When I traveled there, I asked how much I would make and it was barely scraping the bottom of six figures and I have 17 years of experience, and that's poverty in Seattle.

I liked the first book.

This is the freedom driver. It's the portable version of the Syncardia Total Artificial Heart. Interestingly enough it was created by doctors and engineers at my hospital which is super cool! I've been working in this hospital for 17 years so I'm very familiar with this device.

It's real. It has a whole backup built inside it. If the main unit fails and it has to switch to any backup system it wails like a fucking banshee until you get a new unit and hit swap from one to the other. And yes, during those hellish two seconds, the patient doesn't have a heartbeat, but generally you can tolerate that without losing consciousness. It should be said that this ABSOLUTELY should not be done by the patient. I've switched over between units once on a live patient and plenty in annual education for our ICU. It's scary.

You wanna know something cool about those patients... It makes a LOT of noise. It sounds like a train going at usually 120-140 BPM. The air compressor is pretty loud too. Eventually patients get used to it, but I've recovered patients post transplant after these devices and several of them wake up ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED because they can't hear that sound any more. They say they get over it, but it turns into such an important sound that without it they think they're dying.

So, it actually becomes comforting to hear your TAH beating away.

Everyone is not the same and experience is not the joy you think it is for all people. I hope you live a life where you don't suffer enough to want death as relief. I wish you nothing but the best stranger, but you can't make that supposition about all people.

I work in the ICU and one of the most important things in my life is to not have to face my death in a visceral way. I've had patients beg me for death. I've had families tell me the rotting corpse in the bed is a, "fighter," and we should keep going. I wouldn't wish that pain on anyone, and we do it to people all the time. If I could have anything it would be a quick painless unknown death where I didn't know I was in my last moments. Just peace.

The Big

Surrounded by white and black stones...?

I look at my old Earthdawn books with a little longing sometimes.

Mint chocolate chip is a red flag.

I think you misunderstand. I haven't ever played D&D. But I use DW for those players who come from that background so they can feel comfortable. I run frequent games at convention or events and use DW for those players so they can have those touchstones because ripping the bandaid off means they just won't play. But DW is JUST enough close to home to convince them to try something different.

What I want to know is, does this game have any use for me as an experienced PbtA player? Is this just generic fantasy slightly more streamlined than DW? That's not going to be enough to sell me on the game. If it's just the same basic moves as DW with sight changes, I'll go play something else. Root has a lot of mechanics about your relationship to different communities and how they perceive you. That has more going on than DW. What does this game have going on that makes it more interesting than, a slightly more streamlined DW?

I think you mean an epiphany.

That must hurt.

She signed up for the improv class. She's doing great. Way to, "yes and" your scene partner!

This is correct. This show does not get the recognition it deserves.

That feels more streamlined but is there anything else? Those D&D isms are useful for getting players who want those touchstones when moving to a new system. The other polyhedral dice are good if only because D&D players get sad because they can't use their pretty dice anymore.

I use DW mostly as a way to get D&D players into a different system, but I would like a game that does something different with the genre. Sell me this game! (Please. ; )

What makes it good? At first glance it looks like Dungeon World but prettier.

That's the one. A delightful movie.

War. It's just war son.

So much of Star Wars was built this way. Many Bothans died. The millennium falcon made the Kessel Run in 20 parsecs! Those lines are there to build a world and impress on the viewer the mystery and epicness of scope that Star Wars had. Every time those things get explained we lose something.

Oscar (1991) such a fun movie!

Oscar

I just built a 48 section of fuel generators as a 12 story tower.

It IS one of my favorites, but there's no other movie that sets out to do a thing and FUCKING DOES IT like this movie does. It's perfect, perfect in every way.