The world of darkness games can run like this. If you play new vampires, there’s going to be a whole political landscape that is at best neutral to you. Same with Mage. The other types probably also, but I don’t know them as well.

It does have a paradoxical element in that your character will be a big fish as far as the mundane world is considered. A freshly statted vampire or mage is far more powerful than a mundane person.

It does have paths for players to become big fish, too

I would build homes, trains, bus lines, and green power.

And also make sure the water fountains in the park actually work year round.

I like the game but I never finished it. I got pretty far when setting it to checkpoint mode, but lost interest near the end.

I don’t really understand the game in detail so I don’t know all the good builds. Extra legs and guns seemed strong.

Yeah I noticed that, too. Not sure why. Using apt on the command line is probably an alternative, at least.

Anyone forcing return to office should be removed from power.

I’ve had a couple recruiters talk to me about full onsite jobs. I tell them no, because I value my time and health.

Labor should organize and remind the owners that they only live a peaceful life because we haven’t flexed our power

Also switched to Linux (popos) this month. It’s been fine. Games work. Browser works. No complaints, really.

I think there are protests but coverage and communication is limited. Probably because a lot of news and platforms are owned by shitty, rich, people.

I think most computer users now don’t know that file systems exist

Fear and hatred of out-group is a pretty core part of conservatism. They are bad people

He got people talking, which is worth something.

She’s a very selfish person who doesn’t care about other people. She only cares about what benefits her. So when someone says “there’s no material benefit to me” they sound like that kind of asshole.

Also it was a critically acclaimed show, not some obscure media.

Feel a little like a crazy idiot, but I wasn’t sure where long beach is and it was kind of hard to figure it out. California.

That doesn’t logically follow. No more than saying “Building more highways is bad for the environment, ergo the highway administrators benefit from having more cars on the road.” You’re looking at a problem of induced demand and concluding the problem is on the demand-side of the equation.

What? Yes it does. Facebook needs users to generate revenue. With no users, they can’t sell ads or user data. How else do you think they make money? Do you not think making money is a benefit for the owners of facebook?

It’s one node in a massive web. And it’s easy to say “Well, you have to do your part because <insert consumerist morality here>”. But mostly it’s just some random asshole on the internet telling me not to use my telephone because AT&T is run by a richer set of random assholes. There’s no material benefit to me and no collective coordinated action that I’m seriously participating in.

You’re reminding me of Eleanor from the good place. Do you also litter? Refuse to return shopping carts?

Well, there’s no going back and changing the past, so the best you can do is learn. Glad you’ve come around!

There are certainly worse candidates. Stewart still seems like he has a soul, unlike most republicans.

Well, there’s the extreme end of things that moderators don’t like posts about People love Luigi, though. But I understand not wanting to throw one’s life away, even if success pushed the entire world onto a better trajectory.

There’s also that low grade sabotage stuff that gets talked about. I think people were posting the ww2 sabotage manual a couple months ago. Stuff like have excessive meetings, make plausible mistakes to gum things up, that kind of stuff. This works better if you’re closer to a source of the problems (eg: ICE, mega corps, republican think tanks, etc)

Then there’s safer stuff like protests. There’s the really safe ones where you just go and march. Those have use, but are kind of limited and won’t fix things on their own. You can also do disruptive protests, but you have to be quick and smart, or you have a high risk of going to jail (or worse).

Radicalizing your friends also can be planting seeds. Maybe those will grow.

You could run for office, but that’s slow and expensive.

There’s probably other stuff, too, but I’m running out of steam here.

I haven’t seen any real evidence to that effect.

Do you accept that facebook is harmful to the world, or would I need to try to prove that? There’s the time they tried to see if they could make people sad by adjusting the feed. (They could)

If you accept that, it’s a small step to “They benefit from having more users on their platform”. More users means more engagement, which means more ads, and advertisers pay more money for those ads. No one’s going to pay big bucks to advertise their stuff to an empty platform. Facebook’s going to have a harder time selling user data and metadata if users aren’t on there.

Now, getting one family to stop using facebook is a drop in the bucket. But every family that leaves makes it easier for the next family to leave.

I think there was an illustration in one of the Vampire books that had a malk kissing a fish.

I’d known the term, and then forgotten it, but recently was reminded of it. I was complaining about how some players just always want to be zany and wacky, instead of just playing to the premise. Like, you pitch a gritty game about hunting vampires in 1980s new york city, and they want to play a talking horse. or three kids in a trenchcoat. or a dead man’s seeing eye dog. Just stuff that could kind of work, maybe, but is going to take a lot of work and take a lot of spotlight constantly. Instead of playing, I don’t know… An investigative journalist who’s been looking into mysterious deaths, a nurse at the hospital who’s seen some shit, a business man who just can’t get promoted (maybe because the owners are vampires).

Some of this is subjective, I guess, but I feel like some players are just not on my wavelength about what fits into a theme.

I’ve heard of Bleed, but maybe in the context of a horror story. A player’s character was cursed so they couldn’t play music anymore without some unknown bad stuff happening. They were going to play anyway, since music was everything to them. The other player characters intervened, and took away their instruments. The cursed player had their character sneak back, break into the cleric’s chest, and steal their instruments back.

We were all like “Wow this is such good drama and tension!” But then the cursed player got really mad and upset at us in real life, and was like “Of course I’m upset! You wouldn’t let me play music and stole my instruments!” We were all like, “…in the game, right?”

They were like, “No! I’m really upset at you all! Don’t you feel bad when you watch a movie and bad things happen to the characters?”

We were like, “Well, sometimes, yeah, but it’s not like… the same as it happening for real.”

They calmed down eventually, but left a few sessions later in a similar blow up.

So whenever I think of bleed, i think of that player just yelling at us in real life for stuff that was happening to their character.

Can you share what lead you to support Adams, and what changed your mind?