Uriel238 [all pronouns]

Apparently soccer is offensive even though I grew up in AYSO. i got in the habit of calling them association football and gridiron football, respectively.

I thought the corruption of the leagues and the fanatcism of the US is bad and scary. Then I learned about FIFA. i had no idea.

Oh! did you accidentally vote in monarchists to let them do what they want, and discover it’s not quite what you want?

The face eating leopards are hungry tonight!

or (for a different allegory) Heron is king now and it’s frog season!

I discovered in my midlife that I had a lot of potential careers I’d be good at, which was completely different than the careers I wanted as a kid.

I really wanted to be an astronaut, and my dad was actually in the space program during and after the Apollo program. But my field independence sucks and I’m prone to motion sickness, so no space travel for me.

On the other hand, I’m awesome at research and connecting seemingly unrelated facts, so I could have been a brilliant CIA analyst. I suck at languages, though, which is a requirement for entry.

Oh it’s worse. I read the book and it was very sad. And the movie was clearly changed from the book for sake of IP laws, reminding us of how sorry our own dystopia is.

It really needed an Oh Brother Where Art Thou ending where Wade and the gang fail to win but get well-off enough from their exploits and are seen by the public as leaders of the revolution against IOI’s monopoly, and the capitalist system as a whole.

One of IOI’s sixes gets the final key but when he signs the contract, it locks him out. The OASIS controlling stock remains in escrow pending ??? with IOI as the default benefactor when… something future undisclosed event happens.

Which would set it all up for RP2.

It’s one of those books like the Harry Potter series in which it feels more like it was intended to be easy-to-market, but is not very strong as a story.

Well, crap. So goes enshittification.

The fake name generator might be useful. There are also temporary email services for when a site account requires a confirmed email.

Oh that’s a good one. Get the pope to pass a bull offering everyone salvation, past, present, future, fictional, factual, human, animal, spirit.

They’d reverse it quickly, but it would be too late. It happened.

And because the Holy See has ecclesiastic jurisdiction (as we all learned in Dogma ) then it would totally count. Heaven for everyone.

And if there are angels in Wisconsin cursed by God and breaking divine infallibility unmakes the universe (it doesn’t) then the world would end.