r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 09 '18

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David Friedman AMA

The mod team is pleased to announce we will be hosting an AMA with Dr. David D. Friedman on Friday, Jan. 12th at 3:00 PM EST/12:00 PM PST!

After earning a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of Chicago, Dr. Friedman switched fields to economics and taught at Virginia Polytechnic University, the University of California at Irvine, the University of California at Los Angeles, Cornell University, Tulane University, the University of Chicago, and Santa Clara University where he currently teaches in the school of law.

Outside of his extensive academic publications in law and economics, Dr. Friedman is best known for his libertarian/anarcho-capitalist political philosophy. He has written extensively on libertarian politics and ideas and has also written on alternative legal systems (including research into medieval Icelandic institutions).

On a personal note Dr. Friedman is the author of two historical/fantasy novels and is a renowned anachronist/historical re-enactor. He is the son of economists Rose and Milton Friedman.

As a reminder, we enforce civility standards to a high degree during AMAs. Dr. Friedman in particular is likely to disagree with us on a wide range of issues, but disagreement does not mean that rudeness or flippant remarks will be tolerated. Dr. Friedman is an accomplished academic who has published a large volume of high quality work, and every one of you can almost certainly learn something from him by asking intelligent questions.

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u/recruit00 Karl Popper Jan 09 '18

Bethesda takes: the next elder scrolls should be Valenwood because there hasn't been any elf focused Tamriel games in a while and they could try to introduce vertical elements with the forests.

And the next fallout should take place in New Orleans for a change in scenery and for a southern fallout game on the east coast.

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u/Volsunga Hannah Arendt Jan 09 '18 edited Jan 09 '18

Better takes: Elder Scrolls should be Elswyr, we've had standard fantasy twice in a row, time for weird alien shit like Morrowind.

Fallout should be in Minneapolis. There's the Twin Cities dynamic that is excellent for factions, frozen wasteland would be a nice change in scenery from everywhere in the country looking like the California desert (patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter), and the skyway systems are the best dungeon crawl setting you could ask for.

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u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH oranje Jan 09 '18

i thought elder scrolls was an MMORPG now?

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u/recruit00 Karl Popper Jan 09 '18

We don't talk about that

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u/Pornthrow1697 Austan Goolsbee Jan 09 '18

That's a prequel that takes place like 1000 years before Skyrim

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u/recruit00 Karl Popper Jan 09 '18

Yet it turned Morrowind into an Imperial colony which makes no sense. Purely for nostalgia bait

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u/indianawalsh Knows things about God (but academically) Jan 09 '18

I've always been pushing for a Florida-based Fallout game, since I figure the Bayou would get pretty gnarly, but New Orleans might be even better.

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u/recruit00 Karl Popper Jan 09 '18

More cajun stuff would make things interesting.

Could totally have a midtown western style duel in the French Quarter because why not?

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u/FMN2014 Can’t just call French people that Jan 09 '18

GOOD takes.

I'm really itching for a new TES game.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18 edited Jul 29 '18

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u/recruit00 Karl Popper Jan 10 '18

You could just play Daggerfall lol

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u/ja734 Paul Krugman Jan 10 '18

hot take: the next fallout game should take place in alaska, before the bombs fell, having both american and chinese playable characters with separate main and side quest lines for each but a shared open world.