I am taking Macroeconomics this semester.
I haven't even opened the book, haven't studied, haven't done any of the practice assignments.
I'm doing better than everyone else in the class.
All of this stuff has been argued here so much that I seem to have absorbed basic knowledge of economics by osmosis. And the best part is, I get yelled at by the rest of the class for openly backing anarchcommunist thought. Awesome.
The Gaming Den: Better than a 200 level econ class
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Count Arioch the 28th
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The Gaming Den: Better than a 200 level econ class
In this moment, I am Ur-phoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my int score.
Re: The Gaming Den: Better than a 200 level econ class
I love this board.Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:I am taking Macroeconomics this semester.
I haven't even opened the book, haven't studied, haven't done any of the practice assignments.
I'm doing better than everyone else in the class.
All of this stuff has been argued here so much that I seem to have absorbed basic knowledge of economics by osmosis. And the best part is, I get yelled at by the rest of the class for openly backing anarchcommunist thought. Awesome.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Lago PARANOIA
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HA!!!fbmf wrote:Me too.
You're only tolerating this board until your insurance payout gets high enough so you can generate a profit from burning down the servers.
I can feel your hatred of this board and everyone in it. Don't frickin' lie to us fbmf.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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Count Arioch the 28th
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No, it's not you guys. He's still mad that I manage to knock up his sister. and his wife. On the same night. Epic night though.Lago PARANOIA wrote:HA!!!fbmf wrote:Me too.
You're only tolerating this board until your insurance payout gets high enough so you can generate a profit from burning down the servers.
I can feel your hatred of this board and everyone in it. Don't frickin' lie to us fbmf.
In this moment, I am Ur-phoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my int score.
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NativeJovian
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Re: The Gaming Den: Better than a 200 level econ class
Anarchocommunist thought? How the hell does that even work?Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:And the best part is, I get yelled at by the rest of the class for openly backing anarchcommunist thought.
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Count Arioch the 28th
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Lago PARANOIA
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You know. Marxism in its final stage.NativeJovian wrote:Anarchocommunist thought? How the hell does that even work?
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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Anarchist Communism
It's like that. Some people also call it social anarchism, which is more accessible as a standalone phrase, to me.
It's like that. Some people also call it social anarchism, which is more accessible as a standalone phrase, to me.
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I find that most large scale gaming groups tend to run something like that, or very, very, small communities.
There may be 'some' trade, but most of the time, it's more like a very big family.
There may be 'some' trade, but most of the time, it's more like a very big family.
The Gaming Den; where Mathematics are rigorously applied to Mythology.
While everyone's Philosophy is not in accord, that doesn't mean we're not on board.
While everyone's Philosophy is not in accord, that doesn't mean we're not on board.
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People who don't understand communism super well often ask one of two questions:
The answer is that what constitutes "the group" or "us" varies person to person, and how a group comes to the decisions it does is an entirely contingent fact that is at best loosely collated with the economic system in use. Communism at its core is an attempt to answer The Prisoner's Dilemma and The Crisis of Overproduction in a way that allows everyone to sustainably "win" at both. "Everyone" in this case is merely everyone who participates, and how one decides who is participating is an entirely separate (though interesting) question.
A thing to remember is that in most sane anarchist models, you can and do still have economic planning. Within the anarchist commune you still have division and specialization of labor, because that is efficient. Administration is still done, it's just that it is structurally recognized as a labor specialization rather than as being a "higher" social class. Just because you don't have any rulers doesn't mean that you don't have someone who actually writes the rules. It's just that you acknowledge them as a writer rather than as a boss or lord.
America was actually founded on such principals, not that you'd be able to tell today. That's why the title for the president is "Mister President" as opposed to "My Liege" or even "Your Honor."
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- How can you have anarchist communists?
or - How can you have nationalist communists?
The answer is that what constitutes "the group" or "us" varies person to person, and how a group comes to the decisions it does is an entirely contingent fact that is at best loosely collated with the economic system in use. Communism at its core is an attempt to answer The Prisoner's Dilemma and The Crisis of Overproduction in a way that allows everyone to sustainably "win" at both. "Everyone" in this case is merely everyone who participates, and how one decides who is participating is an entirely separate (though interesting) question.
A thing to remember is that in most sane anarchist models, you can and do still have economic planning. Within the anarchist commune you still have division and specialization of labor, because that is efficient. Administration is still done, it's just that it is structurally recognized as a labor specialization rather than as being a "higher" social class. Just because you don't have any rulers doesn't mean that you don't have someone who actually writes the rules. It's just that you acknowledge them as a writer rather than as a boss or lord.
America was actually founded on such principals, not that you'd be able to tell today. That's why the title for the president is "Mister President" as opposed to "My Liege" or even "Your Honor."
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Thankfully, this is not true at this end of the state.Sir_Neil wrote:There are parts of my town where those sentences would be redundant.Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:... his sister. and his wife.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!