Sounds like suicide out of fear of death.

I’m pretty sure “everyone” did it for Myanmar as well. And in Germany we changed from Weißrussland to Belarus.

What are you talking about? The Court of Justice of the EU ruled against Poland and fined them for [~half a billion €}(https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-court-finds-poland-guilty-in-rule-of-law-dispute/). The EU started an Article 7 procedure against them and stopped it after the new government started to implement changes.

Oh, and the new government came into power through voting, I didn’t know that’s something “clearly fascist” countries do.

Shouldn’t it be “Hello world.”?

It’s the president of St. Pauli who said that. St. Pauli is strictly antifascist and has recently formed a cooperative to buy the stadium, so it’s not really representative for German soccer officials in general (though still a good thing to start this discussion).

I thought the two genders were non-binary and binary?

We have others, but they don’t get elected as chancellors.

The obvious question is: what other bets did they make? (though those may of course be decoys)

It’s not easy seeing green.

I think it’s much better at 2 players: with more players it gets harder to plan ahead and it usually does not pay off to block other players from getting specific tiles (if you get fewer points to make another player loose even more points, the other player(s) will profit the most). Two player Azul can get really cutthroat!

Or just asking friends and family for advice.

Hoplite - simple mechanics, deep game play

Hard to describe. I started to feel the same way about the real world as I did about the world described in the books. Like the high tech, low life concept - just because we have shiny things does not mean we have a good life. And developing a tendency for rather diverse and/or weird friend groups who band together to fight for our place in this world. I mean, the books obviously crank everything up to 11, but the prower structures seem very similar.

I was reading Shadowrun books about evil megacorporations who are mightier than nation states and indigenous liberation movements against them, so I paid a lot of attention to real world politics when I read the news about stuff like NAFTA and the EZLN or the MAI agreement.

social democracy = socialism = communism = USSR. Why do we even have some many different words?

AFAIK it’s not so much “flesh and blood”, but more about accepting the responsibility of being a parent.

Shadowrun - it had a tremendous effect on my actual worldview (as did other cyberpunk works). The near-future cyberpunk setting offers plenty of opportunity for satire, being rooted in this world makes some geography and history relatable and mixing it with fantasy elements does not only make it more colorful and varied, but also prevents unrealistic stuff from breaking my immersion, because it does not pretend to be realistic.

If you have to explain that much about your story, it just means that you weren’t able to show your story (or universe). So it’s either not a good story or you’re not a good writer. After all, we call them “TV shows”, not “TV explains”. And it had strong “it was just a dream/wasn’t real” vibes.

Tech: https://strudel.cc/

I think dropping weights on them counts as “treating them badly”, but I’m no expert.

• Talk to your colleagues: clarify requirements, question assumptions, get feedback, talk about best practices and why you do stuff the way you do it
• Single responsibility principle