Veraxus

I’d have bought one if Musk hadn’t turned out to be a total chud. Now I don’t want anything to do with him or any company he’s a part of.

To sate my love of absolutely bizarre looking electric vehicles, my money is now on Aptera.

No, it’s Californian food… which is vaguely inspired by Mexican food.

A classic first-person dungeon crawler, but co-op and with a classless skill-based system.

Games like Ultima Underworld, Arena, Daggerfall, Descent to Undermountain, Battlespire, Arx Fatalis... those games are my jam, and they have basically died off. My favorite RPG systems also tend to be skill-based rather than class-based, and Asheron's Call (the original) had one of my favorite systems. I'm also all about co-op these days... so I want a co-op dungeon crawler with a skill-based system that looks and feels modern, like a natural evolution of those classics. And it has to be more than a hack-and-slash... it needs to have the depth and immersion of tabletop dungeon crawlers.

I've actually been working on it for a while now in UE. It's purely a hobby/passion project, so who knows if I'll ever have something to distribute... but since nobody else has been bothered to make it*, I will.

• Barony is closest, but it's too deliberately old-school for my tastes... and Dark & Darker is a little too repetitive and undermined by the PvP.

First off, wealth and power are the same thing and must be dealt with at the same time. So for a start…

1. Aggressive progressive taxation, up to 100% (billionaires - even 9-figure multimillionaires- must never be allowed to exist).

2. Abolish stock markets.

3. All companies must be employee-owned. Employees share equitable ownership of the companies they work within. Profits are shared only among employees.

4. Criminalize political spending, lobbying (aka bribery), etc. Candidates all draw from a public fund and platforms and that is all they may use.

5. Aggressive market regulation to protect competition and prevent consolidation. Our failure to protect the market from excess consolidation and integration is the primary reason we’ve reached the late-stage capitalism hellscape we currently exist within.

Again, this is a start… the tip of the iceberg.

There is a massive amount of leftist documentation on economics. We’re not all communists, but we recognize that any system devoid of regulation/oversight/accountability will always quickly travel rightward and become authoritarian. So the question is what systems and policies can be put in place to ensure not only equity for all, but equity that remains stable indefinitely (or as close as is possible).

I really like Orion, which is based on WebKit... but it's Mac only. 😢

Remember, Firefox is great and has no dependency on upstream Google code.

Use Firefox.

Persona 5 Royal

I really, really like Gitlab... but this is a MAJOR problem and spectacularly short-sighted.

The gay agenda involves two gallons of milk, two dozen eggs, and some potting soil. I can get the milk and eggs if you can go to the hardware store for that soil.

Context is everything. You are deliberately conflating a ridiculous joke with a veiled threat. You know the difference, so why are you feigning ignorance?

There are a lot of game development communities there. It’s basically a cheap, more public alternative to Slack.