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That's great and all but what else do you do with the 23 hours and 55 minutes left for the rest of the day?

We're one step closer to making Dwarf Gekkos for the battlefield.

The blonde lady's stunned appearance in panel 4 may imply there was no pause.

I didn't say all boycotts are ineffective, merely that most recent ones have been directed at things meant for entertainment and personal use. It takes a big enough threat for enough people to want to do it: slavery, apartheid, segregation, and annexation are. An angry billionaire tweeting their evil bullshit can be, but isn't perceived as such by the general populace enough to avoid purchasing a game licensed from them.

Boycotts for media work about as well as those for Hogwarts Legacy, not buying a Tesla post 2024, or staying off PSN after Sony announced game discs will no longer be made. Sadly most people don't care about the political views of those who make these things unless it personally affects them. The only successful boycott I've seen recently is Canadians avoiding American goods in supermarkets and even that took an existential threat of annexation for them to act on it.

You'd have an easier time herding cats.

The Cradle series by Will Wight would be pretty cool. It's 12 books long but tightly paced and doesn't mire itself in a bunch of tiny details like The Wheel of Time would. It's set in an ancient Chinese fantasy world that's part of a greater struggle in the multiverse and reads like a shonen. Its protagonist, Wei Shi Lindon starts off as a pariah with no powers before being rescued by a demigod who gives him a way to alter the fate of him and his home from an apocalyptic ending.

A 2 hour long animatic was released a few months ago and covers the first 2 books fairly well. A fully animated trailer was also released showing the promise of how well it would look if it took off.

Animatic:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JJMuJCLsYeQ

Trailer:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9FEayZdH-nk

So that's the name of that squeeze toy! Neat.

That's all for show. It only ever gets brought up when someone low ranking enough actually breaks a rule.

This country is dangerous for anyone who wants to take their time traveling across it. I recall a hitchhiker bot was violently dismembered somewhere in Philadelphia right after successfully hitchhiking across Canada with no incident.

The Japanese love small multi use gadgets. If they can have a gaming console, editing software, an email machine, and a video player in a small form factor that fits neatly in their tiny apartment then they'd go for it. I think the premium for space and respect for their own property is why so many legacy games and consoles are still so easy to find and purchase in second hand stores over there.

Thief, Thief II, Thief: Deadly Shadows, any Legacy of Kain title, System Shock 1 and 2, Shadow Tactics, Desperados III, Arcanum, Pillars of Eternity, Deus Ex GOTY Edition, The Thaumaturge, Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, The Saboteur, Sleeping Dogs, Psychonauts 1 and 2, Anachronox, and Defender's Quest to name a few.

No because it's not like the price of the groceries would be any lower if you subsidized the store's labor costs. I've also had annoying experiences having my cart more thoroughly checked in Costco's exits because self checkouts produce special blue receipts that flag you as a potential shoplifter.