Audiobook narration iirc

I recognise this writer, but from the very successful videogames he has programmed and designed.

I like good stories as well so I might start taking a look at his books.

Has been on my to-try list. The old one I mean, I don’t have the new.

… Might and Magic Book One: Secret of the Inner Sanctum… Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Restoration of Erathia (vanilla)… Invisible, Inc… Severed Steel… Solitairica… Griftlands… Hand of Fate

I don’t have a favourite unfortunately. No ranks. But I’ve played a lot more and these shine for gameplay first amd foremost. Some, like the first, are gameplay only (as was the requirement in the era, there was not much more to go by) whereas the others if you remove the flashy bits in ways which wouldn’t affect the gameplay, they’d play really good… just fine.

The ironic thing is defining a view of what is meant to be not political… is political. In the end everyone telling others what they should do, when said persons do not want to do it, is political. That is power. The act of the use and engagement of power could, in the end, be called politics.

The video is an odd one because it states a big problem (not looking at problems does, most of the time, aid enforcing the problem to stay. Usually out of embarrassment because people do feel on a subconscious level they are contributing to it, they just don’t want it to be said. They don’t want it publicly admitted due to said embarrassment) and also makes reference to how to not be political.

In the end there is one way to not be political. Simply choose not to have power over anyone else. That brings a few problems doesn’t it… money is a physical manifestation of power. ‘Do this for me because I am paying you to do it’. You could simply break that system by using money wrong then. Use it not as a means of power but as a token of appreciation for work voluntarily done (donating to a lemmy instance which allows usage for free also counts, when you can afford to, for example). Start moving more towards relying less on services and premium items, and become more capable with living on what you can have with your own hands. It is not going to make power vanish fully, therefore politics vanish fully, but it is a start—you’ll never get anywhere without starting somewhere. And what you may achieve in the end will probably surprise even you, let alone people around.

I can make one claim. Whether it is believed is another thing. Living is this way, as well as choosing to have no power over others while not letting people have power over you, makes it extremely difficult for political people to run free doing what they want (gaining benefits at the cost of other people). Most people who live by ‘ignorance is bliss’ cannot live this life because as you start trying to live like this, your subconscious mind starts throwing all these problems right in your face—because these problems are always there, people simply, consciously, refuse to perceive them. And your subconscious mind just goes ‘no’ to that, whether you like it or not. So you abandon the ignorance is bliss attitude, or abandon trying not to have power over others.

In the end, people who are not political are hardest to perceive, because what they essentially do is ‘minding their own business’. If you see a chill person around who’s basically carefree yet pretty helpful to anyone facing general problems, you may just have found a person who is not political around you. Or at least someone who has worked towards getting there. These people are generally going lower, away from the shit, than higher and more visible. So if you aim for the heights of achievement and acknowledgment, good luck perceiving them even when they’re right in front of you. These people are found everywhere—many have money, many have not as much to not be poor yet somehow seem content in life.