Did you get to see Vivian James among the spookable guests?
You think too small. Due to the lack of definition, they can add a thought-break clause and go Child Sexual/Assault Material. In which case they can, keeping the acronym and even words the same, quietly shift it to tar designated targets who do something like enjoy violent video games (which expose children to assault).
Neuro wouldn't be so wasteful, she'd at least ask the human to contribute his iron and calcium deposits to the Swarm development factories instead of just going off to seek Canadian Healthcare.
"A Madness Of Angels" is interesting, as it is written in first-person-perspective, of someone who is both 1) from a different morality worldview than ours, and 2) actually insane. It's Modern Fantasy rather than Near-Modern Sci-Fi, but there's a reasonable amount of having fun trying to figure out what's happening not in a whodunnit way but in a "peel back the perspective layers" way, which is kinda-sorta like a "peel back the reality/dream layers" way of Inception.
That stated... It's first-person free-writing. While you definitely get used to it as you read it, it's NOT an easy or light reading to get into at the start.
NOTHING.
While there are works that have improved in the transition from print to screen, they are VERY few, and VERY far between.
If the illiterate mongoloids can't read a great work, too bad, they're left out. There's tens of thousands of amazing works of literature in languages I cannot read, I accept that, if I really wanted to access them, I could learn those languages.
The showleads bragged about having never read the source material. So yeah, it never did get an adaptation, instead there's some new random tale that happens to share a name because naming things is hard.
Steam was founded on the concept that piracy was a service problem, not a price one.
Steam had best remember those roots. People are willing to pay, and to pay good money (as proven by Steam itself), for a reasonable gaming platform that shuts up and distributes games. But they're also quite willing to engage in other platforms should that one no longer be a service they may freely enjoy.
The ADL, the SIC, and the CIA can winge all they want about it, there's no illegal content. And if there's nothing illegal, they can fuck off. It's a platform (in the regards of operations as to what they're complaining about), not a publisher. You don't go to the phone company to try to make them curtail "hateful content".
Nah, most packages are delivered by UPS or Fed-Ex, including Amazon packages which would be the majority of those shipments. Only a small portion of them are C-Post, and now that people know 6 weeks in advance to not use them, they won't use them to ship it.
They invested a LOT of money and time and effort into making it be so.
There is NO CODE being patented here. It is CONCEPTS!
The concept of "fighting more than 100 enemies at once". The concept of "riding an animal that was captured in combat by the player". The concept of "capturing an animal within a thrown containment device".
THESE are what are being patented. Not a pile of code, not a code equivalency, just vague concepts, which are then used to atrophy and stymie creativity in the rest of the industry. I'm sorry, your game has too many bad guys, it's court time for you!
They're less likely to screw up their IPs for ideology like other publishers
And yet the Treehouse still exists, "localizing" the Fire Emblem games to add transexuals where none were before, injecting woke ideology, removing entire gameplay functions, deleting whole conversations and replacing them with silence, etc etc.
They'd look north at the taxes, food prices, housing prices, and multi-year wait lines for basic medical services, and then go "you know, maybe just living with Trump ain't that bad..."
CNN has worse ratings than Asmongold on a per-day basis. Nuff said.
OR... And this is wild, mind you... He could take them to court over it, instead of court of public opinion.
Notably, they say "immigrant", when no one is talking of deporting immigrants, just criminal aliens.
Also, a finite number is costed in terms of "per year". It's a finite number.
"It would cost 100 dollars per year to get the furniture out of the living room" when you're talking about one side table needing to go, is a perfectly equivalent quote. It's completely disingenuous and ridiculous. Once the side table is gone, it's gone, there's no ongoing cost. And you just stop bringing in new side tables! And why even generalize it to "furniture" when it's one specific table? That just muddies communication! And yet, that's exactly what this shyster is doing in the criminal human trafficker debate.
He isn't being punished, though. He's getting tons of money, attention, etc, and the worst he gets is kicked out of countries that he's finished fucking around with anyways.
Until he actually sees a lengthly prison sentence, he will simply continue his money-making outrage bait race-war-starting activities, because it brings him satisfaction and profit at little cost to himself.
Watch, even if he gets a long prison sentence here, the USA will give up millions of dollars in trade concessions to extradite him and set him free again, or in other words, his acting out paid out millions plus all the money he already made.
Canadians invaded France when it was lawfully conquered by native Germans and Austrians. Then they invaded Germany, too. These, clearly, were evil conquistador activities, and the mayors of Calgary and Toronto clearly stand against the barbarism that was invading Europe in WW2, and think Canada should have stayed out of it.
It's just looking at the most recent google results. If you SEO'd a porn game and "modern stunning RPG environment" enough, that would get recommended instead. While it's "AI", it's more "A" than "I". It's quite the simpleton, the LLM.
So... Vote for the greater evil? That gets even more evil, my friend. Simple math there.
Who even defines if it is "forgotten crap" or not? It's a necromancy-existent setting. Some boneman can come in and voodoo dance up a ghost who goes "Oooh, my favorite comb! And my toy figure of a puppy, I loved that thing!". Or, the boneman can do that five minutes later and have a very angry and sad ghost asking where its comb or statuette are.
Nature of necromancy-friendly settings, no one short of necromancers themselves can be "ethical" tomb raiders, because no one short of necromancers can confirm there is no souls, no spirits, no undead, no lingering emotive karma poltergeists, that could, in theory, at any point into the future, form over the objects in question.
And arguably, even that's no good, because a completely new and disparate culture could insist those artifacts are theirs. This happens all the time in real life, native tribes claiming native land that when looked into, they totally killed the prior residents and only "held" the land for a couple months or years.
Umm, like, yaknow, it's, like, how all, like, ancient Californians talked like. I mean, come on man, it's like, totally skibidi-rizz to, like, talk like this is a medieval setting.
Pirates not wanting, as a general rule, to in-fight other pirates (and instead only hunt merchant vessels) makes sense. It's like how lions generally hunt antelope for food, not other lions.
Back in my day it was called "paint by numbers", and we only got lead paint, the way the good lord intended!
While it is an excellent way to kick elderly retired people onto the streets, to kill them off, and lower the overall age of your population... It also helpfully only allows large megacorporations to operate, with the government's blessing. Corporate-assisted socialism... What was the word for the party with that philosophy again?
Oh right, the Fascist party. The word gets bandied about so much I almost forgot its original meaning! Literally Norway.