Name one creepy thing about Zork?

Wait a minute, I’m being told there’s a Grue at the door that needs to speak to me

Millennials invented Creepypasta for old Nintendo games. You’ll find old video game horror stories smeared across everything from Pseudopod to SCP.

I swear to fucking God, you people have zero perspective. Who do you think wrote the Secret Level episode for Pacman?

You can’t go wrong with the classics. I’m a big fan of Asimov’s I, Robot and Foundation. Le Guin’s Hanish Cycle is fantastic, particularly The Dispossessed. I loved Dune and Ender’s Game (although their sequels are mid).

If you want some pop SciFi, try Timothy Zhan’s Hier to the Empire or Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina. The Bobverse was also a lot of fun.

On the fantasy side, I’ve got a deep fondness for Raymond E. Fiest’s Magician series, although I’ll admit the later books in the series don’t hold up as well as the first few trilogies.

Also, huge nerd for H.P. Lovecraft

It’s honestly kinda gross to see people blink past the bombing of schools, hospitals, and water treatment plants - the outright massacre of thousands of people - as though it’s a distraction from your domestic pedo politics.

Americans can’t even prosecute Woody Allen for this shit. It’s an absolute joke to think “Release The Epstein Files” is going to come to anything. Much less that it would preclude anyone from talking about the carpet bombing of Tehran.

Probably the same thing an American Patriot thinks about Washington owning slaves or Lincoln aiding in the genocide of American natives.

The whole series struggles with righteous people making horrible choices.

The most depressing scifi!

Loved it, but omg what a psychological load to wrestle with. Feels like Asimov took a bad acid trip

The payoff in Mistborn made the series for me. Really stuck the landing.

If anything, it could have used more meat at the center. Book one as a high fantasy heist was great. Two and three felt like a sprint through what should have maybe been another hundred pages each.

But it’s still my favorite Sanderson work to date, not including the last three books of Wheel of Time

The Muderbot show has been pretty good. I think the cut aways to the SciFi slop he watches is some of the best material, but it’s fun all around.

The Broken Earth trilogy just didn’t hook me, though. I think if I hadn’t ingested so much high fantasy over a lifetime, it could have been good. But at a base level, it just felt like something I’d already read. Same with The Poppy War.

At some point, I think I just want to read the histories, rather than the Fantasy Inspired By the histories.

Deliberately formed a number of minority controlled governments, with a mandate to kill the majority ethnic group if they got out of line.

Israel was one of these, but hardly the only one.

Who wants to own a 7 year old car?

I’ve got a Chevy Volt from 2018. Still runs great. Going to try and hang on to it for at least another couple of years.

I wouldn’t want to be paying a note on a seven year old car. My wife’s car has a three year note at 0.9% APY, and I can’t wait till that’s done with, even if the interest is nominal.

The main players in the Middle East have been fighting for the last 3,000

That’s wildly ahistorical.

What you’re describing is the Ottoman Empire, a region that was largely stable and peaceful for centuries.

In and out. Twenty minute quagmire.

You can just withdraw if things go bad, because it’s not like Iran will continue to bombard US and Israeli bases if we just shout “Time Out” loudly enough.

Speed running the Tet Offensive in weeks rather than years

These technically qualify as extraterrestrials

It’s so simple even a Republican can use it

I dont think you can blame everything Orban does on Americans

Sure. He’s got a huge network of domestic supporters who are along for the ride.

Every fellow American I know hates and mistrusts their government? To be fair, all of the people I spend energy associating with are strongly progressive.

Will you distrust the government when it flips back to Dem control?

Obama currently has a 90% approval among liberals. It doesn’t seem like they’ve learned anything.

induction roadways

Do you mean railways?

they were within their rights to refuse to do business with the US government, and I don’t agree that the response to them refusing it should be the US government blacklist their company

I mean… you want to refuse business but you don’t want to be refused business?

How does that work?

They’re just trying to get clicks. It’s attention seeking behavior, not real concern for public policy.

FIRE has always been a corporate friendly libertarian-right organization. They post this stuff because they need to appear relevant to their sponsors.