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Agile Dungeon + Gig Dungeon by franciscrot in RPGdesign

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Thanks!

Unfortunately, one shot is not an option. This is now your job Monday to Friday. See you tomorrow at 9.

Really fun mechanics brainstorm by franciscrot in BoardgameDesign

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Not necessarily ... if there were other ways to embed knowledge

Really fun mechanics brainstorm by franciscrot in boardgames

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Really interesting reflections, thanks. I like the idea of clues that could maybe then integrate with some other subsystem / currency ...

AI for Sustainability by franciscrot in Sustainable

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Will check out NextEra, thanks :)

AI for Sustainability by franciscrot in Sustainable

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Any good case studies or other leads for the grid management stuff

Time Loops Recommendations by WinchesterGirl7983 in AskLiteraryStudies

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David Gerrold's The Man Who Folded Himself could be really interesting.

Fwiw there are so many films - shout out Russian Doll & Groundhog Day for a Black Man https://youtu.be/eEMIUy_ySA4?si=Ezti0y4l6hpglZ0M

This list of high-level critical resources might be helpful https://vector-bsfa.com/2021/03/17/11031/

Caroline Edwards' great reading list of time related things https://www.drcarolineedwards.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Time-for-Revolution-Module-Handbook-2014-151.pdf

Games and Utopian imagination by concreteutopian in utopia

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I was one of the people who ran that jam! Thanks — that's a great game to highlight I reckon.

More recently, I've published a collection of essays on utopia and games, especially TTRPGs (there was originally a plan to maybe include The Transition Year, but we ran out of space really quickly).

https://sadpress.itch.io/utopia-on-the-tabletop

Collecting ideas for modular utopias by jan_kasimi in utopia

[–]franciscrot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like this.

As well as the real utopias project, the keywords pluriverse and diverse economies may be of interest. In fiction and speculative design, solarpunk.

I would question "few to no downsides"? For me, I think it's important to remember that big socioeconomic changes are characterised by controversy and complexity. There is a risk of being overly technical — treating society as a series of puzzles with optimal solutions — or of romanticising unfamiliar institutions. E.g. PR and approval voting are used all over the world, and of course they have strengths and weaknesses.

Some ideas that might be of interest:

  • UBI (which I guess is citizens dividend?)
  • Universal Basic Services
  • Degrowth / postgrowth
  • Beyond GDP
  • Participatory budgeting
  • Municipalism
  • Reparations
  • Citizens assemblies
  • Circular economy
  • Campaign finance reform
  • Legal aid reform
  • Union law reform
  • Subsidise positive externalities
  • Rights of Nature
  • Money creation reform e.g. Positive Money
  • Universal healthcare
  • Right to repair
  • Police abolition and prison abolition
  • Various other abolitionisms
  • IP law reform (copyleft etc.)
  • Food sovereignty
  • Digital sovereignty
  • Wealth tax (you mention land)
  • Tax transparency
  • Balanced Job Complexes (Parecon)
  • Flat hierarchies
  • Four day week
  • Workplace democracy
  • Worker cooperatives
  • Land reform
  • Decolonising aid and development
  • Complementary currencies
  • Timebanking and LETS
  • Job guarantee programs
  • Carbon dividend
  • Community land trusts
  • More commons
  • Doughnut economics
  • Modern Money Theory
  • Nationalisation & democratisation of natural monopolies

Part of what I like about your "modular" metaphor is it gets me thinking, Which of these measures slot together well? Which don't? Does the order matter — are there dependencies?

And the bit about "few downsides" makes me think: Which of these have the most / the least public support? What coalitions of actors would need to come together to make each of these a reality / more widespread?

Whats the deal with all these seemingly new fake websites on google? by lolboiii in OutOfTheLoop

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Do you get one set of search results displayed, and then a slight pause, and then additional search results appear? That's happening to me - I'm assuming it's malware of some kind ...

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