Communicate. It often comes down to that. Most humans are bad at it. Most humans blame anything other than the group's failure to communicate for why the game was bad. That said, absolutely, I agree. Play with friends.

Sorry for your loss, Matt!

I train teachers and I am desperately trying to train this out of the profession. There is a lot of personal insecurity in many professional circles and one of the ways it manifests is with deficit-language and using threats to try to obtain compliance. THREATS. DO. NOT. WORK.

Like, I get it.

And also, I'm also not sure we should be enshrining him.

I fear that binary thinking is a root cause of a lot of these issues. Humans don't believe that multiple solutions can be in place simultaneously. Also, anecdotal fallacy. "I know these few people who had bad side effects, so everyone should stay away." These forms of thinking are dangerous.

Fools think they are entitled to verification.

A Stirge is one-foot in size and consuming 200 mL of blood before detaching. If we assume blood has a density just slightly greater than water, the blood is adding over 200 grams to a Tiny creature. That's like a European Swallow carrying a coconut! It is simply a matter of weight ratios.

Let me tell you the Tale of Nebraska™️...

Cipolla called these people "helpless," because they will harm themselves in order to "help" others. They lack the tools to understand that producing an outcome doesn't need to be perfect to be a success. The upside vastly outweighs the downside. Cipolla's upgrade is "intelligence." Win/wins.