Ioper
4d ago
It's kind of a superhero story with the MCs power being setting a save point and reloading to it when he dies (and some other related powers). The story is about him achieving his "perfect run" after a particular save point.
Something that makes the story a bit different than other timeloop stories is that we enter it kind of in the middle or the end. The MC has had the power for a very long (subjective) time and has already been very affected by it.
The same author actually has an ongoing story that is also a time loop story (this time litrpg), called "The hundred reigns", in which the MC somehow inherits the "evil overlord" class in his sleep one night from his father and has 100 hundred reigns (lives). The issue being that he is a bastard (as in not trueborn), has no power, the court and the world at large doesn't understand how the Overlord class works and believes you get the overlord class by killing the previous overlord and are more than happy to kill the MC to get the class. Also, the empire is threatened by invasion, is on the brink of civil war and rebellion, the Overlord is hunted by a centuries old Elf oracle, and there is possibly an apocalypse on the horizon.
An interesting aspect of the worldbuilding is that people in general don't have "classes" or level at all, for that you need an item allowing you to tap into a cultural archetype as defined by a kind of collective oversoul. Activating the class puts on an armour or costume related to the archetype, like a superhero or kind of how like classes/jobs work in some JRPGs. To level up you can either kill powerful things or act in accordance with the archetype but eventually you probably need to do both, which could be a bit of an issue when you have a class modelled after a literal demon...
That loops are a limited resource leads to things being somewhat different from some other time-loop stories since the MC can't just throw away tons of loops to achieve his aims.
Something like this can easily be caused without your knowledge by a mismatch between your scheduling and your salaried hours.
Ioper
4d ago
Depending on local regulations this could be end of year overtime/excess vacation days being paid out as cash due to you going over the limit for how much you're allowed to save on a yearly basis. So if you were like ~7 days over the limit it would show up as a 25% pay increase. These things often get sorted with the January pay due to Christmas and New year's holidays.
Ioper
1mo ago
And yet it's more and more financially preferable to not have children. What we have done is like noticed that car sales a dropping and handed out 10$ vouchers and wonder why that doesn't have an impact on car sales.
It depends on the brand and what process they use. Some are ok but a lot of it is pretty disgusting. In my experience you won't really save money buying pre ground, because the decent stuff isn't meaningfully cheaper than buying beans.
Ioper
1mo ago
So tie welfare to children as well if it becomes an issue. We do this shit all the time.
Perhaps, but why give up before giving even a shadow of a try?
Why continue massively subsidising civilisation destroying anti-social behaviour?
Ioper
1mo ago
Of course we can, gradually increase taxation for the childless with commensurate tax rebates for those with children. Have the exact rates depend on the fertility rate.
Easy peasy. Perhaps you don't want to do this but its well within the capacity of the state to do.
Perhaps we could actually try to make having children the financially preferable choice (or even just equivalent!) instead of an immense burden relative to childlessness/having too few children before we throw up our hands and declare defeat?
There are massive financial incentives, caused by the state, to not have children and the current transfers are pathetically small compared to those.
That sounds more like administration than management. What I believe has been shown in multiple industries (but particularly the public sector ones) is that as administration grows, it decouples from the actual operations of the business itself and becomes self sustaining, and in fact starts doing less actual administration, in not only per capita terms but in absolute terms.
Its kind of like how teachers keep inventing new method to teach that clearly don't work, because thats more fun than just doing the same thing in a fairly formulaic way.
Very few actually want to do the real administrative work, so new more interesting work is invented.
Most managers are actually fairly directly involved with the real operations of the actual business, it's not a support function like more pure administrative departments such as HR.
Ioper
1mo ago
I never plan much when I go on vacation, usually I have like 1-2 things I want to do when I go for a week and let the rest be spontaneous.
My father-in-law does a minute plan whenever he travels. It can be fun following him around for like a day but then it gets exhausting and counter to the purpose of going on vacation in the first place (for me).
Ioper
1mo ago
Private group chats obviously, that's where almost all conversation has moved already.
Sweet, by that definition Stockholm city (not the urban or metropolitan area which are not as dense) is suburban.
Ioper
1mo ago
Is the paganism really a problem or the specific Paganism at play here, or possibly the people being pagan.
Are the Muslim subcontinentals less of an issue to you? Are east Asian pagans as much of an issue?
Ioper
1mo ago
But a lot of this does seem like a bit of cope the HSR to nowhere certainly feels so as most of the Subway stations to nowhere now have bustling new development around them and most of the ghost citeies have filled up.
There is a difference between within city transit and between city transit. There have been tons of railway overbuilds historically but within city public transit is rarely meaningfully overbuilt. The economic case for between city HSR is generally very poor, there just isn't enough potential transit to justify the massive costs.
Between city travel should generally either be slower trains, cars or air traffic. It isn't that transit or even rail transit is bad, it's just that the economic case for HSR in particular is very narrow.
Ioper
1mo ago
Except of course that there aren't many subcontinentals coming here and they're still disliked... People aren't complaining about subcontinentals due to displacement but because they dislike them. The situation is different from the Anglophone world.
Just because displacement is a cause for animosity doesn't mean that there aren't other causes and that different groups are perceived differently relative to each other.
Have you tried following along a high intensity calisthenics exercise program on YouTube?
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