ripped0ff posted:

Exactly. You say you aren't evaluating excuses and that you're some sort of awesome impartial robot, but that's bullshit. When someone misses the game because they say they have a big project tomorrow, do you question them about whether or not they could have done more work ahead of time in order to avoid missing the session? Probably not. You just go, "Oh okay, valid excuse, you couldn't have avoided that."

All you're doing is drawing your own personal line about what constitutes "life stuff". Spending the day with your brother who is only in town for the weekend? Valid, apparently (since it's family stuff). Going to the end of term party that's your best chance of getting a girl you've been after for a while? Sorry, you need to commit more to the game.