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Curses / Re: Some sort of Crime Squad, I guess
« on: November 14, 2018, 10:24:58 pm »
Jonathan S. Fox I appreciate that you have put so much thought into the consequences to your actions no matter how trivial they may seem to others. God bless you for not wanting to endorse political violence. You seem to be more considerate of the political climate of violence than our own President is. I think this makes you uniquely qualified to fix the problems in LCS that you have pointed out. If LCS previously had been a game to simulate the Velvet Revolutions and violent coup d'etat IE both means of political upheaval, why not focus on implementing protesting, resisting tyranny, sponsoring legislation, fixing a broken political system with civic engagement and holding the powerful accountable for their actions rather than implementing features that empower violence why not use this strange game as a way of accomplishing peaceful change in the face of unyielding violent oppressors. The irony is that the violent playthroughs I have had shows the LCS as the Conservative Boogieman who run amok of justice and destroy public safety to achieve their nefarious criminal goals of complete domination and as soon as they stop oppressing the people with violence Conservatism quickly returns to business as usual pushing their agenda.
Maybe the problem with LCS is that it was made as a parody to justify a violent political simulation. As it currently stands the game can be played completely peacefully or with an orgy of bloodshed.
I like to use LCS as a way of simulating the various criminalities of the world. However I started feeling weird about doing violent playthroughs after the Parkland mass shooting because while playing Terra Vitea one of my sleepers I recruited was a football coach and then I sent a lone suicide liberal to attack the reeducation prison with an AR-15 that one of my sleepers had stolen for me.
And then the actual news story happened in real life.
I got paranoid and thought that someone was using my play through to craft real life massacres. Then I realized that America has a problem and it isn't just me playing Terra Vitea or LCS, it is that there is an actual divide between the idea of Liberalism and Conservatism have been forgotten in place of partisan rhetoric and what people call the Left and the Right is increasingly growing.
LCS is a simulation that has its finger on the pulse of evil while pretending that it is for the sake of some greater good.
I always wondered why in LCS when someone dies during interrogation your Liberal loses juice but if you have them kill any other way they gain juice. Presumably it is because the Liberal is realizing that they are actually the evil one who is kidnapping and beating people to death.
TLDR:
Jonathan S. Fox maybe the answer is that LCS rewards both good and evil and if you want to stop endorsing political violence you need to remove it wholesale from any future game.
Maybe model the game off of the Civil Rights movement and the Indivisible movement of today and focus on political organizing and drop the facade of criminality and make this about a Patriot Protest Party or Civil Rights Activist Protestors anything other than the Liberal Crime Squad at this point would make me happy.
Get rid of the pyramid hierarchical limitations on recruitment, add the ability to help people in game become registered to vote, add the ability to canvas door to door, add the ability to run for office and to serve once elected this would put the power back into the hands of the people/player without encouraging them to commit violence. I would rather play as Gabby Gifford than the guy who shot her. Even just having an actual vote rather than a percentage and incorporating turnout into the in game elections would radically shift the game from being about being a violent crime syndicate (Pizzagate) and more of a political simulation (which I am fond of). Because the answer is that winning is not worth it if you have to resort to violence to accomplish it. This isn't a game about the American Revolution against the British this is a game about how Liberals have always been demonized because of their progressive approach to policy that seeks to other throw the states quo and how violence is always mustered against those who oppose the status quo but as Martin Luther King once said "Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate can not drive out hate, only love can do that." So Jonathan S. Fox I challenge you to infuse some light into your project and infuse love into your project. Maybe people will complain that LCS used to be more fun when you could just shoot, stab, beat up everyone who didn't agree with you. But that is not an argument you should care about. Because as it stands until I can march on Washington D.C and give an I have a dream speech in this game, Washington D.C only serves as a way to kidnap, murder or brainwash the President.
Screw the original LCS and its blindness to reality. Screw criminal groups masquerading as populists to recruit weak willed followers to do their bidding. This is a game about AMERICA, Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, where our forefathers fought and died to preserve our freedom and our rights. Conservative's and Liberals both deserve the same rights to Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Jonathan S. Fox if your game doesn't meet your moral standards then you don't have to release it no matter how many people ask you to. But I encourage you to consider what I have said just as I have considered what you have said. God bless you all and stay safe out there everyone.
Peace out.
Maybe the problem with LCS is that it was made as a parody to justify a violent political simulation. As it currently stands the game can be played completely peacefully or with an orgy of bloodshed.
I like to use LCS as a way of simulating the various criminalities of the world. However I started feeling weird about doing violent playthroughs after the Parkland mass shooting because while playing Terra Vitea one of my sleepers I recruited was a football coach and then I sent a lone suicide liberal to attack the reeducation prison with an AR-15 that one of my sleepers had stolen for me.
And then the actual news story happened in real life.
I got paranoid and thought that someone was using my play through to craft real life massacres. Then I realized that America has a problem and it isn't just me playing Terra Vitea or LCS, it is that there is an actual divide between the idea of Liberalism and Conservatism have been forgotten in place of partisan rhetoric and what people call the Left and the Right is increasingly growing. LCS is a simulation that has its finger on the pulse of evil while pretending that it is for the sake of some greater good.
I always wondered why in LCS when someone dies during interrogation your Liberal loses juice but if you have them kill any other way they gain juice. Presumably it is because the Liberal is realizing that they are actually the evil one who is kidnapping and beating people to death.
TLDR:
Jonathan S. Fox maybe the answer is that LCS rewards both good and evil and if you want to stop endorsing political violence you need to remove it wholesale from any future game.
Maybe model the game off of the Civil Rights movement and the Indivisible movement of today and focus on political organizing and drop the facade of criminality and make this about a Patriot Protest Party or Civil Rights Activist Protestors anything other than the Liberal Crime Squad at this point would make me happy.
Get rid of the pyramid hierarchical limitations on recruitment, add the ability to help people in game become registered to vote, add the ability to canvas door to door, add the ability to run for office and to serve once elected this would put the power back into the hands of the people/player without encouraging them to commit violence. I would rather play as Gabby Gifford than the guy who shot her. Even just having an actual vote rather than a percentage and incorporating turnout into the in game elections would radically shift the game from being about being a violent crime syndicate (Pizzagate) and more of a political simulation (which I am fond of). Because the answer is that winning is not worth it if you have to resort to violence to accomplish it. This isn't a game about the American Revolution against the British this is a game about how Liberals have always been demonized because of their progressive approach to policy that seeks to other throw the states quo and how violence is always mustered against those who oppose the status quo but as Martin Luther King once said "Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate can not drive out hate, only love can do that." So Jonathan S. Fox I challenge you to infuse some light into your project and infuse love into your project. Maybe people will complain that LCS used to be more fun when you could just shoot, stab, beat up everyone who didn't agree with you. But that is not an argument you should care about. Because as it stands until I can march on Washington D.C and give an I have a dream speech in this game, Washington D.C only serves as a way to kidnap, murder or brainwash the President.
Screw the original LCS and its blindness to reality. Screw criminal groups masquerading as populists to recruit weak willed followers to do their bidding. This is a game about AMERICA, Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, where our forefathers fought and died to preserve our freedom and our rights. Conservative's and Liberals both deserve the same rights to Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Jonathan S. Fox if your game doesn't meet your moral standards then you don't have to release it no matter how many people ask you to. But I encourage you to consider what I have said just as I have considered what you have said. God bless you all and stay safe out there everyone.
Peace out.
