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Dancingrage:Seems sorta strange that of all the tropes that could be invovled in videogames (don't see many examples of this in other media but I'm sure it'll be out there somewhere) that this one is sorta ignored despite money's dominance over damn near everything we do in both game worlds and real life. I'd like some help with this in terms of examples and getting this one out for whoever reads this bit.
Meta4: Standard procedure is to propose new articles in ykttw
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Dancingrage: Arg, complexity in what I thought would be a nice and simplistic manner of finding out if I'm being redundant. I suspect I'm not but I'll go propose this over there if it doesn't require another blasted sign-up or something.
Dancingrage: It doesn't appear that I'm being redundant, but that's just me being tickled pink that my entry showed up on money tropes before anyting else.
Mewtarthio: The title's kinda on the long side.
Dancingrage: That is a possibility. Could look at renaming it if enough folks give the nod for it. Personally I think it's fairly descriptive/accurate though.
Anon: I'm not very good at the editing bit so I shan't be adding these, but due to the inflating Inn prices in Quest 64 and (if memory serves me correctly) Crystalis, by the end of the game it's cheaper to buy and use a transportation item to get to and from the first town than to stay at a local inn.
Arrow: I don't particularly understand why Ayn Rand's Revenge is mentioned in the opening. While the whole objectivism deal is somewhat related to that of market values based on whether capitalism is in effect or not, that's not how the RPG Cliché list uses it. Said list references it when talking about the complete lack of government outside areas where people live, making the world map into a dangerous wild territory where all the animals are trying to kill you and there's no easy roads to travel on/people trying to help stop them. So really, it has nothing to do with market values in the case of the list, other than the fact that you'd never find shops out in the open fields.
Dancingrage: Good question. Barring any good explanation (I tend towards starting off a good idea then coming back to see how it grows later) from whoever put it up, I'll probably take it down in a day or two.
Under the segment discussing "In its fourth edition, D&D has fixed standard prices," there's a bullet point of "lampshaded in this Full Frontal Nerdity strip." Is it really lampshading if it's not in the original source? If not, it should be removed. LO Rd: Idk, it seems that a lot of the examples here should really be (and many are) under With This Herring. I figure Adam Smith Hates Your Guts only describes situations where the invisible hand works solely against you, not ones where people whose lives depend on your victory demand payment for their assistance. |
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