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Well... until you have children, at least...

Wonder how fast pop. levels would fall?

Once you got kids, you get a pile of other sorts of assistance. That's the sneaky part of sneaking in a UBI.

Though I'd actually be fairly confident guessing a childless voucher would increase, rather than decrease, population. The less financial pressure you put on folks, generally the more likely they're going to start fucking... and gods know the state of US sex ed and reproductive healthcare entails that means kids.

I mean, you can have your cake and eat it, too -- just have the attention point amount be a worldgen/save setting the player can tweak as desired, up to and including unlimited. It's a neat idea I wouldn't mind seeing implemented, but also something that sounds like it would have wildly different sweet spots in amounts from player to player.

So, like. Don't force it, yeah? Have your default amount you design around and let folks change it if they want.

Eh, there's definitely stuff that calls itself poetry that's very literal with a subject that would traditionally be considered non-fiction. There's also long form poetry or verse literature that's novel length poems with a subject that would be generally be labeled fiction. Poetry ranges really bloody far in terms of form and function (especially if you're of the opinion it strongly overlaps with music, which isn't exactly a radical position to take), and at the end of the day I don't think it's any more limited than prose in terms of if it can be fiction or non-fiction.

... fortunately, my job's easy and I don't have to consider fiddly bits -- all poetry is shelved in the 800s as nonfiction and I don't have to care beyond that

Yeah, I don't recall what happened, exactly, but something about that seemed to turn off a lot of people that were pretty enthusiastic about it for... some reason. I never got the exact details (and didn't and don't care enough to check, 'cause I'm not terribly interested in the gameplay anyway), just that there was something or another that drew a sudden and fairly intense amount of enmity from folks that were initially positive.

So I never considered actually, like... paying for it. Or acquiring through other means, for that matter. But free and clear? Can't hurt, I guess...

commercial said words more cursed than I've heard from a tv in months

"put your retirement dollars in crypto"

D:

I'm sure odin will forgive your gratuitous abuse of zeros as o replacements, so long as you don't actually deface his name with them, too

For what it's worth nenj, if you haven't seen it already you might want to scope out Smelter. Parts of the art style are kinda' contentious (i.e. it's aping kill la kill in places, so, uh), but from what I've seen of vids it's basically "What if Actraiser, but the platforming and whatnot was actually pretty decent". Less clunky SNES and more modern Megaman X-line 2D platforming, with the overworld being pretty solid Actraiser.

Hypnotoad enthralls all, no style is better once seen.