There are less obvious costs to living outside a city, especially if the city has transit. All the car costs, for one relevant example. The health loss from walking less. The isolation takes a toll. The shallower social pool. Fewer cultural options.
Also it’s not like apartments are dirt cheap in the suburbs outside NYC. I could pay $2000/mo for a nice apartment in Plainsfield, NJ… or I could pay a similar amount, not have a car, and live someplace where stuff happens.
Personally, I generally dislike puzzles in RPGs. My character has 20 intelligence. In real life I’m rocking at best 12. I am not going to make the intuitive leaps to solve this cipher like my character would. You’re not asking the fighter to demonstrate a shield bash or the rogue to pick a lock.
Riddles and puzzles aren’t nearly as interesting as explained choices, anyway. Do you take the Sword of Rivers from the tomb, fighting the guardian and potentially causing drought and famine in the region? You’ve been told it’s the only thing that can stop the Fire Elemental Incursion back home. Much more interesting than trying to figure out what a poem means or a sliding block puzzle, to me.
If you don’t want the players to know the cliché weakness so badly, why don’t you make up another monster instead of troll? Just sidestep the whole problem. It’s not Troll Canyon. It’s Grall Canyon. What the fuck are Gralls? No idea but they sound nasty.
Because clearly, some players are going to balk at “you want us to forget this well known fantasy cliché?”. And it doesn’t matter if you think their playstyle is stupid. It’s a game. People are trying to have fun.
You can turn that one on desktop off, btw
If only separated bike lanes were more common. I’m really not comfortable riding with all those cars just right there.
Apparently Vanguard has a whole proxy voting system that I left on the defaults!
If you set a minimum vacation time, it’s not bad. But most places don’t do that, because they know you’ll take less time if they say unlimited.
Solidarity doesn’t have to mean they like have a club with a secret handshake. Their goals are aligned, and they tend to work towards those goals, even without explicit coordination. It’s rare to see anyone in the ownership class work against those interests. You don’t see a lot of the owners saying “we should give people more time off” or “we should let the workers have a say”. It’s pretty consistently “we should squeeze people for more money”. It makes the news when ownership is like “We’re going to pay people more”, and it doesn’t make the news when labor is like “i’ll just work a little more off the clock to catch up”.
Contrast with labor, where people are often undermining their interests. Being anti-union, voting against regulations that would protect them from exploitation, giving away labor for free.
This seems trivial to solve without all the LLM parts. It’s like… 1-3 lines of code to pick a random item from a list. Surely someone has made websites or apps to do that for you, if you can’t write it yourself.
Or a no code solution: dice or a dart board or cards or any other randomization tool.
Solidarity doesn’t mean they’re all in love and never squabble. But it does mean that they will prioritize their class’ interests, especially if it’s in conflict with labor.
I assume rich people often keep enough shares to control who sits on the board, and thus who is the CEO. There’s a lot of people sitting on multiple boards, folks know each other, blah blah blah.
Also many shareholders aren’t really involved. I don’t even know how it works if you own shares through Vanguard or something. I’ve never been asked to vote on company policy.
From what I’ve seen in start-up land, leadership is a lot of in-group bro times. It’s all gut feel. Shouldn’t expect rational, honest, decisions from them.
I don’t know why anyone would be surprised that discord is getting shittier. It’s a private for profit org. Not getting shitty is an exception.
The rich have class solidarity. They’re not going to casually fuck each other over like that.
Nice! I got about two remorts in, but haven’t played in a while. It’s a pretty solid mud.
I’ll always have a soft spot for Project Bob, which I think shut down. Diablo-style items and a very fast paced combat system. Alas. Time marches on.
200 is a lot of people for a mud. The only one I know of that’s that big is aardwolf. Which do you play?
It was always going to end like this. If you’re surprised, I hope you learned a valuable lesson.
I know plenty of adults who are really bad at money and paying bills.
I feel like the average video game player has really poor media and political literacy, but maybe it’s just the ones who make noise online who fit that profile.
If conservatives alone got what they deserved (misery) it wouldn’t be so bad. But they insist on taking everyone else down with them, too.
I think it’s a riff on an old meme I don’t quite remember. But the idea is like,
Like, someone playing checkers. Someone says “oh you’re playing checkers because you hate chess!?”. You can kind of see how they made that leap through several errors (view chess and checkers as mutually exclusive opposites)
So the person in the quote thinks banning whoever is a non sequitur, I guess.