So this is sort of a two part question:
What are your thoughts on using HD to quickly get to know someone you just met but might want to become closer with?
How do you like to intentionally introduce/bring up HD with people, especially people you don't know all that well?
Started playing recently and I picked up the Menders early on when playing the Utopia Builder. Between the construction cost reduction, everlasting resource outposts, extra food/goods, and extra level of housing insulation, they feel like one of the best factions.
I haven't spent that much time with the other factions as a result, can anyone summarize/sell me on them?
In the book he regularly indulges in, or talks about indulging in, the use of opiates to help him sleep, or hashish for a mental escape. A modern reading of the book might see this as a red flag for his character's mental/emotional state, but the characters in the book, at least, don't seem bothered by it.
This always felt weird to me. Like, I sent the last message(s) in the previous conversation we were having, and now it's been a few days/weeks and I want to check in, but my last message was never got a reply and I don't want to come across in a weird/needy/insecure way. What's appropriate/normal in this sort of situation?