Interesting Links for 14-01-2018

[andrewducker]

A Conservative voter explains themselves (tags: Conservatives economics ) Why D&D should give out experience for gold pieces (tags: roleplaying design ) Winston Churchill gives great advice on writing reports (tags: writing advice ) What it’s like being a creative professional and a mother. (tags: funny fantasy motherhood advice viaFanf ) The

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[gonzo21]

Well that's interesting, so if escaping the EU before the tax-evasion territories came under EU scrutiny was a large part of the impetus for the rich tories who lead the charge of Brexit, then I'm damned pleased to hear the EU are going to make it part of their negotiations, so they nail the scum anyway.

I expect it heightens the likelihood of our walking away with no deal though. The millionaires will not tolerate the loss of their british tax havens. So fuck the rest of us.

[andrewducker]

I really hope that we see the end of tax havens over the next decade or so. They're a toxic affront to humanity.

[gonzo21]

Me too. But I suspect these millionaires will cheerfully flush the country down the toilet of hard brexit rather than give up their tax havens. Project Singapore and all that.

[gonzo21]

Oh and our early D&D GM dropped the 1 gp = 1 exp rule after our first campaign, which we rigorously gamed to maximise gold income. Like, literally everything in the dungeon we pawned. Every scrap of furniture. The lavish marble walls and floors got torn out and sold to a lord. The wizard did some alchemy and turned a bunch of stuff into gold. We wound up jumping from like level 1 to level 11 thanks to the gold income.

But yes, we probably did a lot more actual roleplaying as a result.

[fub]

I think it is Beyond the Wall (an excellent retro-clone, as such things go) that makes the point that the mere accumulation of gold shouldn't give you XP. Rather, spending gold in support of your goals will give you XP. If your goal is to protect the village, then spending your gold to build a guard tower should be rewarded, for instance.

[skington]

One thing I find fascinating about the conservative guy is how he inherently assumes that modern capitalism is inevitable and unchangeable, and ignores the whole strand in social democratic thought which is about recognising the limitations of untrammelled capitalism and how best to fix them.

[andrewducker]

A lot of Conservative economic thought seems to come from an incredibly basic/simplified understanding of economics, without understanding the subtleties that come later on.

[nojay]

But he got a degree in economics, from Oxford too! Well, a Politics, Philosophy and Economics degree but it's the same thing isn't it? That sort of educational achievement will set him up for any future career he wishes to take part in.

It's also telling that he voted for Blair in 1997...

[skington]

What's hilarious is that he's voted Tory every year except 1997 - so he went back to the fold in 2001 and voted for William Hague - but it took him this long to realise that he was a Tory.