Long Angles @Angle@dragon.style

Huh, I can;t seem to access anticapitalist.party. Are they down? :/

Alright, I have 3 voters, two votes for female, and two votes for ratfolk, albeit not together. Unless there are any objections or last minute votes, I'm gonna go with that. :/

[X] Forest

You are surrounded by a verdant woodland. Ancient trees arch over head, while a thinner underbrush reaches for every stray scrap of light underneath. Birdsong echoes about, quite undisturbed by your presence, aching and blood-soaked as it may be. Speaking of which, you suddenly realize that you have no idea who you are. You pat yourself down and determine that most of the blood isn't your's at least, and the few wounds you have are all shallow cuts, hopefully minor. You also determine your race and gender:

Race:

[] Human
[] Elf
[] Goblin
[] Dwarf
[] Leonin
[] Vedalken
[] Naga
[] Angel
[] Ratfolk
[] Merfolk (With legs)
[] Write-in

Gender:

[] Male
[] Female
[] Write-in:

Wow, none of y'all agree on anything. I have one vote each for forest, mountain, swamp, and island. :/

You come to your senses with a sudden gasp, body twitching and jerking from a rush of adrenaline. You stagger to your feet, searching your surroundings for the source of the danger, but nothing presents itself. Looking around, all you see is a peaceful

[] Plains
[] Island
[] Swamp
[] Mountain
[] Forest
[] Write-in:

(Reply to this post with one of the options, marked with an X, like this: [X]. You can insert basically anything you want for the write-in, though I reserve the right to ignore an option if I find it too crazy. XD)

Eh, fuck it. Let's see where this goes. XD

Not sure how I'd make it work though. :/

Hmm. All of a sudden I'm super tempted to try and put together some kind of spontaneous mtg quest on Mastodon. Just to see where it goes. :/

I was thinking about what I'd look like as a planeswalker, and I think I have an idea? Something like this, I think:

Angle, Pursuer of Options - 2GU
Planeswalker - Angle

+1: Choose two:
* Gain 1 life
* Target creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn.
* Target creature gets -0/-1 until end of turn.
* Target player takes 1 damage.
* Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

-3: Choose One:
* Put two +1/+1 Counters on target creature you control. Untap it.
* The next time you play an instant or sorcery card this turn, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

-5: You gain an emblem with the ability "Whenever a spell or ability would have you choose one or more options from a list, you may choose twice as many of those options."

Loyalty: Sunburst (~ enters the battlefield with a loyalty counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

What, you say? Thats waaaaay too much text for a planewsalker? Yeah, probably. XD

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way. - Janet Filch

@Angle Also, due to the framework I'm using ditching the first schema package would be difficult, though I'm not sure how much. I could just l9ok into doing that? :/

Oh huh! So, anyone whos familiar wih javascript and schemas, I'm using this library right now:

https://github.com/aldeed/simple-schema-js

I'm trying to use activitypub, and I found a nice set of schemas, but of course, they don't work with the library I'm already using. I think I could use both but it would be messy? Or I could look into getting the second to load into the first. Pretty sure that's not easy, but I could maybe program a converter myself? :/

https://github.com/redaktor/ActivityPubSchema

Anyway I don't know what do, please advise. :/

Hmm. So the classic case for the minimum wage and/or unions is the employer/employee relationship, and how unequal it is. If you work for somebody with 10 employees, you count for a 10% of their employees, but they're 100% of your employment.

Thus, they have a massive advantage over you at the negotiating table. Unions help balance this out by increasing your negotiating power by allowing you and your fellows to negotiate as a group, while minimum wage balances it out by short circuiting the entire contest and ensuring that no matter how high their negotiating power, they can't push you below a minimum.

I was trying to think of another way to balance out this relationship, and the best I could thin of was "Everybody refuses to work more than 8 hours for any given employer and just pursues 5 different jobs., thereby reducing the amount of employment any given employer provides to just 20%, instead of 100%."

Unfortunately, this also reduces the amount of work any given employee provides to a 5th what it otherwise would be, which kinda cancels out the benefits. And thats before you factor in the costs and difficulties of the approach.

