well, I'm doing my part by feeding the roving hoarde of feral catgirls that show up every couple of nights.
oddly, they ... don't seem to really go for normal cat food.
I've found that a crushed up mix of ramen packets and pocky works well, mix it with either tuna or chicken.
Also, they scream at me now if I just give them water... I gave them some boba tea once, and now it seems to be a requirement, they'll start clawing each other if it isn't present.
Find a stream, dig a well, set up a rain collection system, have a cistern / pump / filter.
Yep, its difficult, but not impossible.
People have been doing that for tens of thousands of years... though I will grant you this is increasingly, unrealistically difficult for an average person to pull off these days, even if you basically learn how to properly do all of it yourself, lots more legal restrictions, and construction/materials are costly.
That does sound fun, honestly.
I'd been able to do things like that a decade ago, long term camping trips, multi day paintball excursions...
Unfortunately, later on, I ended up getting assaulted and crippled, so now my life is mostly full time PT, interspersed with shitposting on lemmy, lol.
So yeah... I very fundamentally would not be able to keep up with that anymore, but it does still sound appealing, and honestly just gives me more determination to dedicate toward my PT... progress is slow, and painful, but the progress is also real.
Was in a wheelchair a year+ ago. Got to being able to use a cane and braces. Now I'm at the point where I can actually ditch either the cane or the braces for a decent amount of time.
Gotta just keep keeping with it.
You... have a strange definition of 'finding a way'.
To me, that means; outlinining a reasonably effective plan to achieve what you want, with a realistic chance of succeeding should it be pursued.
It does not mean successfully executing that plan.
You can find a path in the woods, and you can actually walk that path.
These are not the same thing.
In the context of a society, you expand this analogy to include ... masses of people being convinced of the plan, as well as collectively and broadly judging what groups of people actually did, whether or not they even conceptually considered walking the described path, vs en masse walking the found path.
Also, I've in my last comment outlined another 'way'.
But, yet again, despite this way having a decent chance of working if executed competently, my strong inclination is that most of the people who say they are very concerned about all these things, say they want things to change...
They will not do what it would actually take, they will flip to complaining about what is reasonable to expect from people, from themselves... they will not be willing to risk true sacrifice for a greater good, they will continue to be (ironically) reactive, instead of proactive.
We are broadly frogs being slowly boiled, and yes, that is an accurate analogy, because we have broadly acquiesed to being lobotomized by corporate media and social media, as opposed to radically rejecting it.
... and that is my point.
This is an extremely unreasonable paradigm to expect a business, or really any kind of enterprise or endeavor beyond a fairly low stakes hobby to be built off of and operate from.
By... adult only... I do not mean ERP, sexy time RP.
No no no, lol.
I mean that children (squeekers) are not allowed in these RP comms/streams, because they very often tend to be extremely immature and petty, and very often just... 'RP' as a self insert, powertripping bully/troll/outright fascist, do shitty shit like stream sniping to intentionally ruin other people's RP.
But uh, that's my personal preference away from such content.
Such content is... imo, depressingly... often quite popular.
I am trying to more emphasize that there are some examples of what I would say is more quality, diamonds in the rough.
Hey here we go!
I am not super familiar with the actual content and nature of these streams, but if your descriptions are generally accurate, then yeah, these all sound like good examples:
You throw yourself into a gameworld by genuinely treating it as reality, more than as a game, like TTRPGs where the RP is more than 'murder hobo' or 'i am an extremely obvious joke/gimmick/reference character'.
I remember randomly stumbling upon, at one point, a Japanese youtuber who did / is doing a playthrough of Kenshi, and then goes back and sort of invents dialogue between her party of characters, to try to build an interesting storyline and do character development, out of what is basically a reactive sandbox... they'd voice the characters with an AI gen, or perhaps more old school voice generator, have the dialogue in english and japanese subtitles, kind of uh... ren py story based game or like fire emblem style cut scenes, interspersed between clips of gameplay footage, sometimes superimposed on top of it.
Now, this was very niche and isn't really representative of what is popular or hugely succesful, but it is an example of another way that you can approach some kind of video game rp content to... more or less try to make something like an anime out of it.
