AcidOctopus

I don't play anymore, but did for about 10 years.

I started with 1-1 lesson, but I think I only kept that up for a year or so.

I think the biggest things you'll benefit from through 1-1 lessons are:

1 - getting some solid musical theory behind you (a bit of a bore, but useful when you're trying to self-teach later on, and ultimately foundational to pretty much everything else).

2 - Having someone there who can see, hear, and correct your actual playing technique. Poor technique absolutely ruins you as a musician when it comes to progression and trying to play anything a bit more advanced, because it becomes part of your muscle memory. That's why it's so important to slow things right down and play them correctly, with the right technique, and then gradually speed up, rather than jump into playing things at the correct speed, but doing it sloppily. Having an instructor who can observe and correct you in real time will do wonders.

You've got a few options here, as I should think that ultimately the solution will be found by the not-sphynx's behaviours and mannerisms (though the questions themselves do help bring those behaviours out).

You could go for something everyone knows, like "What's lighter: a tonne of bricks or a tonne of feathers?" When the players get it right by saying they both weigh a tonne, have the not-sphynx insist on the obvious wrong answer instead (the feathers, as a single feather is lighter than a single brick). Then when the players explain why that's wrong and their answer is right, the not-sphynx pretends he knew that and was just testing them. Stuff like that.

If the campaign isn't super serious in tone, you could work-in famous pop-culture examples. Ask the questions for crossing the bridge from Monty Python "What's your name/quest/favourite colour?" With the not-sphynx not getting that the difficulty came from Tim alternating to a super hard third question for every other person he asked. You can even use the question about the African Swallow, with the not-sphynx not knowing if it should be laden or unladen, and just handwaving that one away when the players ask.

Ask the "What have I got in my pocket" question from the Hobbit. The players might try and answer "The One Ring" or something clever. When they exhaust their ideas and give up, the not-sphynx gets embarrassed and plays it down, admitting he forgot he doesn't have any pockets...

Cool idea overall though - I think your group will have a lot of fun.

Methinks the gentleman doth protest too much.

The truth is no one can hate us like we hate ourselves 😅

Thanks for the tip! Will give it a go.

I only use it because there's no way I could convince my friends and family to move to anything else.

There's no point in switching to another app if I then literally couldn't communicate with the people I need to through it.

Two days ago I noticed when watching through the app on my phone that I could no longer just skip ads, and the trick of reporting them to skip didn't work anymore either. I effectively had to just sit and wait.

That same day I got NewPipe, imported my subscriptions, and honestly even if this is just a phased trial or something, I won't be going back to the standard YT app.

Creators make pennies from ad revenue. If I want to support them, I'll make a donation or subscribe to their Patreon or something.

I won't just sit and suffer a slew of ads while my data is harvested under the false pretense that it's all to support the creators.

House of Leaves is a fucking trip.

I still can't decide if I actually enjoyed it or not, but it was thoroughly interesting.

Thanks! I'm lucky to have someone in the family who can paint like he can!

If I'd have done it, it would have ended up being a gross brown mess 😅

I'm like, 99% sure this is a repost of my own OC that I posted to Reddit years ago.

1 - I never thought that would happen. 2 - I was (and probably still am) kind of a dick 😅

I'm sorry but this is some dystopian bullshit that's all centred on the false premise that communities are anything other than the people who choose to count themselves among them and engage in them.

Reddit is just the tool some communities chose to use to gather their members and communicate. That's it. If a community decides that Reddit is no longer the appropriate tool for the job, they can leave and build their community elsewhere. That may be a bit of an oversimplification, given the resources and tools those communities might lose through the transition, but strictly speaking, Reddit can't do anything to stop the members of any particular subreddit going elsewhere, and a cryptocurrency absolutely is not going to fucking facilitate the ownership or mobility of a community.

It's a bullshit form of control that they want their users to willingly bind themselves to. Suddenly you're not just participating in a community, but you're genuinely invested, tied to something with a perceived monetary value, that even if you can theoretically remove from Reddit and take elsewhere, won't have any more value than people choose to place on it, and won't represent the community that generated it in any meaningful way.

It's literally "Hey, the more you use Reddit, the more of our crypto you'll earn, which could be worth more than zero one day! You better keep using Reddit, huh? You wouldn't want to lose that potential for more than zero eh? In fact, why don't you encourage more people to use Reddit too? Then they'll generate their own crypto, and the more people use our crypto, the more it'll be worth for everyone! See, if you get five more people to use Reddit, and those five people also get another five people each to use it etc etc etc..."

The fuck out of here.