u/Emergency-Option-677

So it’s a new system of which I wrote all the rules myself. It’s like an urban science fantasy games where the idea is that you start out as a regular person who gradually acquired and improved abilities over time. This campaign is going to be like a street level superhero-in-training campaign, and I’m going to run it bi-weekly on Tuesday afternoons at Glimpses of Wonder and Warfare in Sherwood

If you’re interested in playing this, please DM me here on Reddit

Like I’m trying to figure out a career path but none of my interests are marketable and people keep saying that instead of looking for a job I think I’d actually like I should just get one that i can tolerate but not necessarily enjoy it, but the problem is that I’ve never experienced that with anything in my whole life. Every single activity I’ve ever spent my time on has either been something I actively enjoyed or something that leaves me completely miserable every second I’m working on it, so what should I do then?

So im 27 minutes into an edible and I’m eating hamburger helper and im rewatching The Truman Show and you know how the actors in that movie in the show keep doing product placement drops mid-conversation? If I remember history class in high school, isn’t that just how commercials were done at first? Idk for sure I wasn’t alive back then

So I’m possibly going to run a campaign soon and a plot I had in mind is sort of like an apocalypse horror campaign where the sun sets one day and then it just doesn’t rise again and things devolve into chaos as it’s gradually implied that this is all part of an alien invasion

I’m looking for a game that has a lot of survival based mechanics, stuff like supplies management, starvation, ammo tracking etc., what would yall suggest?

So I’m an actor and I’m currently in my first proper Shakespeare show (provided this one doesn’t get canceled like King Lear and Julius Caesar did) (I’m playing Demetrius in Midsummer), and I really like Shakespeare but I’m kind of a fake fan, like I was supposed to read all his plays when I was in college but I kinda just forgot to, so I’ve only read about a third of them and most of those were several years ago so most of the ones I have read I don’t remember that well.

Anyway, I’ve also been wanting to direct a show for a good while, and the company that I’m doing Midsummer with has a Shakespeare club I recently joined and they’re going to do a thing after Midsummer ends where we can each have the opportunity to pitch a Shakespeare show to direct next year. This can include a literal Shakespeare play or like another show that’s an adaptation of one (West Side Story or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, for example) and I’ve also wanted to dabble in writing a play but I’ve never got any ideas good or bad. For this directing pitch option I was thinking of pitching The Comedy of Errors (probably my favorite Shakespeare play) presented as a sitcom. BUT THEN an hour ago I got this really cool idea for a play concept. I’ve been in sort of a caveman period recently in terms of my creative train of thought, so then I thought what if I wrote a play that’s an adaptation of a Shakespeare show (or maybe some other classic iconic story) but set in the Neolithic era, where all the characters are cavemen, and there is very little spoken dialogue, it’s mostly in body language or in very simple minimalistic phrases. Am I crazy or could that be really cool? If so, what Shakespeare show would that work with?

So my psychiatrist has told me that I really need to get more sleep. I usually get 2.5-4 hours per night. The main reason I don’t get that much is because I straight up hate sleeping. You’re literally just laying there for hours, it’s one of the most boring things I’ve ever done, I feel much more productive and less stressed out when I get less sleep because then I have more time to spend on things I actually want to be doing, but I can’t function if I don’t get at minimum 2 hours of sleep. But sleeping is so slow and monotonous and I get that it’s medically and physically important but that doesn’t really make it any less of a slog to get through literally every single night, and when I do get a full 8 hours of sleep, the feeling I get from being actually fully rested doesn’t feel like it’s even close to being worth literally throwing away a third of my day for it. How do I fix this?

So I’m trying to get into the Crimson Dawn vault to do the story quest to get the blaster part but to get that I need the three keycards. I already got the first two but it said the third one is at “Renpalli Station” which is in space. Now I’m confused, the whole point of me doing all this is so I can fix my ship and fly away, but how am I supposed to do get to the station if my ship is broken?

So I (25M, autistic) have never been able to keep a job for more than a couple months. I’ve been on disability in the past but even with a part time job in addition to that it’s not enough for me to live off of. I always get fired for bad job performance which is caused by a combination of two reasons. The first is that I’m only able to get very basic entry level jobs that I just don’t have the skills to consistently do a good job at. My actual skills are lying, hiding, copying people’s handwriting, blending in, being sneaky and quiet and unnoticed, and there just aren’t any jobs for that that I can find and I can’t afford to go to any kind of school or anything

However it’s the second reason that I’m going to focus on right now: I just can’t stand being paid. I have no idea why this is, but everytime I gain money in any context I just get this unshakeable feeling of dread and misery and it makes me feel sick to my stomach in such a way that gets worse every time I get paid and it doesn’t stop for even a second until I lose my income. Even if I work for it, or even if I don’t work for it or even if someone owes me it’s always the same. I’ve talked to two different therapists about this and they both told me that since I’m autistic then I wouldn’t really benefit from therapy at all. They both also said that they’ve never even heard of anyone having this issue at all, and they wouldn’t have any idea what to do even if I was neurotypical. On top of all that, I don’t have health insurance so I couldn’t afford anymore therapy anyway, on top of it also inevitably not going to work on me as stated earlier

So what do I do then? How do I support myself in modern society if my body physically rejects money in any capacity?

