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Message: [QUOTE="MrChester, post: 368738, member: 291148"] I've seen people complaining about other people's shenanigans but I think that kinda misses the point of the setting. Without getting too socio-political, there's this concept in Laissez-faire capitalism that suggests that capitalism is necessary as a means to defend what is yours. This game challenges that by putting you into a hyper-capitalistic society and making you fend for yourself. It highlights how the "defend what is yours" aspect of Objectivism is only necessary because capitalism promotes selfishness and a willingness to fuck over your fellow man. As well, it highlights how it's impossible to defend yourself in a system that denies you the necessary resources to keep yourself safe. There's currency but if you've played the game you know just how much more useful connections are than cash. You ever play Bioshock 2? This game is probably what it was like to be a Rapture citizen. If you're a prole (the lowest of the low), and you're getting harassed by a cultist, you either gotta go to the police and hope they do something, talk it out with the cultist directly and hope they don't whack you, or get some contraband and illegally clear them off yourself and hope you aren't killed in the process - it's tough, but that's the point of playing a prole (and also, realistically, you only need to be a prole for like 10 mins max whenever you join a new server so I don't see the big deal anyway). Secondly - and much less politically charged - this is a minecraft anarchy server of a game. Balance this, meta that: nah - imo this is not the right place for that sort of granular adjustment. There are trolls, and if being trolled makes you really upset, yeah, it's probably not the game for you, but it's not like they can be [I]that[/I] disruptive anyway [/QUOTE]

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