Hey, I took your framework and ran with it, collaborative effort =D
But uh sadly no, perhaps ironically, either I've aged out of really enjoying livestreams, or the... content and or platforms have basically just become quite generally off putting to me, I haven't really watched any livestreams or livestreamers in a few years now, beyond basically a bi-annual check in, followed by a sigh, lol.
So I don't really know any current roleplay type streamers I could suggest... but it theoretically wouldn't be too hard to find one?
Basically, you'd wanna look for some kind of ... serious, adult only roleplay community for some game, and then see if any of them stream.
Ideally, just uh, instantly nope out of any RP community that has its own MTX scheme of any kind, those basically all devolve into bickering and cliques and internal power struggles ... in the actual community, outsidd of the roleplay.
Also 'challenge streamers' yes, good, this is much more succinct than my ramblings, haha!
And yeah, you're right that... these aren't all perfectly exclusionary boxes, they can mix and match a bit, blend somewhat... but they are all perhaps good basic conceptual starting points for some kind of... grand unified theory of videogame oriented content or something.
EDIT:
Fuck, I just finally actually read your username.
Thats clever, I like that =P
Ok, bed time for me, I'm nodding off, uh, woof, lol.
Cool, how do I determine that?
Is there some kind of... universal metric, a p2p to centralized scale, that is accurate, transparent, and stays basically the same... for a deacde?
Maybe not strictly illegal, but ... as best I can tell, not really currently totally, explicitly legal.
Kind of a gray area, I guess I mean that I think it will become more normalized and 'more' legal.
I did come up with feasible ways of fixing it.
10-15 years ago, when the institutional momentum was not yet strong enough that it could not be thwarted by a concerted and targetted, ground up pressure strategy.
But, back then, everyone told me I was hysterical, overreacting, and that what is currently happening could never happen and was impossible.
Obama was in power, the Dems had a trifecta, surely they'd overrule citizens united and move the whole country over to ranked choice voting, and abolish gerry mandering!
Oh wait no, they squandered that, and then people mostly shrugged and sighed as things got worse and worse, not seemingly realizing the exponential nature of the situation, nor to what dire of a degree climate change mandated urgent action.
We are now at the point where... well basically, the only way to meaningfully fight back against this all would be for enough people to follow the example of your username, and just start assasinating everyone who is personally in a leadership position at an exploitative corporation, over and over and over again, untill CEOs and board members get tired of dying and actually stop raping the people and the planet by force.
But now we are all even more tired and dispossesed, even more exhausted and overwhelmed.
We missed our shot at doing it peacefully 10, 15 years ago.
Now it could only be done through coordinated violence, and we are more atomized and tribalized and individualized than ever, so in all likelihood, the only people who'd even attempt a CEO purge would be lone wolves of some kind, which won't be enough.
I don't really give a damn that you think I look like an asshole, I'm pretty used to bringing up unpleasant facts and realistic assesments that make people deeply uncomfortable.
We are now at the point where the apparently impossible peaceful revolution has made a violent revolution inevitable.
Its just that the fascists are doing all the violence, ie, we are losing, for lack of meaningfully fighting back.
In case you didn't grow up in a rightwing / gun nut family...
Yeah, this is a thing and has been for a while,.fairly normalized use of animal mascots for... fairly serious, generally adult level topics.
I think this is more of less the idea of 'family appropriate'.
Anyway!
Ladies and Gents: The NRA's own... Eddie Eagle!
(brought to you on VHS)
Apparently he's gotten a CGI makeover these days.
EDIT:
ok, now, seriously:
Eddie's slogan there is actually a pretty decent set of instructions for young kids to sing along to (its presented in a sing song way) to actually instill a very basic but effective level of how a kid should treat / react to a found gun.
Obviously, the concept of ... keeping a gun, in a home, with kids... which can even be found 8n the first place... is an entirely different issue.
The ... slogan is obviously not a fullproof safety mechanism.
But, I can still sing that derpy slogan to this day, so it did at least work on me.