Who else dreads this year?

[CarlManvers2019]

The comic character, or is there really a politican who has such a name?

The comic character, I only read a bit of her first comic, but from what I know, the author really really really likes the sanitized idea/version of Islam. So odds are the only problems related to it would be terrorists, never anything to do with how it has way more influence with their politics, laws, punishments and lifestyles. I think she went there with those “Champions”.....glad I stopped reading new issues so often around 2012-2013

 

[Comrade Clod]

I love the new Captain Marvel series.

I can relate to the characters alot.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

I love the new Captain Marvel series.

I can relate to the characters alot.

Did they really have to make her dad so much worse than when he first appeared in the 70s comic and later the 2000s comic? I mean sure he was a mysogynistic jerk who would rather pat for her brother’s college than hers(which was why she went airforce for some diploma), but he still had his goodness and care, even saved a guy during a construction right before an assassination attempt....too bad she didn’t arrive till he was dying of a disease she didn’t know about

 

[Aaron Fox]

If reality keeps taking my A New World setting notes, it isn't next year that I'm dreading (although I'm dreading it), it's going to be the years after.

As in 'the 21st century is going to be one of the bloodiest centuries in human history' bad... without the nuclear button being used... and the centuries after that is going to keep upping the antie.

That is why I'm a wee bit out of it because reality is seemingly taking my notes.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

If reality keeps taking my A New World setting notes, it isn't next year that I'm dreading (although I'm dreading it), it's going to be the years after.

As in 'the 21st century is going to be one of the bloodiest centuries in human history' bad... without the nuclear button being used... and the centuries after that is going to keep upping the antie.

That is why I'm a wee bit out of it because reality is seemingly taking my notes.

Can I have a link to said notes? I’d like to add my own

Also, on a non political note....I think the next season of Kengan Asura’s gonna cut off more stuff and continue using.....CGI

 

[Arch Dornan]

If reality keeps taking my A New World setting notes, it isn't next year that I'm dreading (although I'm dreading it), it's going to be the years after.

As in 'the 21st century is going to be one of the bloodiest centuries in human history' bad... without the nuclear button being used... and the centuries after that is going to keep upping the antie.

That is why I'm a wee bit out of it because reality is seemingly taking my notes.

It's alright to be cynical. Just look at our history and you'll see.

Humans just being humans with emotions of all flavors.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

It's alright to be cynical. Just look at our history and you'll see.

Humans just being humans with emotions of all flavors.

Just hope for the markets to adjust out of practicality and for people to be ruthless yet smart

 

[Arch Dornan]

Just hope for the markets to adjust out of practicality and for people to be ruthless yet smart

Maybe it will maybe it won't.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Maybe it will maybe it won't.

Depends on how stubborn or insane some business owners are, that said I think there will be a rise in not just Indie Game Companies but also movies

Hell, I expect lots of independent publishers of book series even, ones outside of circles like the guy who makes Monster Hunter Nation

 

[Arch Dornan]

Depends on how stubborn or insane some business owners are, that said I think there will be a rise in not just Indie Game Companies but also movies

Hell, I expect lots of independent publishers of book series even, ones outside of circles like the guy who makes Monster Hunter Nation

Insane huh? Used to remember a feminist coffee shop in Australia that charges extra for men. It closed eventually and the service sucked.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Insane huh? Used to remember a feminist coffee shop in Australia that charges extra for men. It closed eventually and the service sucked.

That’s a small business. Big businesses can live off parent companies or the profits from years of previous success in the hopes that they eventually get that “wider audience”.

It’s an attempt at playing the long game.

 

[Arch Dornan]

That’s a small business. Big businesses can live off parent companies or the profits from years of previous success in the hopes that they eventually get that “wider audience”.

It’s an attempt at playing the long game.

That ones harder but possibly at risk of dying with death of a thousand cuts.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

That ones harder but possibly at risk of dying with death of a thousand cuts.

Thing is, I think it maybe those on top while losing lots of money, are ironically the least affected. Hell, they could even take the remaining money whilst filing for bankruptcy and go live in the bahamas

It’s all the lesser employees who have to suffer the consequences, both in-terms of pay and maybe having to put up with crazies in a 1984-esque environment

 

[Arch Dornan]

Thing is, I think it maybe those on top while losing lots of money, are ironically the least affected. Hell, they could even take the remaining money whilst filing for bankruptcy and go live in the bahamas

It’s all the lesser employees who have to suffer the consequences, both in-terms of pay and maybe having to put up with crazies in a 1984-esque environment

Oh yes I can grudgingly agree. They're the ones with a golden parachute and the escape boat should anything bad happens.

