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[abandoned] 13 year old's drug becomes a hit

Postby Necroviribus » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:13 pm

Title:
13 year old’s drug becomes a hit

Description:
You notice lots of people in @@NAME@@ are smoking an uncommon cigarette. According to the Vape shop, a 13 year old named @@RANDOMNAME@@ is making a drug now known as Marihash.

Validity:
Not valid for nations were drugs are illegal.

Options:
[option]”We should just keep it legal! Just buy and get high!” say’s unemployed person, @@RANDOMNAME@@ with a pack of marihash in his shirt pocket. He reaches to get another cigarette but none are inside.
[effect]lots of people start smoking

[option]"This ‘Marihash’ is horrible! I already had to deal with insane druggies breaking open my window, and now that a 13 year old is making drugs, I can’t imagine the destruction that will cause! Ban it now!” said professor @@RANDOMFEMALENAME@@ in an aggressive tone, she grabs a paper off your desk that says "Make all drugs illegal?" and threatens to rip it.
[effect]marihash is banned

[option]"No! My document!" says @@RANDOMMALENAME@@, your friend after suffering from a concussion. "Why don’t we ban all drugs? Everyone will be happier, and we won’t have to deal with lung cancer! Maybe that concussion gave me some intelligence!" He says while looking at an IQ test paper, with a 86 on it.
[effect]all drugs are illegal
Last edited by Necroviribus on Thu Mar 21, 2019 5:18 pm, edited 4 times in total.

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Postby Marxist Germany » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:34 pm

Just proofread it:

Necroviribus wrote:Title:
13 year old’s drug becomes a hit

Description:
You notice as lots of people in @@NAME@@ are smoking an uncommon cigarette...
Last edited by Marxist Germany on Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Postby Necroviribus » Sun Mar 17, 2019 1:00 pm

Marxist Germany wrote:Just proofread it:

Necroviribus wrote:Title:
13 year old’s drug becomes a hit

Description:
You notice as lots of people in @@NAME@@ are smoking an uncommon cigarette...


Thanks!

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Postby USS Monitor » Sun Mar 17, 2019 1:48 pm

Welcome to Got Issues.

You don't need to worry about stat effects as editors will take care of these.

Effect lines are not sentences and should not be capitalized or end in punctuation.

The writing here is not unreadable or anything, but it's not that exciting. See if you can find a way to spice it up with some clever humor or a trickier ethical dilemma.
Last edited by USS Monitor on Sun Mar 17, 2019 1:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Spiced up version

Postby Necroviribus » Sun Mar 17, 2019 2:05 pm

USS Monitor wrote:Welcome to Got Issues.

You don't need to worry about stat effects as editors will take care of these.

Effect lines are not sentences and should not be capitalized or end in punctuation.

The writing here is not unreadable or anything, but it's not that exciting. See if you can find a way to spice it up with some clever humor or a trickier ethical dilemma.

Thanks for the feed back!
Last edited by Necroviribus on Sun Mar 17, 2019 2:23 pm, edited 2 times in total.

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Postby Socio Polor » Sun Mar 17, 2019 2:08 pm

No need to re-post the issue, just edit the op draft. Also, Welcome to GI :)

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Postby Necroviribus » Sun Mar 17, 2019 2:22 pm

Socio Polor wrote:No need to re-post the issue, just edit the op draft. Also, Welcome to GI :)

Thanks! I'll edit the first one, and delete the new one.

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Postby Australian rePublic » Wed Mar 20, 2019 3:32 am

I'm pretty sure we already have an issue about the legalisation of marijuana. If not, I'm pretty you can call it by its name
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Postby Necroviribus » Wed Mar 20, 2019 4:41 pm

Australian rePublic wrote:I'm pretty sure we already have an issue about the legalisation of marijuana. If not, I'm pretty you can call it by its name


The whole theme is that it's a completely new drug, made by a 13 year old behind a school when she's supposed to be in math class.

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Postby Candlewhisper Archive » Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:26 pm

Perhaps don't call it "marihash" if you don't intend it to be associated with marijuana.

Anyway, the story is thin here. The dilemma doesn't feel like it has any bearing on reality. Sure, new drugs hit the streets all the time, but they aren't knocked up by schoolkids. Recreational drugs are big business. To put in in context, legal pharma is worth around $1200 billion as an industry. Illegal drug production is worth around $400 billion as an industry. Sure, the legal companies are a bigger world presence overall, but we're not talking small scale operations here.

If a 13 year old was producing a drug, just how much could he make anyway? Enough for himself and his friends? Enough for a small town? Certainly not drug production on the scale that the real illegal pharma cartels turn out.

This issue just doesn't have any grasp of the reality of the situation, and doesn't work.
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Postby Necroviribus » Thu Mar 21, 2019 5:17 pm

Candlewhisper Archive wrote:Perhaps don't call it "marihash" if you don't intend it to be associated with marijuana.

Anyway, the story is thin here. The dilemma doesn't feel like it has any bearing on reality. Sure, new drugs hit the streets all the time, but they aren't knocked up by schoolkids. Recreational drugs are big business. To put in in context, legal pharma is worth around $1200 billion as an industry. Illegal drug production is worth around $400 billion as an industry. Sure, the legal companies are a bigger world presence overall, but we're not talking small scale operations here.

If a 13 year old was producing a drug, just how much could he make anyway? Enough for himself and his friends? Enough for a small town? Certainly not drug production on the scale that the real illegal pharma cartels turn out.

This issue just doesn't have any grasp of the reality of the situation, and doesn't work.

Okay, i'll get rid of this issue.


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