Kichae

I've been edging away from the "storytelling game" (group or otherwise) framing of things for a while now. It's... well, it's not wrong, but I've found that the framing centres things like plot and even performance in everybody's mind, and that has had some perverse side effects. It negates the collaborative effort in peoples minds, linearising the game, and shifting agency away from the PCs and the table, and to the GM during prep.

It's the connotational difference between "telling a story" and "running an adventure", and it's mostly invisible.

Neo-liberalism's a hell of a drug, and governments everywhere are deep in the throws of addiction.

Janeway had a moral obligation to not let Tuvok be integrated with Nelix in any way. That's desecration and torture, both at the same time.

My mom's employer calls the department "human capital".

Somehow, being more open about it makes it feel even worse.

Importantly, "vote with your wallet" is also straight up enabling discussion where those who have the most dollars have the most votes is taken for granted.

This is not how we want to run a society. We can already see the results of it, and they're incredibly not good.

This is, on the whole, a good thing. One should be able to have access to their politicians via piblicly accessible means, and the fedi is exactly that.

It's a giant shame that it's still being moderated by a tech billionaire, though.

And half -- I'm guessing with significant overlap here -- don't know that punishment only acts as a deterrence if you believe you'll get caught, and most people committing crimes either don't believe that they will, or aren't thinking about it in the moment at all.

it’s not the government’s place to own single family houses for rent

all provincial governments should have a non profit crown corporation owning all rental properties over a certain number of doors though

Why the arbitrary distinction? What's so special about the number 1 here?

AirBnB's a significant part of the issue. Short term rentals don't provide a place for people to actually live, while often providing a higher return over the short term than a long term rental unit.

Real estate speculators, too, add extra pressure to the housing market. Speculators often don't rent the property out at all, and attempt to treat housing as a raw commodity, buying up homes and just waiting for real estate prices to increase as the bubble continues to grow.

There may be real housing constraints in the country, but they're severely exacerbated by the view of housing as capital, rather than as homes.

But some monsters are strong against certain builds and weak against others.

That sounds like a party composition problem, then. Don't everyone play ice mages and then walk into a volcano.

Some monsters are stronger in certain environment and entirely nullified by others.

Sounds like monster creation rules need to be figured out before publishing the books, then.

Some monsters are stronger given certain allies and weaker when alone.

Again, monster creation rules should be reliable. And they shouldn't include context buffs that absolutely wreck the power curve.

My first thought was that it was a white supremacist organization, and was curious how they'd racked up so much debt.

The fact that the tax directly impacts billionaires is one of the reasons attacks on it are so thorougly funded.

The argument here is that taxes on carbon trickle down to the consumer, but that's true of any tax you place on businesses and their owners. The costs are always passed on, or so goes the argument.