Same concept but kinda from the opposite direction, kinda like elder scrolls. Magic used to be super powerful and utterly broken but over time it’s degraded for one reason or another some things and groups still have access to the old magic but as a whole it’s pretty inaccessible. This is kinda how magic works in Elder Scrolls, the magic of the Dawn Era and Merithic Era were fucken broken world bending shit that did things like turning Solstheim into an island instead of a peninsula, but the world has since gained too much internal stability or perhaps instability to allow such things all that often, but scratching into that requires getting into Elder Scrolls meta physics which just no.

Not triple A but Inexile and Owlcat could probably handle the series pretty well. Also throw Elder Scrolls to the guys who made Tainted Grail.

My brain is jumping between TF2 and Fallout NV.

The Allfather provides and my madness grants a certain clarity. Regardless it was an escape from the mindset and shackles therein, not literal escape which is admittedly a good thing. Economy is fucked in my region and getting even a shit job at the warehouses is basically impossible due to artificial agents, luckily I can call back on my grandmother and we have a certain truce on these things. I don’t talk about economic structures and my hatred for the stock market and she keeps the political bullshit down, if either breaks the truce it’s free game and we both end up pissy.

The ability to parse information and disinformation is a skill like any other which requires the wisdom and humility to fully apply. A lot of folks grew up in near complete information bubbles and are incapable of even knowing that there may be a different path, there are legitimately people who think all Democrats are possessed by the literal capital D Devil, how the fuck do you even begin to unravel and parse that without just killing propagandists and preachers?

I grew up on the edge of that environment and was lucky enough to break free from it all around 2015/2016 since Trump reminded me of those false smiling CPS workers who fucked me over repeatedly trying to put me with my rapist father. But most folks don’t have that type of automatic response to things, hell some suppress it to better fit in for sake of sanity.

Come at it like you would a cultist be it Scientology, Mormonism, or Seventh day Advenentists. Because that’s effectively what it is since half this shit was being built up as far back as the 60s and most of these poor bastards weren’t even alive at the time.

In my experience it’s down to a horrid mix of tribalism, lack of education, and propaganda which further enflames the former two. How can folks better themselves if they can’t even fathom that their so called leaders are the ones fucking them over. This is why gas price is so notable because it increases the price of everything and propaganda doesn’t fill an empty stomach.

First cousins not having kids is generally good since it prevents the founder effect from getting too bad or long term inbreeding like with Charles of Spain or really any European royal.

I feel like the closest I can think of is something like the tradeife shit. But that’s more an extension of christo-fascism and patriarchy than anything else.

Snowflame is simply spreading the word of his god. His god is cocaine!

I’m just thinking of that one scene from I want to say American History X where the younger brother gets shot in the restroom. I think it’s still a school shooting by definition but different vibe.

It’s in weird limbo and had been for awhile so Jones was probably allowed to keep using the branding for income reasons or something. Though I also wouldn’t put it past him to just ignore courts.

I wouldn’t be so sure on Kegsbreath. Remember he is in prime position to be thrown under the bus as things get worse with Iran, he is openly a lunatic and an idiot which makes him prime meat to get rid of.

Thanks for the suggestion I may look into it. Though I personally think one of the main problems is near instant and universal information transfer, bit it does probably have a good bit of overlap.

Technology is morally inert, but I thinks it’s moreso that people on average can’t responsibly interact with technology both due to a lack of understanding and it’s secondary effects due to said lack of understanding. While our current issues are due to the is definitely being exasperated by the current economic system and those who largely own it I think a lot of it is inherently an issue with widespread technological integration.

For example the job market it entirely fucked in part due to online applications and companies who feed on that problem. But the core issue with online applications is that there’s basically no easy way to the flow of applications resulting in a practically unsortable mess in sheer quantity. Meanwhile for in person application submission the control is built in from needing the person to physically show up with a print out.

IDK this is just something that’s been bouncing around in my head for a bit. That over computerized infrastructure and interconnectivity is actively detrimental at least insofar as ease of use in concerned.

Personally I’d just point to myself and say “No Hablo Espanol” my pronunciation is better than my spelling. Though I don’t anyone would look at my pasty ass and assume I know any language outside of english and even then that’s debatable.

Ya know the more and longer this shit goes for the more I start thinking those whackjobs back in the 70s to the 90s who thought technology was the devil may have been on to something. Still think they’re wrong but I do think the world would improve if you had to install your own OS on computers and laptops, perhaps that would collapse the underlying social infrastructure these shitstains require to exist.

Hell I’m 26 and my knee aches at the concept of this. I could probably ignore it but it still wouldn’t be fun.

My knee is fucked from a badly judged jump in boy scouts when I was 14 or something, word of advice don’t blindly jump through bushes there may be a perfectly angled rock sitting there waiting to fuck you up.

It’s useful for threat assessment, the difference between an opportunist and a true believer is the difference between a threat and a kill.

You’re forgetting brainwashed which sadly probably amounts to plurality of these pissants.

I don’t get it but also this is how a lot of mass killings played out historically. Hell my own ancestor pruned the old branches on the tree as it were before he became a bandit.