I think sometimes about politics in games. Especially the unexamined kind. Like a guy one time ran a game predicated on literal patriarchy - the story was about how a baby boy was due the throne instead of his elder sister. I’m like … You could have written anything. I don’t want fantasy patriarchy.

Meanwhile, my game right before that was about helping an anarchist collective stop a counter revolution from restoring the despotic monarchy. And my current game the players just shot a surveillance CEO on the street and donated all of the wealth they could get out of his unlocked phone to charity.

People will play this like “Fucking hey! I aced that bike segment first time!” all proud of their gaming skills when the reality is you did absolutely nothing, my brother.

I remember a little indie game predicated on this once. You were shown upcoming game state the player was in, and had to make choices so they’d get the maximum score without doing anything. I was a like Columns or Tetris like game, so you’d have to arrange the board so if they just dropped the pieces they’d get a combo.

Weirdly fun, interesting commentary.

I feel like LLMs would be a fun toy, like a magic 8 ball. I mean, if they could exist without the environmental damage and grand theft of human knowledge. And the risk of AI psychosis. But this obsession with using it for everything is just nauseating.

It was a very popular song with people who just totally disregarded the sentiment entirely.

I was just thinking about how that seems to be a theme. Art has a message. People don’t pick it up.

Like, if you’ll pardon a genre change, the protagonists of final fantasy 7 are literal eco terrorists who blow up an allegory for an oil plant. How many of those fans love the game and didn’t give a single thought to environmentalism? Barret would disapprove

Those people are embarrassing. They’re probably the same people that say like “Dracula is just a story about a guy who bites people shut up about all this politics and feminism”.

Education is difficult and, in the US are least, under funded.

Just ban private jets.

There are so many things we could just stop doing, but they make rich assholes unhappy. That’s true for like all of humanity, but the scale is global now instead of just “the peasants are eating dirt”

Though now I’m thinking of a story where someone infiltrates their way into being the pilot for a rich asshole, and then jumps out and lets the billionaire blow up in the crash. Noting that down for my near-future dystopia tabletop rpg.

Capitalism. The people making decisions aren’t the people doing the work. The people keeping the profits (and thus the power) aren’t the people doing the work.

I’m confident that a lot of the stuff that’s unpopular in games was put there because some ghoul thought it would be profitable, and the actual workers didn’t want to do it.

What the fuck is Luna?

I mean theoretically, in a movie sense, if you could compromise IT or leadership , you could then probably issue orders to the field units that are destructive. Like go to a location where you’re waiting to execute them, or tell two squads to go to the same place so they shoot each other.

I’m told the mega corp where I work makes people go into the office because the dying town they’re in gives huge tax breaks. So they have people driving an hour in 8 days a month, to work with people that are mostly remote.

Climate criminals. All of them.

I found https://70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/walter-molino/ but I couldn’t say if that’s slop or real. The Internet is dead.

I wonder if this was a form of sabotage by an engineer, or regular incompetence

Businesses are making more money, they are accumulating cash and so are their employees.

This seems… dubious. Where is the money coming from? Is it a closed system? My understanding is the government typically is putting money into the system through various mechanisms, much of which is giving money to rich people and their businesses.

Is the problem that the businesses have too much money? Because taxing them seems like a better solution.

Yeah. I wouldn’t bring it up as a non sequitur but it’s pretty important.

There’s a chipotle not far from me. I usually see people in there. But there’s also like several local mexican places that are great right nearby. So I’ve never gone to the chipotle.

Why don’t we use this surveillance to nail the big companies that are polluting to the wall? (Because we are ruled by the worst among us.)

It would be really funny in a heartless way to see all the red states collapse. Big “I fucking told you so” opportunity.

Unfortunately, it would take a long time and a lot of innocent people would die. Also they’d probably start wars

Republicans are stupid, shitty, worthless people.

They’re like children who don’t understand cause and effect. Or like a dog that eats a bunch of grass and then is utterly surprised when it throws up later.

I’m always like what did you expect to happen.

Sadly, no. Two ancient laptops (circa 2004, 2008) and a 20-something inch crt with no HDMI.

I have several old but working electronics and I literally haven’t been able to give them away for free. They’re probably going to end up in the eWaste trash. I don’t know if that leads to anything being reclaimed, but probably not.