Tarquinn2049

Yeah, I’m not sure. People are calling it highlighting, but it doesn’t fit any reasonable pattern to have been manually highlighted. Is there some sort of bad automated highlighting? Or just someone still learning what highlighting is even used for. Or is it just some sort of style thing?

As long the player is open to whatever the DM decides their characters history is, or they have collaborated on an outline or even a detailed history the other players just don’t know about, that is all fine and can be really fun for everyone.

If they are doing it with no heads up and are not going to play along with whatever the DM decides happened in their past, then no. But when it comes to DnD, I normally let stuff play out and only stop play if something is clearly going poorly, or might make other players more uncomfortable than they are willing to be. I only play with friends, so things rarely end up being anything close to the worst they theoretically could have gone, socially.

I would assume reasonably and reservedly, rather than jumping the gun. It’s certainly how I responded. Not sure what you really mean to ask though.

If you mean about conspiracy theories, I can pretty much assure they waited to see what was actually the case rather than believe the first thing they heard.

It’s not about legality. It’s about knowing the mindset of the owner and informing your approach if you need to contact them. You can assume that if they put up that sign, they won’t be friendly if you do it anyway. That’s another thing about rural life, litigation is not on anyone’s minds. It’s just about manners and respect. The sign has nothing to do with legality. It’s like in a city when you put up a “no solicitation” sign. People can totally still solicit you, they just know what to expect if they do, and thus generally won’t bother.

She wasn’t home, according to the article. Presumably, she saw them on motion recorded video or something. It’s not specifically mentioned how she knew people were on her property. That just seems likely to me.

Strangers wandering your property is actually a super normal part of rural life. Why do you think so many people actually put up “no trespassing signs”, because otherwise the assumption is that you are ok with meeting new people that way. It’s a completely different mindset in a place where that type of crime is super rare. No one is worried the stranger on their property is a criminal, because they never are.

These people apparently weren’t of that mindset, and maybe should consider “no trespassing” signs for the future.

I certainly heard a lot of conspiracy theories at the time, but I didn’t know anyone who believed them. But I don’t and didn’t really hang out with the type of people that believe stuff like that in general. My friends and family are generally empirical evidence people, logical thinkers rather than emotional.

The fact that they can’t believe a person can successfully respond to questions without someone else whispering the answers in their ear does not speak well for them.

Maybe Trump should wear audio earrings, if that is even a thing that exists.

If you are really worried about getting caught not following the exact rules as written, you could always pay for multi device connections… then they won’t care.

But it’s definitely possible to set up your VR router in a way that is not gonna bother anything. Most people in this thread don’t know that your VR router doesn’t need internet access. If the VR stream is all it is doing, it can be isolated from the internet, and the isp won’t know or care it exists.

The other thing about rules, that they don’t tell us autistic people, is that following rules is actually kind of optional. Certainly more optional than it feels like to us. Think about it in terms of what the people were thinking when they wrote the rules, and who will be enforcing the rules and what they will care about. And what the enforcement of the rules would look like. (In this case, the most likely initial outcome of them enforcing these rules would be either an e-mail or paper letter telling you they noticed you are breaking a rule, possibly with details to help you stop breaking it, but likely not). Try to sus out the “spirit” of the rules rather than the letter of the rules. That is how all the other humans use rules and why to us it always feels like everyone is breaking all the rules and getting away with it.

If you follow every rule to the letter… you really can’t do anything. At all. Like, literally, even we are breaking rules we don’t yet know about every single day.

Once you have to put that amount of effort and attention in for a reasonable income… you are just doing a job… a job no-one benefits from. So it won’t be satisfying to do. No longer beating the system, just beating yourself.