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Cake day: 2023年6月14日

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  • Isn’t the point of the game that Dutch’s gang are losing the freedom they love so much because of the encroachment of larger populations and better technology driving that?

    It’s kind of a trade off; yes life is simpler, but it’s also far more dangerous - Arther dies of tuberculosis which is something that is just pretty much completely absent in the US anymore, and has been for a while. So just like today, we’re slowly and collectively trading liberty for safety. More surveillance then, but more conveniences like cars and medicine; more surveillance now, but even better conveniences like the internet and truly incredible medicine.

    Maybe this isn’t the intended take away, but I read it as a big poetic “the more things change…”