How much is warning, how much is predictive programming? Who can say?
A lot of the older writers were writing warnings, Bradbury's mechanical hounds in Fahrenheit 451 were a warning. The people who sell the Thermonator have no such excuse. You don't make the Terrorvortex from the classic sci-fi novel 'Don't make the terrorvortex' and get a pass.
The visionaries who see the future and warn us cannot save us from the midwits who read them and make their visions a reality.
The critique of mutant supremacy has a point:
If I had to sum up the Krakoa-era X-men, I would call it stories about a floating island enthostate run by objectively superior people. That the mutants are then all written like vengeful villains says a lot about the moral inversion of the left and what they'd do if they had power.
For those on the precipice of this rabbit hole, keep in mind this is a long playlist of long videos. It very firmly documents and names the devil, but is a hard watch.
I made it to vid 10/11 about a year and a half ago, and had to stop watching because of I veered out of sadness and disbelief into anger as I watched.
Necessary videos, good to view, but hard to finish.
I would ask whether the SwordSkill is capped or modified by your Misc/Minor/Major choice as well. TES was mostly about xp gain, with the level you got based on your skills moderating your gamestate.
I find myself wondering if there should be a hard coded 'edge' to your prioritized skills beyond that. Even a flat "10% better if it's a major skill, 10% less if for misc skill" creates a mathematically meaningful choice at character creation, representing the hard edge specialization might give.
Just my two cents
Your post reminds me of Kenshi and the fact that I should really get back to the grind. I understand that your interest is more in the nuts and bolts of design, but that's where my mind went.
What are you looking to take from TES's major/minor/misc system? If you're looking to 'break' from class as a unified system, what does that mean for the game world you're building?
Are you looking at having a screen or tab that 'lifts the hood?' For instance, there's a whole tab in Last Epoch dedicated to all of your modifiers, so you can track what your gear does and where your stand in terms of 'crunch' as far as your build goes. Maybe you can implement something similar?
The other game that's worth looking at would be Dwarf Fortress, where everything character is governed by discrete skills, ruled by math. The player has little/no direct control, but the system is probably worth examining in detail from a design standpoint.
These retards' views on race are monolithic, and in fact the very definition of racism.
To be racist is to be for the preservation of your race against the monolith of miscegenationist/cosmopolitan culture. 'Racist' as a term was first used against native tribes attempting to preserve their cultures against their era's Americanization. It is used in the exact same way against Whites resisting our era's Americanizaton.
Think of Richard Henry Pratt saying: "A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man." Then recognize that globohomo wants to do the same thing to white people. They want your kids brainwashed, raped, and re-educated as leftists. Same thing.
Segregating any class or race of people apart from the rest of the people kills the progress of the segregated people or makes their growth very slow. Association of races and classes is necessary to destroy racism and classism. -- Richard Henry Pratt
They aren't the 'real racists.' They're progressives, same as they've always been. The progressives seek to subvert and destroy whites as a nationalist/resistive force, and they have largely succeeded. Racially aware Whites are (at the very best) a parochial force. This is by the design of the left (ie the long march through the institutions) and the ceding of institutions, cultural & educational, by the right.
Racism has always been about resistance to 'progress.'
Get used to being racist.
I tried watching him at 1.5 times speed-- it's still not fast enough.
Quarterpounder lacks concision and gets lost on tangents. So I invariably feel like I'm wasting my time watching him, so wind up I stopping after the meme/intro 9 times out of 10.
I mean, I'm with you.
I read this:
If you had the status that you actually merited you would be, under the best possible circumstances, a lower-middle manager and even then after years of drudgery and promotion only because they couldn't find anyone else for the job.
And I immediately think of how people who have been promoted above their competence, can't threaten their bosses because they are entirely insecure in their position and reliant on their bosses to cover for them. You see diversity hires in this situation and it's like seeing turtles on fenceposts: you know that they didn't get there on their own, and they have no graceful way down. They were set there to be reliant minions of the person who set them there for the sake of ideologically capturing the institution.
Kakistocracy in action.
Wind Rose?
Based and dwarf-pilled.
(Also more than one album)