Nice dream

I dreamed I was playing rpgs around a table again.

I was twice the age of anyone else in the game, and they kept bouncing the story around so quickly, starting fights, finishing fights, moving on. And I was like, completely lost, and ugh.

So I just had to say out loud, I am autistic spectrum, I can't always talk, I can't keep up because words hard, and I'll do dumbass things like get lost on the character sheet or misunderstand what you just said and do something super random. And just like, it was so embarrassing, I was sure I just couldn't play any more.

But! What made it a nice dream: they just immediately swung into making things work better for me. They did formal turn taking around the table and made sure to check in with me what my character was doing. They used the figures for more stuff, so there's like visuals to go with the words. And they found me little cards to go with my spells, with a promise to do more to make actions simpler later.

Instant mid game reasonable accommodations.

Which all made it more like a board game, but, freeform play was still a thing.

And I'd been watching them fight their way through a haunted house and getting more depressed because oh look dungeon crawl again why do I even have half these skills and stuff

but then I asked for more background on the house and such, so we could try and figure out what all this haunted house stuff was even about, and try and make peace?

And the GM just grinned and got a particular model out and the new character was like 'well finally, all these centuries and NOW somebody asks!'

like achievement unlocked: we are not just combat.

And I didnlt know if he'd always planned it that way, but it was the most welcoming thing he could have done.



So that was a Good Dream
because sure, there's all the anxiety making of freeform play with stacks of rules, but
the group wanted to include me enough they just refocused everything to make sure I could play.


I liked that.

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I just read a thing in the Guardian about polls
and found out they're still doing them by phoning people?
they reckon the main problem is persuading people they're jot PPI calls so they don't get hung up on.

but who answers the phone to strange numbers anymore?

no wonder the polls are going more and more wrong.



also it said if they can't get enough answers they do 'weighting'
which means counting each answer they did get as for instance 1.2 answers to make up for it.
... if we'd done that in stats class at school we'd have been epic failed.


the other set of people they have do online polls for small money.

again, that's a very specific and self selecting group of people.

I don't have any suggestions for getting a more representative sample, but I don't see how those methods can do it.