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This type of information is irresponsible to repeat without verification. While I agree it would be scary, the current likelihood of a TV OS activating its own wireless systems without user permission and connecting to unpermissioned sources for updates or instructions is slim. At least without some type of malefactor hijacking.

I saved up and bought a Game Gear as a kid. But Mortal Kombat II eventually angered me so much one day that I smacked the front of the GG after losing to Johnny Cage. Screen went dark. No longer turned on. I mailed it to Sega for repair, and they sent it back saying nothing was wrong. Somehow during shipping, whatever I knocked loose got knocked back into working order. Magic console.

Blazing Eye Sees All by Leah Sottile is a great journalistic deep-dive into the history of some major cults and elements shared with the Love Has Won cult. Thoroughly researched and well organized.

New to me, but have been enjoying the Gentlemen Bastard series by Scott Lynch. The Lies of Locke Lamora was great, Red Seas Under Red Skies was still good but not quite as book #1, and I'm still in the thick of The Republic of Thieves.

DNF would be the second book in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, Green Mars. I made it through Red Mars, but the constant geographic and topology descriptions give me a headache. Someday I'll go back and power through, because I've enjoyed other KSR books like 2312 and Aurora.

"...still well and alive..." Ouch.

They also had plenty of trouble because of it. They were sued by a writer who claimed they stole their original D2 "Red War" story from him. D2 and its backend have changed so much that Bungie can't actually produce a playable version to show this content in court, and the court ruled that YouTube videos will not suffice. Unable to defend the claims.

on 90's · c/comicstrips · 8 pts · 230d

Growing up for the final 6 months of the 90s, you mean? Napster launched June 1, 1999...

Doesn't have the nostalgia, but I enjoyed "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" by Charles Yu in the same general zone as Ready Player One. It's playful yet dips toes into the serious or heartfelt at times. About a time mechanic who lives in his time machine with his dog, employed to traverse time and fix time machines of others.

It is a stupid problem, you're right. So how would you fix it? It's lazy to call out an entire country, including those who actively work against him, as if they all voted in unison for the same thing. As long as you're willing to sit on the outside slinging mud at many people who don't deserve it, people will continue to do the same in return. Grow up.

Or electing your own leaders who are willing to stand up to him on a global stage. Half the country did not elect him. There are protests, there are grassroots movements. What else do you recommend? Pretty easy to sit outside and call millions of people morons, including all those who agree with you. Pretty small-minded if you ask me.