Real answer: insurance salesman in the 90’s.

This was a slightly exagerated, but rather typical upper-upper-middle class house.

A friend of a friend’s dad had the same job, and a similar sized house. Guy had his own pinball room.

He also had a daughter that was in a secret relationship with my girlfriend (that they thought I didn’t know about.)

Scissor-box it out with your “friend” all you want, free pinball is free pinball.

It’s not that we refuse, we just can’t help but put stupid arrogant people in charge of everything. They don’t listen to science, just themselves, so nothing changes.

As a species, we’ve basically been doing this forever. Or at least since Machiavelli wrote the Prince, which is literally what’s happening everywhere now.

Simply put, those with intelligence know enough to realize what they don’t know. So they won’t make claims they can’t pursue. Politically, this will always work against them, and in favor of any loud idiot that promises everything, but can’t deliver. People will always pick the loud idiot, because the loud idiot will promise more than the intelligent option could ever reasonably accomplish.

The secret to solving this is simply transparency, and regulation.

That is: don’t let stupid leaders be stupid behind closed doors. Bring it into the open for scrutiny by professionals. Don’t let stupid people hold positions of authority by placing requirements for those positions to be held. Military service, or public service requirements work, but so do simple tests that could prevent hostile idiots from holding positions of power they will guarantee abuse.

There’s more solutions provided in the Prince as well. So this problem certainly isn’t a new one.

“King Arthur and the Knights of Justice” is what you’re looking for - and more specifically the absolute facemelter of an opening song they had for the show:

https://youtu.be/gjbWDjzTM0A

The whole series is on YouTube for free BTW! Not a bad watch either. Still pretty fun, but certainly dated for the time.

That opening guitar still gets me decades later.

Reddit had an AMA with a Bank Robber ten years ago that they’ve since deleted for corpo purity reasons 😂

Here’s the big points from it:

• Banks don’t care about losing amounts under 5k.
• Security won’t stop you if you don’t have a visible weapon.
• Worst they do is lock the door, so bring a hammer.
• the goal is to get in, and get the teller to give you a couple grand asap, then leave under 10 minutes.
• Guy did this to at least 5 different banks (all different companies) in one day, once a month, for several months.

He eventually got caught because of the money he had, not because his face was on every security camera.

He recommends not doing this, as do I, as it’s just not worth it.

But just in case you wanted to know how it was done a decade ago, fuck Reddit, here’s the details they recently deleted.

You are 💯 correct, and impressive you know the details!

The funniest part about it all to me is that AT&T bought Warner / HBO in 2014 - 2017 for 80+ billion at the height of Game of Thrones popularity (after winning an antitrust lawsuit against the merger).

Then season 8 happened, and in 2018 AT&T immediately sold Warner / HBO to Discovery where they merged into the David Zadislav Hollywood cluster fuck they’ve become.

The branding then unbranding of HBO to MAX was after the Warner Discorvery merger. They just have no idea what to do with their IP as they have no experience making or working in the creative industry.

I mean. Not many. At least in the entertainment industry. This fuck gets 250 mil a year, and pulls movies from distribution to save 40 mil instead of take a pay cut. He’s single handedly fucked Hollywood into the ground so hard, that large American studios are likely never going to recover.

Warner Brothers has already been fed into the wood chipper for parts, and not much is left. They literally sold the rights to their own theme music (As time goes by 1962) in an accidental bulk sale of their own properties. This idiot sold so much of what made Warner Bros, he now has the company paying someone else to use their own jingle.

That GQ article didn’t go hard enough, and was pulled because billionaires have thin skin from the complete lack of skills their money has insulated them from developing.

I find it absolutley bizarre that crypto is viewed this way on Lemmy. Because if anyone wants to know the problem crypto is trying to solve, you can read the original anonymous white paper written for Bitcoin where it was clearly stated its creation was for an alternative to fiat currency.

So if you hate the way capitalism has fucked the world by making everything’s value tied to the US Dollar, Crypto is the solution to that.

No need for: banks, the fed, or any government or private institution to regulate currency and manipulate its flow towards corruption if all those institutions are decentralized and accounted for digitally.