So all I’ve ever been able to get is basic retail/food service/data entry jobs, but I’ve never been able to keep one more than a couple months before I get fired, and it’s always just because I’m not good enough at the job. Whenever I’ve asked this before people seem to get the idea that I just don’t like those jobs, and I need to be clear: that is not the issue, this is not something where I can “just suck it up” because that’s not the problem, it’s not a mindset issue, it’s not something that will be solved by an attitude adjustment, the problem is that I literally don’t have the skills for the only jobs I’ve been able to get.

So I need to find a job I’ll actually be good at so I won’t get fired, but whenever I’ve looked on Google I haven’t really been able to find something like that, and I don’t have money to talk to a career coach or anything like that, so what do I do exactly? How do I find a job that lines up with my skills?

I (25M) have never been able to keep a job for more than two months. I’ve only ever done basic entry-level fast food/retail/data entry jobs because those are the only ones that I’ve ever been qualified for, but I always get fired after a few weeks because I can’t handle the pressure that comes with those types of jobs and it causes my skill to start dropping after a few days.

I still live with my parents, so I’m not paying rent but I can’t afford to go to any kind of school or career coaches, and my parents have made it clear that they’re not willing to pay for that (and it’s not like they can’t afford it, they both said they could, they just refuse to) and as far as I’ve seen, the basic entry level fast food/retail/data entry jobs are the only ones that I’m qualified for, but if I don’t even have the skills to keep one of those then how do I find a job that’s more in line with what I’m good at?

I (25M) have never been able to keep a job for more than two months. I’ve only ever done basic entry-level fast food/retail/data entry jobs because those are the only ones that I’ve ever been qualified for, but I always get fired after a few weeks because I can’t handle the pressure that comes with those types of jobs and it causes my skill to start dropping after a few days.

I still live with my parents, so I’m not paying rent but I can’t afford to go to any kind of school or career coaches, and my parents have made it clear that they’re not willing to pay for that (and it’s not like they can’t afford it, they both said they could, they just refuse to) so what type of job should I be trying to get if these are the only ones that it looks like I’m qualified for?

So first off please if you’re just going to say “you just need to grow up and accept responsibility” then please just don’t, if that was something I was able to just do on my own then this problem would’ve gone away years ago. I (25M), am autistic and I’ve been in therapy since I was 15 because the concept of self-responsibility and being a self-reliant adult person in any capacity at all makes me incredibly anxious and depressed. I’ve seen four therapists, three life coaches and two psychiatrists over the last ten years and the cycle always goes like this:

1. They give suggestions for what I should do to fix the problem
2. I spend a good long while dedicating the majority of my mental effort towards following their advice to the exact letter
3. I tell them that it’s not really working and ask what to do
4. They say that yes it should work by now but it won’t so I should try something else
5. I try the new thing for a while
6. The cycle continues and eventually they admit that they’re completely out of ideas, they have literally no further suggestions other than to talk to a different mental health professional about it
7. I talk to another one and the exact same cycle continues.

The most recent therapist (last time I talked to them was about six weeks ago) even said that she’s never seen anything like this before and even implied (or at least this is what I think she meant) that I just don’t have the capacity to be happy at all. Everyone I talk to just runs out of ideas and give up, or they accuse me of intentionally sabotaging myself even though I put so much effort into following their advice and it just doesn’t work for me, what should I do?

So first off please if you’re just going to say “you just need to grow up and accept responsibility” then please just don’t, if that was something I was able to just do on my own then this problem would’ve gone away years ago. I (25M), am autistic and I’ve been in therapy since I was 15 because the concept of self-responsibility and being a self-reliant adult person in any capacity at all makes me incredibly anxious and depressed. I’ve seen four therapists, three life coaches and two psychiatrists over the last ten years and the cycle always goes like this:

1. They give suggestions for what I should do to fix the problem
2. I spend a good long while dedicating the majority of my mental effort towards following their advice to the exact letter
3. I tell them that it’s not really working and ask what to do
4. They say that yes it should work by now but it won’t so I should try something else
5. I try the new thing for a while
6. The cycle continues and eventually they admit that they’re completely out of ideas, they have literally no further suggestions other than to talk to a different mental health professional about it
7. I talk to another one and the exact same cycle continues.

The most recent therapist (last time I talked to them was about six weeks ago) even said that she’s never seen anything like this before and even implied (or at least this is what I think she meant) that I just don’t have the capacity to be happy at all. Everyone I talk to just runs out of ideas and give up, or they accuse me of intentionally sabotaging myself even though I put so much effort into following their advice and it just doesn’t work for me, what should I do?

A game where the players play as several kids stacked on top of each other in a trench coat trying to sneak into mature locations

I’ve had 8 beers should I take an edible? I’ve never been cross faded before

So I’m in the early planning stage for a campaign I want to run in the near future where the BBEG is a seemingly ordinary man but he inexplicably has supernatural power that everybody has to do whatever he tells them to, even at their own expense, and when the players encounter him they will find out that they are somehow resistant to his effects as they have the ability to resist by making a Sanity check. Here’s what I’m thinking: if he tells them what to do, they make a sanity roll, and if they FAIL, they don’t lose any sanity but they have to do whatever he says, but if they SUCCEED they can choose to disobey at the cost of some sanity points. Is that good idea or should I change it up?