Notices by bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz), page 120

@Efi yeah but it's nearly 1:1 on carrying weight to gold cost for many items, or worse. especially if your speech is only at 30 and everyone hates you for no reason.

@monorail that's like 2 whole episodes from now...

inventory management is absolutely horrible and items sell for so little it's absurd. the leveling system seems slow and rather dull, with skill points feeling somewhat meaningless. and the lockpicking minigame is possibly one of the worst minigames i've played in a game i otherwise like. but it's decently entertaining nonetheless

i'm just salty because i now know TES6 is in the works and i'm stuck playing oblivion...

oblivion is starting to show more of the actually well designed stuff, but it mostly has to do with the main quest.

mmos are kinda cool in the way that their worlds are always expanding and ugrading while still keeping a large chunk of the foundation, simply building off what exists rather than creating something entirely new

if only more singleplayer games had a similar structure. imagine if the elder scrolls games were not released seperately as completely different games, but rather just added each province as an update to the existing map of tamriel

it'd be a lot of work, but so very cool

ok i'm just kinda getting stuck in a loop trying to figure out how best to share my perspective on this so i'm gonna take a break

the internet is a huge advancement in how our society works. it's just a giant mesh that connects us all, while still being made up of a bunch of smaller communities that govern themselves and interact with each other.

it can be hell sometimes, but it's ultimately led to more positives than negatives.

a similar system in real life politics i feel would be much better than the rigid hierarchy we currently have.

it doesn't remove our interconnectedness, but rather allows us to participate in a way that connects all of us through even stronger bonds while simultaneously breaking things down to a more personal/intimate level.

a huge mesh network that connects us all, but doesn't let us all blend into one big boring and unhappy slurry.

and for discovering others in far away communities/those who have very specific interests/needs/goals we'd like to help with, there's the internet.

it also makes the whole experience more personal. while a president or state senator or whatever might not have a clue what's going on anywhere but their hometown and the capital cities, people within their own communities having power can make better decisions having firsthand experience and knowing that they'll be the ones living with any consequences of their own actions.

and it gives them a better ability to avoid manipulation and other hardship by choosing who they associate with.

currently, smaller communities have their needs generalised or straight up ignored, are passed over because other larger communities (big cities for example) are considered more important and have more influence, and are where all the powerful people live/hang out to begin with.

communities ruling themselves mean more autonomy to choose how they interact with neighbours, how they allocate resources, what projects they work on, and all with more speed and efficiency

think of decentralised politics kinda like how we navigate friend groups. we have various friend circles that overlap with other circles in a sort of mesh. there are still folks that don't fit in the mesh very well, but it's better than some higher power telling you who to be friends with, when you need to break off a friendship, what you can and can't do or share with your friends, etc

especially if we imagine that the people in control...only allow friendships they know/care about

@hoodieak hierarchy is bad. community rule or bust. no one individual should hold power.

@c25l @freakazoid remove the bureaucracy and make communication more personal and involved, and progress moves a little faster while communities are better able to look out for their own interests.

it creates a strong kind of mesh network where everyone can be a part of a greater whole and communicate and cooperate, without power being centralised nor politics/bureaucracy being sluggish and impersonal

@c25l @freakazoid we may not all suddenly become aware of every small community on the planet. but the small community will be able to make itself large and diverse by directly involving itself on a very personal level with adjacent communities to work on projects and share resources.

whereas a hierarchy adds a sort of separation where communities are told to cooperate on goals/ideas they had little say in, by higher powers that barely know about them, and are expected to comply

@c25l @freakazoid federal politicians focus on their hometowns and the places where the bulk of their voters come from. they're often slow to approve funding for smaller communities, don't often know what the smaller communities need because they have "bigger problems", and genuinely have too much on their plates to help everyone.

meanwhile, through giving communities political autonomy, we give them a means to stick up for their own interests and communicate with neighbours in a mesh

@c25l @freakazoid our current structure only serves to further alienate us because it removes any power we have to participate to any meaningful degree, and our communities are far removed from the world around them by being controlled by powers far removed.

currently only the big cities have a feel of interconnectedness, and have the spotlight as communities, because the people in power are focused there. smaller communities are so often forgotten and ignored.

@c25l @freakazoid we're already living outside our communities from within our communities; we are discussing important issues on the internet, right now.

the internet is a valuable resource for keeping everyone connected. here we can discuss ideas, work out problems, allocate resources as efficiently as possible, work toward common goals.

with slight adjustments, the internet could replace our current structure and maybe even suit our needs better.

it's hard to be isolated.

am i gonna need to play the other witcher games to enjoy witcher 3? i finally remembered that game i was wanting to torrent a few days ago :p

@freakazoid @c25l basically it all seems to come down to...preparing communities for their eventual need to completely reject a hierarchy, in ways both peaceful and violent. keeping power on the level of communities and not on the level of entire countries.

politicians (in at least north america) are too far removed from the average participants of society to be effective at helping/providing for anyone but those in control. even revolutionaries. authoritarianism will always fail us.