As a GM, I get players to explain their hustle. For example:
Tech got a "You sabotaged some equipment - 200eb" so I asked the Tech what they sabotaged and who it was for. The player threw out some fun stuff about sabotaging a DJ's deck so they lose a DJ competition in a rave. I wrote down the DJ's name for a future plot hook.
Rockerboy got the "your song went viral - 500eb" so I asked him about the song. There's a rival band that he has bad blood with, so they're probably going to rip it off in future.
The idea is to keep players awake and get them to flesh out their characters a bit. Maybe I can use it later, or maybe it just ties them a little tighter to the world.
a black SUV drove into the crowd of more than 100 protesters. No one was injured but the near-miss incident underscores the rising tension over the automaker's CEO, Elon Musk, and his high-profile, and highly controversial, role in the Trump administration.
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"He drove into a crowd of senior citizens," said Mark Offerman of the Democratic Progressive Caucus Palm Beach County about the driver. "Everybody was able to move out, but two older women were really almost clipped. We immediately called the cops."
My D&D crew wanted to try something different. I tried for Shadowrun, but they didn't want to mix hitech and high magic. Cyberpunk was the compromise. It didn't hurt that they'd played the CRPG.
If you have a group that's getting bored with D&D, you can point them at my onboarding doc.
Those ads were clearly identified as originating with the Liberal Party. The one you mentioned was only available on the LPC website.
The problem with third party ads/content (particularly those by party-affiliated groups like Canada Proud) is that you don't know who is paying for them, or why.
Attack ads are always shitty. I really wish they weren't a thing, but that horse has left the barn.
Last I heard they're pretty closely aligned with the Conservative Party of Canada, both socially and financially. Like they hang out with the CPC staff socially.
In the past few years it's become de rigueur to accuse people we don't like of being foreign funded, but I believe Canada Proud is 100% Canadian assholes. If you have evidence to the contrary I'd love to see it.
Do you have some examples? The only union ads I've seen have been pretty dull. From what I've seen they're pretty clear about who paid for the ad and what they want. That's usually harder to tell Canada Proud and other party-affiliated media.
Orgs like Canada Proud are political operatives that work on behalf of parties. They are deliberately manipulative and misrepresent themselves as normal people, rather than political hacks. They game social media algorithms for klout, so they can skirt advertising rules. Worse, they post stuff that is demonstrably untrue to manipulate the public.
I'm not aware of unions deploying deception or trying to manipulate the public. Generally, their advertising is earnest and states exactly who they are.
As a GM, I get players to explain their hustle. For example:
The idea is to keep players awake and get them to flesh out their characters a bit. Maybe I can use it later, or maybe it just ties them a little tighter to the world.