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  1. Comment on D&D video game without mature content? in ~games

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    I would suggest looking at Solasta: Crown of the Magister. If you're interested in D&D as a system, this is arguably the most accurate translation of the core rules of.D&D 5e into a videogame;...

    I would suggest looking at Solasta: Crown of the Magister.

    If you're interested in D&D as a system, this is arguably the most accurate translation of the core rules of.D&D 5e into a videogame; more so than BG3. And it's pretty SFW, the game doesn't lean into sexual content or make use of "bikni armour" tropes.

    I find it strange that on a thread asking for games without mature content, people are recommending BG3. BG3 is a great game, but it's full of nature content; so much so that the developers had to release a patch to make the characters "less horny". This seems like they opposite of what OP is looking for.

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  2. Comment on Texas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wave in ~enviro

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    Paying out subsidies to crypto miners is a policy choice, not an intrinsic feature of the capitalist system. Almost every country in the world uses some variation of capitalism, but as far as I'm...

    This just amazes me. Is there a better example of why capitalism is broken in some fundamental ways other than the idea of "pay me to stop doing this"?

    Paying out subsidies to crypto miners is a policy choice, not an intrinsic feature of the capitalist system. Almost every country in the world uses some variation of capitalism, but as far as I'm aware, Texas is the only state or sub-national unit in the world that offers this type of subsidy.

    In my view, if you get an absurd outcome like this one, the appropriate lesson to draw is not that the entire system is broken in some fundamental way, but rather, that one specific government made a bad public policy choice, and we should recognise that and avoid making similar policy choices in other legal jurisdictions.

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