Murdoc

@Murdoc@sh.itjust.works

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Murdoc,

Just don’t freeze people in prison as punishment, ok? I’ve seen how that goes. Before you know it, we’ve got Stallone knitting things.

Recommendations of what fabrics to wear?

I want to be more respecting of my own sensory needs, and notice certain fabrics are incredible uncomfortable, as opposed to others. I’ve also noticed loose clothing feels more comfortable for me, then tight clothes. Cotton feels good, polyester does not. I understand this may potentially vary for each person, but wanted to...

Murdoc,

I recently got a pair of pants that are stretchy and I’ve been addicted to them. I didn’t know pants could feel this comfortable. They say they are 65% viscose, 30% nylon, and 5% spandex. I have a hard time wearing anything else now.

Murdoc,

For a long time I never understood the prevailing opinion about the inherent incompatibility of the game lines in WoD because I mixed them up all the time. But now thinking back on it I realize that I never really needed to use the rules, like for combat, between the types. I don’t know if it was the stories I ran, or the people I gamed with, but interactions were either cautious curiosity, or abject avoidance (“Oh shit, werewolf! Run!!!”)

Well there was that one time in live when my Toreador fought a lupine, and that went fine. Idk, maybe the live rules were designed better for that?

Murdoc,

They aren’t really incompatible in game. For Vampires, a Lupine should be an OH FUCK OH SHIT OH FUCK tier enemy to most parties, either a run (smart) or fight as a team (good luck) encounter.

Yeah. One time in tt, our malk and a setite met one on the Santa Monica pier. Malk got a miraculous 8 successes on Athletics to get away (took a picture of it), while the setite did the smart thing and dove into the water.

Did your Toreador solo a lupine by themselves? Were they a powerful Elder, or the world’s luckiest roller?

Not an elder, but a martial artist with max Celerity. Still lost though, because at the time I sucked at challenges.

Murdoc,

My favourite line from that song. 👍

Murdoc,

I still do.

Murdoc,

😆

Murdoc,

Except they don’t tell you that they did something different and you have to spend half an hour just figuring that out.

Murdoc,

She said I was artistic.

Murdoc,

I’ll have to get that for when my Klingon friends come over.

Tumbleweed update killed my gaming

Has anyone else had this problem? I updated my openSuse Tumbleweed today (restart required), and now none of my games work. Most are through Steam, so at first I thought it was that. But I have Cyberpunk through GOG launched with Heroic. And even more, Alien Arena has the same problem, so it’s not even a proton issue (I did...

Murdoc,

At one time I remember people commonly referring to the case as the hard drive.

Murdoc,

Just like Explain xkcd.

Murdoc,

One important thing to point out, your upvotes and downvotes are mostly public here

They are? Can I ask how? I can’t even find my own votes like I could on reddit. I used to use that to show a friend of mine good posts and comments.

Murdoc,

I see, thanks!

As for Voyager, I’m not finding that anywhere.

Murdoc,

While the system is designed to be entirely local, it is also possible to easily connect it to some external APIs or services if you want to enhance the conversation

Murdoc,

Also the Genuine People Personality™ from the Hitchhiker’s Guide.

Murdoc, (edited )

Saw that in a sci-fi rpg called Living Steel. An alien bioweapon unleashed on a human space colony called VISR, or Viral Induced Sociopathic Response. It was interesting. Edit: spelling

Murdoc,

Wow, I guess a couple of people didn’t get the reference huh? Oh well, always a risk when you try reference humor dry.

Murdoc,

I was going to make a funny fake headline about this, but I’m worried that someone out there would take it seriously and there’s already enough of that crap out there.

Murdoc,

Ooh, can we start the SCSI thing again?

Murdoc,

True, if a person has been shot, you have to go after the person with the gun to prevent them from doing it again. But I’d also like the person who got shot to get immediate medical aid.

Murdoc,

Actually Canada is the closest it has ever come to getting UBI, as there are two bills (C-223 and S-233) being reviewed for it right now. It still is going to need a lot of support though, so head over to https://www.ubiworks.ca/guaranteed-livable-basic-income to sign the petition, learn more about these bills, and otherwise tell everyone you can, and we might have a chance!

Murdoc,

Actually in North America we could have had a working post-scarcity since the 1930s. It is why we had the Great Depression and what Technocracy was designed to be able to handle. It’s only been our continued use of a scarcity-based economic system that has been holding back our productive capacity with extreme inefficiencies.

Not sure where you are getting the philosopher king thing from?

Murdoc,

How does that work? There almost wasn’t enough food to go around in the great depression,

Oh there was plenty of food to go around, the problem was that the system couldn’t make it “go around”. Either people were too poor to be able to afford it (all the unemployment back then) or companies couldn’t sell it for enough to stay in business. That was the problem: we were suddenly able to produce so much that the prices fell too low (in conjunction with decreased demand due to lower purchasing power) to sell it. This was precisely the problem Technocracy was developed to address. An economic system based on scarcity cannot distribute an abundance of goods and services, so either you use a system designed to actually do that (Technocracy), or you get rid of the abundance and keep the old system. Guess which we did. So crops were burned, livestock slaughtered, even weird stuff like pouring oil on oranges so no one could eat them. Get rid of the abundance, and prices go back up. Then we pumped money into the system so that people could afford to buy that scarcity again with the New Deal, subsidies to farmers, and good ol’ WWII helped a lot too.

and plastic was an advanced new material hard to come by from the 40’s through the 60’s. Electronics took a long time to be produced in any significant quantity too. And what about land?

I’m not talking about an abundance of every little thing, but rather what essentially gives a high standard of living: food, shelter, transportation, etc. We could have given everyone on the continent a much better life than was typical for the day. We have enough natural resources and technology to do that (although that won’t remain true forever).

Plato said everything would be great if we had the smartest people in charge. He called it the philosopher king, others call it technocracy.

Ah I see. Yeah, the term “technocracy” does get used to describe different things. What I’m talking about is a very specific proposal developed in the 1920s to address the problems of high production in a scarcity economy.

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