Being a patriot for the 'States is apolitical because the USA is normal. Any other country is foreign and strange, therefore it’s political.

I’m not in a tech field now, but I used to be. I jumped ship when everything started moving to ‘cloud based’ because I don’t trust anything I can’t kick when it breaks.

I had to check if this was real, I honestly wouldn’t put it past modern Heathcliff to pull this shit.

holy shit that thing is still around?

Probably about the same, '97-'98. We’d gotten a PC in maybe '92 or '93, a 486SX-33 with a whopping 4MB of RAM. My primary school was still stuck on BBC micros, and our C64 had long been given away, so my parents shelled out for a new machine for me for high school and of course I instantly started trading games with all the other nerds, spending my allowance on gaming magazines, playing coverdisk demos, buying shareware disks from the local newsagent. We started hearing about this “internet” thing in about '96, so my father eventually took me to this “intro to the internet” seminar, and at the end there was a single PC hooked up via dialup that we could fool around on. When it was my turn I went to the only website I could remember off the top of my head, the local gaming magazine, Hyper.

Preserved on archive.org, and magazine scans here.

Get a bunch of these printed up and put them outside other stores. Enjoy the ensuing chaos.

Scotty from marketing ass shit

Anyone from a slightly less insane country: '“Yep, that’s a gun.”

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Thanks for this. I was having a lot of trouble making sense of anything via baidu and machine translation.

As far as I can tell, this is policy. At least in that the death penalty is officially an option. CW for the obvious. Note machine translation. Also worth noting that this doesn’t seem to be new, looks to me like it’s been on the books since 1997.

Chapter 4, Article 236, Criminal Law of the People’s Republic. Via National People’s Congress of the PRC, machine translated.

Debian is … fine. It’s the Toyota Corolla of distros. It’s reliable, it’ll likely do what you need it to do. It’s not fun or exciting or packed with the latest tech, it just does its job with minimum fuss.

IIRC hexbear got rid of the dunk tank comm because of the racist history of the practice. Is that what you’re getting at? Implication being America runs on humiliating and taking advantage of minorities for money.

Wait what? Fucking Clive Palmer? I’m not exactly surprised but also holy hell the shit never stops.

It’s not even really a game engine. More like a 60 second interactive hallucination.

I was kinda pulling numbers out of my ass for the example, but you’re right, it’s probably a lot lower.

People generally have trouble conceptualising large numbers. Like for example, you can picture the difference between 90 and 100, but 30 000? Most people will just go “yep, that’s a lot.” The consent manufacturing machine knows this.

Wasn’t silver supposed to be hitting all time highs like, yesterday? I can’t keep up with this shit, fucking fake ass science.

I listen to an unholy amount of actual play podcasts, there are some very good explicitly anti-colonial and anti-capitalist ones out there. Good for entertainment that isn’t pure lib slop, some hilarious bits with engaging stories and the unpredictability of dice-driven storytelling. Not in a position to make specific recs right now but I’ll come back to this thread.

EDIT: Oddity Roadshow is pretty fun and irreverent. GM has a tendency to “make capitalism the bad guy”, one of the PCs is openly commie (but it doesn’t come up much). Tendency to commit to the bit at the expense of plot (or even narrative sense) means it goes a bit off the rails sometimes, but it’s fun.

I was going to recommend Campaign: Skyjacks as well, but I’ve kinda lost interest in it over the last year or so. It did set out to tell an anti-colonial story (the Big Bad organisation is basically Dutch East India Corp) but kinda got bogged down in its own lore. YMMV. There’s also Courier’s Call which is closer to a kids show, set in the same world that I find quite heartwarming.

Also a shout out to The Orpheus Protocol. It’s a cosmic horror epic run on the GM’s own system. I get the feeling the GM has pretty good politics but they don’t really make it into the show. Basically the podcast that got me hooked on actual play. It’s very, very cool. CW for some pretty gruesome shit tho.

I’m not in the ’states, that isn’t really a thing here AFAIK. I suspect street food regulations and/or venue policy make it not viable for one reason or another.