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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@NickEast_IndieWriter So, something like progressive income taxes?
@StarkRG Pretty much 😁
@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.
@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 😜
@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.
@StarkRG Wait, what's wrong with the comfy chair? I love a good comfy chair 😜

@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

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@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

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US-Americans inventing socialism
@kolya Maybe if we let them take credit for inventing it they'll actually use it 😜
@NickEast_IndieWriter @kolya I'm okay to rename socialism to americanism if we all benefit from it.

@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.

@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.
@djtoebeans Why not, in this imaginary scenario we can do whatever we want, who's going to stop us 😁

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