Given how terrible an answer that is, should tell you how big a problem this fundamental inequality is... :/

Blue: "Hey what up I finished that thing to turn everyone into robots. You wanna See me try it out?"

Green: "Whoa whoa whoa! Try it out how? What is this thing, anyway? How does it work?"

Blue: *Sighs dramatically* "It's quite simple. It's a machine that scans a body and replaces it with a carefully engineered artificial duplicate, without rendering the body nonfunctional at any time. It even preserves continuity of consciousness and proper syncing and conversion of a persons aetheric identity, I.E. their soul."

Red, staring at blue through narrowed eyes: "I don't trust it."

Blue, rolling their eyes: "Of course you don't. C'mon white, black, back me up here."

Black, sounding especially sinister: "I think it sounds very interesting. So much potential. I'd be happy to help you test it out..."

White: "DON'T let black get their hands on it. *I* will help you test it, with proper ethics review to ensure it functions for the betterment of society.

Red: "Better for your control, you mean."

White: "My control *IS* the betterment of society, yes."

Green: "I'm still not convinced this is a great idea at all. Even if it works as described, have you considered how this will affect others? What will happen to those who can't get it's benefits? How will this disrupt existing systems?"

Blue: "Ugh. 'How will this disrupt existing systems?' You always say that. I could just put that on a poster on my wall and skip talking to you all together."

Green: "Well, maybe if you'd listen for once..."

Black: "Enough of that. Lemme have a copy and I'll go gather that data for you. Be real quick about it, and VERY thorough."

Green: "They're gonna use it to make horrid necromantic abominations. Don't let them have it."

Black, scoffing: "Well not to start with. First I find some poor people and pay them to be test subjects, maybe skip a few safety checks for the latter ones just to see what happens, and /then/ I make the horrid techno-zombies. Duh."

White, slightly exasperated: "Right, of course. How silly of us. Blue, let me test it, would you? *I* promise not to skip any safety protocols. I'll follow your instructions to a T, I swear."

Blue: "Eh, alright. Lemme write this down..."

Black: "Aww c'mon, I was joking about skipping safety procedures! Blue, w-" *Gets choked out by vines*

Green: "Thats enough out of you."

"True Neutral (Green/Blue): True Neutral seeks total balance. It understands that actions will sometimes need to obey the laws, break the laws, help others, and help itself. Green/Blue is the color combination that is the best at seeing and understanding the totality of existence around it. This character will always think and act in terms of context, making decisions differently depending on the other factors involved."

...What, that? Sound familiar? Of course not. Where on earth would I have encountered such an individual? :P

...Though actually I'm leaning more and more white these days, so. :/

Also, someone recommended the following articles to me and I love them. They're about the D&D alignment chart, and how it's fundamentally a chart written from whites perspective. It uses this to elaborate further on the colors and their conflicts, including four more charts showing what the other colors version of said chart might look like. If you want to read more, check them out:

http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/112879602469/color-pie-friday-aligning-the-colors

http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/117252176688/color-pie-friday-aligning-blue

http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/119026650005/color-pie-friday-aligning-black

http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/120186450289/color-pie-friday-aligning-red

http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/121350149837/color-pie-friday-aligning-green

http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/121350149837/color-pie-friday-aligning-green

Blue: *Peacefully working in laboratory*

Green: *Bursts through door full speed* "Blue! Blue what did you do!"

Blue, not even looking up from what they're working on: "Hmm? I don't know, what did I do?"

Green: "The humans, Blue! WHat did you do to the humans! They were perfectly happy monkeys last time I looked, now they're miserable and they're destroying everything!"

Blue: "Oh, right. They were having a rough time of it, so I taught them to talk and think and all that, and it turns out they're really good at it."

Green: "They're destroying everything! It's a mega extinction event already! They're burning through resources unsustainably, fighting each other, destabilizing food webs, warming the planet, building bombs... They're not even healthy! They're dying of obesity! You even screwed up their sleep cycles! Do you ever consider the consequences of your actions!?"

