@jamwil@doyce@pradyunsg These aren't totally incompatible. "Private owners" can be (frequently are) not people who work at the company, just people that own shares. e.g. I bought Nvidia shares, did literally nothing for the company, and made money just by virtue of owning the shares; that's the center of the Venn diagram here.
@j3rn@doyce@pradyunsg I don’t disagree, I’m just pushing back on the claim that an individual selling their own work for profit is not capitalism because that is literally the definition of capitalism.
The word OP is looking for is exploitation. Blaming all of our woes on “capitalism” is lazy rhetoric and I think we can find more precise terminology to address the aspects of the economy that deserve critique.
Youtube has started throttling the speed of any browser that's running an adblocker.
Doesn't affect me normally, but I couldn't upload the latest Masks game on Firefox because the upload speed was so slow it was failing out at about 14%/12 hours.
if I do it in chrome (no adblocker, for this and similar use cases), it's like 7 minutes, total.
This is a solid move by Google. Forcing people to watch ads and punishing people who won't has famously worked out well for every industry.
Me: [running 5 miles at 6pm on a treadmill hill course] "My body is more than a temple - it is a honed machine that produces pure fitness."
Also me: "Today's lunch is a raisin bagel smothered in cream cheese, both of which sat out uncovered on a table for four hours... and a bag of peanut butter M&Ms."
Is starting the adventure in a tavern a tired fantasy trope? Joke's on you; The Red Right Hand's lair is IN (coffunder) a tavern, so ALL our job's start in a tavern, and it's GREAT, so THERE.
(#Myguy is a Cutter, which should be simple punch-stuff muscle, and which I've of course ruined with complex community obligations.)
@doyce cool. I have #Starforged and it’s on my list of games to play. Seems like a lot of fun, though the number of moves is kind of overwhelming for a #PbtA game.
@nukehavoc@doyce The important thing to remember is that not all of the Moves are reasonable choices at every given moment. In actuality, gameplay tends to focus on a particular set for a particular thing that you're doing. Combat-relevant Moves are really only five or six. Exploration-relevant moves about the same.
Once you realize that not everything is available all the time and only related to what you're doing, it gets a lot easier to find the one you want.
couple weeks ago I asked my mom when she finally felt like an adult who's got it figured out and she just laugh-shouted "HA!" like someone had given her the Heimlich and walked out of the room