Speak of the devil, I’d just seen this very pic and was thinking of posting it here! XD

What a fantastic style

Any other sources for this? Not for the job cutting, but for GoG’s business model going downhill? Haven’t big layoffs happened every few years since the start of GoG?

Based

Human beings are fragile creatures. Big corps generally don’t need to make the big effort of a murder and a cover-up when they can almost completely legally harass people into taking their own lives.

To that end? Get a good therapist and a psych. Preferably not on workplace insurance, if such a thing is feasible for the situation.

This kind of hand-coloring, with only the most notable bits given color, pops up from time-to-time in 19th century photos. Note this Civil War photo with the gold colored in

Blade of Darkness was kickass

How many had to live on park benches and prison camps in Warsaw Pact states to allow for their ‘generous’ rationing?

Good so we got flour figured out. How many homeless people did Poland have in the 1980s?

Uncertain, because like the Soviet Union, homelessness was illegal and official stats weren’t kept. Nevertheless, ‘vagrancy’ was a serious and recurring problem in Warsaw Pact states.

Bruh, you can buy more flour than that with change dropped in a fucking parking lot.

To be ration-limited by what you can purchase? I’m sure that’s a fad diet somewhere.

These are just the goods that are rationed/limited. These were the goods with the highest demand and lowest supply. There are unrationed goods that could still be purchased, like potatoes.

Don’t know about that. Palestine was still pretty contentious, and a lot of the issues we’re dealing with today relate to British management of the territory.

75% of sugar output exported to the Sovs while the citizens of Poland ‘enjoyed’ sugar rationing.

Elsewhere in the comments it’s mentioned that these were just the rationed things; there were unrationed foodstuffs.

Market economies are very psychological - “How do you encourage people to consume/produce X?” But command economies are simpler in a sense, because it’s all very material - “What do we make, and who do we give it to?”

Excellent game, btw

Not sure. It may be that it looks like a lot simply because we’re used to modern foods having sugar pre-added?

You’re thinking too much in market terms. It should be more “Our allocation of production has resulted in shortages of these goods; we must figure out a way of distributing these goods without resorting to ‘highest-bidder’ style market economics.”

Typically, in market-oriented economies, this happens during wartime when the government doesn’t trust market economies (rightly) to deliver the needs of the war while there are still civilians willing to outbid the government. In command economies, this happens whenever the priorities of the government and the civilian population are at odds (such as Poland exporting most of its sugar to the SovUnion despite massive domestic demand for sugar and higher sugar production per capita than ever before).

Well, you still had to purchase the food, you were just limited by ration cards in how much of certain goods you could purchase.

Rationing in the early 80s is considered to be one of the major agitating factors that led to increased labor union activity and, thus, the eventual end of the Communist regime in Poland. Would seem that it was not nearly enough vodka to quietly cope!

Individual, I believe.