! Thank you very much.

Very interesting, and wierd about these kids. Where the hell are all these rich parents coming from? I always thought that Oregon was kind of modest. (Compared to Orange County, CA, for example.) All these rich parents in Oregon proviing these mindless brat animals with trust funds? That is totally fucking bizarre, my friend. It reminds me though of something my father told me when I was a boy. I asked him about all of these screaming punks that were protesting President Ronald Reagan, and our military at nearby Mather Air Force Base, in Northern California. My father told me they were a bunch of lazy, drugged up Communists and Hippy scum. If they had a job and family to take care of, they wouldn't have time to stand at the gates of our air force bases and protest things they know nothing about. Slap the shit out of them and send them into the military, and these stupid kids would be in for a very rude awakening!

Funny. My father told me that in 1982. Here we are now in 2019, 37 years later--and these snot-nosed scum haven't changed a bit. The only difference between the hippy scum kids then and these SJW freaks now is today they have more piercings and tattoos.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Quote from: Doc Sammy;1086646Yeah, let's be real here. Portland would be great if it weren't for all the fucking leftist trust-fund hipsters LARP'ing as hobos.

Yeah, probably.  As the state's one true "metro" location, it has a lot of amenities you can't find elsewhere.

Quote from: Doc Sammy;1086646You live in Oregon, right? If you live in the Portland area, you have my sympathies and condolences.

I live in a red country south of Portland, thankfully.  Unfortunately, I'm in the Portland area far too often (some family lives up there, and other circumstances dictate regular travel).  Fortunately, Powell's has good ventilation, so I'm not rendered unconscious by BO and patchouli.  

Quote from: kythri;1086656Yeah, probably.  As the state's one true "metro" location, it has a lot of amenities you can't find elsewhere.



I live in a red country south of Portland, thankfully.  Unfortunately, I'm in the Portland area far too often (some family lives up there, and other circumstances dictate regular travel).  Fortunately, Powell's has good ventilation, so I'm not rendered unconscious by BO and patchouli.  

Well, that's good at least.