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Ironic Nazis are still Nazis:
https://newrepublic.com/article/139004/ … till-nazis

Emotional responses aren't bad qua reponses. Such responses at least sometimes track something.

If we can't all say that "ironic" fascists are the bad, then we're lost.

If we can't all say that fascists are bad, then we're all too far gone.

Behold our former moderator and ask: why is the environment around this game so toxic?

Edit for those interested in a long-ish read:
Umberto Eco's "Ur-Fascism" gives a nice insight into Thexus and others on this forum:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

Weird. This would increase your enjoyment of the game?

At least the lambs have stopped screaming.

That's a real shame.

But all the more reason folks should hand down their clothes. Or take them off before they die alone.

Awesome graphic!

I can't stress this enough; in my style of play as an Eve, a basket is a necessity. It makes it so I don't have to run back and forth with just a single item. And the virtues of a backpack ... well, don't get me started!

Exactly. Did this today as an Eve with a child and a cart we found. There must be several dozen plots of land, and a dozen and a half milkweed growing, now.

Exactly. There are lots of abandoned settlements. Once you have your community's farm set up, send someone to an abandoned settlement with four empty baskets in a hand cart to retrieve some soil; do this multiple times, if needed.

I'm not a fan of far-flung villages; too much time and resources are spent getting back and forth. Move the soil someplace closer with access to water and a steady supply of your carrots/rabbits/whatever folks are eating these days. Send one person to be responsible for upkeep, and have someone move back and forth with a handcart, collecting stalks, strings, or rope, and exchanging carrots in return.

The hardest part, of course, is getting folks on board with the plan. It's not terribly sexy. And no one really wants to stand around tending milkweed and making sure folks don't pick it at the wrong time. But it has the potential to move us all forward.

The problem with the small settlement model is that it is not going to lift us out of the muck and clothe and feed any substantial number of us. We must do better.

I know what you mean! It's sad, especially when you're all alone there at first, and then it's all going so well when you die. And then, an hour or so later, it's all gone. (Sorry, I'm venting!)

For instance, I take charge of the farming, put away massive stores of carrots, and have the seed to growing ratio just right. And, yet, somehow, it all collapses some time after I'm gone. Perhaps people have too many kids? Or they follow the stupid "leave-the-last-carrot" rule and deplete all of their food stores as they wait for carrots to seed, even though I explain that it's mathematically irresponsible to farm that way.

I did manage to get back there in a subsequent life and resurrect the town again; I realized that what I was working on was a satellite for the largest collection of buildings I have yet seen in the game. It was to the north. Sometime during my first life in that little outpost, the larger town collapsed. I should have realized this when no one came for the carrots anymore. Anyway, in the second life, I added some dozen new plots of food production and exploited water resources to the east that had gone untapped in the rest of the farm. It's probably a ghost town now.

Anyway, I really think that some of the towns I have been in and have resurrected can sustain way more people than they've in fact been able to. Folks are screwing up somewhere along the line. My guess is that there are too many people who don't do anything to pull their weight in the community, and just eat the resources.

I had better stop; I'm sounding like my father.