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Cake day: July 26th, 2024

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  • Marijuana?!? I never heard that! Where/when I was growing up, it was always hard, powdered drugs. Like cocaine in a pixie stick. Oh and razorblades in candy apples. I don’t know about the razor blades, but if I remember right, there’s only been one proven instance EVER of people intentionally trying to harm kids through Halloween candy, and it was the father? Or step father? So I wouldn’t even really count that.




  • Well my good-faith arguments would be direct democracy (i.e. everyone votes on every change) or ranked choice, but that has its own problems. However, you didn’t say it has to be serious. So I suggest a system that locks a chimpanzee on LSD into a room with signs (options) and blinking lights. Chimp starts rolling and points to the blinky light he likes (or hates) either way, your government is operating far more efficiently than hairless apes doing something that is apparently too much work, and most are just as ill-informed as acid-chimp. I honestly think acid chimp accidentally gives you a better (albeit random) set of values than capitalism/democracy ever has.









  • The big thing about the show, and the games is the moral ambiguity of it. It’s captured in a line that maximus says in episode 2? Or 3? Where he says “everyone wants to save the world. They just disagree how to do it.” It’s an important line because everyone has their own way of dealing with the wasteland, which isn’t inherently wrong all the time. And if you watch the ghoul, you’ll see there’s a lot more depth to him than being a comedic psychopath. Give it a little more time and you’ll connect with the characters more. Less so with Lucy, but I think she’s there more as a blank slate, to show how the world can change an otherwise good person.