It'd be harassment if she was cis, most likely.

I have therapy this week, so it'll come up there. I just feel like if I died tomorrow in a freak accident, people would be sad for maybe a day and then they'd forget about me, occasionally referencing me in conversation as "A guy I knew once" but that's it.
I am normal and do not need medication

Again, lest anyone be worried about me, don't. I have too much good TV to watch to do anything really stupid. I just haven't been able to really truly switch off and not view myself through the lens of how I relate to other people since childhood and I'm kind of sick of how doing that feels

Sorry for vent-posting on main, it's just for the last 6-8 weeks I've had a hole in my chest where love is supposed to be and it feels like nothing fits in there anymore *dabs*

I think a lot of it is guilt around ADHD. I cannot maintain relationships the same way neurotypical people can. It fucking blows! And it makes me feel like an unlovable piece of shit! Can I stop it? No!

To be clear, I don't blame anyone for doing this, I do it, and "Make a perception check" has become such a ubiquitous meme that everyone does it, but it's fucking awful and bad and I hate it. Just tell them what they see.

Investigation often gets used as the "active perception check", when it isn't. Investigation is you *drawing conclusions from available information*. Not just "perception but better" which is how a lot of DMs run it.

DMs: just tell them what they see. If there's enemies lurking, have them roll stealth against the players passive perception scores, that's why that number exists.
Players: if you want to know more, tell the GM you want to look around the room

I'm being dramatic of course but I hate this because it usually resolves the same way. One person in your party sees something the others don't, and then they say "I tell everyone what I just saw", rendering the entire exercise pointless.

Also someone please release a full game based around the Dispatching segments? It's so fun please I beg.

They stuck the landing though, it was a really nice little narrative well-told, enough that I want to play it again. It's success proves there is still a market for these sorts of games, I just pray that they expand on the ideas rather than limit choices further.

Idk, I'm enjoying it I just keep feeling like I've either got no choice, or the choices I do have don't matter, and in a choices matter experience like this I think that's an important thing to criticise.

Game is good, great even, I think I'm just used to being allowed to take bigger swings than this. Take the end of Episode 6 where Chase sacrifices himself to save Invisigal.
*Even if* that's a fixed point in the plot, let me try and stop him anyway, then idk he's too fast to stop.

I mean FFS, one of the post episode summaries said "You and 100% of players did x". I refuse to believe that nobody else did it a different way, the narrative choice there was either so badly signposted nobody picked it or there wasn't one. That's a problem, gang!

I'd like to take the time to write my thoughts out more explicitly but microblogging character limits are fucking me up, the point is: Choice, even illusion of choice, good for game like this and Dispatch isn't as good at it as prior attempts from this team.

That illusion is holding. Even if it turns out on a second play through where I pick Water Boy to fill the empty slot and Phenomaman turns up anyway, I still feel like I made some kind of narrative descion on where this whole thing goes.

I'm not saying every episode of Dispatch needs to end with a life or death choice, just choices that feel like I'm having a say.
To the game's credit, there are about 3 that I think work. Who you cut from Z Team, who you add to the Z Team, and whether you tell them you're Mecha Man.