I see you've already found Jack London. I remember enjoying White Fang a lot as a kid, though it's been a while since I read it so I'm not 100% certain how well it holds up.

Did you figure out that you're intended to rest in dungeons to refill your resource pools? That was something of a revelation for me.

I'm trying to get into Daggerfall. I probably wouldn't have got past character creation without a guide, and I died an embarrassing number of times in the intro dungeon, but once I got to town and figured out how to pick up quests things started to come together. We'll see how far I get.

Yup, Spiritfarer is my answer too. I played up through the first person to pass on and then couldn't keep going.

Counterpoint: "Maybe the Best Way to Oppose Fascism is to Fucking Oppose It"

The implication being that Ukrainian intelligence was responsible?

I was thinking the same thing. Those first sentences sure do seem like an AI prompt.

That's very shocking. All of Elon's other companies have such a strong reputation for reliable engineering. /s

Loria is a game from 2018 that is very obviously inspired by Warcraft 2. I remember enjoying my playthrough.

I'm not quite old enough to have played it on release, but I think you're right that System Shock was a game with a lot of amazing ideas that was limited by the technology of the day. I was very happy to see such an authentic remake, which was clearly made by people who cared deeply about the source material.

The point of putting a property in the public domain is precisely so anyone can do whatever they want with it. The basic idea is that all creators draw on their wider culture for ideas, and therefore all creative works belong, in part, to the wider culture, and need to be turned over eventually. The fact that Willingham uses so many public domain characters in his comics is itself a good illustration of how this works. Two of his main characters are Snow White and the Big Bad Wolf (among many other fairy tale characters). They eventually get married. Are you concerned about preserving the "spirit" of those original stories, which Willingham freely reinterprets? I doubt it, and you shouldn't be. We all, as a culture, own those characters and can use them however we want. What this decision means is that the same now applies to Willingham's specific versions. I have immense respect for the man for making a principled decision.

As for how it damages DC, it doesn't do anything directly. They can still make and sell whatever they want, same as before. It's just that now they have competition, because other people can also make and sell Fables books. Assuming DC loses the inevitable legal battle, at any rate.

The article is talking about nuclear power plants. There is no mention of nuclear weapons. Ukraine gave all its nukes to Russia decades ago.