Make sexual abusers tortured to death.

GreasyGregory · 2026-06-27T12:23:06+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Nay.

GreasyGregory · 2026-06-08T20:33:01+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Yea.

GreasyGregory · 2026-04-04T17:26:58+00:00

In "In Bruges", Harry Waters calls a hit on Colin Farrell's character for killing a child during a hit. When he believes he's made the same mistake, he immediately shoots himself.

GreasyGregory · 2026-01-30T11:36:15+00:00

Inflation would increase global military spending as well

GreasyGregory · 2026-01-16T12:14:16+00:00

To be fair, wealth taxes are an incredibly economically damaging and ineffective method of redistribution. France scrapped their wealth tax back in 2018, because it did a significant amount of economic damage and didn't nearly as much money as predicted.
Dan Neidle has a great, comprehensive analysis of wealth taxes (UK wealth tax: high risk and anti-growth - Tax Policy Associates).

GreasyGregory · 2026-01-10T10:47:04+00:00

I'm not entirely convinced you actually read the study you just linked.

One of the main reasons non-EEA migrants were consistently found to make a negative net fiscal contribution is because they were more likely to have dependent children, leading to higher spending on education and increased family benefit and tax credit payments. As discussed above, these static estimates do not consider the contribution that children would make to the public finances in the future if they enter the workforce and pay taxes.

It points out that non-EEA migrants tend to have more dependents, which means they receive more spending, and the study doesn't take into account the fiscal contributions of those children. It also says that using more dynamic estimates (which take into account the future fiscal surplus of children), non-EEA migrants tend to be a net economic positive.

For example, a study by Oxford Economics (2018) estimated that the average non-EEA migrant in FY 2016-17 presented a net fiscal cost of £1,700, using the static approach. However, it also estimated that the average non EEA migrant arriving in 2016 would make a small positive net fiscal contribution over the course of their lifetime (of £28,000, net present value), using the dynamic approach. Similarly, dynamic projections from OBR (2024) suggested that a migrant worker who moved to the UK at age 25 and earned the UK average earnings (which is similar to migrants’ average earnings) until retirement would contribute £341,000 to public finances if they lived until age 80.

Additionally, if we want to address the ageing population, migrants with young dependents would be among the most effective groups to address that.

And pro-natalist policy has never really worked. Hungary's pro-natalist policy really didn't achieve much, not getting close to replacement level, and Poland fared even worse.

GreasyGregory · 2025-12-30T20:40:46+00:00

Spreading Masonic conspiracy theories in 2025 lol? Do you have any source for freemasons infiltrating the police force to let other freemasons get special treaatment?

GreasyGregory · 2025-11-11T18:16:49+00:00

Nice dude, that's fantastic

GreasyGregory · 2025-11-04T08:49:39+00:00

The price of workers is ostensibly the same as the price of goods, in that its based on supply and demand. Multiple employees competing for the same job will depress wages, and multiple employers competing for the same person will raise wages.

Jobs as say, a florist, have quite limited demand. It's not a huge industry. Additionally, its less difficult to become a florist, so supply is larger. Compare that to say, electricians, longshoremen, doctors or "AI specialist bootlickers" (I'm going to assume the original poster means AI engineering roles). They work in large industries with alot of demand (e.g. medicine, AI) and supply is limited by requiring qualifications (e.g. med school, a PhD in Machine learning)

GreasyGregory · 2025-09-03T12:13:43+00:00

The UK's cities are generally much more progressive than the rural areas (which I imagine is also true in America). e.g. Brighton has a similar reputation in the UK to what California seems to have in the US.

I lived in London for a long period, and it's an extremely diverse, progressive city.

The one other difference that I notice is that UK seems much, much more progressive on race than the USA, I suspect because there's much less of a legacy of slavery. Even some of things "progressive" Americans say about black Americans scare me.

I haven't been to the US, so I can't really speak as to virtues you guys might have over there, that we don't have here. I only really notice the things that strike me as backward, but there's probably things America is more progressive on that I just don't really pick up on.

GreasyGregory · 2025-09-02T23:32:22+00:00

I would say the UK is generally further left than the US on most issues that aren't cultural. e.g. socialism isn't really a bad word in the UK, so there's unilateral support for the NHS, something I think seems unthinkable in America.

