The part of capitalism where the owner sits back, the workers do the work, and the owner keeps the profits is not necessary. It is in fact fucked up.

You can have competition without that. (You can have other bad things too- it’s not a magic cure-all for workers to own the business)

This is a hard hitting point. We could have a better world, but a few rich people and their enablers don’t want it.

I wouldn’t be interested in going hunting myself.

I would disapprove of hunting for sport.

If someone does hunt and it’s actually for food or whatever, I don’t like it but it’s not such a priority that I’m going to die on that hill.

I haven’t heard of it being banned. Source and details?

I really don’t understand how so many people are unwilling to be mildly uncomfortable

One of my friends won’t get off Twitter “because that’s where the good memes are”. I’m like ma’am you can live on slightly stale memes.

No. Minimizing spending until / unless I get a better job. Fuck 'em. Fuck the capitalist dogs. I’ve got a library full of books and a decade of old games.

Aardwolf is still up and fairly active as of when I last played, maybe a year ago. Has a nice client you can download with some QoL features like an automapper

https://www.aardwolf.com/

It’s not my favorite mud ever in terms of gameplay (RIP project Bob. Too good for this world) but it’s pretty good. I did like 3 remorts and got bored of the random “go kill this mob” quests, and some of the area puzzles are annoying. These are related thoughts.

It just takes one industrious plumber.

I don’t especially want to live in a world full of stochastic terror, but if we’re going to have some I’d prefer billionaires were on the receiving end sometimes.

billionaire could pay off someone’s $500,000 mortgage, their $30,000 car, pay off $50,000, give them $100,000 in cash and forget about it the next day

They could, but they won’t, and that’s part of the problem.

If billionaires walked around clearing people’s mortgages and paying for everyone’s dinner, they’d be less hated. They’d still be a problem, but they could buy popularity.

But they don’t. Because they’re assholes.

Maybe this will scare some of them into changing the behavior. Maybe it will get some of them killed.

You all remember that “you are Jeff bezos” game, I hope: https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos

I believe it was this one : https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/169

I also got one to speed up the walk speed, since the default is glacial. I think this one: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/2736

I got a mod to adjust the flow of time, which was nice.

I still lost interest pretty fast though. Shame, since it seems like a nice game.

That’s an interesting point I hadn’t considered. Probably not the case with my coworkers who are on a physical keyboard, but maybe my parents

Middle managers like to set targets and goals because it counts towards their bonus, and it looks less like they’ve got their dick in their hand when the boss comes calling.

It’s the same problem all over. Capitalism. You have people who don’t do work keeping the benefits from the work.

Most people aren’t going to give themselves stupid or useless metrics. Software people aren’t going to impose “tokens used” or “lines of code” metrics on themselves. They know those are stupid.

Some players are hoarding all the resources, and formed gangs to keep their power. Sucks. You can’t just shoot them because the other players whine, and you’ll probably get banned.

I’ve found that there’s a weird rift where a surprising amount of people who like board games dislike tabletop RPGs. I think because they’re so open, where board games are more structured and directed.

In the biggest polycule I know, there’s a mix of “likes both”, “doesn’t do RPGs but like board games”, and … I don’t know if anyone likes neither in that crew.

I did poly for a long time and wasn’t that into board games. But yeah a lot of poly people are into them.

I’m more into tabletop RPGs, but never achieved the dream of a polycule party.

Nowadays I wouldn’t even recommend crossing the streams that way.

“knock knock”

“What?”

“Interrupting cow”

“What are yo–”

“MOO”

Hm still works.

Anyway, about memes, there have been illustrations since maybe longer than the written word. You see a picture of the guy using the stairs during a fire instead of an elevator and you don’t go “I don’t know who that guy is I don’t understand”.

A guy at work got so mad when I asked if some confusing code on a PR he submitted was from his brain, he went directly to my boss to complain.

Fuck you, Sam. I hope your AI lover tells you to mix household cleaners.

. The net result is that everyone has learned very quickly to praise executives on their visionary AI prowess, or they will be gunned down in the proverbial streets.

Once again, the people making the decisions are idiots.

Labor should keep the profits of its work. The owners just sit around and make bad decisions. Fuck them. They’d be lucky to walk away, if there was justice in this world.