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I once had a hammer head get loose and fly off the handle.

Hoplite - simple mechanics, deep game play

Hard to describe. I started to feel the same way about the real world as I did about the world described in the books. Like the high tech, low life concept - just because we have shiny things does not mean we have a good life. And developing a tendency for rather diverse and/or weird friend groups who band together to fight for our place in this world. I mean, the books obviously crank everything up to 11, but the prower structures seem very similar.

I was reading Shadowrun books about evil megacorporations who are mightier than nation states and indigenous liberation movements against them, so I paid a lot of attention to real world politics when I read the news about stuff like NAFTA and the EZLN or the MAI agreement.

social democracy = socialism = communism = USSR. Why do we even have some many different words?

Why are there pens in the hammer factory? Just because you build a tool does not mean you should use it for everything.

Note: I'm not saying you should use Zoom for anything.

Shadowrun - it had a tremendous effect on my actual worldview (as did other cyberpunk works). The near-future cyberpunk setting offers plenty of opportunity for satire, being rooted in this world makes some geography and history relatable and mixing it with fantasy elements does not only make it more colorful and varied, but also prevents unrealistic stuff from breaking my immersion, because it does not pretend to be realistic.

If you have to explain that much about your story, it just means that you weren't able to show your story (or universe). So it's either not a good story or you're not a good writer. After all, we call them "TV shows", not "TV explains". And it had strong "it was just a dream/wasn't real" vibes.

Tech: https://strudel.cc/

I think dropping weights on them counts as "treating them badly", but I'm no expert.

It's not about curbing the drug flow. It's about invalidating the rule of law (and normalizing killing people).

• Talk to your colleagues: clarify requirements, question assumptions, get feedback, talk about best practices and why you do stuff the way you do it
• Single responsibility principle

Train Valley is surprisingly good. I like the combination of a geometry puzzle, planning which train to run when and real time pressure (you can pause, but you still have to multitask a lot).