I still think Gold/Silver/Crystal was the actual peak in terms of world design/mon design/storyline/characters, but I’m 100% willing to admit that could be my own particular age bracket of nostalgia talking.

I do like some of the additional/revised gameplay mechanics from later games… team battles, weather, held items, that kind of stuff makes the games meaningfully more complex, as well as more detail and structure given to how breeding and heritability actually work.

But a lot of the more… closer to current day stuff bssically just seems entirely like a gimmick that isn’t very well systemically thought out.

I was going to rejoinder this with a quip about ‘presumably neither shaken nor stirred’, but given that this was clever enough to stunlock me for ~12 hrs, I guess just ‘bravo!’

Man, I’m crippled. You’ve entirely missed the point.

The concept here is the entire way a city or community is laid out and designed.

You wanna see a solution to your problem?

Look at any city that currently exists that has at least half decent public transit, or town where its reasonably safe to walk to common places you’d need to go.

There are tons of these, by the way, places that have figured out how to do this.

You’re mad that you live in a poorly designed and poorly funded exurb area.

Howabout this?

Sell your inconviently located home, at the current market rate, and move to somewhere that doesn’t have these problems.

What, is too much of your net worth tied up in your home?

Wow! How did that happen?

I wonder why your community is built in such a way that that could happen… maybe decades and decades of giving handouts to homeowners and driving up their prices and requiring everything else in reality bend over backwards to subsidize them… has maybe just completely proven to be fundamentally economically unviable, with infrastructure needing to be spread too far and thin, constantly being subsidized by the urban core areas that generate the vast majority of jobs and tax revenue?

If that doesn’t make sense…

I’m sorry.

In addition to your physical ailments…

You also have terminal car brain. Yes, it’s fatal.

Hard disagree.

Most people become dishinibited in enthusiastic crowd enviornments. They become more suggestible, trusting.

Its a huge part of how group religious gatherings work.

A large concert is in many ways a secular, mass ritual gathering.

I think you could do something like this a considerable number of times.

How many people ‘let loose’ and do something they wouldn’t otherwise normally do, at a concert?

All of those people would be likely to both keep attending these kinds of events and also fall for the exact same schtick, unless or untill a very, very broad social backlash essentially shamed them into not doing so.

Yes but have you considered that if I make up a dash of bullshit and change and conflate the contextual meaning of a word or two, I am actually very smart?

For example, cellulose is part of plant cells, and cells have protein in them, and all proteins are basically the same, therefore cellulose is protein.

Is there… a word… for… ‘exposed to the void of space for a prolonged period of time’?

Yeah I know fossilized isn’t the right word, as thats generally a process that requires water… but i dont know how to say ‘space fossilized’.

Dehydrated and Irradiated … ?

Its respect.

If you can reiterate it… you were actually paying attention.

Just saying ‘oh neat!’, you’re being flippant, in comparison.

Yeah… I’ve heard about that.

Been using gnome for years, literally cannot remember a single time the entirety of gnome crashed.

I’ve used gnome tweaks for a long time as well.

Whereas everytime I’ve tried to use a custom KDE theme of some kind, some part of it is broken in some fun new extremely specific way that I did not know KDE could be broken in.

Oh no.

That’s … that’s too humanoid.

I’m sorry you were made this way Braixen, the internet is not safe for you.

IOUs based off of gold are a literally significant part of how many modern fiat currencies started.

What in the hell do you need to spend $50M on, right away?

Not to mention gold being around 1.4x more valuable per weight.

Those weights of either gold or currrency are going to require a vault or armored car and a crew of people with a forklift to either store or hold or move anywhere.

You’re gonna be bringing both to a bank.

Suddenly showing up with or trying to spend or sell those volumes of either gold or cash is going to get you a visit from the IRS, Secret Service, and FBI, and maybe CIA.

Yep.

Literally pulling out $9,999 instead of $10,000… that in and of itself is a crime, even if you’re not actually doing anything funny with it.

I wonder if that shit is something approximating a fossil, currently.

Presumably the radiation would have killed all the fecal bacteria pretty quickly… hell … would the plastic bags have degraded as well?

P00H is hilarious.

Poop.

The end of all food, yet also, the beginning of all food.

Poop is the true neutral ground state from whence all emerges and all returns to.

… genuienly an incredible name for the idle loop, I am in awe.

I did not think Maggie Hamilton could be more legendary, but somehow, she is. Damn.

I fucking hope not.

I’m legitmately traumatized from it, in many contexts.

So your stance is ‘this is bad because other people wont go for it’ and ‘but also there are some other companies/organizations this should happen to’.

… ?

I say maybe the government ‘doing a communism’ in the colloquial, horrendously innacurate sense of the word, is infact exactly what we need.

I don’t care that other people get the ick from this.

I get the ick from corporations fiscally and environmentally raping us all to death.

You want a New, New Deal?

This is approximately what that would look like, at least a part of it.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/controllinginterest.asp

A controlling interest occurs when a shareholder or group gains enough shares to exercise major influence over a company’s governance and strategic direction.

No, it is, you’re wrong.

Yeah, most people can read through simple typos and understand them correctly.

Ok, what’s ‘more than nothing’?

Like, what is the actual thing that you want to happen?

What is your preferred policy, law, government action?

Bernie’s entire idea is that since these things functionally plagiarized everyone, ‘everyone’ (via the government) should own a controlling interest in the companies… if they are profitable, if their stocks go up, use that to start a soverign wealth fund that can help out thr government’s budget, maybe be used to fund social service improvements, healthcare, ubi, etc.

That’s his idea of ‘more than nothing’.

What is yours?