I imagine there are fan groups for Our Flag Means Death.

The term, “enshitification” is getting bandied about a lot. But the bots and corporations are an inevitable part of capitalism. Make money at all costs, never be satisfied with what you have, and treat everybody that isn’t you like a stepping stone.

Scammers and sociopathic c-levels are missing something fundamentally human. A complete lack of empathy. But this has always been a part of our species. The difference now is that we have a system that dramatically rewards that sickness. And that’s not even getting into how being able to be evil at scale is going to make the next few decades interesting.

Some of us like control over our hardware but still want feature parity with our friends and family.

This is where a good storyteller would have a blast.

Maybe a mage could heal it, but then they would take on the disability themselves.

Or a magical disability is the result of a 1:1 battle with another magic wielder. Only a being of equal power can cause permanent damage.

The disability is a payment for some rare power. Maybe you lose your eyes but can now see the astral plane and pilot the Event Horizon.

Hell. After reading this I feel like permanent effects from magical damage resulting in physical disabilities should be a trope!

I can think of a few examples: The Magicians, Game of Thrones, etc. But as a gameplay mechanic it feels like it would have some seriously cool possibilities.

In my CRV I’ll often initiate attack plan omega.

PTSD…

I once destroyed a CRT monitor by misconfiguring X11.

Nowadays Linux just works to the point where my 72 year old mother is able to deal with Pop_OS without issue.

But man, those early days of unstable drivers, slow dial-up internet, and navigating through Usenet and IRC for decent support was a nightmarish labor of love.

The silky smoothness that we have now was built on caffeine and the backs of millions of greybeards.

(For the record: “Greybeard” is a nerdy term of endearment that I’ve seen adopted by people identifying all across the rainbow. Kinda like dwarfs on Discworld).

I’ll be reporting this to Ambassador Porthos! You can expect some urination on anything sacred you own.

Whoa! Let’s watch our word choice! Google doesn’t abort things!

They keep them alive for 9 months and then will unceremoniously dump the corpse into a nearby river. Their PMs don’t see the fun in killing something unless it’s already been adopted by consumers.

Trip: There’s a book What’s a book?

My favorite character in ENT. But holy shit do they make him seem like a complete moron for the first three seasons.

I think Combs deserves his own spin-off series where he leaps™ into the bodies of various franchise characters that he has played in order to right some previous wrong.

Co-starring Captain Archer as his invisible assistant.

Shall we talk about their continual shortage of deuterium? Possibly the second most common substance in the universe!

There has to be something similar to Rule 34 that deals with this. Rule 35: Given a long enough span of time, every form of online interaction will be infiltrated by Nazis. Like a corollary to Godwin’s law.

Hell. Doohan invented the Klingon language for TMP.

That’s Voyager.

Great… Now I get to look forward to a trip back from the delta quadrant.