Adderbox76

As challenging as it would be, the Fallout universe.

Don't know why. I just feel like in the Fallout universe, you can be anything you want to be as long as you can convince enough people to back you up. Those same people might eventually stab you in the back, but still...vigilance is a small price to have the freedom to climb from a nobody stumble-bum to a czar of your own city-state.

The weirdest thing about most of my dreams is that neither myself nor anyone I know is ever really in them. My brain just quite literally writes completely fictional movies for me to watch, with made up actors, made up places, etc...

One of the ones I remember the most was about two androids (a married couple???) are on holiday at a remote resort surrounded by forests on all sides. It's not explained, but my brain just knows that this is a world where humanoid androids have entirely replaced biological humans and have essentially just "adopted" their lifestyles, but we don't know what happened to the humans yet.

In the middle of their stay, two things happen simultaneously; first, the nuclear reactor that powers the resort begins to go critical and they need to escape. But outside, a horde of savage humans, essentially devolved cavemen, attack the resort, trapping them inside. With no way out, they find out that they can delay the meltdown by putting pencils on top of each heat vent on the floor (because sure, brain...why not?).

And then I woke up. Never did learn how it ended.

Economic chaos for a little while, and then everyone would just go on with their lives. Economically it would matter of course; America became the richest power after the first world war when all of Europe needed loans to fight their "great war", causing the greatest transfer of wealth the world had ever seen.

But culturally, I'm betting the number of people who would give a shit if the United States stopped bossing everybody around is far less than they think it is.

The american sense of importance is strongest mostly in their own heads.

It's an interesting start. But still has a very long way to go feature wise. I'm also unsure of how updates are supposed to work as it gets worked on.

This is exactly the right answer.

I think it's a complicated question. I say yes, but with caveats.

He needs to be prosecuted in order to keep the letter of the law running. You can't just say "you can't kill anyone unless the rest of us don't like him." Laws should be about absolutism.

However the sentencing does not have to be absolute. Find him guilty (because technically he is). Then give him a suspended sentence because of extenuating circumstances.

Lou Diamond Phillips dramatic death scene lives rent-free in my brain forever.

Funny? No.

A good start? You betcha.

its one of those movies that is so goofy and dumb, but the actors are having an absolute blast chewing the scenery.

Lou Diamond Phillips and Avery Brooks especially knew exactly what kind of movie they were in.

These men are frauds!

The Big Hit

My initial thought was that since 10% of the population hoard 50% of the wealth, that I would take that 300,000,000 and divide it amongst the other 90% to flip the corporate script on it's head. But it turns out that's only 40 bucks per person....

I've long held the belief that the greatest damage to the working class is the phrase "you should feel lucky to even have a job." Because it allows the corporations to largely do whatever they want, creating a top-down economy by default.

But imagine if people only had to work if they wanted to. A writer could write without needing to get a "real job". A carpenter who loves making homemade furniture and selling it no longer has to limit his hobby because he's unable to make a living doing it. A person has a dream of running their own coffee shop, but can't because they need all of their hours to just make sure the kids are fed.

If everyone can pursue a living how they want to make a living instead of stepping on our passions because there are bills to pay, then suddenly, the corporations have to deserve US, and not the other way around. I don't need your shit wages. I don't need your lack of health care. Make it worth my while for me to give my skills to your company or GTFO.

That's essentially the dream of a UBI, and I initially thought I could kick start that by spreading my 300 billion around to the 90% rank and file. But it turns out I'm shit at math.