I take it back, I really do. This fan base has really crushed my spirit tbh
Ok but the best part of the Creeper Cult is literally being able to approach anyone with a Callous Heart on and just chat about Creeper. Like I understand it’s not a unique concept by any means but I’ve made a lot of friends in the cult just by going up to them and saying that I liked their jacket. Honest to god, even with social anxiety, I have never found talking to someone easier. Besides, we all love it if you approach us and talk to us about our CH’s, because they’re basically our babies let’s not even deny it.
TL;DR: It’s ok to approach people you see in Callous Hearts and talk to them about Creeper :)
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til Dwayne the Rock Johnson has a horse farm and…
Concept: Dwayne the Rock Johnson’s daughter is a fan of Star Stable (Either Simone, who’s like 16 or Jasmine but in the future of course cause she’s a babby). The daughter gets mysteriously sucked into the game, which Dwayne the Rock Johnson finds out when he comes into the room and sees the game running- and the Dark Riders riding off with a character that looks suspicious like his daughter ..
He can’t do anything in the game, since the character you’re supposed to be playing is gone… but he sees people in chat asking where Jasmine/Simone went and if that’s part of a quest…?
So he creates an account. His avatar inexplicably looks like this:
Frustrated, he powers his way through the first couple levels, pulling out his credit card to pay for Star Rider. The only option that works is “Lifetime”. Dwayne the Rock Johnson rolls his eyes but if anyone can afford lifetime Star Rider its Dwayne the Rock Johnson.
Suddenly there’s a weird glitch on the screen… it looks like a whirlpool? It’s oddly realistic, almost three dimensional, and as if it were beckoning him to come closer.. closer. And then he’s in the game. Trying to get his bearings, Dwayne the Rock Johnson desperately tries to find out what happened to his girl, but the townsfolk only seem concerned with their day to day activities. Though the other players are able to communicate .. only the high level girls tend to ignore his requests for help, and the lower level people are either unable to help or looking for someone called Spirit…? even if a word here or there drops out, he realizes that he has to level up to even get close to the one who sounds like he may be behind this, and so he spends all his Star Coins making days pass faster, only to realize he can’t buy anymore while in game (thus having to wait a night, or a week til more are added). The adventure begins.
Dwayne the Rock Johnson comes to understand the he is the reincarnation of the Spirit of Aideen. He befriends the other players, the townsfolk- even the horses.
Soon hes admired by everyone. He’s flying through his quests, until the day comes where he finds himself in a refrigerator, waiting to spring out and confront this Mr. Sands himself.
When they finally meet, Mr Sands laughs. “Garnok…” he bellows, “As expected, He has fallen for our little ruse..” Sands adds, steepling his fingers and nodding to his hooded minions.
“Where’s my daughter, Sands?” Dwayne the Rock Johnson snarls, aware of the goons that are slowly starting to surround him, making mental notes of who’s closer and who looks likely to go down with a single punch.
“Oh.” Sands chuckles. “We have no more use for her..” he says, motioning for one of his men to free her. She rushes to hug her farther, then inches closer to his horse, knowing the Soul Horse will likely be their only method of escape. Meanwhile, behind Mr. Sands a shadowy form rises from the fog off the ocean.. and his chuckle turns into a deep throaty laugh.
“What the..” The rock looks in horror as pink light emanates from the sigils on the floor of the tanker.
“Garnok!” Sands growls. “Your new earthly vessel has arrived!”
The goons start to swarm Dwayne the Rock Johnson who rips off his shirt and begins to throw down. “RockWalker!” He yells to his Soul Horse, “Get grr Her unf OUT OF HERE!”. The horse nods knowingly, and the daughter leaps on and races away, with a couple of goons very slowly (like, are-they-even-chasing-her slowly?!?!) following behind.
‘All right Garbok, or whatever your name is.” Dwayne the Rock Johnson says as the goons stop to catch their collective breath. He raises the Peoples eyebrow and flexes his muscles. “I don’t know if you even have a nose but you’re about to smell …what the Rock is cookin…”
The Rock fights with a fury never seen in the ring, or any of his films. Goons go flying but Mr Sands seems undeterred, and is in fact smiling, knowing Dwayne The Rock Johnson is only human and will weaken eventually.. When the Soul Horse Rock (the Horse) Walker reappears they fight as a team, having each others back, fighting as one..
But even the strength of Dwayne the Rock Johnson and Rock the Horse Walker combined is no match for a cowardly villain with a blow dart full of tranquilizers.
