I agree. Murphy’s humanity is what sets him apart from the wishes of OCP, and is ultimately what saves the day.
To me, the whole ACAB thing implies that people have agency and can make moral and ethical choices on the job. Yet we see police do unethical and amoral things given the chance. Murphy is unable to deviate from his programming, yet in the grey areas where he can make a choice, tends to make the right one.
I’ve mentioned this before but not only is he resurrected so he can continue to work, but he’s property now.
Also, Murphy’s lack of agency due to this status was further exploited in the movie by scabbing a strike.
All this (satirically) suggests that, were death itself available as slavery and union-busting loophole, someone would exploit it given the chance.
Exactly. This implementation makes no sense. Unless the logos are animated, need to change frequently, or supposed to show advertising (I hope not), a backlit plastic label would do the same job just fine. In fact, that has done the same job for decades at this point.
Bad news is “bios crash” has no real flavor and every sip is just raw brain freeze.
You’d think that with QR codes every-fucking-where these days, that we could easily swing back to everyone having their own website. Back in the bad old days, it was hell on wheels to share URLs with folks. Now? There’s nothing stopping us.
Wait until they figure out how senior engineers learned all this stuff.
I have one of those.
It’s labeled “screw it.”
As long as it has a massive IKEA logo embossed (or with filigree) on there somewhere, you have my vote.
To be completely fair, I’m on all sides of this image. D&D on its best day is chaotic improv with dice rolls. Sometimes you’re the hero, sometimes you’re all the villains.
I think this is a crucial observation to understanding this whole mess.
Not everyone lives in a “heliocentric world”, where they’re just a small part of a bigger system, everyone is just multiple shades of different, and average/normal is statistical fiction.
To a lot of folks, their vantage point is: “people like me are normal and it’s everyone else that is on the deep left or right.”
Meanwhile they’re ready to metaphorically murder Copernicus because it’s too painful to admit that these political epicycles they’ve mapped out are masking the truth.
Okay, but only if Pauly Shore gets to be Q.
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Look… I know you’re trying to get the word out, but ya gotta format this so it’s readable. Right now, it’s giving “jesus sticker and/or conspiracy van” vibes, and that doesn’t help.
Glad you’re okay, Choom.
Edit: apologies for waking a necrothread.
I tried running it once, with some video-gamers, and they friggin’ loved it. Only problem was the ability cards were way out of print by that date, and I didn’t understand that you really need those after level 2 or so. Tracking all the different ability types is just a nightmare, grinding the overall pace of the game to a snail’s pace without them.
Looking back on it critically, I don’t like having to dump more money into WotC’s pockets to make the core books playable. I do appreciate that they attempted to streamline things, and for the right table, it’s a good design. I did print some proxies up and tested some combat and man was it punchy and fast. If money was no object, I’d absolutely run what is otherwise a DnD-flavored “deck building game” with level progression.
This, right here. It’s like Nixon’s “war on drugs” that went on, and on, and on… The goal was not drugs, per-se, but to use drugs as a pretense to police people of color.
You are not kidding. I have some experience with startup stock options and… it’s not pretty.
Before anyone retorts with remarks about “phantom stock” and other similar offers, I want you to do some math.
Figure out what the ‘strike price’ of that stock is likely to be when it matures, and calculate what the payout will be. Then figure out capital gains tax and subtract that. Divide what’s left over by the amount of unpaid overtime (hours in excess of 40 a week) you’re going to put in for the maturation window. Lastly, compare these figures to other testimonials in your field, and also, look up typical yearly bonus figures for more mature companies. You’re going to see that it’s not a lot of cash for the extra time, that it’s nowhere near your base pay rate, and more established companies are going to do a better job of compensating folks for less effort. You may even find that with a 996 grind-set, it might pay out less than taking a second job at retail.
I can also warn you that if the company sells instead of going IPO, you may get a much smaller payout than all that. I was in a situation where they threw the advertised strike price in the trash, and negotiated a sale of everyone’s stock to the buying company for much, much less.
have no idea why the chargebacks were such a massive deal to the processors.
They don’t have a lot of things to measure when attempting to address fraud, but that’s one of them.
**sharp exhale** You’re probably right. It’s just like the gas pumps. A big soda cup takes a few seconds to fill up, and the system knows that’s when you’re holding the button down, staring at the tap. All that makes you an advertising target for the duration.
Is there some version of Occam’s Razor where “enshitification” is the most likely answer?