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  1. Comment on Once Tildes gets subgroups, where will you spend most of your time? in ~talk

  2. Comment on Please recommend me a video game in ~games

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    Oh no, my italics... Fixed

    Oh no, my italics...

    Fixed

  3. Comment on Please recommend me a video game in ~games

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    I have been having great fun with ATOM RPG For a game with a classically clunky Fallout(1 and 2)-adjacent isometric Action-Point-Economy-Engine, ATOM RPG has a refreshing quest focus on...

    I have been having great fun with ATOM RPG

    For a game with a classically clunky Fallout(1 and 2)-adjacent isometric Action-Point-Economy-Engine, ATOM RPG has a refreshing quest focus on maintaining the necessary mundanity of the new, delicate framework of civility, which helps keep the action grounded, along with the great storytelling, lending to NPC depth, which gives the more impactful decisions a helping of gravitas.

    My level 10 post-a-punk-alyptic-junker / sly-karate-rogue-warrior is doing very well for himself. Most characteristic moment so far: there was a puzzle involving noticing a hidden clue in a cryptic book and using it to open a secret passage. After a lot of meaningless headbanging and not-quite-getting-it, he decided to just set a timed stick of dynamite in the barricade and busted his way though.

    Meaningful choices, astringent dark humor, and great stories to experience abound in the wastes on the outskirts of Otradnoye.

    (Currently 25% off ($11.24, from $14.99) on Steam, until 09-July-2019!)

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  4. Comment on What are good, modern right-wing values anyways? in ~talk

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    Sorry for any inconvenience: I did use the Tildes textbox for the formatting. I'm a new user, I was playing with the markup formatting, and I'm not very familiar with markup languages in general,...

    Sorry for any inconvenience:

    I did use the Tildes textbox for the formatting. I'm a new user, I was playing with the markup formatting, and I'm not very familiar with markup languages in general, so I probably made poor syntax choices.

    My own guess would be that I was using line-break tags (‹/br›) for text separation instead of paragraph tags (‹p›/‹/p›), which could be bad practice.


    It probably boils down to my poor knowledge of markup style, which means it's probably an edge case, but I can send you the plain text I submitted if you still want to look into it and think it would help.

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  5. Comment on What are good, modern right-wing values anyways? in ~talk

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    I would say that these are values which many conservatives tend to hold closest, once you boil down groups of individual stance and policy tendencies. When looking at the same moral or value,...

    I would say that these are values which many conservatives tend to hold closest, once you boil down groups of individual stance and policy tendencies.

    When looking at the same moral or value, there can still be disagreements on what ways the value should be upheld, or even what the implications of upholding a value must be. The way a conservative acts upon a value could be subtly or majorly distinct from similar values that a liberal might hold closest. Take, for instance,

    The value of hard work and [the value of] the fruits of one's own labors.


    A conservative might interpret this being owed the total sum of their hard work as determined by the market, and not owing anything to a government or other administrative overhead (e.g. unions), which had little to do with the production of value, and perhaps has no business interfering with their hard work.
    A liberal might interpret this as being owed the total sum of their hard work as determined by the market, but instead opting to potentially sacrifice a portion of their direct income to one or a group of overhead bodies for the purpose of ensuring that the value created is most appropriately distributed.

    In a population where each individual shares similar enough core values, disagreements might still arise from the conclusions each individual draws.
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  6. Comment on What are good, modern right-wing values anyways? in ~talk

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    <Anecdote> This is a big one among many of the conservatives I know. Any time an idea like heavy taxes past $1mil income is introduced, a common counter point is that an alternative solution would...

    The importance of philanthropy and voluntarism

    <Anecdote>

    This is a big one among many of the conservatives I know. Any time an idea like heavy taxes past $1mil income is introduced, a common counter point is that an alternative solution would be to better incentivize or otherwise encourage and grow a stronger cultural inclination towards voluntarism (volunteerism?).

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    A pair of ideas which I might add to the list is:
    • A government controlled system will be inexorably inclined towards consolidating power, and is more liable to waste and abuse, and
    • A group of individuals acting according to conservative morals is less liable to waste and abuse.
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    I would say that our current system does not allow for the second idea to hold true. Businesses and other moneyed interests hold too much sway over the political climate, and are able to form political agendas which grant them more inertia. In a regulation-lax, laissez-faire environment, powerful groups will use their power to influence political decisions in their favor.

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    5 votes
  7. Comment on Setting aside the musical content (if you can), what are the best music videos you know? in ~music