When the dust settles, our hero is ass up on the floor and his once noble steed is hooves up by his side. “Now,” says Mr. Sands. “Once the planets are aligned at the end of the summer, we can begin the re-bodying process. Lock him up…”
Meanwhile in Moorland… the daughter has called for a trailer (which is what Dwayne the Rock Johnson should have done but you never can tell where the trailer will or won’t go).. and is rallying the troops. She explains, through heavily censored chat, what has become of her father, and that she desperately needs help saving him. Everyone is moved - from the lowliest newb to the highest level Star Rider. Every Druid and Soul Rider. Everyone is eager to help (after all, one could go nuts waiting for new quests and here one has fallen in their laps!). Horses are trained. Spirit is forgotten. Weapons are forged (courtesy of Conrad, a huge Dwayne the Rock Johnson fan).
When people log on there is a new opening scene- telling the very story you see here. Dwayne the Rock Johnson is in need of Jorviks help, and only the best and brightest of the Moorland Stable Girls can save him …
Are you… one of those girls?
(Rock the Horse Walker image from here)
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So what are the strengths and weaknesses of capitalism?
Capitalism’s biggest strength is that it is wholly reliant on a trait of humanity that is present in every single person: Greed. Greed is the sole energy that powers capitalist economies, and this means that it can accrue more wealth more quickly than any other economic system.
However, that same greed can be its undoing. While capitalism creates large amounts of wealth, it tends to cluster that wealth to a small number of people. This means that capitalism is great for a company, but terrible for a country. When left to it’s own devices, a corporation’s only obligation is to acquire more money for itself.
This is exacerbated by capitalists who heavily push the lie that capitalism is fueled by anything other than unrepentant greed. Leading to the following contradictions:
Capitalists believe that competition will act as all the regulation the “market” needs, despite corporations acquiring more power frequently engaging in anti-competitive practices because competition is bad for a company’s bottom line, and as such a company doesn’t want competition.
Capitalists believe that tax cuts for the rich will lead to them creating more jobs and investing in their businesses, despite the fact that we’ve tried that multiple times and every time it happens the rich just pocket the money because acquiring more money is the end-goal of capitalism and you’ve just handed them free money.
The reality is that Capitalism needs oversight and wealth redistribution, otherwise its own greed will cause it to cannibalize itself. This is why savvy capitalists (capitalists who want to maintain and preserve capitalism rather than acquire as much money as possible and then bail) tend to be nominally socialist because they know without this oversight the people excluded from wealth will inevitably revolt against the system. Support for Communist and Socialist policies rises in proportion to the wealth gap.
Less scrupulous Capitalists will often try to head this off through little more than propaganda, pushing the idea that trickle-down economics works (though the irony is that wealth redistribution is the only way it ever does work as described), pushing the lie to the working class that a system rigged against them will somehow benefit them (and just hoping their instinctual hatred of Communism will stop them doing any research), and pleading poverty by claiming that every mega-corporation is just barely breaking even can can’t handle wealth-gap reducing policies (and if that’s true, then Capitalism is a terrible system by their own admission that needs to go anyway, lol).
As you can see, the biggest problem with Capitalism is that too many people buy the falsehood that it’s fueled by a sincere desire to create good things, rather than the reality that it’s fueled by unrepentant greed. As such too many people view Capitalism as an universal good to be followed, rather than a necessary evil to be kept under watchful guard.
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now that the wild horse features an official thing there could also be a section of the main story where the player characters locked away or incapacitated somehow and you have to take control of your starter horse receiving instructions from them over your mental connection as a soul pair on how to get them out of there. i just think playing as a horse inconspicuously trying to break someone of jail while theyre bantering heatedly with someone in their head would be funny. like you cross paths with a guard and your human player character hisses “ACT NATURAL!” over the mental link and your horse panics and strikes a pose but since theyre outside still the guard pauses and then shrugs and keeps going because its not uncommon to see horses around, even weird ones that freeze and pose around you. then youre doing a stealth mission but as a horse. there are guards yelling about how a horse just went into the elevator in their hq. youre fumbling to press buttons with your hoof
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a questline where because you kept delivering jamies baked goods to buck outside the fort in the daily quests, buck convinces katja who begrudgingly convinces dark core to hire jamie olivetree, & she becomes dark hearted and goes through an entire evil baker ark but eventually ends up burning down dark core platform by accident because shes jamie olivetree, unintentionally saving the day
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