@booty@hexbear.net @context@hexbear.net

I have elected to play from Context's save. I will be incorporating elements from Booty's year by way of mysterious dreams prompting the dwarves to delve deeper into the Earth, perhaps with a rose-tinted vision of what lies beneath. I hope that this is satisfactory.

roger that

Oh right, yeah.

If I run this with dfhack will people need it going forward? Same goes for UI mods.

I should be able to get started today!
Or is it actually @Awoo@hexbear.net and her name just got shifted to the same line as yours?

People ask this because it's an invitation to eat with someone without the respondant having to admit that they are would like to be fed, which could be consisdered as implying that their host or whatever is being negligent to the needs of their guest. It is a little silly. But, and I am a ND person who has learned a lot of this by trial and error, there are deep instinctual behaviors that these rituals are about. I'm not here to say whether or not any of this is good or not, but especially the rules about hospitality strike me as things that got ingrained into culture in order to make common uncomfortable situations more reliable by the means of rituals that people follow or don't, indicating whether or not they're someone who is going to play their prescribed role - this is maybe why there are often many ritual refusals and acceptances. It's a way to play-act giving someone something that historically might have been precious and if they don't play along, you can weed out people who are likely to take advantage of you. It's imperfect of course and not considerant of neuroatypical people, but it just kind of had to work well enough to keep going.

It is definitely frustrating to not know ettiquette and I often feel like throwing all of it out in favor of a more direct system. Sometimes I do! But for the rest of the time, I find that ettiquette manuals are super helpful, especially when they explain the reasoning behind otherwise inscrutable rituals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jq-17KImSM

Oh I didn't realize the picture removed the link. Annoying. Who's been upvoting this lol?

You don't always hear it, but boy howdy when they get going about the Samnites.

It's a bad rap, not wrap, since we're being prescriptivist. It's an interesting slang etymology: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-bad-rap-vs-bad-rep-vs-bad-wrap

It's crazy that such a big part of this country's economy is using psychological manipulation to extract rents (in the form of subscriptions) from people that there are companies who provide a service that navigates stopping those subscriptions for you.