My bloody smiley face ... sweet bloody smiley face ... 
Hey, Bruj + Kuroi, is Brazil gonna explode or survive, the recent election?
For my own "rant" (not really a rant... just a dissappointment): I joined a game on another site, I was really excited about the ideas behind the campaign world, and made what I thought would be a fun character... and then in my first post I basically inadvertently ruined the whole character idea for someone else...
They're playing an outsider who is kind of brain-damaged and doesn't know what/who they are, and wanted to RP out "discovering" this... and I'm playing a guy obsessed with the planes...
So having made my knowledge check, I walked up to their character and opened with "So... you're a BLAH BLAH BLAH!? That's cool!"
Game has came to a complete halt at the intro phase now... with some discussion about expectations in the OOC, but nothing at all for 24 hrs... 
I apologized, offered to retract it, explained my actions, even edited my post slightly (to make it a whisper instead of out loud)... basically to no effect... so far at least. I really hope this doesn't kill the game...
Yeah that sucks.
The weird 5e local game I'm at, had a bunch of new people last week. The game got locked into socializing in and out of character. Less than 1 surprise round and less than 1 regular round. I might be the only "old" guy showing up, from here on out.
The main parties in the coalition, PT and PMDB, are "power for the sake of power" kind of people. If anyone has been following what happened in the last 12 years here, be ready for a re-run.
So, basically, what will happen is... Nothing.
Country will have sub-par growth, the central bank is going to stay in a tug-of-war with baseline taxes fighting inflation, which further prevents any sort of economic growth, public policies will stay focused on the lower-class, but they will all be band-aid type policies that don't fix any of the underlying problems.
This will continue until 2017, when the country will again enter "election mode", in anticipation of the 2018 elections, where it's expected that Lula will be making a comeback.
The opposition doesn't have any candidate with the pull Lula has, so unless some *major* corruption scandals involving the ex-president are unveiled until then, it's going to be a slamdunk. And we will have a country that's being ruled by the same party for 20 years. Which is bad.
But no, nothing is going to explode, despite many saying it will. Brazil simply does not have the kind of population that would stand by and let Brazil turn into Bolivia or Venezuela 2.0. Things are just going to STAY the EXACT same as they have been.
But you know what i REALLY don't get? Support for the recently re-elected president was at an all-time low... And she still won. I don't get it, man.
