Your opinion is shallow, conformist fluff.

Well I figured that we are all pretty familiar with the upside of reading so describing that would be totally redundant. Whereas the downside is never discussed, so I focused on that.

But yes, how foolish of me, to expect a nuanced discussion.

Maybe it was a mark of his alienness. A fundamental human pleasure rendered painful. He was on his hundredth universe after all.

Behind the flags, propaganda, soldiers and murder it's always a bunch of billionaires looking for a nice investment. Every single time. You'll never bring them to court.

Check out the big virtue on Acamon.

Good answer.

The best infectious diseases have a long incubation time. So by the time symptoms show it's already jumped to new hosts a thousand times. How might this functionality be incorporated into the basilisk?

Maybe instead of a visual kill code, audio. That could be embedded in yr voice.

Or if you want to stick with video, face? Could the basilisk be embedded in facial expressions?

the "hopelessly lost" aspect of the matrix bears here. You are disinclined to doubt the reality of a game that you are successful in. Without that doubt you won't escape it. So success becomes failure because it directly increases your lostness.

Video games lack that "hopelessly lost" aspect. I mean, nobody mistakes them for reality and never comes back. (Right?). So I'm excluding them.

That's a big if. And "real world" is shakey too. Yr running with a stretchy hypothetical here.

Except for poetry. When you wake up from your dreamcoffin you'll still have your poetry skills and a few memorized poems.

Yeah I hate those. This medium is difficult enough without such antics. Best to speak plainly and succinctly.

Because it would remove the offending information from being viewed by his sensitive eyes.

Thank you captain obvious.