Bad decisions about the cost and timing of console releases and failure to support older systems. Nothing to do with IP management or legal decisions.

tell a story that interrogates people’s beliefs without them realizing it until later.

The term for this, at least as it pertains to science fiction, is “cognitive estrangement”.

Same way it’s always worked. Your best shot is by knowing someone in the field who can get you in the door for an interview.

I didn’t get any credential and I consider college one of the better things I did as a young adult. Learned a lot, experienced a bunch of cool things (and people) that make me a more rounded person, and I paid almost nothing out of pocket. (Thanks FAFSA)

Until you solve scarcity, one way or another, reject as decadent the image of the angelic lofty scholar who learns for the sake of learning.

No, fuck that. I will continue to consider learning for its own sake among the most interesting and important things a person can do.

I think the dogs in Nice eat too much grass.

Why do you think so many fluids are juice colors?

A leech tank would be pretty metal though. Like, imagine the medieval lord aura of leeching at a dinner party.

Not necessarily. There are an infinite number of outputs that aren’t those things.

How dare people write fiction with icky things in it.

Private school is not automatically better. I live in a million dollar house and very much intend to use the public school district here.

Corporatocracy is part of, and the logical conclusion of, any economic system that values private profit. Capitalism is not the pure, uncorrupted version of this. (And from where I’m sitting you’re a bootlicker too for takes like “he built that company with his own sweat and he deserves to reap the benefits of such.” It conpletely ignores the labor everyone else put into that company, from the employees to the supply chain to the tax-funded infrastructure.)

Not in my area they aren’t. I just talked to an arborist about removing a tree on my lot and they suggested de-limbing it and leaving a standing snag for the ecological benefit, and the wooded parks here have loads of deadfall (which is great for the ferns and huckleberries, they love a nurse log)

It’s still not a good idea to leave a large dead tree standing by the street.

They don’t have to be the same company. Any arborist should be able to section them down into logs of whatever length and then you just get them to a mill. Properly storing the cut lumber after is the tricky part.

The term was always tongue-in-cheek.

There was a while when the US was on top, revolutionizing automotive manufacturing. Ford’s Model T and later Model A sold like crazy.

Damn near the entire internet is “social media” but people usually mean “social networking sites”.

does suck for upper middle class kids who’s parents suck

There’s no solution that doesn’t suck for somebody.

“Nature” is every state of being the universe has ever been. There is no before or after Nature. Nature is not Life.

Currently? The “British Invasion” era? “Rock” is an extremely broad genre.