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Lys has Alzheimer's, you should respect that.

TGRR's gone?  Great.  Now I can start posting again.

QUESTION ONE

Can you tell me what it needs in terms of explanations? Aside from pictures/video, what would help you visualize what playing the Dreaming is like?

I think it just needs a little more literature, perhaps surrounding past events or past characters, to help flesh it out.  I've never LARPd before but it just seems like this would help the universe feel more "real".

It could be as simple as some petty rivalry a Vision and an Old God had - not earth-shaking like Creation, continents torn asunder, eras of strife, etc.  It could even be text-within-text - the popular fiction of the universe surrounding important past figures and their twisted romance life or something.

QUESTION TWO

Wanna play?

I'll see if anybody around here is interested.

 

We're fucking DOOMED.   

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-court-corporations22-2010jan22,0,4141508.story

In a 5-4 decision, the {supreme court of the USA}court's conservative bloc said corporations have the same 1st Amendment rights as individuals and, for that reason, the government may not stop corporations from spending freely to influence the outcome of federal elections.

"I think you will find this issue has little traction with my constituents who are more concerned with real-life issues than home entertainment in imaginary worlds."

His apathy on the subject kinda bled through 

These are pretty good.  Most of this is in proper english and all, so it just seems like a comedy article.

ETA: nvm, I was reading some of the longer fiction and not the one-sentence contest 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXudUM0vKSc

I've discovered there are quite a few members of this thing within my vicinity (I'm right next to a fort).

I'll try getting accepted in the Louisiana group's flock.  I think they might plan on IRL meetings.

Interesting.  I wonder what "regulation" they will actually end up setting forth.

So it's basically a weird kind of union?

The reality presented here makes me queasy.  I'm having to rethink my views on populism.

I wonder, however, what form would this movement take?  "class warfare" has been synonymous with "communism" for the last 60 years or so.  What manner of educating the people would remove or avoid this stigma?  Would their economic status be their sole teacher?

The last overtly populist movement here was during the late 1800s - early 1900s IIRC.  Perhaps notes should be taken on that?

I went years without watching tv during my 20s. I can't say that it made me any smarter. I can't say that it made me any stupider either, although I would if I were to judge it using as my sole datapoint the pleasure I'd get from advertising the fact I didn't watch tv.

Dumb folk do tend to watch a lot of tv, but is it correlation or causation? I mean, some people just don't enjoy thinking. If you can't force them to do so, then the glowing box isn't the problem as they'd just find something else to be absorbed by like stamp collecting or whatever.

Every medium makes us think differently.  Whatever thought process is endemic in the public, the popular medium is majorly responsible.  Television is as much of a change in medium as writing was from word-of-mouth, as it is about as different from writing as word-of-mouth is.

Makes people stupid?  Maybe, maybe not.  But it radically changes the way people think of their world.