Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Scribe]

I've said it before, but I unfortunately live in too beautiful a place to fully engage with cyberpunk as a genre, despite my lifelong affinity for it.

Probably for the best.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

This was a short experiment that ended years ago, but it proves the point that carrots are better than sticks.

This is a post about game design.

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And then there's Finland, where apparently the price you pay for a speeding ticket is based on how much money you earn.

Sabres' Rasmus Ristolainen earned himself a ridiculous speeding ticket in Finland

The wallet of the Buffalo blueliner is significantly lighter after he was caught driving double the speed limit in his hometown of Turku.

ca.sports.yahoo.com

I’ll just point out, they’re not mutually exclusive solutions. You could have both the speeding lottery AND speeding fines based on your income.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I've said it before, but I unfortunately live in too beautiful a place to fully engage with cyberpunk as a genre, despite my lifelong affinity for it.

Probably for the best.

I’ve met a few human beings in my existence. Interesting critters. Full of contradictions.

 

[Deset Gled]

The Evil is defeated.

And now that it is defeated we once again see its value, as the evil it contained is now left to roam the forum, uninhibited.

 

[Scribe]

And now that it is defeated we once again see its value, as the evil it contained is now left to roam the forum, uninhibited.

To be fair I have blocked most of the worst offenders.

 

[Deset Gled]

To be fair I have blocked most of the worst offenders.

Unfortunately, blocking people doesn't prevent them from railroading other threads into their pet topics. Containment did.

 

[Staffan]

On days I'm angry at everyone and not driving on the interstate myself, I'd almost rather go to Finland's "day-fine" system

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2018/06/in-finland-speeding-tickets-are-linked-to-your-income/

Otherwise, yes, Sweden's is much better.

Sweden also has the "day-fine" system. It usually only applies to moderate crimes – speeding, for example, has fixed fines (though in extreme cases you can also lose your driver's license and sometimes even go to prison). But driving without a license would get you a certain amount of day-fines.

 

[billd91]

Ooooo, schadenfreude! My favorite!

 

[Autumnal]

If you ever pine for Heinlein, but don't want to deal with his views, John Varley is an amazing writer who's openly working in the Heinlein mold, but without Heinlein's sometimes problematic views. (Varley is just as horny as Heinlein, though, especially in his Eight Worlds and Gaea series.)

there’s also Mary Robinette Kowal. Her Lady Astronaut of Mars series begins with a large-ish asteroid crashing into the Atlantic and wiping out a lot of the Atlantic coast, including Washington DC. What follows is very much like vintage hard-ish sf except the narrator is a Jewish woman who flew planes being ferried in World War II and is now a great mathematician married to a great engineer, and who has a really serious anxiety disorder. Mary knows about these things and stirs them into the story along with an appreciation of social and individual toll taken by institutionalized bigotries, the complexities of mental health, and everything from there to why it makes perfect sense for the narrator to know Mr Wizard but not realize it. The series is heartwarming, frequently funny, pro people belong cools me knowing and doing cool things, anti scumbags being arrogant jerks, and pro people pulling together to try salving an emerging doomsday challenge. Just wonderful work.

 

[Scribe]

Theres a Star Wars Borg game. Is it good? No clue, but its there.