I am always skeptical of people who dismiss safety tools at the table to the point of assuming safety and deep roleplay are mutually exclusive.

Color me intrigued. That's a hell of an elevator pitch.

I think you mean the AWESOME PURPLE JACKET THAT RULES. 😄

The power elites like this chump placed themselves above the law, thinking there's no consequences, that their wealth and status placed them above the little people.

Now they expect us, the 'little people', to empathize with them? Oh, the plight of the poor billionaires!

Bang bang bang, fuckers.

You know, I can live with that. :D

Speaking as someone who worked in health insurance, yeah, it's straight up murder and it's not uncommon to deny on first claim in the industry at all. It's the same principle as warranties and rebates - making the process so arcane and difficult that people just give up.

I'm mean, but screw him.

At least we've finally gotten something from the cyberpunk dystopian hellscape that we wanted - the assassination of corporate executives.

He was responsible for corporate policies that not only endangered millions of lives but resulted in people being denied care that would have saved their lives.
He deserved it. He deserved worse besides. <cont>

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I admit, I wasn't a fan of SMILE. Too much reliance in jump scares and a patently false unreliable narrator trope. 2 is proving to me that the filmmakers have definitely improved. They're leaning in to the premise of the Entity is absolutely real, and we get a creepy escalation of events from that.