I've moved away from the kind of game that has a planned plot and requires players to know a lot of rules. Many players put in as little effort as possible, to the point of not reading rules and not giving notice of a failure to show.
If you feel you need to invest in characters I'd advise only doing it for players who consistently show up.
If I was a player in this game I would stop going. It punishes committed players to put them at the mercy of the uncommitted.
Wow yikes. You sound like fun at parties. Go find someone to care about.
For the record, I think there is a loneliness epidemic for both genders.
The worst part of this is the "This is part of the story"
This is just a toxic gender wars meme. Go outside, touch some grass, meet someone nice and move on with life. Memes like this come from and perpetuate the loneliness epidemic.
Project Gutenberg and librivox are decent resources for free older books. The author needs to have been dead for 70 years, so they are old but I've enjoyed "The Lost World" and "The hour of the dragon"
If you're going to die, better to die on the main quest. I avoid side quest distractions.
Does anyone have an explanation or link to the video where he talks about needing streetcars and a subwat that serve the same stops? He references it a few times in the video but doesn't explain why he thinks that and I'm currious.