Read the preview. Very similar to the system used in Free League's Alien. Strangely very gear and combat focused. Every species logo incorporates vagina imagery. The feminine Tiefling looking race is based on a porn comic and all three sexes feature operational mammaries. It's a fetish RPG, but nowhere near as extreme as Bellum Maga or MSF High. In fact like many such RPGs I see nothing inherent in the game itself which pushes the themes and agenda it claims to have. And if you're really looking for Poe there's no better an example than ValiDate, a dating sim which features such obnoxious representations of minorities that I
still wonder if it isn't some sort of cunning troll.
Ultimately though I have no problem with this sort of fantasy, and people vastly overestimate how much RPGs influence beliefs and behavior beyond the table.
Welp someone told 4chan.
Archived for when it goes away.
The idea of an alien invasion being thwarted because they find humans just too sexy to control themselves around is rather intriguing however.
Sociopaths are experts at avoiding looking like assholes. This is why sociopaths always come to power in such systems.
Sociopaths and Narcissists are the
entire problem, and the best I can recommend is for people to learn how to spot and expel them, especially empaths who think they can save everybody.
calling out Asperger's here is bullshit. Plenty of posters here are assholes without Asperger's and plenty of people with Asperger's are super nice.
Aspie here. While that's true, the fact we don't intuitively pick up on social cues means we're constantly in danger of unintentionally violating social boundaries, and some of these triggers are so insipid that we don't just get frustrated trying to honor them, but literally exhausted as simple social interactions can become massive expenses in emotional labor, and eventually resentful that we're being forced to put in this work just to participate in society.
Theoretically the condition also frees us of the kind of social biases which make one vulnerable to influence, but in my experience those on the spectrum become particularly obsessed with certain things, often political. It's partly about a need for order, and mastering one domain is about the only way you can even attempt to put the world in context.
The central force against corruption is that the system should keep assholes out of power.
How?
Important positions would be thrust upon those with the highest reputation and if people found power seeking behavior as distasteful as they do now-a-days, then your standard modern day politician (with few expectations) would never attain high office.
So when does capability enter the equation, if at all?
The point is think they know better than you how to spend your money.
The justification for all authoritarianism really.
When you have the tech to take dirt apart and turn it into food, clothing, housing, etc what happens to economics?
Same as always: Someone ends up controlling who can access the tech and dirt.
So why not write your own SFRPG based on your views and try to kickstart it?
Create a scifi future setting where there are heroic straight conservative libertarian shitlords battling against the ravening hordes of libtards, SJWs, feminazis, LGBTQ monsters, socialists, communists, NAMBLA members, etc?
Maybe even call it "Shitlords of the stars!"
It would likely be pulled from #Kickstarter, and then the goalposts would shift to "Why not create your own platform?".
How do you feel about sites such as YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit that implement similar algorithmic reputation systems? Do you feel that these systems consistently surface the best & most useful content and reward the best people? How would what you're proposing differ in a meaningful way from other existing algorithmic rating systems?
If someone kills someone else and gets -10,000 reputation, is that just as bad as littering 10,000 times? What if someone is falsely convicted of a crime, do prosecutors get negative reputation for a prosecution that's later overturned? If you're mentally ill and behave erratically sometimes, is that your fault or...? What if you own a business but your wife cheats on you and then spreads a bunch of lies about you that hurts your reputation?
This type of pie-in-the-sky thinking seems very much driven by people who either don't work with technology or haven't meaningfully grappled with the consequences of it. The world is a lot more complex than it's possible to boil down into our models, and the more we try to force the world to align with the model the more negative effects this will have.
I think there's a solid case to be made that centralization in technology inevitably leads to totalitarianism. Given enough time, the people who are willing to act unethically for their own advantage will be able to use these mechanisms to their own advantage.
And RPGs are exactly the kind of thing uniquely suited to exploring such dilemmas.
Check this out.
Check this out as well.
That and circlejerk their politics. speaking of which, here, have a dystopia: Enjoy your Fnarg bro
Checked out. Thanks for sharing.
Popularity contests are precisely why the United States is not a Democracy.
The full editorial worth a read too.