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[Gawdzilla Sama]

There were also pirates called "privateers" who only preyed on the ships of other countries. They were therefore sanctioned by their own governments.

The American State Papers have documents submitted to Congress for compensation by US privateers operating under warrant. The Papers cover at least the first hundred years of the US with some very interesting items. (YMMV, I'm a USN veteran.)

[Hydra009]

[Unbeliever]

I love the Carbonaro effect! I never know how he does the stuff he does, even when I've seen it before, as in this instance. This was actually one of the best! 🤪

[Blackleaf]

At the risk of destroying the magic, it's probably all staged. lol

[Gawdzilla Sama]

At the risk of destroying the magic, it's probably all staged. lol

Penn and Teller are up front about this all being BS. They even named their TV show "Penn & Teller's Bullshit".

[Hydra009]

My coworkers every December through March:

[Blackleaf]

My manifesto, made manifest. Oh.

[the_antithesis]

My manifesto, made manifest. Oh.

Is this a thing?

Googling only turns up variants of the trolley problem and I hate trolleys.

[Blackleaf]

Is this a thing?

Googling only turns up variants of the trolley problem and I hate trolleys.

Is what a thing?

[the_antithesis]

Is what a thing?

Killing 8-10 people to improve everyone else's lives.

[Blackleaf]

Killing 8-10 people to improve everyone else's lives.

Eight to ten specific people, yes. The green man was being coy. We know who those 8-10 people are. People with way too much money and way too much power.

[Hydra009]

At first blush, I want to say The Elder Scrolls, but man, that setting can be brutal.  I guess it depends on time and place, though.  Maybe early in the third era - before Tiber Septim kicks the bucket - in the heartlands of the Empire.  Peace and prosperity, albeit marred by limited uprisings and the occasional assassination.

Star Trek is surprisingly violent considering the "peaceful exploration" slogan.  One minute you're drinking Synthehol at the bar, the next minute, your whole deck is being sheered off the ship by a Borg tractor beam and you're either sucked out into space or assimilated.

Babylon 5 but then there's the Drakk plague (can you imagine a whole planet - Earth - under quarantine?) and the rise of authoritarianism, also on Earth.  Man, Earth sucks in that universe.  Maybe one of the human colonies?  But those tend to get bombed by Earthgov or raided by..*beat*...raiders.  Crap, I said that twice.

Stargate isn't bad, though it's really bizarre that humanity is split into two different civilizations and it only gets worse the more you think about it.  There are gate-havers (an interstellar civilization living off-world, they openly wield advanced technologies) and gateless (normal humans who live on Earth and are largely kept in the dark about the stargate project.  They receive a trickle of advanced technologies as they are "invented", probably delayed/diluted versions of what the gate-havers use).  Earth almost bought the farm a couple times, but the average person wouldn't know it.  Life on an off-world site or space ship might be pretty nice.

And Battlestar Galactica is basically an extinction event in progress.

[Blackleaf]

Conflict makes for interesting settings for games to escape into, but you wouldn't want to live through that 24/7, even if you happen to be the badass main character, rather than a random citizen. Personally, I would pick Harvest Moon (Story of Seasons), which is basically the inspiration for Stardew Valley. Specifically, the N64 game. I love that setting.

[Hydra009]

Floridians in winter:

https://i.imgur.com/RTu07r8.mp4

[Unbeliever]

What the hell happened to all that "global warming" we were supposed to get!? 🤔