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I'm choosing to read that as someone is screwing with him.

I think you can play complex characters that are tied in to the world just fine with newbies. I have no idea how to manage my footing when I swing a sword, but many of my characters do! Similarly, my quick-fingered thief likely knows a great deal about the ghost field that I've yet to learn (I think this is what you meant? The only ghost fence I'm seeing is from Morrowind).

The way I've handled this is to give a quick, concise rundown about a topic right when it becomes relevant, or looks about to become relevant. I keep it limited to just what they need to know for what's happening now, and only expand on it if asked. Being relevant to what they're doing right now makes it easy to focus on, and being able to experiment with it right then helps it stick for them.

If it's something just one or two people should know (like how their automatons function, or the political situation of their distant cousin's family that they're walking into), I'll try to give the information just to that player . And if they improvise or expand on what I said, I do whatever I can to make what they said true - that kind of player buy-in is absolute gold, no matter how it might diverge from what I had in mind!

The idea is to teach complex game elements in play as much as possible, rather than explain them. They'll remember the intricacies of court a lot better if they discover them while being cats-paws, or running a heist! (This is also how I introduce GURPS to people - start with the simple rules, and if they want to try something different, we'll walk through how that part works. If they didn't like how that worked, we try a different way next time - either different rules for it, or a different approach).

Because the US could do a whole lot more?

It's a popular look!

Instead of "No worries!" he heard "No, worries!*

My point is that he was more than just a cog. He may not have been the sole villain and mastermind, but he was more than just a cog - he was a driver.

He could have done a number of other things. He wasn't just a cog, he actively drove many of the problems with the health insurance industry today, as the person in control of the most egregious offender.

I'm sure he'll be replaced with someone similar, and I'm sure he had plenty of encouragement; but that doesn't make him any less culpable.

It kinda sounds like he did this with at least the bones of a plan. And aren't silencers relatively easy to improvise, if you don't need it to last?

Died, disabled, or went through other unnecessary, avoidable pain and suffering. It's... quite a pool of candidates.

It sounds like he was receiving regular death threats and considered it par for the course.

If the CEO disagrees with the directions of the board, the CEO has a number of options. They can easily be considered culpable.

Per NPR, an annual investor's conference for their parent company was scheduled to start this morning - https://www.npr.org/2024/12/04/nx-s1-5215881/brian-thompson-unitedhealthcare-ceo-shot-new-york

Man, that's bizarre enough I was pretty confident you were just carrying the meme along - but I'm seeing it referenced all over the place!

You might want to Google the blue-ringed octopus...

Wouldn't any joke from that account be an effing joke?

I can be mad at both.

Democrats could have tried to improve the lot of the working classes.

People could have voted not to throw their neighbors to the wolves.

Do you really not know who your family likely voted for, or your roommates? People like this don't need a registered ballot result to make an inference that lets them act violently; unless he'd had the foresight to play at being a Trump convert months ago, I think this story is extremely credible.

As a natural early riser - I don't want anyone else getting up early! That's my time!

I'm not confident the nurse was wrong!

better for Dems if he doesn’t drop out of the race

Need to be careful with this kind of thinking - that was the Dems' attitude towards Trump during the 2016 election.

GURPS has a specific disadvantage that is essentially this.