I think it's a riff on an old meme I don't quite remember. But the idea is like,
Like, someone playing checkers. Someone says "oh you're playing checkers because you hate chess!?". You can kind of see how they made that leap through several errors (view chess and checkers as mutually exclusive opposites)
So the person in the quote thinks banning whoever is a non sequitur, I guess.
There are less obvious costs to living outside a city, especially if the city has transit. All the car costs, for one relevant example. The health loss from walking less. The isolation takes a toll. The shallower social pool. Fewer cultural options.
Also it's not like apartments are dirt cheap in the suburbs outside NYC. I could pay $2000/mo for a nice apartment in Plainsfield, NJ... or I could pay a similar amount, not have a car, and live someplace where stuff happens.
Personally, I generally dislike puzzles in RPGs. My character has 20 intelligence. In real life I'm rocking at best 12. I am not going to make the intuitive leaps to solve this cipher like my character would. You're not asking the fighter to demonstrate a shield bash or the rogue to pick a lock.
Riddles and puzzles aren't nearly as interesting as explained choices, anyway. Do you take the Sword of Rivers from the tomb, fighting the guardian and potentially causing drought and famine in the region? You've been told it's the only thing that can stop the Fire Elemental Incursion back home. Much more interesting than trying to figure out what a poem means or a sliding block puzzle, to me.
If you don't want the players to know the cliché weakness so badly, why don't you make up another monster instead of troll? Just sidestep the whole problem. It's not Troll Canyon. It's Grall Canyon. What the fuck are Gralls? No idea but they sound nasty.
Because clearly, some players are going to balk at "you want us to forget this well known fantasy cliché?". And it doesn't matter if you think their playstyle is stupid. It's a game. People are trying to have fun.
You can turn that one on desktop off, btw
If only separated bike lanes were more common. I'm really not comfortable riding with all those cars just right there.
Apparently Vanguard has a whole proxy voting system that I left on the defaults!
If you set a minimum vacation time, it's not bad. But most places don't do that, because they know you'll take less time if they say unlimited.
This seems trivial to solve without all the LLM parts. It's like... 1-3 lines of code to pick a random item from a list. Surely someone has made websites or apps to do that for you, if you can't write it yourself.
Or a no code solution: dice or a dart board or cards or any other randomization tool.
Solidarity doesn't mean they're all in love and never squabble. But it does mean that they will prioritize their class' interests, especially if it's in conflict with labor.
I assume rich people often keep enough shares to control who sits on the board, and thus who is the CEO. There's a lot of people sitting on multiple boards, folks know each other, blah blah blah.
Also many shareholders aren't really involved. I don't even know how it works if you own shares through Vanguard or something. I've never been asked to vote on company policy.
From what I've seen in start-up land, leadership is a lot of in-group bro times. It's all gut feel. Shouldn't expect rational, honest, decisions from them.
I can't imagine what I'd even want the "Ai" to do in the browser.