Newsom would absolutely legitimize phony facist elections if he was allowed to be the highest profile loser.
I can just imagine his concession speach: "I wanna thank all of my base for a good, clean election. The most important thing is we stayed peaceful. I hope yall enjoy el salvador."
The problem with asking others how the heck they regulate without drugs is that they're not you. They don't have your brain or your hormones.
No solution from someone without the problem is likely to work and most people with the problem do not have a solution.
If i can find a sweet spot where i'm challenged but succeeding in an environment free of selfish unethical people, then i can get through the day without a toke. At the moment its bong-a-fucking-clock.
I also think that like a lot of old d&d, it just wasn't very good.
Having an encumbrance system isn't necessarily bad - there are plenty of design goals it can support, as you point out. But counting out every pound and ounce has always been more work than most players want to do.
My first was RIFTS, which i did not have the stomach for at all. By comparison cyberpunk and cybergen ran like a dream, just as my friends and I were getting into Akira.
I never tried the Bab5 rpg, but i stayed up late with my mother to watch it. I was shocked when rewatching a few years back to see lucille blooth playing a regime loyalist captain.
Probably encumberance, almost certainly the single most ignored rule in rpgs.
But honorable mention goes to old school AC/THAC0 - the mechanics were originally for modern-era battleship game where armor class referred to size. Using the smallness of boats to model the defensive power of better armor was never going to produce sensible results. THAC0 was always unweildy at the table, slowed play, and turned combat into a chorus of "uggghhhh does a 13 hit?" "Ugh.... no."
Democrat voters have consistently opposed israel's genocide since before the election and only now are politicians shocked that they're experiencing consequences from obeying their money instead of their base.
Not only are people like newsom and buttigieg just gaping voids of amoral ambition that cannot be trusted, but the system that's supposed to direct their ambition towards what the public want has clearly not been working for their entire career. If it had been, they wouldn't be so surprised by this.
Its not possible to be ethical with that much money.
Globally, the median household income is $3k. If you have $500B, you would have to lose - every single day - the combined lifetime income of a household over 500 generations, just to break even at 5% interest. Thats further back in time than writing, the wheel, rice, potatoes or chicken.
Thats a level of being shielded from the consequences of your actions that can only ever produce evil.
When they see us coming, the birdies all try an' hide But they still go for peanuts when coated in cyanide