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Enjoy, ya heathens!
No rhyme or reason to this dump
Don't overthink it
Have a great day and stay hydrated!
RevolutionOnHerLips
#34 I wish I had those shades so much
HenryLongfellowIII
#9 If you're 35+ and have not received a call to adventure you're probably not a protagonist at all.
8FootedAlgaeEater
#8 Nobody for Pump Up The Volume? A good, but could have been great, movie?
ChipWallace
#2 I can explain this. Sign installers had to mount the new post and the holes did not line up with the old holes. They did not have a concrete drill on hand to drill new holes so they decided to use the old holes with bolts and washers to hold down the base of the new sign.
I own a sign company and I've literally had a fix items just like this over the years.
Leonon
#14 My brain has started imagining Charlie from It's Always Sunny saying Charles Darwin quotes due to them having the same first name.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
#2 "Not my job"-award. Holes and bolts don't line up? Make one fit, and the rest hold.
craiglewis782
#46
I disagree: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-offenders/
DidCatchABreak
Okay, yeah.
That's fair.
RARusk
#1 - "Betcha won't do that again."
DidCatchABreak
graehall
#10 still have a grudge that I was indoctrinated into this nonsense as a kid and I couldn't get out until my late teens
DidCatchABreak
You were indoctrinated into Ohio?
graehall
Way worse, the southern baptists
DidCatchABreak
r0b0tc0rpse
#2 The crew was sent to replace a pole, but the replacement they were given didn't like up with the holes in the pedestal that were already there. Rather than get the right tool or the right pole, the did this, because they aren't paid enough to care and it was easier/faster than pushing the problem up the chain where it would had gotten them nothing but grief, and they'd still have to go to the next worksite and get THAT done, too.
Rivalyn
That next worksite, and the next and the next... still the wrong/inadequate tools. Still the wrong bases on the poles.
DidCatchABreak
r0b0tc0rpse
I re-read it now and see a couple typos, but now that you've replied, I can't delete and fix it. :(
BishlamekGurpgork
#9 This is a real problem I struggle with when building for D&D. I don't like going all edgelord and going "I'm out for revenge against the person who murdered my whole village while I watched." But normal people don't adventure. Normal people don't risk their lives. I need to make characters that are committed enough to HEALTHY pursuits that they go to insane lengths, like authors gathering material for a book, or nature biologists trying to observe monsters in their natural habitats.
DidCatchABreak
"My character is on a quest to find the best peanut butter sandwich in the world."
BishlamekGurpgork
I think the most serious guy I played was just an absolute sociopathic monster, who was on a quest to try and pretend to be a person until he either grew back whatever was broken or found a way to fix it.
BishlamekGurpgork
The least serious just was trying to see what flora people hadn't tried smoking that could be smoked.
Saigon333
You could always make a revolutionary, aware of the world's injustice and wanting to change things. "I know bandits and monsters terrorize the common folks, and the king isn't doing shit! Time to join up with a crew and fix this myself!"
BishlamekGurpgork
Depends on what the setup is. But I try to stay socially healthy. So not like, revolutionaries driven to guillotines, but like social workers, ingredient hunters. A doctors-without-borders type who didn't have any healijng powers, just a fighter with medicine and bandages.
BishlamekGurpgork
I try to avoid the cliches of fighting for justice or revenge or Big Causes (tm).
randomwalrus
Just have them low in the birth totem pole. Like the seventh son type deal. No inheritance, so they have to go out and make their own way.
BishlamekGurpgork
Yeah, but adventuring isn't what most people do, realistically. Like, nobody normal is born poor, and decides to become the Crocodile Hunter and wrestle bears to pay the bills.
It's a useful component, but it needs some seasoning, too.
randomwalrus
Aye, but if you're the 5th, 6th, or 7th in the line of succession, do you really want to sit around and work on your brother's dirt farm your whole life. Or are you going to pack up a bindle and go off and see what lies over that hill over there? Are you not motivated to do anything else, even if it costs you everything? Even if it is just hiking over to the big city and seeing what all the hype is about, and meeting some weirdos in a tavern?
BishlamekGurpgork
I mean. You're still part of a noble family with big inheritances. Even if the business is farming, you can be a manager or a supervisor, you wouldn't be digging potatoes out of the ground. Like, look at real life. People don't become mercenaries because they don't want to work an office job.
It depends a lot on the setting. If your startup is as simple as "a group of people on a cart get in trouble," sure, anything can work. If it's a group venturing into a dark mine after something >
BishlamekGurpgork
> out of legend, you have to work in those constraints.