I mean, it's not like it's just RP either. I mean, look at e fucking video games! Look at GODDAMN GERALT OF RIVIA! Fucker can bed a fuckton of women, is an immortal unbeatable mutant, and wrestle goddamned monsters for profits! Hell, the protagonist is always more than the player. I'm willing to bet that if you actually fought monsters and aliens, you wouldn't be playing fucking videogames.
Because that's a game designed to give you a power fantasy, and there isn't a GM you have to make sure is having fun as well, we're agreeing with you, Cinder, of course gaming is about escapism, have fun playing Geralt, or Shepard, or The Dragonborn if you want to be an unmitigated badass, but it isn't nice when you try to be perfect in a tabletop game and overshadow everyone and piss off the DM, your style of playing is
fine, s'just, when other people make perfect gods of the world, it ain't fun for others, and that's kinda the point.
I'm repeating myself, aren't I? I'll stop now.
Humanity has a food problem and climate change but we still haven't planted shrubs/trees/vines everywhere.
...We should expand Arbor Day to Plant Week.
You know that unemployment problem we have? ... Yeah.
Bernie Sanders 2016
Fun fact, apparently, planting trees and such might actually be a detrimental influence on global warming,
Okay that article is interesting and all, but NO. It reports that, in *some* parts of the world, the albedo effect (having dark trees which absorb light rather than light-colored ground) MAY counteract the conversion of greenhouse gas (CO2) to O2, and the creation of clouds by pulling moisture back out of the ground.
I can believe that's true, LOCALLY, in some parts of the world. But they don't say that trees in general are a "detrimental influence on global warming". Except in very specific cases, and locally.
No, they didn't say that, but what they did say that global temperatures would actually go down if all the trees were cut down (not by much and we'd all die of carbon dioxide poisoning, but still) while intensuio said that you could just defeat global warming by planting trees/shrubs/vines everywhere, which I thought was incorrect because it would only work if you tried to expand the more tropical areas, while in other places, it pretty much wouldn't do anything at all.