Ah fuck. This one is going to hit a kind person I know.

I wanted more expanse style stories, and I got another expanse style story. The novella "Livesuit" was also good.

Extracted a paragraph from the "preview" by academic paywall:

INTRODUCTION EXCERPT ATTACHED. In 1865, the British rulers of north India resolved to bring about the gradual 'extinction' of transgender Hijras. This book, the first in-depth history of the Hijra community, illuminates the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality and the production of colonial knowledge. From the 1850s, colonial officials and middle class Indians increasingly expressed moral outrage at Hijras' feminine gender expression, sexuality, bodies and public performances. To the British, Hijras were an ungovernable population that posed a danger to colonial rule. In 1871, the colonial government passed a law that criminalised Hijras, with the explicit aim of causing Hijras' 'extermination'. But Hijras evaded police, kept on the move, broke the law and kept their cultural traditions alive. Based on extensive archival work in India and the UK, Jessica Hinchy argues that Hijras were criminalised not simply because of imported British norms, but due to a complex set of local factors, including elite Indian attitudes.

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108592208

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By royal decree, the children of maintenance workers are to travel in the rear of the aircraft. /s

What's wrong with girl bosses?

He's a loser until he finds the hard drive and secures his descendants entry into the aristocracy.

Nvm, still a loser.

They also put little effort into this strategy (if this even was their strategy). Weeks until mods kit was released. No tutorials on how to make easy POIs so less technical creative people could start adding stories etc. Going for the attitude of "we barely thought about mod support for skyrim and it worked out".

Steam also never took it's eye off the piracy ball. Offer up a service better than free piracy.

Just pulling from my memory:

• Family Share
• Easy controller support
• Game Casting
• Gameplay recording
• "Invisible Login" for social network
• Torrent from a local area network friend who has the game on their computer
• (list goes on)

I'm not holding breath. Outer Worlds could have had good mod support too but the company never got around to it.