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   Revoluciana (revoluciana@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 22:30:24 JST Revoluciana

   Crime is so hot right now

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 22:30:22 JST Rich Felker

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     @revoluciana Not an answer (especially not for me), but just throwing this out there for the ACAB crime-is-hot energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkvi71znX_Q

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     Revoluciana (revoluciana@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 22:30:23 JST Revoluciana

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     Don't incriminate yourself, but have you ever wondered, if you were to have lead a life of crime, on your own terms:

     * Which crime you would be best at
     * Which crime would be the most fun

     And, would these two match?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 22:58:19 JST Rich Felker

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     • Rayne, Unexpired-Covid-Test-Having Bourgeois Ass

     @revoluciana @salad_bar_breath A thought experiment for answering this might be imagining that you're making a game about fencing, trying to figure out the game mechanics. Because it seems like the mechanics would be closely related to what'd be interesting in a story. Draw ideas from games that center on suspicion and misdirecting it (canonical example: Among Us).

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     Revoluciana (revoluciana@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 22:58:21 JST Revoluciana

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     • Rayne, Unexpired-Covid-Test-Having Bourgeois Ass

     @salad_bar_breath definitely dangerous. I'm just trying to imagine a story where it's interesting at all. Even in shows or movies where it's an aspect, it just seems like I want to fast forward through that part. I can't imagine how to make it interesting.

     I once read a book about (legal) financial derivative trading scandals that was all about the financial mechanisms themselves using financial language and even those stories were fascinating. But somehow I can't find a way to make fencing interesting.

     Not that it needs to be, just. I somehow make a mental note of it every time I see the fence in a movie or something, so it just keeps becoming this recurring source of curiosity-- how to make fencing interesting, and when or where has this ever been done?

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     Rayne, Unexpired-Covid-Test-Having Bourgeois Ass (salad_bar_breath@todon.nl)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 22:58:23 JST Rayne, Unexpired-Covid-Test-Having Bourgeois Ass

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     @revoluciana fencing is kind of boring as a story, but in real life it definitely keeps you on your toes and is super dangerous.

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     Revoluciana (revoluciana@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 22:58:24 JST Revoluciana

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     Goddamn, even money laundering and counterfeiting sounds so much more fascinating than *that*

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     Revoluciana (revoluciana@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 22:58:25 JST Revoluciana

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     Wait. Is this why some people like watching Pawn Stars?

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     Revoluciana (revoluciana@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 22:58:26 JST Revoluciana

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     Has anyone ever written a compelling story about fencing stolen goods? (Seriously asking)

     I can't think of a single story about fencing at all that wasn't mostly about the crime(s) that brought the item(s) to the fence.

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     Revoluciana (revoluciana@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 22:58:27 JST Revoluciana

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     So many crimes to choose from.

     Can I just say, though, I think the most boring crime that comes up in basically any burglary/grift story?

     Fencing. Boring.

     Pickpocketing: magic
     Burgling: adrenaline, skill
     Heist: puzzles/planning
     Con: acting/persuasion
     Smuggling: thrill, cleverness
     Getaway driving: vroom vroom

     Fencing: yawn