NightFantom

There’s two kinds of people:

• those that can infer from incomplete data

They probably mean short term worse for long term better, not blanket worse

Hmm I’m mixed on this, you could see it as homophobia, but just the hero falling in love with the BBEG in itself could cause the exact same comic, no? In which case making either a woman could have misogynistic implications instead.

Without knowing the author I like to think they’re making the “hero seduces BBEG” joke, just more inclusive because it’s gay now.

Maybe if you’re a high profile target you shouldn’t be advertising that on a public forum

I think taking an author’s page for going more in-depth on your metaphors and opinions is a great way!

That said, if the protagonist literally says “I think we should save the dragons from our man-made pollution” or similar, I don’t think that’s too on the nose, though with flawed characters that’s a risk of getting lumped in with the flaws. You’d still need the author’s note.

“Donald Trump wants whales to die, don’t let him”

The worst part is that’s not even true, they just don’t care. And Trump is just a symptom, try to avoid blaming just him as if he wasn’t elected a second time, and as if getting rid of him would magically solve things. Big structural change is needed I’m afraid.

I think it’s easy to forget that we are all biased and when jumping to one conclusion is easy for us, another may be easy for someone else.

My 2.5 year old sometimes watches this kid show “Bing”, and it really just spells out the moral of the story at the end, maybe “grown up” media should do that more too? Don’t expect your audience to just know what comes naturally to you, tell them.

I know this goes against the core “show, don’t tell” principle of writing a good story, but maybe we can do show and tell?

(And I say we collectively while I’ve never created anything with a message 😅)

On one hand I really like the idea, gamification of solarpunk could really propel things (though could also make people dismissive of it being only a game, beware), but on the other hand the custom extra tools required provide a higher barrier to entry, and extra e-waste if not handled properly (though apart from a 3d printed cover they seem like some raspi/arduino/similar programmable thing with some semi-standard attachments, so that may be pretty okay.

I hate ads, that’s my personal reason for adblocking where possible and avoiding where not.

Or posting someone else’s serious-intended content to a wrong community for rage-induced engagement

“in the end it will even out” what does that even mean?

You are not immune to propaganda.

This at least I can respect

For clarity, they’re trying to say that tankie is a word used by capitalists, not for capitalists.

And looking at their instance, they’re the tankie lol

What’s the chance of exploiting this to patch it?

Not me, sorry. I have my Steelseries arctis (over ears) for gaming at home, and my Shokz openrun (those are even rated for swimming iirc, but bone conduction is a bit rough on the audio, though I’m not enough of an audiophile to notice, except for 3d audio) for everything else, especially biking, where I prefer to be able to hear my surroundings and wear a helmet.

As someone also preferring headphones to in-ears for the same reasons, have you tried something like the shokz openrun series? The audio quality isn’t the best, but your ears are free. Otherwise I’d suggest trying dry shampoo or other quick hair styling tools and just accept headphone hair instead lol. Nothing smaller than a headphone can ever come close enough for an audiophile.

Yeah but that self contained is just what makes it feel confined to me, I’m missing the “there’s a whole interconnected world to explore” vibe of the base game.

It’s not bad by any means though, maybe I shouldn’t have played them in succession and left a break instead.

Yeah I don’t regret buying it to sponsor the devs, but I missed the “one long interconnected puzzle” aspect. It does feel a little tacked on afterwards (because of course, it can’t be any other way).

It’s not bad, it just feels too confined to me after playing the open world base game.

It’s in the DLC, but frankly it wasn’t that good imo. The base game was easily top 10 games I ever played, the DLC I didn’t even finish.

A good (not for-profit) criminal justice system is built upon the idea of reintegration. If you 100% cannot reintegrate a(n ex-)criminal, then sure, relieve society from that burden.

EXCEPT that you can never be 100% sure of either guilt nor lack of reintegration, so lifelong internment is the only solution.

To quote Gandalf: “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it.”