You know what really bugs me these days? We can't own anything. Everything is a subscription service, like literally everything. You can't buy Microsoft Office, you have to purchase a subscription for a year. You literally have to pay for everything FOREVER. Isn't anyone else bothered by this?
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
Destiny was at it's best when the aliens were unrelatable monsters and the Darkness was an eldritch cosmic force with no face of it's own. "The aliens are good actually" and the Witness existing is what killed the lore.
The most visible remnants of the Finno-Korean hyperwar are the so-called "Carolina Bays", massive orbital macrocannon craters distributed along the east coast of what is now the United States, thought to originate from the dozens of full scale amphibious landings attempted there.
the other day I overheard my apprentice ask, can a wizard borrow a spell slot? and my first thought wasn’t “oh my god, he’s calling himself a wizard”, it was now how is a wizard gonna borrow a slot - wizard, is you gonna give it back?