probably depends on how digitally advanced your country is, but: accessing government services and even things like making a doctor’s appointment will continue to be pushed online
for now there are measures to keep up service for the analog eldery - but for how long?
i expect there will be basically no opt-out-of-online in ~15 years
the “early” internet was great. hell you don’t even need to go back that far.
online games taught us that people all over the world are just like you. they are not some elusive foreign potential threat but chill people. everywhere
we found more common ground than differences, it was beautiful while it lasted . only in the recent times the big us-vs-them rift appeared everywhere
i dont know the exact quote but: never keep a perfectly fine crisis unused
a streamer has much more to gain from the drama around it than the case itself
it would be unwise to not tap into this source of sympathy (new viewers)
aaand thats why most of them just shut the fuck up and keep the past adventures to themselves
you usually don’t talk in detail about previous women either.
never played the game. what is it and why would it be out?
its either directly in the books refering guns specifically or… it might have been an official out of the books source.
i used to be interested in this shit over a decade ago when the last books weren’t yet finished: there was a fancy flash based official site where lore snippets and bullshit from jk got published
but she did just what you described
I remember reading it
by doing this you become the worm.
chicken now try to eat you
kind of an insane take to say common ground is not a good thing.
the alternative was historically constantly warring tribes.
best example for it is the european union. former enemies peacefully deciding on common ground. the result: most peaceful time in european history.