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The only case I can think of is like you had to call 911 for an emergency and you want the people around you to also hear the dispatcher.
For day to day stuff, not really.
Online dating is fascinating in how bad it is. It's like 80% the fault of capitalism, and 20% users just doing a bad job and making it worse. People write messages no deeper than "lol" and "nm hbu" and then wonder why they don't have any interesting conversations like on the tv
True, but that was kind of black market and gauche , not advertised every time you log into the game
Tangentially, I really dislike the right wing obsession with "tax relief". Taxes aren't axiomatically bad! You should be getting something for your taxes!
I'll pay higher taxes if it means free (at time of use) health care, transit, libraries, public spaces, etc. That's going to be cheaper than paying for all of that as individuals.
People would rather save $100 in taxes even if it means paying $1000 for shit later.
I like to remind people that the first mad Max movie isn't like fury road. It's a mostly normal world that's just starting to fall apart.
Folks should unionize. The people mandating these "return to office" schemes can't do shit unless labor cooperates.
Well, if you want to have a conversation go ahead and read the rest of the post. Otherwise you're just kind of jerking yourself off
At the very least form unions. That will help with stuff like wage theft, some people getting underpaid, BS firings, etc.
More aggressively, maybe some sort of collective ownership. Not this "options" bullshit where they never even vest for most people. The whole thing where management pays you $100 and sells what you made for $3000 needs to go. That $3000 needs to be more fairly shared among the people that made it happen.
But I don't really know. I'm just some guy with entry level knowledge and a sense that the current system is wrong.
They could live more modest lives in more rural areas
Living in a rural area for many people is literal hell, on top of having an array of less obvious costs. The big one is going from not needing a car to needing one. Your rent might drop $500 but you need to spend a lot on gas, insurance, maintenance, etc.
Also the social options might fall off a cliff. Humans are social creatures. I live in a city and I can walk to dozens of social activities, many of them free. Board game meetups, free music in the park, free museums with tours, free sport leagues, etc. Out in the countryside there just aren't as many options.
If you're queer or another minority, you might also have a worse time in the countryside. Maybe even fatally. A city is going to have a queer scene.
Also, there are likely more jobs in the city. Remote work and economic upheaval have changed things, but even so, most of those offices in Manhattan are full of jobs. There's just more stuff where there's more people.
Now, to your point, some people are certainly living in a $5900/mo apartment with a doorman and in-building gym that they can't afford. They could move to a less "nice" place in south Brooklyn or Queens for less than half that, likely at the cost of a longer commute, and losing easy access to a neighborhood they feel a part of. There is a housing crisis though, and people are getting priced further away. That's probably not going to be solved any time soon because capitalism doesn't care and will happily eat itself.
Anyway. Long tangent but I'm extremely pro city so I spoke up.
in my experience developers are the least class conscious people I know
This matches my experience and it's really frustrating. I remember talking to a coworker years ago and he was just like "I wouldn't join a union. If a job sucks I'll go somewhere else". Incredibly optimistic and myopic.
Well, he's unemployed now. Working on a video game so maybe he's still got that bootstraps energy.
The level scaling in Oblivion and Skyrim are worse, true. It's kind of impressive how bad an idea and execution the level scaling in Oblivion was. They place enemies based on your total level, so if you leveled up from non-combat skills then you'll have a bad time. It makes exploring kind of pointless, because you'll never find anything interesting. And then there were the bandits wearing thousands of GP worth of equipment mugging you for 100gp.
one of the original developers recently came out and said it was a huge mistake: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/elder-scrolls-4-oblivions-level-scaling-was-a-mistake-says-designer-so-why-is-it-in-the-remaster
In morrowind, not much scales with you so it matters less. You can't raise a skill above its stat, so you can kind of paint yourself into a corner with bad leveling. (Though I think you can use fortify-attribute to get around that at trainers)
Morrowind's combat system is... if you're feeling generous: weird. if you're not: bad.
You click on an enemy and it rolls dice to see if you hit. Your chance to hit is determined by your skills and stats, and your fatigue. yes, fatigue. If you've been sprinting and your fatigue is empty, you'll probably miss more. This combos badly with the glacial movement speed of the game.
You also want to hold the attack button a little longer to do more damage.
If you start with a good axe skill (like 50), you can often hold to attack and knock people over, then finish them off. You might want to set "always use best attack" to true in the options- weapons typically have like a few moves, but one is usually better.
The "bound weapon" spells are also good- they're kind of cheap, and give you a high damage weapon that also boosts your skill by 10. There's a merchant that sells a couple weapons that turn into bound weapons in Balmora.
Blocking is also just a dice roll. I think it's better to just get a giant two-hander and kill them faster, but opinions differ.
Also fun: If you damage someone's strength to 0, they can't move. If you have a spear, your reach is probably longer than theirs. You can kill almost anything this way.
also, while i'm here, the native leveling system is bonkers. You gain levels when your major skills improve. You get three stat increases based on any skills that went up. You can get up to +5 for each stat increase. This is not retroactive. If you level up and pick a +2 in strength, that's what you get. This creates some utterly bizarre incentives. People would pick skills they don't want to use as their major skills so they can control leveling, and pay trainers to bump skills tied to stats they want to increase. It's horrible. You can kind of ignore it, but you'll be much weaker than you would be if you play into it.
Are you including stock stuff in this calculation?
I had a recruiter reach out to me for a job that was focused on facilitating people using stock as collateral to get personal loans. I think that's one of the mechanisms rich people use to leverage their non-cash wealth without paying taxes. I told him that sounded like it should be illegal, and that was the end of that.
I used a lot of mods, but I don't remember all of them right now
"Natural growth and decay" I think was the one I got for stats, because I didn't want to deal with the original's insane leveling system. It was pretty good, but had some bugs. Once you got money to pay for training, the wheels fell off because you could rocket up all your skills and stats.
Once you have the skills for Frenzy100 and a spear, you can get unlimited money by taking out the guards that carry ebony weapons. Ok, that kind of wackiness is a little charming.
I also got a mod so NPCs had more money, because hitting every merchant in town and advancing time so they refresh is really tedious.
Oh, and I got one so Magicka regenerates, because constantly sleeping or chugging potions is tedious.
And one so you can have up to 12 marks saved.
If you have any recs let me know
I keep hoping this will spark some sort of anti-capitalist zeitgeist. But labor might be too scattered and individualistic.
Like, why are we all scrambling for a handful of jobs when the rich have so many resources?
I think at around 5 million you no longer need to labor to live. You can put that in safe investments and just coast. That's maybe not super rich, but it's definitely above a milestone.
games? I found a civilization port for the phone and it sucked up a lot of time. Turn based so you can do it for a few minutes at a time: https://yairm210.itch.io/unciv
learn a language? duolingo and other apps are out there
People should probably protest this. go in person and demand to speak to your rep. or whatever. i don't know how to organize a protest. i just go when i hear about them happening.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Ald%27ruhn#Notes
It's the Ald'ruhn fighter's guild. Apparently it's not a full set, but it's a lot of it.
This is a time of political crisis. The US government is upending decades of alliances and economics. The right wing is globally on the rise, and that means people's lives are in danger. The environment is becoming more unpredictable and less supportive for humanity.
There's a lot of important political shit to talk about. If we were living in a boring utopia, there'd be less, probably.
Also, what do you even consider "political"? Some people will tell you that a story about a man and a woman getting married isn't political, but a story about two men getting married is. That's a really low quality analysis there.