the character creation is kinda superfluous at this point, you can spend loads of time naming them, making a coat of arms etc. but in my experience it never comes up anywhere, nor does your leader character. there’s no real plot or politics to speak of, it’s just a medieval city simulator. there are some policies you can enact but the only impact is just ‘raise taxes = people sad’ and the like. maybe in future more stuff will be added but at the moment it’s not got anything i would consider problematic
there are already mods to change things like character avatars so you could potentially just make whatever character portrait you like and put that in the game

has anyone else had the issue where livestock just doesn’t get bought for years on end? every playthrough I set a family at the livestock trader to buy like 50 sheep, and 3 years later they’ve bought 1, even if I had money to spare in all that time

literally black mirror

grand prix. big price

it’s all streaming services now, like they all had a meeting and said “let’s just collectively raise prices to optimum cockbag levels”, aka oligopoly

I hope you’re prepared for an unforgettable shitpost!

thinking of naming my child “Lmao” in homage to Lal

got a labour flyer through the letterbox today, turns out that among their candidate’s campaign promises are “stop the boats, end the hotel use for refugees and remove those with no legal right to be here”, which kinda just shows what they’re going for - daily mail readers
it’s been a while since i’ve been canvassed, but i wonder if i could restrain myself from revealing that far from ever being willing to support and vote for right-wingers, I want only to literally pull their heads off as a service to mankind and the world in general

I was thinking recently what it would be like if we replaced all aeroplanes with airships instead; like helium-filled zeppelins. If it meant saving the planet, surely everyone could tolerate a slower journey, after all, people used to spend days and weeks on ships travelling across the world.
The only real obstacle to this is the system’s incessant need to extract as much of everyone’s labour power as possible, not just over the course of a work day, but over their entire lives, meaning that any reduction in speed of travel, for instance, is intolerable, as it results in ‘wasted time’ that is not actively being spent on exploitation.

Scene from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 22, “Symbiosis”, in which Capt. Picard attempts to mediate a trade dispute between the Brekkians, (pictured) who possess large quantities of a valuable medicine called “spice”, and the Ornarans, who are in need of the drug to cure a plague.