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Way back in prehistory I played Car Wars when it first came out. (You know, before it became an unwieldy, badly-organized mess that rivalled even Star Fleet Battles for being impossible for normal folk to play.)

We missed one very key rule. The "damage" rating for weapons was a number of d6 to roll for damage. We played it as individual points.

Needless to say even the shortest auto duels were horrifically and painfully long to play out.

They bounced three. In one of those links they cited SIXTEEN who openly used Nazi symbolism just in their avatars and whatnot.

Substack is still a Nazi bar.

But of course you didn't bother to check, did you?

You've (collective) got the information. And the solution to it, no less, in the last link. What you (collective) choose to do about it is on your head. But given what I've seen in the USA's so-called "left" you're going to cheerfully continue using a service that profits from Nazis.

You do you, boo.

Substack is a leftist platform? Since when?

• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156/
• https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/09/substack-nazi-content-policies-controversy/
• https://www.theverge.com/24040685/substack-newsletters-nazi-content-moderation-policy
• https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/substackers-against-nazis
• https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/business/substack-nazis-content-moderation.html

There's more. Many more. And a list of literal (as in swastika-flaunting) Nazis being hosted on Substack would be far longer. (Oh, and you might want to have a look at the dates on those articles. This is not new information.)

What do you call a bar, again, that lets Nazis openly associate? And what do you call the other patrons also in it?

Maybe the non-Nazis should read this: https://ghost.org/docs/migration/substack/

The irony of using a fasc-friend platform to talk about resisting fascists when Ghost is right over there.

The Apartheid Manchild has this weird obsession with Mars.

There will be no permanent settlement on Mars in the next decade. (I frankly doubt that there will even have been human footprints on Mars in the next decade!) There will be no permanent settlement on Mars in the next century. There will likely be no permanent settlement on Mars in the next millennium. And I'm saying that last one not because I don't think we'd have the technology in a thousand years, but rather because there is no point in living on Mars.

Mars has nothing we need that's worth maintaining a settlement in the face of conditions harsher than the absolute worst the Earth has to offer. If people want to live in a permanently cold shithole with nothing usefully accessible they can just build a house on Antarctica. It's a far cheaper way to fuck around and find otu.

Read George Polti's The 36 Dramatic Situations. It's a list of plot elements that have a snappy title, a list of participants in the plot element, a brief discussion of how it works, and then (unfortunately dated) references to dramas that used them.

Using this when building a world, or a campaign, or a local setting, lets you quickly set up a bunch of conflicts (ideally with interlaced participants so that single NPCs (or PCs) can be in different roles in different dramatic situations. Then you just let the events flow logically, and as the dramatic situations get resolved you get a plot. PCs can interfere with these dramatic situations and thus have an impact on resulting plots even if the overall setting is far larger than they are.

For depth in world-building I use a rule I call "Y-cubed". (I got it from somewhere else but can't recall the source anymore.)

For every detail you make, you ask the question "Why" three times.

So a village the characters have reached stop all work every 77 days for a festival. Why? It celebrates an ascended local hero who saved the village from a magical blight. Why 77 days? It took 77 days for effort for the blight to be defeated. ... And so on.

This is a rapid way to both build depth in your setting quickly, as well as inspire possible mysteries and intrigue for investigation later.

A slight modification works also for giving NPCs depth.

Anybody who thinks that the Apartheid Manchild was ever intending on reducing spending needs to be given a dunce hat and forced to sit in the corner.

Robert's cynicism is cracking these days soon. His laughter is increasingly forced and joyless.

These are shit times.

The number drops a bit when the polls are done in secrecy. Still far higher than any western government, mind.

To clarify for any pseudo intellectual who happens to be reading:

" is true for you utter idiot" is not an example of the ad hominem fallacy.

" is true because you're an utter idiot" is an example of the ad hominem fallacy.

Glad to be of service.

Have you considered taking a communications course so you don't sound like a pretentious, obfuscating jackass?

Eschew gratuitous obfuscation. (See what I mean?)