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Take the current highest-yield nuclear bomb and destroy England right before the begin of their collonial era.

Generally speaking, I believe removing a global superpower just before they do their world-changing thing is probably going to have the biggest effect on the timeline.

But are all sides of the car in the optimal angle towards the sun? No trees or buildings near your parking spot that could shade your car?

There is a pretty huge demand for solar panels right now. If these panels didn't go into a car, someone else would mount them to a roof instead.

I had a very similar situation once.

The players where in a clockwork-themed dungeon and kept killing the clockwork golems there. Then they encountered the boss, the maker, who was a clockwork-enhanced human who built all these golems.

The boss was wailing over his destroyed children and when the players entered the room, he was like "Was it you who killed my children?".

And instead of fighting, the players managed to convince the maker, that it wasn't them, but instead the other group of players who where also playing in the same world.

So the maker and his remaining clockwork golems move out to hunt down the other group, and the players just ransacked the dungeon.

It was a quite funny opening scene for the next session of the other group, when they where just minding their business and the maker, whom the players have never heard of, and his remaining army of clockwork golems attacked the players, shouting that they will kill the players for killing his children.

When the second group figured out what happened, they hired an assassin to take out the first group.

Fun times :)

It depends a lot on the type of game that dude is running.

It's certainly not the type I'd be running, but I can see the appeal to some, to run a tough campaign with lots of dice and close calls/dead characters.

But it really needs to be aligned that all people in the party like that.

For example, I did run a few games of Dread, and it's really fun precisely because the characters can die quite easily and in very dramatic ways.

But of course, if you prefer to build and develop your characters over a long time, then this is not the style of game that fits you.

(Though I'd really recommend giving Dread a try. It's amazing for thrilling, immersive one-off sessions)

And if you'd plonk down that solar panel onto a roof where it catches much more sunlight, it would be able to produce even more electricity!

Sure they can. I've been doing that for quite a few years until climate change warmed my city up so much that snow and ice don't really happen anymore.

Don't forget that even if you have a lawn and a few trees/flowers on your single-family home backyard, that area is mostly dead to nature.

So spreading the suburbs out that much means that much more nature will be destroyed.

Part of the issue here is that if you own a car, it's often cheaper to take the car than public transport, because most of the car expenses are paid independent of the immediate usage.

Car value deprecation, taxes, maintainance, all of that cost you money no matter whether you drive into town today or use some other means of transport.

I think it would be much better to put all taxes onto the fuel price. If you pay €5 for a litre of fuel, instead of the ~€1.5/l that we are currently paying, it would make more sense to take public transport some times.

If a significant amount of people live in their cars, it means that the housing market and the wages are seriously out of whack, and the government has not been doing their job for the last decades.

This is actually backed by research.

Players: The GM is always trying to kill us.

GM: If I wanted you dead, you would have died a long time ago.

There's a saying in German: "Konsequenz heißt auch Holzwege zu Ende gehen".

Loosely translated, that means something like "Being consistent means also walking the wrong paths to the end".

Well, they don't want a mobile Linux. This is going to be a minimalist, locked-down distro that does nothing more than start a webrenderer.

Nobody's gonna see the underlying Linux system.

It's kinda like how my car entertainment system is running Linux. You wouldn't know it if you don't read the license file that comes with it.

I thought the /s should have been enough to tell everyone that this was a joke, but apparently not.

I'm the guy from the shop. I wasn't judging you. I was just holding in a fart and hoped, you'd move on a little quicker so that I could let it rip without an audience.

I guess, they, for some reason, do want people to run Windows on that machine^^

Or they are triggered so hard, that they couldn't even understand the /s anymore when they got to that point of the sentence.

Sounds like a great laptop to run Windows on /s

Edit: quite surprising how many people don't understand the /s.

Siegmund Freud would recommend picking up cocaine to replace smoking.

(Ok, he actually used it as a substitute for alcoholics and continued doing so after his first client died of a cocain overdose, but close enough.)

Yes. From a medical standpoint tobacco is terrible, hence regulations make it more difficult to smoke all over the world.

The issue is that there are so many smokers, that they are a force to be reconned with.

If tobacco was introduced now, it would probably be on the same legal status as meth. Same with alcohol.

That makes sense then. I think/hope, the comment you referred to was sarcasm. But you never know, some people write crazy stuff like that unironically.