Art used to be considered not very worthy unless it had a moral message. The modern art movement helped us break free of those limitations. The new way society has found to limit the arts is the notion that art should be made for profit, and valued mostly in terms of price.

Sequels and reboots are an aspect of this, I’m beginning to feel. The code of old games should absolutely be maintained so that access to them is preserved, but what’s the real value of a remake, if the point is not to contribute to the conversations the original was influencing?

Creatives who aren’t driven by a hunger for new ideas and fresh concepts don’t usually leave us works that deserve to be revisited and maintained, but even works of homage should bring something new to the table.

Take Skywind; they’re remaking Morrowind, but they’re adding their own content, expanding on what was there, and flattering the source material to the extent that the original looks somewhat shabby in comparison.

If there is something worthwhile to be done with Fallout at this point, people can do it whether Todd Howard likes it or not. Tim Cain is totally on point here, and I wrote too much bye

It’s an RPG thing, except I don’t have a group at the moment so it’s pretty much just world building for its own sake

Yep. At 72 ppi.

Good news, during wartime and periods of intense crisis, some people experience a temporary paradoxical increase in mental health. So, I’ve got that going for me.

There’s no way to replace Joe without his consent. Do you have any real ideas how that can be accomplished?

We know what he’d do.

We’re basically hooped unless Joe decides to throw in the towel. Just about anyone not psychotic half his age could very easily beat trump. How do we get there?

More info about this town in the link. I was up until half midnight making it, next time I’ll post pics of the process

I have the same one. Seems premature to make more, mine still has another decade or two in it

It’s over. It was honestly over long ago, it’s just playing out in slow motion.

It will probably continue to play out for another thirty years at least. Increasingly horrible, so at any point “eight years ago” feels like back when things were sane, except we lost our minds decades ago already.

Sorry we’re the nation equivalent of DJ Khaled; we think we’re “suffering from success” but in truth we actually are and we don’t know it.

They definitely don’t understand, but more importantly it doesn’t matter either way - having a group they can persecute is just how they reinforce in-group ties. They lack a coherent ideology, and simply bond over cruelty. Any hatred that can safely be stoked will suffice for such people. Every time we accept an out-group into normal society, platform and protect them, they find new prey. Whenever we give up ground and let peoples rights get taken away, the ‘far right’ go back to hating them too. Cruelty is the point, and it’s what turns them on. That’s what makes them ‘far right’, is that it’s obvious compared to normal conservatives.

That would involve having a media environment that isn’t controlled by billionaires who are highly involved in manufacturing consent for regressive policies.

I really shouldn’t have dump statted CHA. Where’s Withers…

Intention was to encapsulate the psychological aspect within the phrase “how you see yourself”. It’s hard to get every detail into a simple explanation.

Buddy, then it’s you and me against the world. I’ll be your campaign manager, you’re the charismatic one.

It’s pretty simple - sex is basically your reproduction capabilities (in biology even this is far from trivial “A or B”) while gender is more like how you see yourself, how you present to the world, and usually comes with certain assumptions and roles from the society you’re in. That’s why people say it’s a social construct; it’s literally constructed, socially. Being cis or trans just means whether your reproductive traits match your socially constructed traits.

It feels awful to know this might actually happen again. I can only hope that America actually puts down the rebellion for good this time. We left the schism intact with a failed reconstruction, and look where that got us.

Fine line. We want “enough” charisma, but we don’t want demogoguery.

I would have been fine with both of them having proxies for the debate and sitting in, with the proviso that they could chime in if their proxy said something they don’t approve.

Hail Sedatin’

Probably just a kinky green grocer. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander