jjjalljs @ jjjalljs @ttrpg.network 帖子 3评论 2,950加入于 2 yr. ago
I'm glad you liked the comic.
I read the tweet as saying "Actually learning about history, the good and the bad, is better than avoiding it to whitewash (pun intended) slavers and spare their feelings"
How did you read it?
This also reminds me of a separate post I saw about how social media, and tweets especially, is a really bad format for communicating. The length constraints and incentivizing being clever don't make for fertile ground for ideas. Most people aren't going to read an essay, sadly.
I also can’t imagine someone getting offended about people mentioning the Tulsa Race Massacre or the fact that the founding fathers held slaves.
Actual racists aren’t going to be offended by those historical facts, they just might argue that they were justifiable in some way. Which is obviously super fucked up, but it’s not like racist people are going to deny the fact that slavery happened or that black people got massacred by white people in history. They literally get off on that shit.
Many racists definitely do get offended by those facts. It's because they're coming at it from an emotional place, and the historical facts make them feel bad. Instead of dealing with that, they lash out. Not all racists are intentional about their racism.
I link this a lot, but it's worth a read https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
Which is why the tweet seems so strange to me. Black people getting enslaved and massacred and persecuted? That slaps? I fucking hope not.
That wasn't the intent of the tweet and that is a bizarre misreading of it.
Someone should come for Musk and the rest of the republican party.
I can only hope some of the absolute fools who voted for republicans realize that their policies are dogshit, but I think too many of them are emotionally invested in their "team". They'd cheer for their side even as they starved to death.
Elden Ring was very good. You still get the interconnected bits in some areas, and some parts of the world connect in unexpected ways.
The main thing I didn't like about elden ring is how most of the stuff is kind of pointless. Like there's a catacomb but the only thing you get from it is some useless ashes and low level upgrade material. It made replays feel weird, because I'd skip most of it.
I'm not sure how to fix that. Maybe have the little side dungeons affect world state somehow (eg: drain poison from the swamp, get rid of invaders, whatever). Or switch over to sekiro style leveling where you only power up by doing certain things. But both of those might make the side stuff too much of a chore.
Don't put important details behind failable skill checks and just dead end it there.
Like if they find a book with ciphered text, you might be tempted to be like "make an intelligence + investigator check to decipher it", and if they fail be like "you can't figure it out".
It's better to do some sort of degree of success or succeed at a cost so the game keeps moving forward.
Like, on a bad roll they translate it but whoops awaken an angry spirit that's now attacking them. Or they make some progress, but realize they need the key to fully crack it. The note in the margin says it's at such-and-such flophouse, owned by the PC's most annoying rival group.
I've done too many "you rolled .. 0? Ok. Well you have no idea what this altar means" and then later regretted it because the players didn't have a vital clue.
If billionaires were smart they would go along with this kind of non violent plan. The longer they resist, the more likely people will try more aggressive solutions.
I would give them a chance to divest before guillotining. But someone having that much money is disgusting. You know what you could do with that? You know how much was stolen from how many people to acquire that? That's disgusting.
Look at this "wealth to scale" website https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/?v=3
In case you lost sense of how big these numbers are.
But at least we agree that some billionaires should be hung.
When I was a teen, I thought they were hot and they were my peers. As I've gotten older, youth look weirder and less attractive to me.
I think people are attracted to health, so someone who's young and alive will other factors being equal be hotter than someone who's cracked and sickly. Young people tend to be healthier.
Then you're a fool, but I hope if it came down to it you wouldn't go peacefully to a death camp. Maybe it's too much to hope that you'd step up for your neighbors.
I'm reminded of the abyssal words in Elden Ring's expansion. There are signs that tell you "Don't let them see you!" and "You have to hide and run!". You find an area with some tall grass and some creepy eye-monsters. And sure enough, if they see you they come running at you. They'll knock you over, grab you, and explode your head.
Clearly you're supposed to sneak by them.
But...
So many people are sitting on their hands going "Violence is never acceptable".
I think I ate a 3 day ban on one of the communities for making a joke about guillotining billionaires. Bunch of bootlicking cowards. I get not wanting to go and do some murder on your own, but come on.
It was a hypothetical scenario to demonstrate cases where violence is appropriate.
You wrote:
Advocating for violence, regardless of reason, is sick.
In other words, there is no reason whatsoever, in your mind, where violence is appropriate. I gave an argument where violence would be appropriate. Do you disagree? Stay on topic.
Clearly false.
A man is threatening to shoot everyone inside a school. Are you not going to advocate force be used to stop him?
A far right group has risen to power in a nation. They are moving people into extermination camps. Are you not okay with fighting back?
Ten people are stranded on an island. One man has all the food and water, enough so everyone can survive until help arrives. He won't share. Should the other 9 die of starvation, or take the supplies by force to share them more equally?
Defending the violent is also advocating for violence. It's just against many powerless people, and more indirect.
There are people who are responsible for rendering our only world uninhabitable. By refusing to even entertain the idea that they could be stopped by force, you are advocating for continued, global violence. It's less personal than a CEO being shot in the street, but it is violence nonetheless.
Belief is social. They believe what their social group does. We all do this to some extent. Some part of the brain still feels like if we reject the social group's belief, we'll die alone in the woods. Going with the group feels good.
You can probably change minds if they see you as in-group, but it won't last if the rest of their in-group has contradictory ideas.
Getting people off Facebook and other hellscapes might help.
I'm not sure what you mean. There aren't really a lot of "quests" in gw2.
There's the main story, which is a green marker on your map. That's always there (unless you turn it off or finish it)
There's orange markers for nearby events. That's like "zombies are attacking! Save the town!" or "help these kids pick apples" or whatever. They're just things that happen in the world and, to a limited degree, change the world state. Like an area might be full of toxic vines until an event finishes successfully, or a merchant might only sell items after his mission succeeds.
There's red markers, which are basically the same as orange, except they tend to be world events and not local.
And then there are collections, which are kind of like quests. They're not super advertised. They're kind of of "get these achievements for a special reward". Sometimes NPCs will give you one- like "go find all my favorite fish" or whatever. They're optional, but sometimes fun and sometimes have good rewards. Like if you finish the one where you get most of the achievements for one chunk of the game, you get a max-stats accessory that all your characters can share.
Anyway. Long reply. Nothing is really beamed into your head, no.
The lack of class consciousness is pretty stunning. Everyone thinks they're going to be the owner one day and they'll get to step on people's necks. Not enough people realize that's probably not going to happen , and not enough people reject the idea of stepping on necks altogether.
One of the things that bugs me is this idea of "everyone is entitled to their opinion" has like metastasized into "no one is ever wrong about anything", and "don't ever make anyone feel bad about their 'opinions'".
Some ideas are wrong. If you're a anti-vaxxer or flat-earther you have bad ideas and we shouldn't be like well I guess that's just fine. Let the kids die and another pandemic roll in
I don't really want the state to be rolling around gagging anti-vaxxers willy-nilly because that can be a slippery slope, but there's nothing stopping a private person from telling their peer they're a fucking idiot. Peer pressure changes minds more than facts. And YouTube, a private org, could just.... not host anti-vax content.
I was going to say the same thing but with a lot more words.
The oatmeal did a comic that's sort of on this topic that I think about a lot now: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
I think this is why our future is looking grim. We'll never have a star trek utopia until this behavior, which is pretty fundamentally baked into our biology, is addressed somehow.