Unfortunately, stupid heartless people are a dime a dozen.

A couple that lived near me had a little thai cat, a sweet of an animal. They would let the cat out daily.

At some point, they just decided to leave the country and abandoned the cat.

The creature became the neighbourhood boss. Killed several males in fights, some even larger, fought off dogs, became a ferouscious hunter and never agaim entered a house.

That cat was king of the street for three years until one of his own blood dethrowned him.

In my country, the communist party (very watered down version of communism but still) is behind/aligned with most unions and they defend that companies should either be owned by the employees (co-ops) or employees should have a stake and saying on companies governance.

We have another left-wing party that even defends that failing companies should be returned to the employees, with government backed funding (loaned) if necessary to recapitalize the business and relaunch the company under employee governance.

Try getting stuck in a barracks for years and tell me if “male bonding” doesn’t become enticing. I read a text on spartan military where the author wrote that men sneaking out during the night to go meet their wives wasn’t uncommon but being caught trying it led to severe punishment.

Athens and Plato just went overboard on the subject. Double men, double women and hermaphrodites. Convoluted.

My wallet as no place in this conversation. It is just a battered piece a leather that is currently struggling to hold two bank cards, some coins and a few receipts. And my identification cards.

Fight with your vote. Support smaller parties. Be politically active. Demand change.

You have my support!

Throw that guy into the sea. Tell him to swim back. Maybe the swim readjusts his attitude. Those guys are bad PR for us.

How are those guys? Friendly and caring folks? Or someone you should keep a distance from?

Only with more mustaches.

Assault dromedary. Weaponized bad temper. They will shoot and spit at you.

Water under the bridge. We just roam and spread everywhere.

It’s small for others. We are everywhere.

That makes two, then.

Primary objective: fun.

I’d share my work for free. At best, I’d add a little “If you had fun, consider sponsoring me. If you can’t, share it with others and keep having fun and causing mayhem.”

I’d laugh my head off if someone told me they used a Fire Wave in a narrow alley to take down a group of mobs and in the process burned a hole in the city wall or torched half the town.

Yes, it was created with classes/professions in mind and each class has a unique skill tree and some even have subclasses or class specific skills.

As an example: a magic user would need to choose which college it would start with - healing, fire, water, etc - and as the character evolves it can access higher tiers with more complex spells and skills. I had an idea to also cross skills to unlock others, as in having a given skill in the college of water and by acquiring a skill under the college of life, it would unlock a mixed nature spell/skill.

There was a lot of thought thrown into it. I wanted some very complex under the hood yet easy to play and approach by any person and get gratification by getting into the game, in the moment.

You’re thinking of Taiwan?

I’m in Portugal. I’ve seen direct insults exchanged between representatives, a clear violation of manners and language, and the representative was not removed from the chamber. Their word was removed, a sanction issued, but that was it. We have representatives with active criminal charges in place that were not removed.

This sort of thing always strikes me as odd.

There are agreed rules on language, some parliaments have dress code but besides penalties or fines a representative can be served with under no situation a representative can be barred from exercisizing their dutifully elected functions.

I have representatives in my national assembly with criminal charges that none the less exercise as they have been elected.

This is plainly stupid and abusive.

CoC hit the playing scene of the place I used to go back then and made a success for how fast paced it could get but I failed to get enthralled by the system.

Don’t know that system.

I used that specific example because I had just read my notes on it but yes, your intuition is correct.