That’s what Crypto does.

You have a wallet instead of a bank account (modern ones even have savings and loan features). You have a block chain regulating the currency through diminishing returns instead of the Fed. And you have an uncorruptable fully transparent leger with where transactions are going instead of random bank fees going towards bloated executive salaries.

Is some Crypto a scam? Sure. But there’s scams in literally every new technology where there’s a gap between ignorance and experience.

So don’t let yourself become ignorant about crypto simply because the counter propaganda is strong and made you scared to try using it yourself. I’m not talking about daytrading, or making a quick buck. I’m talking about using it as intended to buy goods and services.

Because not only is it easier to use than money, it’s more lucrative and rewarding, and the sooner you start using it, the more likely the value of your assets will increase. It doesn’t take long using crypto before you’ll see the problems with existing paper currency and the bullshit system it’s designed to perpetuate.

By that I mean - for example:

Take whatevers in your bank account, and look at what was in it 10 years ago. Let’s say $10. Chances are you still have about $10 in your account now, so for arguments sake, let’s say theres been $10 sitting in your account doing nothing for 10 years.

In US currency, due to inflation, the $10 in your account after 10 years is now worth $7.

If you had a Bitcoin wallet, that $10 would now be worth $1000.

If you want to know why the 1% have so much power, it’s because they control the fiat capital in a capitalist system.

Crypto is an alternative to that fiat, and one that endangers the existing system. If people used it more than $Dollars, capitalists literally would no longer have power as the system they use to maintain their control (banks, corrupts government, money laundering) is no longer being used.

Crypto provides a solution to the corruptable fiat in a capitalist system through removing the existing mechanisms of corruption that have been created and replacing them with a decentralized fully transparent digital alternative.

The people who created Bitcoin did so to fight the same people and systems everyone here seems to hate.

So I find it fascinating that the firehose of propaganda about crypto is still readily seen here.

Is Crypto bad? Sure. Nothings perfect. But at this very moment - it’s a much better store of value than the dollar, especially in uncertain times, yet people are convinced it’s a scam.

When unquestionably the best thing for people to do right now is to get away from the tanking dollar. Inflation is guaranteed simply because Trumps policies have dramatically reduced the amount of Treasury Bills the world is now buying from the US. Those TBills are the US debt, and as a deficit spending country, the US economy only works if that debt is purchased.

It ain’t being purchased.

So if you want to know why there’s a firehose of propaganda about crypto right now - it’s because those with $Dollars want you to also have Dollars, so when they diversify into scam coins, they profit and you’re left holding their losses.

Crypto is unquestionably the best currently available solution to fixing the damage capitalism has caused, and those already using it know and feel this. They just have an impossible time convincing anyone else otherwise.

Thank you so much! 😁

We lucked out and got some love from some great streamers like Stumpt, Atlas Anarchy, Blazekin, and some others. All organically through promoting the game at places like PAX and LA Comicon.

But since a good amount of that attention was before we launched, it mostly translated to wishlists. (Which certainly still helps).

Regardless, BOTH wishlists and reviews do amazing for us - so if you enjoy the “First Page” demo, let us know! 🙂

And thanks again!

Thank you so much! Very proud of what we’ve made, as we made it exactly for people like you! 🙂 Hope you enjoy and thanks for sharing the link!

Awesome! Thank you so much! We love the support! And I’m sure you’ll both get a kick out of it 😁

I literally made an indie game to fill in this gap. It’s local coop and was designed for kids and parents to play together.

It’s called:

INK INSIDE (PC now, all consoles soon)

Brain David Gilbert voices the lead: Stick the stick figure. The whole cast are children’s drawings come to life living in a kids notebook that’s getting corrupted by a slow leak dripping water into their world and warping them into “sog” monsters.

It’s a game based on a lost pilot to a Nickelodeon show, and as such is both a cartoon and action RPG with a narrative that follows the first season of what you used to see on Saturday Morning.

It’s pretty much what you’re looking for imo, but since we’re indie, marketing has not been treating us well 😅

Reception from our intended younger audience has been glowing. Just harder to sell to kids as they don’t have money 😑