Blue, still not looking up from their workbench: "Eh, it won;t matter once I turn them all into robots."

Green: *Throws hands in the air and storms out*

Green: *Meditates peacefully in a clearing in the forest*

Black: *Staggers into the clearing, covered in moss* "GREEN, WHAT THE FUCK!"

Green: *Continues meditating, gives no sign of awareness of Blacks presence*

Black, slowly limping closer, the moss growing and covering their body: "There was mold on my zombies, Green! I worked hard to raise those zombies. I had to make sacrifices. And then you just go and grow mold all over them, take them to pieces!"

Green: *Still Meditating*

Black: "What is wrong with you? Don't you have any respect for other peoples hard work? For their struggle? You think your bugs and your weeds give you license to do whatever you want?"

Green: *Still Meditating*

Black: *Pulls out really evil looking dagger with one hand while other arm breaks off, completely covered in mold* "You never let me have anything! Everything I try and make, you destroy! My mines collapse, my slaves escape into the forest, you grow mold on my zombies."

Green: *Still Meditating*

Black, almost completely covered in mold, beside their face and the hand with the dagger: "Why can't you just let me win for once! Let me have my dark empire, my grand castles, my legion of zombies? " *tries to jump at and stab Green, but their feet are bound to the ground with moss. They collapse, just short of being able to reach Green, as the moss consumes their hand and their weapon.

Green: *Still Meditating*

Black, choking out a few last words as the moss covers their face: "Mold on my zombies. You motherfucker."

Black: *Walks into room, whistling obnoxiously and looking very smug*

White: "Uh, excuse me, I though we all agreed to follow a dress code. Go put a shirt on. Also, what is that sticking out of your chest?"

Red: *Takes off shirt, blows a raspberry at White."

White: "Very mature, Red."

Green: *Peering intently at Black* "...Is that a zombified hand sticking out of your chest!?"

Black, even smugger than before: "So what if it is?"

Green and White, in unison: "Dude, that's fucked up."

Black: "I'm sorry you think that. It must be very trying for you."

Green: "why would you do that to yourself?"

White: "Also, I'm pretty sure this violates our rule about visible necromancy in the common spaces."

Black: "So you think your rules are more important than my life? Typical."

Green: "No, seriously, why would you do that to yourself? What the fuck, Black?"

Black: "I had a close call with a demon and needed something to keep my heart beating."

Blue, not even looking up from their book: "Not the solution I would have chosen, but I guess it works."

White: "You mean you made a deal with a demon and it went badly for you, and now you're trying to squirrel your way out of the consequences."

Green: "Please don't insult squirrels by associating them with Black. Black, can you find a solution that doesn;t make us all look at the rotten severed hand protruding from your ribcage? Like, maybe putting a shirt on?"

Black, disdainfully: "I could..."

Green: "Will you? Please?"

Black: "Why should I? I rather like this look. I might even go for some more severed hands protruding from my body, just for artistic purposes."

White: "See, now thats a violation of the rule about deliberately trying to wind each other up."

Green: "Dude, don;t be an asshole. We all need to live in this world together. We should try and get along. And deliberately making everyone else look at your disgusting perversions of the natural order is not trying to get along."

Black: "If you want me to do something, you should make it worth my while. What's it worth to you?"

White: "Dude, constantly trying to extort advantages from us is no way to live. If we all did that, this place would be miserable for everyone, you included."

Black: "Well maybe if you weren't constantly trying to strangle me with rules and regulations, I wouldn't have to extort you."

Red: "Yeah you tell him Black! Fuck the police!" *Tears off pants throw's them at White*

Green: "Look, I think white goes a little overboard with all that too, but you have to consider other people."

Black: "The fuck I do, you goddamn hippy. I didn't spend eons struggling and amassing vast power so some treehugger could tell me how I needed to respect others! I worked hard for this power and I'll use it as I please."

White: "Typical behavior. See, this is why we need rules."

Red, shouting at the top of their lungs: "FUCK YOUR RULES! YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO-"

Blue: *Locks everyone else in a stasis field, goes back to reading their book* "Ahhhh, much better."