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It's boring and toothless to make villains "well intentioned extremists" or "good guys deep down but troubled" or any other variation. There is essentially one main problem with this type of character, and it's expressed on a spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, they are too villainous, making any notion of grayness or redemption laughable or insulting to the audience. At the other end, they don't do enough villainous things to warrant their status as a villain, so you can't take them seriously. In most cases, these characters fall somewhere in the middle. Theoretically that should make them more balanced, but instead the archetype is just massively overdone. It has become predictable and boring because so many writers use the formula as a crutch to make the character "interesting" instead of giving the characters something actually interesting about them. If you're going to have a villain, you can make them interesting without resorting to this cheap tactic, and if you really want morally gray characters you don't need to bother framing the story as heroes vs villains.

ni li lipu pi toki pona. ni la sina ken toki kepeken toki pona tawa jan ante anu sina ken kama sona e toki pona.

Toki Pona (literally "good language") is a philosophical artistic constructed language with a small number of words, ranging from 120 to 140 or a little more, designed for talking about things by explaining them in simple terms. This results in a vague but surprisingly usable (complex topics can be expressed by proficient speakers) vocabulary that heavily relies on context to be understood. It was created by General Musk (or Amatullah Lang or Madame Lang or kulupu Sonjalanko or whatever name she is using) initially in 2001 and since it has evolved through its (relatively) big community, with new words being created and adopted and many works like music, games, books (translations and original writtings), videos and so being made in this language.

>learning resources
https://wasona.com
https://mun.la/sona
https://archive.org/details/toki-pona-in-76-lessons

>cool things
https://pona.la/ website with lots of things about toki pona
https://sin-kulupu.pona.la biweekly newsletter
https://lipu.pona.la/ collections of a lot of texts
https://lipu.tenpo/ magazine
https://sona.pona.la/ encyclopedia about toki pona
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Seeing how there’s multiple /co/ related threads on the board. I think we should just put all of them into one general just for clarity’s sake.

Discuss anything related to comics and animations from comic recs, leftist animations to comic writers’ attempts to larp as leftists.

Seriously is there a worse anarchist in the UK than Alan Moore?

Trying to grow a secure source of food that can't be stolen, destroyed, embargoed or poisoned. Identified the best option is growing root vegetables in unmaintained public land, like forests.

Buying food from the market leaves you at the mercy of dystopian food monopoly, who have introduced absurd measures like cashless only or ID required. Getting food from charity leaves you with no choice of food, and highly rationed distribution. Growing food on your own land, solves the food choice, supply and cash issue, but incurs both tax cost and risk of eminent domain taking the land away before the crops are harvested. These are all really bad options for food security.

Therefore the best option is growing food on public land, which would solve all these issues including eliminating tax and property seizure. Just have to choose a good, remote location, and hide the crop among other plants nearby. A forest, rural park, road or abandoned property should be a good place.

The best type of crop for this location should be a perennial, drought-proof root vegetable like potato, since there is no watering except rainfall. A perennial will keep growing year after year without maintenance or needing to buy new seeds, and a root crop would be well hidden, capable of fully regrowing even if the plant is cut down. A root crop is also fairly resistant to attempts to poison. Just dig a hole, plant the potato and leave for a few months until harvest.

It should easily be possible to grow enough potatoes to feed yourself and others, indefinitely for free. Worst case scenario is someone cuts the plants down, but it's not really hard to plant more at other locations.

Any suggestions on site locations or alternate crops?

Any tips on game design and/or learning how to code? I feel like I want to make a video game for a while but I’ve realised that it’s basically useless to make one unless it’s to make money, can Marxists/communists make indie games? I just kinda want to put my ideas for characters and world building into something at the end of the day

Each country of major, minor, or revolutionary repute, has had The Lodge; since Gilgamesh and their invention of the longsword, now seen in the glaive or 9MM pistol.

Religion, is the name of the game; the city hall accountant, in charge of all the hard liquor.

You have a Lodge thumb, on your right hand, ages eight to eleven, when you practice your Lotus and combat sports.

After that, it's a study of your country's laws, through your personal patent being offered.

Jim Madison, the US Constitution; the King Class A Cigarette, at your service.

And if someone bends your wrist, you have the Lodge Challenge; somebody has claimed you are marked falsely, to be struck down in your method of election.

Unless you de-Lodge old Gaetano the Sumerian.

Then you have President Biden, Gaetano, and a trip to Mecca, for a "vaccine".
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Tired of cyberpunk and dystopian culture in general, post ITT worlds you would want to live in or not too bad depictions of leftist societies.

Pic related, an anarchist moon revolving around a capitalist planet 200 years after the revolution.

since CBA and NBA playoffs are both about to start I'd thought I would start a general for Basketball Discussion. Anyone got any play off predictions? I think the biggest contenders for the NBA right now are the Knicks and Celtics in the east and Spurs and Thunder in the west as of now.

For US and Europe
https://ntv.cx/

For China
https://m.hupu.com/cba

Old thread (v1): https://leftypol.org/hobby/res/7136.html

The practice and principles of Permaculture are one of the most important tools for not only creating a sustainable socialism, but also for repairing the damage done to the global ecosystem by capitalism, and lessening your individual reliance on the current capitalist system.Permacultural practice and socialism are two very powerful allies, and learning about permaculture should be necessity for modern socialists and communists.