What about a Groundhog Day meets mega man remix. Basically, doom starts really high and ramps very quickly. The party wipes against the BBEG almost immediately.but they respawn, and discover they can run it again. Certain actions, certain moves reduce doom significantly. Now they get to rerun the scenario multiple times until they find the right combo to defeat the boss and leave the loop.
Ah, the author fixed it. Good job.
The implication that they would all be killed or completely stripped of assets is the problem you’re trying to solve, however, that doesn’t have to be the action taken. Perhaps instead, the 8 billion people of the world decide to enact a society that insists that such accumulation of wealth is obscene and should be curtailed. Perhaps systems could be introduced to make the wealthy more accurately contribute to the society they profit off.
Billionaires become billionaires through exploitation. Exploitation of workers, financial systems, and political power for personal gain. Make them pay for all these things.
Pay for education of the people they use to build their companies. Pay for the healthcare of the entire population, which they degrade with their business practices. Pay for the infrastructure that enables them to do business. The roads, the safety nets, the national parks, the air quality, the water supply, the land they use. Make them pay to replace and repair, fully, any damage their business causes. Polute the stream, pay to fix it. Dig the ground for ore, repair the ground so it can be used again. Make them replace what they take from society for little or no cost because their goods are only affordable because they do not reflect the true cost of production. Make their businesses pay for all these things, and the cost of production will rise to include the true cost of production. At the moment, the shortfall is paid for by we, the people, which enables them to become billionaires. Exploitation.
We don’t have to kill anyone, or strip anyone of all their assets in some revolutionary action. We just have to make them pay the true cost of their exploitation.
Tax the rich. Use those taxes to repay their exploitation. Increase the cost of doing business to include the cost of repairing the impact.
People can still become very wealthy. But society will also become much stronger through the use of the extra revenue to benefit all.
To make this happen will take a revolution, but it doesn’t need to include guillotines, it just needs people to become aware. Sadly, the politicians and media are also owned by the billionaires, making the final step of collective uprising extremely difficult. But humans have done it many times before in the face of adversity, perhaps it can happen again.
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Still funny though.
I’m gonna guess the steam is causing a broken circuit connection in the led strip to briefly connect. This strips often have a thin wire running the full length of the strip and that can break when the strip is bent. If the steam is heating the strip it could be causing the wire to briefly expand, closing the small break and turning on the lights.
Why is the yeti missing a finger on its left hand? Sheesh AI is bad at hands.
It’s an old meme sir, but it checks out.
Just ask Betamax how technological superiority went against VHS.
I’m genuinely curious about the fiscally conservative bit. When I hear that phrase I always assume people mean “I don’t want to pay taxes” but my immediate next question becomes how do you believe societal level infrastructure is constructed and maintained. Things like roads, police, military. I’ve never seen a society with private infrastructure for those things. An immediate second question, assuming you are OK with a small level of taxation to accommodate the costs of the three things listed above would be, what other society level services would fall into the bucket of things that should be paid from taxation vs things that should be privatised. Things like disaster recovery services, judicial services, child welfare services, national security, border protection. I’m going to also assume you object to education and healthcare being a taxation funded expense? What about currently public buildings like libraries? Parks? Town Halls?
Ground Control to Major Bong
Unless you’re from New Zealand
It’s a hand offering up a cocktail shrimp.
Interesting. Do you have any more info on the SourceID token and how it can compromise an account?
Hey dude, I don’t know you and I don’t know anything about you. I do know that everyone, even people you would never expect, have value. You are amazing just for being you. If you find things you enjoy, do those things. 10 year old you may be prouder of you than you think, even if it’s because of how you have kept on going when things have gotten tough. I hope you feel that.
A white chinchilla. There’s a decent chance it’s deaf. Great cat though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_sensorineural_deafness_in_cats
I think it’s a burn from an iron
Oh god, not this shit again. I’m sure there’s a GIF somewhere about this issue.
We don’t talk about Soulseek.
File sharing is rule three.
To clarify the mega man reference, in the first few seconds of megaman X, the player fights the final boss, and loses, and in doing so is shown: A. How the final boss works B. Some moves they need to learn
Helps motivate the players to defeat the bad guy. They have a vendetta