As long as you're having fun.

What kind of music do you listen to?

What's in your rotation right now?

Bro has never listened to psychedelic rock, doom metal, dance/edm/trap, prog rock, ethereal pop/cloud pop, chillhop, hip-hop or any other genre known for long loops intended to entrance the listener.

Like... What is music to you?

You're coming off as quite pretentious in a lot of comments here.

You don't have to enjoy art for it to be considered art. Frank Zappa sang a song about avoiding yellow snow, The Beatles sang about a yellow submarine and yet both were highly influential in the rock world.

What is your end goal with this thread? You asked for Angine to be explained to you and yet you refute every attempt to explain that art is in the eye of the beholder.

You don't have to understand it but a lack of understanding on your part doesn't make it not worth listening to you. Are you the art police?

My job sees me putting a lot of really heavy objects on trailers, vehicles, boats and trains.

You must say "She ain't going nowhere" and tap the load with your hand or else she is going somewhere you don't want.

I swear by it. Every time I or one of my subordinates has forgotten the phrase its been a disaster. So we say it every time now and make sure the new guys do it to. Or else.

Socialism doesn't mean that money goes away. It means that your hard earned money is yours to spend how you please.

You're not forced to pay insane rent to line the pockets of a landlord, rather you live in a rent controlled neighbourhood where the profits go towards housing generations of people.

Another way the money you have is yours to spend how you see fit: Rewarding other people like you and I for running the local coffee shop or splurging for the D.O.P. San Marzano tomatoes at the grocery store and insert that money directly into your local economy.

Money exists, you just don't have to spend all of it on surviving. Rather, you can spend it on living.

You still make money based on your merit and input, grocery clerks aren't being paid the same as neurosurgeons but both people can spend the same basic amount every month on living.

How long ago were planes invented again?

Okay so hear me out. It's 2350, right? Humanity has expanded to the outer reaches of our solar system. Humaniry is divided into three classes of people, Earthers, Martians and those who live and work in space, Belters.

Mars has become a free nation and is now in the middle of a cold war with Earth. Then one day a ship named the Canterbury disappears and someone named James Holden, an earther working for a Belt based ice hauling company says his ship the Canterbury was destroyed and points the finger at Mars.

They could call the new show something like The Void or The Space Between. 🙃

I appreciate the kind words.

Generally I don't take these sorts of things at face value. The job comes with a lot of chirps and light teasing. Builds relationships and all.

I just generally don't expect it to come from much higher positions than me. They should know better than to promote malicious behaviour.

Like you said, doubling down is sometimes the play. I certainly had my opportunity to do so this morning when we all got together as a group again and a few people approached me about being interested in playing or asked me about the hobby.

Annoying part was when I found out that this guy messaged another coworker and told them to "Sort me out." Which is alarming. The rest of the crew didn't seem so share the sentiment though and we all shared some laughs.

We laughed about it though and left it at "Well, I guess the boss really doesn't like D&D lol"

Ha! Stole the words right out of my mouth. I try to take a diplomatic approach to these situations but yeah.. Christ, some of these guys are dumb. I'm not the brightest crayon in the shed either but I can run circles around some of these losers.

Some if them are incredibly intelligent in their fields. Some of the most skilled. But my god it's the only thing they know. Challenge them on anything outside their narrow understanding of the world and they resort to insults and vitriol. Sadly they gain strength in numbers. The more ignorant chuckle-fucks in a room the harder they beat their chests.

Oh god! Yeah that's fair.

I think I watched an episode of The Panic Table playing Mothership and their DM actually pulled off a very convincing and I think respectful sophisticated Indian accent for one of the doctors aboard the ship. Brave but I think they pulled it off.

May have been.. Episode 2 of Unaccompanied Miners?

Strange how that kind of stuff works, eh?

I don't think I've met a single person in this line of work that doesn't have some sort of hyper fixation or special interest.

I know guys who can tell what type of mechanical malfunction a vehicle is having based on smell alone or that defuse bombs for a living then go home and keep a flower garden for their bees.

It's usually a safe enough environment as long as you pass the vibe check for them. I probably wouldn't get away with my three syllable words and chapter books if I didn't look like I could do my job.

Sad it has to be that way though. The hyper vigilance for who's "safe" or not is exhausting. But like you said. It's worth it to be better than that.