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I asked a question this morning about wiring a motor. I'm a noob, and seeing my dad get shocked at a young age scared me.

That said, I'm trying to learn.

I spent hours looking at forums and videos yesterday, but AI said something that gave me pause.

I came here to double check, and I was met with people saying that I should get shocked, that I should read a book, that I am an idiot for trusting AI (which, the reason why I'm here is because I didn't).

I goty answer, but not before I got several rude comments and a few others treating me like an idiot.

Do you all treat your customers like this? Like, do you want work? Like, if any of you were helpful and even a little patient, I might have DM'd you for working work in my house if we shared the same location.

That's not gonna happen.

Is this place for experts to ask other experts shit? Or is this a place where noob like me can ask questions?

Anyway, I'm turning off replies.

Be better.

Just started playing Slugblaster with a newish group a month ago. We are about 4ish hours in.

For those that don't know, it's based on Blades in the Dark. There are basically 2 phases . . . a "sesh" where characters jump through a portal into another rhelm and skate, do tricks, and try to look cool without getting eaten by a giant metacentipede.

Then there's the downtime where they go back home, are teenagers, dealing with teenager stuff like parents and school. They also level up their gear.

We started with them on a "sesh" where they were in a different world, skating. I treated it like a tutorial. The did some skate tricks, earned some style, got to play around, got chased by salvage crabs and met a snotty 12 year old.

Today we did their first downtime. We played out two of the home life stuff . . . one character trying to impress his distant dad and the other stranded my his mom over burnt nachos with an annoying little brother.

At the end of the game today, one of my players said, "wow . . . that downtime, the at home stuff, was almost more intense and more fun that the part where we were skating around and doing tricks."

I think we might be hooked. This is a really great game.

A bit more detail?

Sure.

During the sesh, one of the players biffed it during the "disaster roll." He bit his tongue, hard, making is swell and bleed. He has to talk with a lisp and I put a 3 box timer for it to be cured.

Back at another player's house, he got a cup of ice for it to bring the swelling down, but he filled in a box.

At home, when I asked him what was for dinner, I he wasn't sure, so I had him roll a D6 for it.

He rolled a 1.

Dinner was overcooked nachos. He had to take a bite. He had to erase the filled in "tongue healed" box.

Tomorrow is the big party . . . will his tongue be healed?

Who knows.

As much as I'd like to see Trump's rally in DC to be empty, what if we all showed up.

What if every anti-Trump protester went and just boos and jeered the fuck out of it so that he had to leave the stage.

Conversely, what if we all surrounded the event. A huge number of protesters encircling the entire rally?

Hi.

I'm hoping someone can help me or point me in the right direction. I remember back about 20 years ago, the cashiers and baristas has a very specific way of calling/repeating drink orders, for example:

Customer would say:

I want a large ice tea.

Cashier: That's a Iced Venti Black tea for ____

Barista: Iced Venti Black Tea for _____.

Then, when the drink was made, the call out:

Barista: I've got an Iced Venti Black Tea for _______!

I was told back then that this specific way of repeating the order 3 times for the customer was to help train them on how to say the orders. It was intentional.

Is there anything in old training manuals about this?

The reason I am interested is that I study semiotics, the way language is disseminated and how it changes, and I always thought this fascinating . . . A bit like missionaries teaching natives language or whatever.

Thanks!