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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As an aside, if you want to try a fun heist game without needing to worry about letting down any teammates, I highly recommend checking out Heat Signature.

It’s single-player and is a 2D, top-down heist game where you sneak aboard space ships to complete objectives like assassinating a crew member, stealing something valuable, hijacking the entire ship, etc.

It looks simple, but things get crazy fast. One minute you’re sneaking behind guards and knocking them out with a wrench, the next you’re teleporting into a locked cabin, shooting out the glass so the explosive decompression blows you and your target into space, then teleporting back to your original location (because you used a recall teleporter that does so automatically after a few seconds) while they slowly asphyxiate, before hacking the nearby turrets to shoot down any investigating guards while you sprint back to your shuttle and escape.

On the other hand, wouldn’t you expect such an agent to be under heavy surveillance themselves to prevent that very thing? If he had contingencies, it’s likely they were known about and disabled when the time came. And you can bet every single friend and collaborator of his was watched like a hawk after he was imprisoned/died.

That’s if there even were contingencies - never underestimate the stupidity of someone who thinks they’re untouchable.

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.

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.

I know AI is a pox on humanity and all, but I chuckled when someone sent me this parody a few years back.

Nintendo to the Patent Office: “We invented farming games with the introduction of berries in Pokémon. Please ignore all other prior art that wasn’t ours.”

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.

Not actively giving them the weapons they’re using to kill civilians is a step in the right direction, at least. Right now the US is complicit in their crimes since they’ve kept sending arms despite knowing for several months that they’re being used for war crimes.

Look upon my woods, ye mighty, and despair!

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.

Nothing.

My cat is asleep on my lap. I am now trapped for all eternity.

You say “wildly wrong”, they say “incentivizing engagement”.