I think we also need to put the fear into the rich.

Like, if the result of someone having their factory dump mercury into the town drinking water was that guy was beaten to death, then the rich would maybe behave a little better.

If the guy who steals his employee’s tips got up one morning and found every window in his house was smashed, maybe he’d think again.

Some people operate only at the most basic level of moral reasoning: “Will I be punished?” They don’t care about other people. They don’t care about laws.

At the end of the day, might makes right. If you can’t enforce your will, there’s no cosmic ref coming to call a time out. Unfortunately, the rich have a lot of might via the police and such. But they’re still just bags of meat like everyone else.

We need more Luigis, and we need enough solidarity that no jury would convict.

We would be better off without republicans. We shouldn’t treat them as if they have any legitimacy.

As I always say in posts about this topic: Living in a walkable city is nice. I can just walk outside and get groceries. No traffic. No fuel costs. No insurance. No maintenance. No parking. I just walk down the street and get stuff. If there’s a lot of stuff I need, I bring a cart, but I almost never need to do that.

Poe’s law is real.

Yeah but none of that accounts for the cruelty and control.

Keeping workers desperate and afraid makes it harder for them to unionize or stand up for themselves. If losing your job means losing access to life saving health insurance, people are less likely to take that risk.

We should break up match group. With hammers, if needed.

But I do think a lot of people self sabotage on the apps. They’ll be like “no one has an interesting conversation with me” but their profile is like 3 bland photos and “I like to have fun”. My guy, you need to give people something to work with.

But also I don’t trust that the app is actually showing profiles to anyone with a reasonable algorithm. They probably could actually show me people I’d be compatible with. They chose not to.

There’s probably some blood on their hands, thinking about it. Lying to people that this app will lead to relationships when they intentionally sabotage that for profit means people are unhappier, more frustrated, and some of them probably go on to do violence. It’s probably producing incels.

But somehow people are mad at queer folks and foreigners instead of the C-suite and their boards.

I remember realizing all the names are science terms and being like “oh that’s clever”

Kind of like it more than the usual “throw darts at a fantasy word board” that produces like Dark Age, Dragon Priest, Eternal Soul, etc

If we’re waving magic wands around, change the tax laws to limit how much you can inherit.

Changing the step up basis thing is actually pretty low hanging fruit.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stepupinbasis.asp

https://smartasset.com/investing/buy-borrow-die-how-the-rich-avoid-taxes

Where would you lay the blame?

And how is that hypothetical response “intellectually dishonest”?

You don’t even need to wait for ng+. Sometimes I just start a new game and cruise through the first parts. Clear the “you should lose here” tutorial boss and go all the way to lady butterfly. Then I usually run out of steam.

It’s really satisfying to be able to do that without a level up grind

Ebooks on my phone from the library has reduced friction a lot for me. Don’t even have to get off the couch.

You’d have to get involved, but as I said I don’t know how to solve for money being power.

Poe’s law is real. I can’t tell if this is satire.

Things like the FBI killing left wing organizers certainly didn’t help (eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton#Assassination )

I thought we had all reached consensus that style is more important than realism. And you can do style without mega hardware.

On the other hand, the fidelity in bg3 I think added something to it. I don’t think it would have been the same experience if they were simple sprites like the original games. Is it worth all the hardware? Maybe.

I WANT SHORTER GAMES

Can I have my cake and eat it too? I want games with a short critical path, but satisfying ways to spend more time with it if it’s fun.

So like interesting NG+ stuff, boss rush modes, different builds, whatever.

I think it’s kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. The left is disappointed with the offerings, so they don’t vote or get involved*. The people who do get involved then call the shots, which leads to more disappointing milquetoast offerings.

*Involved in the actual mechanisms of power. Not complaining on the internet, or voting once every four years. Unfortunately, money is power. I don’t know how to fix that. I pray to saint luigi for guidance.

I feel like the LotR “Cast it into the fire!” meme would also work, where the ring is “Rich People Money”

I think it’s important to recognize none of us are immune to emotion. We’re not Vulcans. Some people are a little better about keeping them in balance, but even that depends on factors like “did you get enough sleep?” and “do you feel secure and safe?”

If you stress anyone out long enough they’re going to become more emotional driven and less coolly rational.