Posts from Actaea

1) How do you determine the exact values of other players' Battle Domains?

2) Lately, NS hasn't even been giving me a choice. I mean, there's only one viable option for how to play, and the rest are completely unsuitable.

For example, I received this issue. Soda sales have declined. There are three options:

• allow hallucinogenic drugs to be added to soda
• ban it and control the distribution of drugs only for medical purposes
• distribute drugs for free to everyone who wants them

This isn't really an issue; it's just one big facepalm.
I chose the second option. Civil rights declined (are they crazy over there?), soda sales declined, retail declined, the economy declined, and security and crime protection decreased (!!!), and toxicity increased. :confused:
Of course, drug use and overeating decreased significantly, and nudism decreased slightly. Health increased by 1.

These are the consequences of the only sensible option. Thanks.

I sweetened the pill a bit with a new banner. You probably already have one.

ban and control the distribution of drugs, allowing them only for medical purposes.

Drugs are not only narcotics but also medicines in general.

Drugs are medicines.

Drugs are not only narcotics, but also medicines in general.

Hmm... did I translate it incorrectly, and were the options about something else entirely? How would you translate it?

Drugs are medicine.

Well, if we set aside all these linguistic details and look at the situation from a different perspective, when you have something like this or this outside your window, then banning the use of drugs means depriving people of medicine)).

But seriously, the need to obtain any medication in pharmacies exclusively by prescription logically undermines "civil liberties."

And what kind of medicines can be added to soda?

Well, let's just say that the situation outside the window can only affect extremely sensitive creative individuals in this way, but unfavorable living conditions, a certain sense of hopelessness in the present and near future, combined with various personal problems, can quite possibly become one of the reasons, as I think. And yes, one might involuntarily reach for medication.

In the third option, they explain the essence of the word "drugs."

If the government legalised and subsidised all these 'bad' drugs

Drugs are medicines in general, including narcotics.
Bad drugs are narcotics.
In the second option, they talk about the distribution of drugs in general, both bad and good ones.

The issue discusses psychedelics, euphoretics, and stimulants.

unfavorable living conditions, a certain sense of hopelessness in the present and near future, combined with various personal problems

Oh, you just described the life of one of my VERY close friends.

But I'm getting at the point that this shouldn't boil down to legalizing drugs in order to somehow "make life easier," lol, for people. Instead, it should be a signal to a NORMAL state that it's time to start taking care of its own people, at least a little bit.
However, now it seems that in the opposite situation, drugs should be allowed.

The second option discusses the spread of drugs in general, including bedows and goodows.

Well, at least there's an explanation of the consequences of the second option. However, the first and third options don't become any better because of it.

Hmm, on the contrary, I see it as the third option explaining what the previous speakers meant by "drugs." That is, by default, problems are implied, and the third speaker is simply a pedant who clarified this.
And yes, NS can easily reduce freedoms for banning drugs. At least, it seemed to me that it does.

NS can easily restrict freedoms by banning drugs.

My stats dropped by almost ten after the ban.

Aha!
Ment's post prompted me to reread and translate it once more. And I didn't find any medicines there. Fellow linguists, help me figure this out! :)

(issue)
1. The first speaker doesn't use the word "drugs" at all
2.

"This can't go ahead," argues @@RANDOMNAME@@, a nurse at one of @@NAME@@'s hospitals. "Drugs are, and always will be, one of the greatest threats to the nation's physical and mental health! My job's hard enough as it is without having the wards overrun by patients who were stupid enough to drink the damned stuff. The distribution of drugs must be strictly controlled by the government and kept for medicinal uses."

This cannot go on like this! — says a nurse at one of the hospitals.

It is not a pharmacist speaking, but a nurse.

Drugs have always been and will always be one of the greatest threats to the physical and mental health of the nation. My job is hard enough as it is, without hospital wards overrun by patients stupid enough to drink this damned stuff.

This refers to the hallucinogenic soda from the previous speaker, not medicines at all.

The distribution of drugs (or medicines?) must be strictly controlled by the government and kept for medicinal uses.

I didn't find any medicines here. Only drugs. And I certainly didn't find Revan's words that all medicines are dispensed only by prescription.
If a pharmacist were speaking, I would understand. But here it is a nurse who will be treating people who have drunk drugs. And she speaks only about drugs.