It feels a bit like latter-half Game of Thrones where a lot of subplots were supported by the text and at least plausible enough to argue for on Reddit, but written and planned in a way that gave the audience a total of 10-15 minutes' worth of TV for the whole subplot before wrapping it up.

If the old robber barons like Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan had a stock ticker showing them nonstop insults from the hoi polloi they too would send the Pinkertons into random Midwestern cities to get into fights with locals.

Kills me that Bethesda dungeons and quests don't have designer credits like old shooters used to have for the levels, if you're gonna give individual devs little fiefdoms in your game I need to know who I have to praise for the rare moments of thought put into Fallout 4's writing

Shoutout to my favorite piece of fictional nonfiction: some poor far-future historian in the Star Wars setting trying to explain what the hell happened in the prequel-original saga from a socioeconomic perspective without considering Space Wizardry
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Here's the formula!
Act harmlessly bewildered
Engage with the more visibly frustrated replies
Cherrypick users you can sealion most effectively
Ignore valid counterreplies
Move goalposts
Sealion replies that chase your goalposts
Repeat for hours
"I still don't get [thing that was answered 50 times]"

Cenobites would go nuts for cosplay masks that adhere permanently to your face and meld with your skin