We could do a lot more in this respect, and with the more justice since we wouldn't have to hyperbolize and slander earnest baristas or powerless undergrads to gin up our villainous elites. No shortage of powerful oligarchs fit for the role, with whom most decent people would shudder to identify.

Will BOLO for the paperback. One open track for us I'd say is a more negative organizing: there's a reason billions have been spent for decades on anecdote-farming for lib cringe, hunting down or making up distasteful weirdos on the left and shooting them into eyeballs over and over.

Some of the weirdo geniuses responsible later worked on Star Control II, so if you enjoy that game's sense of history, diverse alien cast and varied tone, from whimsical humor to cosmic horror, that's Starflight. Also, the ending boasts one of the best plot twists in gaming. GOG has it!

Happy to see Starflight on there. I was a zygote in 1986 when it came out, but caught it in the 00's via Home of the Underdogs and still am in awe of its achievements. Epic open world narrative space opera, 100s of huge fractal planets, all on 2 floppy disks.

I wouldn't say that, but in welcoming statements like this from Romney types, I think of this Zosima line from Brothers Karamazov:

“It is much, and well that your mind is full of such dreams and not others. Sometime, unawares, you may do a good deed in reality.”

The soundtrack is amazing. I have fond memories of downloading someone's MIDI version of Tell A Strange Tale, arranging the backing part for two guitars, then recording it on my Fostex four track cassette recorder. I now feel so antediluvian reading that back that I have turned to Millennial dust.

Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears.

“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Fine to take objective increases in value seriously, but at times the debate becomes "Your smartphone with access to Project Gutenberg, measured in terms of mid-century private libraries, implies nigh-infinite wealth in your pocket" vs. "lol no it doesn't."

This guy's whole existence has been one of pissing away generational legacies and dignity vampiring people to the point of exsanguinity. From Fred to our nation to potentially the whole postwar liberal order, this is the unbroken pattern.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEB...

You know, that a high Ego score reduces real merchant prices is maybe more simulationist than I thought.