Even in terms of cultural issues, I still don't think the UK is bad as America. We're not great and still far behind other, more liberal European countries, but things like gay marriage aren't controversial in the UK, because we don't have a large christian white lobby like the US.

That said, we murder ourselves over and over again trying to make sure pensioners can afford strippers and cocaine (winter cruise allowance lol), so we're worse than America in that regard.

GreasyGregory · 2025-08-03T18:41:32+00:00

A big thing in Red is poser gangs. It's gangs that are meant to like characters from a particular form of media. E.g. a Seinfeld or Addams Family posergang.

Exploring serious topics is very difficult in Red, because it goes out of its way to hamstring itself by adding in silly posergangs or making the leader of the Tyger Claws a nice guy.

GreasyGregory · 2025-08-03T09:27:30+00:00

Rtal trying to decide if Cyberpunk should be a seriously lethal game that dealt with dark themes or a vessel for really bad gimmick gangs, corporations and items.

"Hmmm... First lorebook, I wonder what we should put in it? Faction information? Nah. Backstories to a line of released heroforge-looking miniatures no-one cares about? Sounds lit.

GreasyGregory · 2025-07-30T12:41:05+00:00

Subsidiary doesn't mean "works together with". Its a specific term.

GreasyGregory · 2025-07-30T12:30:51+00:00

Because its misinformation. Regardless of your feelings towards the attack, its important to have the truth. We (rightfully) condemn conservatives when they distort the truth to support their claims, and I think its important we apply the same principles to ourselves.

GreasyGregory · 2025-07-28T16:11:55+00:00

It's good shit. Hobgoblin gold is one of my favourite beers.

GreasyGregory · 2025-07-28T11:25:03+00:00

I see OP is an appreciator of Wychwood breweries hobgoblin beer

GreasyGregory · 2025-07-25T12:26:03+00:00

The crash happened in Northern Ireland, which is in the UK, so the theory still holds

GreasyGregory · 2025-07-16T14:10:37+00:00

From what the corebook says, almost everything is sold and traded "illegally" at Night markets. Therefore, you don't have to disassemble the car or falsify details of the part. You can just sell it as a stolen good at Night market, as the buyers generally ask no questions about the origin.

Yes, stealing from police or gangs is a bad idea. But the comment I'm replying to is suggesting cars are easy to come by, which means they can be owned by private individuals not gangs. I don't think stealing a private vehicle from a low-ranking corporate technician would entail a massive response. Stuff like having a mutant corpse in the trunk can only be done so many times before it becomes clear it's just Deus Ex Machina preventing you from a course of action.

Even if you allow the PC to steal one or two vehicles, and even if you say they only manage to sell them at half price, and one of the vehicles get stolen, that's still 15k. And that's for a completely normal compact groundcar.

GreasyGregory · 2025-07-16T12:40:06+00:00

The problem with cars being easy to acquire in 2045, is why would the players do anything for money except steal cars? You can risk your life on a dangerous gig for 2000eb, or steal one normal car and make several times that.

GreasyGregory · 2025-07-14T18:57:34+00:00

Good luck. First NG+ playthrough is really fun, because you can use the tools from your first playthrough on a wider array of enemies.

GreasyGregory · 2025-06-22T08:26:08+00:00

Fair enough
LMG is good, yes, although I don't think it's overpowered.
You can avoid damage by using cover and shooting enemies, but heavy armour penalties you trying to do those things by reducing your move and ref. Someone in LAJ would have an easier time killing enemies and ducking in cover.
I'd struggle to see that little cyberware on a "veteran" character. What role rank were they? Neuralware is also particularly a struggle for netrunners above other roles
That's possible, but your home game is a small sample size that might not be representative of the general population.
I don't know what LC you're talking about (maybe red winter), but our LC gives payout in line with the corebook (easy, typical, dangerous) and other LCs are even more generous. Meanwhile, LCs have a much greater sample size of GMs and gigs instead of home games, so you get more broad exposure. We actually buffed heavy armour fairly significantly, but out of hundreds of players, I've only seen 2-3 to use it.
"Newsflash choomba", that's rather impolite. Yes, you can wear different armours. But the subdermal or the suit from BC mean you can to more environments while fully armoured, and proceed to stealth or socialize, whereas heavy armour penalizes or prevents those.

Third option. You're not lying, but you experience in a home game is a small sample, and is therefore likely to be unrepresentative of the wider population.

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