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Post by Spring Break on Mar 5, 2007 14:27:06 GMT -5
YAY! The site is still alive! Granted its now March something or other and posts haven't come since February, but its still good to see. I hope you are all doing well, and I'll see you soon (like Spring Break).
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Post by Bouclier on Mar 5, 2007 22:44:03 GMT -5
Oops! That was me.
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Post by DM-Chris on Mar 12, 2007 13:19:21 GMT -5
Goddammit! I had just typed out a paragraph or two to respond with and accidentally hit ESC, deleting the whole thing. I'll come back and repost it later *grumbles*
The site is still alive, I haven't forgotten about it, just hard to find time and energy to be creative when you're working 11 hours a day, five days a week.
Slavery was not abolished, it was changed...
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Post by Bouclier on Mar 12, 2007 13:55:17 GMT -5
Down with the man. We don't need no stinking jobs. Revolution back to subsistence life! Need I point out that even when all other technologies fail, we can still play D&D?
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Post by DM-Chris on Mar 16, 2007 12:05:12 GMT -5
lol, I've often thought of that. Some people ask me, "What would you do without your computer and video games?"
"I'D PLAY D&D, FOOLSUCKA'!", is always my response.
We're doomed to toil as humans, though that's not necessarily a bad thing. If I didn't work at this job to obtain currency which is accepted at vendors of other goods and services, I'd probably spend an equal amount of time, if not more, growing my own food, washing my clothes and dishes by hand, etc.
The division of labor and the exchange of goods and services through currency is inevitable. We could start over 1,000 times and it'll always come back to that.
Why? It just makes more sense. The tailors agree to spend the majority of their time tailoring, because the farmers agree to grow enough food for more than just their family. If every single family tried to provide all of their owns good and services, they could only spend a few hours a day doing each thing, and the quality of all of it would suffer.
What's funny and frustrating at the same time, is how much money entertainers make. The highest paid people in the world are entertainers and atheletes, and to what greater purpose? We could never watch another movie, hear another song, or watch another sports event, and the world would be dull as hell, but it would function.
The priorities in our country are so damn backwards. The highest paid people in society should be educators and doctors, followed by scientists and researchers who support and advance those fields, THEN, maybe, MAYBE, entertainers. But, due to the nature of the business, a single person only pays $6 for a movie or $12-15 for a CD, which alone is not much money. But multiply that amount times the hundreds of thousands people that have access to these goods across the country, and the numbers get big really quick. A doctor or a teacher doesn't provide a country-wide service that everyone has access to.
Interesting phenomenon huh?
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Post by Bouclier on Mar 18, 2007 21:00:50 GMT -5
I think the only thing for us to do is to study the Kobolds. No known monetary system to speak of (you know that gold is just for PCs to loot) but they just keep on living. They still have the job specialization. One Kobold kills the adventurers, another cooks then, and lastly there are Kobolds to eat the adventurers and be killed by other PCs. Could life get any better?!
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Post by DM-Chris on Mar 20, 2007 10:32:19 GMT -5
Sounds like easy street to me! I should be meaner to kobolds and take away the class levels of their sorcerers! This isn't any sort of revenge the for kobold-infested mine I sent, you, Matt and Mark into is it? Speaking of Spring Break, when does yours begin?
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