“Most of the time, once people have lived with it, the opposition softens,”
That's because people, even me, are kind of stupid and unimaginative. They don't like change for primitive reasons.
Taking public transport is not something that you do because you are poor,” said López-Aparicio. “It is something that you do for the common wealth of the whole society
If only we could get that idea in people's heads.
"there's toxic, radioactive, sludge all over the front yard! What the fuck this is terrible! We need to get rid of that"
"There's a huge pile of old tires in the back yard, too."
"Yeah that's no good. At least my kids can play on it like a jungle gym. The sludge though, we need to fix asap"
"So you love tires and garbage??"
Wages are not up. I'm not going to spend that much money on a redundant toy. Pay me more then I'll think about it.
I have discovered that a gentle nudge makes them stop snoring. This might not be universal but it has been working for me.
Otherwise, white noise can help. Like a fan or something
I had a really fun game of Vampire back in like 2016. I'd love to have another go at that, or Mage. The dice pool system always felt simple but exciting. Characters started out competent and being able to buy individual skills or powers was more satisfying than waiting for whole levels.
I've heard good things about Delta green, but never looked into it.
Alas, my college days where "hey you look nerdy you wanna play vampire?" are long gone.
For the first point, you could use a random generator and make it pick from a Gaussian or Poisson or other probability distribution depending on the situation.
Many RPGs that aren't so closely related to DND use a dice pool. Instead of like 1d20, you might roll 3d6. Now you're more likely to get an average result. Only one way to roll 3, but a bunch of ways to roll 10.
The nWoD games you roll d10s and count how many come up 8,9, 10. Very fast, and once you're good at a task you know you'll generally succeed. It's more a question of how well you'll succeed and how strong the opposition is.
I'm not mathy enough to talk beyond that, but I find it much more satisfying.
I hear pathfinder 2e is a big improvement, but still has some of the stuff I'm sick of.
Why don't we want to dismantle the business?
(I’m) mad at the people who could have solved the problem before now, but they didn’t. They just thought “It’s fine, this problem doesn’t really matter”. And then look at the world now, it’s such a big problem.
These people have names and addresses
Tabletop RPGs. I'm sick of DND. Hard to find good groups for other games. There's a meetup I go to every once in a while but I want a regular group building a big story together
We had cars. People still used them a lot instead of walking.
I am going to take this opportunity to shit on car culture. Walking several miles a week because I live in a walkable city is pleasant, and almost certainly good for my health and weight.
I don't have objections to the rest of your post. I just hate car culture.
I remember once at a diner with some friends I ordered pancakes and orange juice without looking at the menu, and was pissed when the orange juice was like $10. Now I always check.