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There was a book I read where the exorcism failed when the Christian guy tried to do it, but worked when the best friend sang their favorite song. It was corny but sweet. (I might be remembering it slightly wrong)

I ran a game in near future New York and used Google maps and street view for guidance. Worked well. None of the other players lived here, so I think the visuals helped them.

I had one really good game of Vampire. Lasted a couple years. We still talk about it sometimes, and its best scenes. Like how one PC saved an NPC by jumping out a 10th story window with her. Or the time they had a huge in character fight because the job they’d tried to do went sideways.

But I’ve also had a couple really bad games. There was one where they just didn’t read and retain anything from the books. One of the players on like session 4 was like “wait. How do I get more blood? Do I like… Bite people?”. My friend what do you think was happening in the other scenes when people were hunting for blood? They also didn’t retain anything about the different factions, so they didn’t really understand anyone’s motivation. It was bad. Still feel bad about it.

I don’t think “This other, largely unrelated, problem is bad so we shouldn’t do this thing” is good reasoning.

I don’t think in the real world, in all places (or even most places) all the stores are in a cartel. Where I live, there are several large supermarkets and a handful of smaller groceries all within walking distance. They are not a cartel. They compete. You’re just making stuff up for some weird dark fantasy of yours.

Furthermore, if there was a monopoly, and we have the political might to implement UBI, I dare say we’d also have the political power to do a tried-and-true popular move of breaking up monopolies.

If there’s only one grocery store, maybe. But that’s a monopoly, and that’s going to be shit no matter what. Ideally you have multiple grocery stores that compete, and if one raises prices the other will take their customers. (If they all coordinate to raise their prices, that’s a cartel and that’s also bad.)

So you’re not really exposing a problem with UBI, but rather with unregulated capitalism.

When I play an RPG (or RPG-like game), I want to know upfront: is this a storytelling kind of game, or a problem-solving kind of game? The rulesets that try to blend both often feel like they pick up the worst of both worlds, demanding players switch between two very different sorts of minds or risk spoiling the whole affair.

This is an interesting point I’d thought about before but never articulated.

I think it was part of why I didn’t gel with one of my old DND groups. They’d sometimes be faffing around doing “funny” stuff, but I mostly was sticking to the “use your resources wisely or perish” mode of DND.

Probably a support character. I’d expect they are good at emotional and physical first aid, morale boosts, and diplomacy.

They probably aren’t good at physically fighting, but they’d be good at stopping fights non-violently.

I had an argument about this with a friend once. I was saying if we just abolish the police, private enterprise will probably step in to fill the gap. I don’t want that. I don’t want amazon offering policing services (as part of Prime. vomit).

I think the police need to be split up into smaller institutions, and have a lot less murder powers.

Someone needs to address the “Someone broke into my house and stole my TV” problem, without a profit motive and with accountability.

There should be something to address “My neighbor is screaming at his wife and I think he’s hitting her” that doesn’t involve some low empathy assholes with guns rolling up to mock the woman.

I don’t know how to fix this.

The guys in those hypothetical lynch mobs are the cops today.

At least in this scenario you could get your buds and shoot back at the klan fuckers, maybe.

Conservatives aren’t known for being smart or rational. It’s a worldview of emotions and immediacy.

I looked it up, it’s $15 currently. Suburban NJ to Manhattan.

$15 is still kind of a lot when you’re a kid

I think I’d need to see more examples to understand this better.

If I’m a thoughtful (d6) wizard and I want to carefully open this portal, what do I roll? What if I’m trying to do so but the building is on fire?

It really does seem a lot like Fate Accelerated. You’ve both got four actions (though they theirs are more general purpose. create an advantage, overcome, attack. defend). Their approaches are (by default) careful, clever, flashy, forceful, quick, sneaky.

It sounds a lot like Fate Accelerated, except more complicated.

I’m not sure I understand the dice sizes. Looks like some types just are weaker?

That’s a good post. No disagreements, really.

I want a succinct word to encapsulate this behavior. It’s like a child that eats a whole tub of ice cream against your advice, and then gets mad at you that they feel sick. “Stupid” is a word that would come to mind, but I think better can be done. Something with “Solipsism” maybe?

It’s also frustrating when you catch them red-handed adopting a position they recently held the opposite stance on. I’m just like, why don’t you care about the hypocrisy?

I would argue that this behavior you are describing is a kind of stupid. It is self destructive in the long term, and certainly not intellectually rigorous.

Republicans have long done things that are contrary to their stated goals. They want nuclear families with a stay at home mom, but they don’t want to pay people enough to do that.

They don’t want abortions but they don’t want to have education and contraception.

Conservatives are stupid or lying

Part of why I moved to the city was wanting to escape the car based nightmare of the suburbs. Couldn’t do much of anything without a car or an extremely risky walk.

I could have walked a mile to the train station with no sidewalks , and then paid $20 for a ticket into the city on a train that stops at like 10pm, but all of that sucks. I stayed inside and played a lot of video games.

Can also get an emulator and enjoy all the classics of yore. Chronotrigger holds up, for example