 

[Realm]

That’s a small business. Big businesses can live off parent companies or the profits from years of previous success in the hopes that they eventually get that “wider audience”.

It’s an attempt at playing the long game.

The idea that multinational corporations have decided to shoot their profitability in the foot, instead of y'all folks just being less profitable to pander too is pretty funny

Edit: what's even going on here...

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Oh yes I can grudgingly agree. They're the ones with a golden parachute and the escape boat should anything bad happens.

They then act like the classical capitalist douchebags you see on hollywood

 

[Arch Dornan]

The idea that multinational corporations have decided to shoot their profitability in the foot, instead of y'all folks just being less profitable to pander too is pretty funny

So what Gilette lost is chump change?

 

[Aaron Fox]

Can I have a link to said notes? I’d like to add my own

That would require a literal link to my brain because most of my notes are completely etched out in my mind, although I have started a setting on World Anvil for it. I don't have the best vocab and my command of the English language can be considered... subpar... to quite a few people.

It's alright to be cynical. Just look at our history and you'll see.

Humans just being humans with emotions of all flavors.

... my setting has hundreds of millions die within a four-decade period known as the 1st Ruralist Insurrections/Rebellions, the world economy literally going up in smoke, the two holiest cities in Islam being literally consumed by the desert (although intact), has the entire Rome metropolitan area being infected with a horrific synthetic plague that would kill any human that dares walk in without a fully mechanical body (and you'll have to ditch the body afterward) or space-rated power armor (easier to ensure it's clean) which is now contained in a biosphere (not a dome, but a literal sphere) with two armies stationed at it's perimeter with orders of 'if it doesn't squawk the right IFF (and the list of beings with this IFF is very limited and has numerous security sub-channels just to be sure), shoot first, ensure kills, ask questions never', India and Pakistan nuking each other into oblivion (and at least six Pakistani strategic nuclear warheads becoming 'loose', three of which detonated in Sarajevo, Paris, and Hamburg while the other three were headed to Tokyo, Seoul, and New York City), Europe literally dragging everyone into a Great Depression (including the US) because of a cascade of defaults steeming from a lack of fiscal policy, and the leaders of Russia deciding that to regain their 'rightful place as a major power of the world' (aka 'Severe Case of the Old World Blues') that the world would be on fire to do so.

Oh, and an average of 20% of the human/uplift population is employed outside of the military because automation reached to the point where humans largely don't apply.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

So what Gilette lost is chump change?

Dude, his face is tired, he needs some Cetaphyl

 

[Arch Dornan]

... my setting has hundreds of millions die within a four-decade period known as the 1st Ruralist Insurrections/Rebellions, the world economy literally going up in smoke, the two holiest cities in Islam being literally consumed by the desert (although intact), has the entire Rome metropolitan area being infected with a horrific synthetic plague that would kill any human that dares walk in without a fully mechanical body (and you'll have to ditch the body afterward) or space-rated power armor (easier to ensure it's clean) which is now contained in a biosphere (not a dome, but a literal sphere) with two armies stationed at it's perimeter with orders of 'if it doesn't squawk the right IFF (and the list of beings with this IFF is very limited and has numerous security sub-channels just to be sure), shoot first, ensure kills, ask questions never', India and Pakistan nuking each other into oblivion (and at least six Pakistani strategic nuclear warheads becoming 'loose', three of which detonated in Sarajevo, Paris, and Hamburg while the other three were headed to Tokyo, Seoul, and New York City), Europe literally dragging everyone into a Great Depression (including the US) because of a cascade of defaults steeming from a lack of fiscal policy, and the leaders of Russia deciding that to regain their 'rightful place as a major power of the world' (aka 'Severe Case of the Old World Blues') that the world would be on fire to do so.

Oh, and an average of 20% of the human/uplift population is employed outside of the military because automation reached to the point where humans largely don't apply.

That's too sci fi. You need to keep it more realistic for the cynical war to accumulate a big bodycount.