“Most of the time, once people have lived with it, the opposition softens,”

That's because people, even me, are kind of stupid and unimaginative. They don't like change for primitive reasons.

Taking public transport is not something that you do because you are poor,” said López-Aparicio. “It is something that you do for the common wealth of the whole society

If only we could get that idea in people's heads.

Good. Fuck all this ai slop.

"there's toxic, radioactive, sludge all over the front yard! What the fuck this is terrible! We need to get rid of that"

"There's a huge pile of old tires in the back yard, too."

"Yeah that's no good. At least my kids can play on it like a jungle gym. The sludge though, we need to fix asap"

"So you love tires and garbage??"

Wages are not up. I'm not going to spend that much money on a redundant toy. Pay me more then I'll think about it.

Cars are really bad for society.

I have discovered that a gentle nudge makes them stop snoring. This might not be universal but it has been working for me.

Otherwise, white noise can help. Like a fan or something

I had a really fun game of Vampire back in like 2016. I'd love to have another go at that, or Mage. The dice pool system always felt simple but exciting. Characters started out competent and being able to buy individual skills or powers was more satisfying than waiting for whole levels.

I've heard good things about Delta green, but never looked into it.

Alas, my college days where "hey you look nerdy you wanna play vampire?" are long gone.

For the first point, you could use a random generator and make it pick from a Gaussian or Poisson or other probability distribution depending on the situation.

Many RPGs that aren't so closely related to DND use a dice pool. Instead of like 1d20, you might roll 3d6. Now you're more likely to get an average result. Only one way to roll 3, but a bunch of ways to roll 10.

The nWoD games you roll d10s and count how many come up 8,9, 10. Very fast, and once you're good at a task you know you'll generally succeed. It's more a question of how well you'll succeed and how strong the opposition is.

I'm not mathy enough to talk beyond that, but I find it much more satisfying.

I hear pathfinder 2e is a big improvement, but still has some of the stuff I'm sick of.

• rolling a single die means flat probability. Equal odds of getting the worst or best possible outcome
• spells per day is anti-fun for me. I want to do cool stuff, not feel pressured to hold onto it "in case I need it later"
• class and level is very coarse, and makes some concepts impractical, impossible, or awkward to execute
• I'm not as interested in "numbers go up big" anymore, and that's kind of the default.
• I'm not really in the mood for fantasy. I'd rather do modern day occult

Why don't we want to dismantle the business?

How is this guy still just walking around enjoying life?

The whole venture capitalism thing is bullshit. It's just vibes and rich man hubris.