BLIND'S PROFILE

This is phenomenal. Compared to your old shots, it's night and day XD I especially love the color palette.

The only problem I can spot are the very square water tiles. They clash a bit with an otherwise very cohesive map.

Loving this. Those cliff tiles..yass. XD

My only suggestion is to add more variance and dynamism to the cliffs, but otherwise this is extremely well done.

Your point about society not having cars because people quit their jobs. Society doesn't NEED cars. People mostly use cars to get to work, hah, and to go places they want to go(not need to go). Since people can go to further places, things stopped being local. (in a small town)Instead of going to the local Co-op grocery store, you have to drive to the next town over. If we didn't have cars we wouldn't starve to death. Our grocery stores would be closer. If we didn't have grocery stores, we would have to hunt for food and the ones who can't would die off. Cars have only existed for what, about 100 years. We got along fine without them for much longer than that.

And all this talk about not doing things for intrinsic reward, that's nonsense. That's a personal view that I know for a fact not everyone shares. I do things for that reason all the time. Based on some of the things I've seen you say about human nature over the years, I don't think you really know what the average person would do in a situation. Just like most people on most subjects. So saying that you know what everybody would do, even in a futuristic hypothetical, is going to be wrong every time.

Agreed. Most of what we believe about society comes out of our entrenchment in the 2017 model...not because globalism or capitalism is intrinsic to human life.

A universal basic-income economy also doesn't have to mean "a world without currency." Knowing our government, I highly doubt it would exceed even a denomination needed for merely surviving; housing, food, healthcare etc. It'd be meant to provide stability, while encouraging further flourishing and growth by other means. So the remnants of a capitalist ideology will (seemingly) always exist; people would still be working, if they want to actually live interesting lives and thrive.

In the most utopian sense, it could be a reorganization of our values, and a newfound "freedom" to pursue creative or more deeply-meaningful work that many people would have otherwise loved doing, but weren't able to because of financial burdens. (Like many of us even here on RMN, to use a silly example). That isn't to say all people are cut out to pursue "creative" jobs, but even that concept has a flexible definition.

In the worst scenario, it could lead to a Brave New World type of oligarchy where everyday people lose their autonomy, and have no desire to do *any* work at all. The rich continue to bathe in luxury, and the inequalities would exceed even our current-day. But that's pretty extreme, and I would hope we're more than capable of steering ourselves away from that scenario.

To steer things back toward Trump, one blog in particular I read seemed to adopt a middle-of-the-road stance that isn't common in the media, but perhaps can resonate on both sides:

author=Sam Harris
2. I think Trump’s “Muslim ban” is a terrible policy. Not only is it unethical with respect to the plight of refugees, it is bound to be ineffective in stopping the spread of Islamism. As many have pointed out, it is also internally inconsistent: It doesn’t include Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, or Lebanon, any of which has been a more fertile source of jihadist terrorism than several of the countries Trump named.

3. However, most of what is being said in opposition to Trump’s order is thoroughly contaminated by identity politics and liberal delusion. The Left seems determined to empower the Right by continuing to lie about the problem of Islamism. As David Frum recently wrote, “When liberals insist that only fascists will defend borders, then voters will hire fascists to do the job liberals won’t do.” I have been saying as much for more than a decade—and am vilified by my fellow liberals whenever I do.

4. It is perfectly possible—and increasingly necessary—to speak about the ideological roots of Islamism and jihadism, and even about the unique need for reform within mainstream Islam itself, without lapsing into bigotry or disregarding the suffering of refugees. Indeed, when one understands the problem for what it is, one realizes that secular Muslims, liberal Muslims, and former Muslims are among the most desirable allies to have in the West—and, indeed, such people are the primary victims of Islamist intolerance and jihadist terror in Muslim-majority countries.

5. If liberals who refuse to speak honestly on these topics continue to march with Islamists, denigrate free speech, and oppose the work of the real reformers in the Muslim community, they will only further provoke and empower Trump. And Trump, in turn, will empower Islamists the world over by threatening the civil liberties of all Muslims within his reach.

6. The next acts of jihadist terrorism to take place on American soil will most likely be met with terrifyingly blunt (and even illegal) countermeasures by the Trump administration. If all that liberals can do in response is continue to lie about the causes of terrorism and lock arms with Islamists, we have some very rough times ahead.

7. If you are listening to obscurantists like Linda Sarsour, Dalia Mogahed, Reza Aslan, and representatives of CAIR, and denigrating true secularists and reformers like Maajid Nawaz, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Raheel Raza, and Sarah Haider, you are part of the problem.

I joined GW in...2005, I think? XD (Also, Charas.net, Lunatic Gaming & RRR).

As it became gradually larger/impersonalized, and less interested in RPGMaker, I branched off to help create Loose Cannon Gaming with Ocean, Clest, and some others. Although I helped create the site, I was pretty young at the time, so I mostly entrusted it to the older members. Ironically, the forums themselves became more RP-centric and cliquey (in a good way), not nescessarrily with an emphasis on the actual games we were making.

Eventually the site "merged" with Ghostlight to stimulate activity, but it was a disaster debatably a failed experiment, as the communities were very different.

I went back to GW and #rm2k pretty regularly, and eventually just followed WIP etc to RMN.

It's funny, I think we all tend to nostalgia-glaze some of those old sites, but I'm not sure if they were objectively better. The Internet was crazy different at the time, even in the mid-2000s. RMN's definitely stood the "test of time" the best.

author=Dyhalto
Commercial?! Bah Humbug!

Amid a landscape of everybody's RM projects going commercial, why not aspire to create an outstanding free game?

Well, some of them probably deserve to, and some of them don't. XD But yeah what Tau said, this project will remain free.

I was just rambling a bit about future prospects.