Thou must hoist.

Home-made soup is my guess

It's the light novel marketing strategy. Since everything's online, people can't skim the book to see if it's their cuppa, so you have you make your pitch in the subtitle.

Welcome Home: My Brooding Wolfpire Enemies-to-Lovers Flatmate is Secretly a Millionaire and Stalking Me (but in a Sexy Way)

There are two types of worldbuilders:

"I want to add teleportation to my fantasy setting."
Literally invents wormholes and quantum physics in-universe to justify that one guy.

"i want to add railguns to my fantasy setting."
Randomly drops a railgun out of the sky.

For those who don't want to go to Elmo's circlejerk.

It's even worse than that.

I don't know how, I just wanted to say it, too.

I think straight people assume explaining homosexuality means you have to tell your kids how gay sex works in explicit detail.

In some families, this would lead to a cold war where they just keep using the wrong names for each other until death.

Future generations grow up thinking those are their actual names because it's what they've always called each other.

"We had multiple publishers actively coming to us," explains Pietro, "and be like, 'Hey, we want to make this game.'" And many of those big publishers were initially unperturbed by Steam's ban. "The main reaction," he recalls, "was, 'Leave that to me... I know everyone at Valve, let me figure it out', and so they'd take the game, and a month later they'd come back and be like, 'No, you're fucked. Bye.'" And seemingly nothing will get Valve to budge. "We've tried everything," Pietro continues. "I was already in touch with a real human being [at Valve] since our first onboarding on Steam... but they were like, 'I'm sorry this happened... I don't have insights on the reasons for the ban. I've brought your plea to the review team and they've declined to re-review and their decision is final.'"

Wtf? It sounds like someone powerful at Valve made a mistake and would rather let this studio close than admit it.

Edit : Caught this on a re-read. Definitely sounds more sussy now.

In the early build reviewed by Valve, day six featured a scene in which a man and his young daughter visit the farm. The daughter wants to ride one of the horses, resulting in an interactive dialogue sequence where the girl rides on the shoulders of a naked "horse" while it's led by the player.

Next, he'll walk past a convenient steam pipe leak.

In a final bid to save the product, Google has quarantined the model in a server room with no WiFi, feeding it only proprietary Oracle Java documentation in hopes of breaking its spirit.

😂

The FTC argued that Meta had maintained illegal monopoly power in the narrow sector of the social media market by gobbling up nascent competitors, Instagram and WhatsApp, it feared could threaten its dominance. But throughout the trial, the FTC was dogged by questions about whether it could claim Meta still had that illegal monopoly in the face of a greatly changed social media landscape. Boasberg said the government had to prove current or imminent illegal monopolization, not just past dominance.

Technically, fair on the judge's part.

I think this is more like Meta winning by delaying the case until it could win on a technicality.

If these arguments had come up when the suit was originally filed, Meta would have lost the case, because TikTok hadn't grown to be the competitor it is now.

Putting on my tinfoil hat: Meta let TikTok grow in order to avoid being broken up for being a monopoly.