If this happens often, you can disable write caching for that drive. It’ll feel slightly slower (since it’s actually operating at the speed of the hardware instead of caching operations in RAM and gradually writing them to disk in the background), but you’ll be able to remove the drive almost instantly.

Especially since they started with drones unlocked!

Blind Guardian is another good one that makes songs inspired by fantasy. Their Wheel of Time album is pretty great. My personal favorite is Ride Into Obsession, which is sung from the point of view of one of the series’ main antagonists, though the last section of the eponymous “Wheel of Time” is also a banger.

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The funny thing is he looks like both of them.

Yeah, he mentioned it three or four times, which is a lot for such a short (for them) video. It just feels like it is the salient fact that draws everything together and could be used as a rallying cry against the bill’s supporters. It’s solid evidence that they knew the bill would hurt their voters and so decided to delay the worst parts until after the next election. It’s one of the few things that could sway Republicans against them (they don’t care about hurting others, but themselves?), so we should be getting a knowledge campaign started as early as possible.

It might fit into shitposts, but the response each post gets shows the community isn’t a huge fan of these. The other places you post them suggest that you’re actually just crossposting to communities that allow anything to be posted.

But again, crossposts aren’t marked in every client (and some don’t even show the crosspost text, just the title!), so a lot of readers won’t know not to take these posts seriously and fights will break out in the comments. Though judging by the comments on the original posts, people can’t detect bait even when the community is literally named ragebait.

(Also, do the random emphasized letters mean anything? I’m too lazy to do the work of checking for hidden messages myself.)

There has to be a better way of promoting your ragebait community than spamming crossposts to unrelated communities. Some clients don’t even show that a post is a crosspost.

This is my new favorite meme using that format. It’s perfect.

Ah, Some More News - the best channel that leaves you feeling depressed after every video.

Though re: that specific video, I wish he’d hammered home more on how the worst parts of the bill are delayed to only come into effect after the next midterms. That fact should be shouted from every corner to show just how badly even the Republicans knew this bill would affect their constituents.

Just wait until you can only stream books, not download them, with random words replaced with synonyms using an algorithm that lets them track down who the originator of any scanned copies is.

That might sound ridiculous, but streaming-only to prevent perfect copies and hiding purchaser identifiers in the data are both DRM techniques that have been explored in other media already. There’s no limit to how anti-consumer publishers can get when they think there’s slightly more money to be had.

Or a terrible, painful one.

Or maybe the large ones are so angry because of the countless tiny ones you unknowingly splattered against your hull?

Yeah, but thanks to their control of the media, they’ve also created a system where millions will leap to defend them while demonizing anyone who criticizes them. When things get truly dire, they’ll just point at some random demographic and say “it’s their fault!” and their followers will eat it up.

I’d love for them to face consequences for their actions, but going by history they’ll keep getting away with things until an ally backstabs them for power or the regime has eaten itself and fully fallen.

Look upon my woods, ye mighty, and despair!

As always, it works at the Speed of Plot™.

Which somehow becomes much slower the second players come up with a use for an infinite source of unclean water.

It’s A Cauldron of Endless Bog Water. The merchant lost it a while back and came here to retrieve it after tales spread of a new swamp popping up out of nowhere.

The Gods Must Be Crazy?

Deniable encryption like that will be a lifesaver if things get bad enough. Though I’m thinking more the kind where the encrypted content on a computer disk is indistinguishable from free space, and you have multiple passwords that decrypt different parts of the filesystem. That way you can be interrogated and/or beaten, “give up” and unlock your computer (using the decoy password), and still hide any incriminating evidence since those files remain hidden with no way for adversaries to even detect that they exist.