AutistiCritic2d ago
Nick East (Indie Writer)

I feel there's a lot of complaining about "Videogame logic" but sometimes it just makes sense.

Blue shell the 1%! 😂

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Apr 10 at 9:02amWeb
Show threadStarkRG2d ago
@NickEast_IndieWriter So, something like progressive income taxes?
Show threadNick East (Indie Writer)2d ago
@StarkRG Pretty much 😁
Show threadStarkRG2d ago
@NickEast_IndieWriter What we really need is a winner's scoreboard. Once you have all the money, you win, the game is over, you don't get to play anymore, and your name goes up on the scoreboard, then it's everyone else's turn.
Show threadNick East (Indie Writer)2d ago
@StarkRG I sense a trap. It's going to be like, "hey, you won, you're on the scorboard!" And they're led to a door which leads to a bottomless pit and pushed in... Is that the sort of thing we were thinking? 🤔 Not that I'm against it necessarily 😜
Show threadStarkRG2d ago
@NickEast_IndieWriter You've got the general idea. Doesn't have to be a bottomless pit, as those are difficult to find (or, rather, they're difficult to get to and even more difficult to get away from), a pit filled with fire or alligators would be fine. It doesn't even have to be a pit. Guillotine, gas chamber, that block of luxury flats from the Monty Python architect sketch. *Not* the comfy chair, though, that's just too cruel and inhumane.
Show threadNick East (Indie Writer)1d ago
@StarkRG Wait, what's wrong with the comfy chair? I love a good comfy chair 😜
Show threadStarkRG1d ago

@NickEast_IndieWriter Oh well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!

(for reference, it's a facetious torture method)
https://youtu.be/D5Df191WJ3o

Monty Python - Spanish Inquisition

YouTube
Show threadBenedikt Neuzweig2d ago

@NickEast_IndieWriter @[email protected] @[email protected] @economy @economics @humor @[email protected] @aiop This is distributism at its core: The bigger the company and the smaller its contribution to public goods, the stronger the case for breaking up its power and returning ownership, responsibility, and economic life to smaller, human-scale institutions.

#distributism

Show threadkolya2d ago
@NickEast_IndieWriter
US-Americans inventing socialism
Show threadNick East (Indie Writer)2d ago
@kolya Maybe if we let them take credit for inventing it they'll actually use it 😜
Show threadLux 2d ago
@NickEast_IndieWriter @kolya I'm okay to rename socialism to americanism if we all benefit from it.
Show threadIsaac Ji Kuo2d ago

@NickEast_IndieWriter @[email protected] @[email protected] @economy @economics @humor @[email protected] @aiop An early combat racing game, Racing Destruction Set, went the opposite way.

The only weapons in Racing Destruction Set worked backwards. You could drop mines or oil slicks. Which did not actually make good sense from a game design perspective.

If you were behind, all you could really do is drop a mine in a choke point and hope to get the one in front on the next lap (if there was one).

Not good game design.

Show threadAcid Plushy 2d ago
@NickEast_IndieWriter @[email protected] @[email protected] @economy @economics @humor @[email protected] @aiop rubberbanding be like
Show threadDJ Toebeans2d ago
@NickEast_IndieWriter Can we also ban them from getting banana peels? Or maybe give the bottom 80% banana peel immunity? I kind of like that too.
Show threadNick East (Indie Writer)2d ago
@djtoebeans Why not, in this imaginary scenario we can do whatever we want, who's going to stop us 😁
Show threadpetitevieille1d ago

@NickEast_IndieWriter

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This is maintaining us into a racing contest instead of cooperation.
We still lose.