I’m pretty sure there have been basketball pigeons before AI images were a thing.

The usual line drawn is photorealistic. Mostly because they don’t want that used as a defense for the real thing.

Not Doom, no, but the military did (and probably still does) have an FPS video game it used for training.

A ‘memory crisis’ they created artificially and deliberately in order to price gouge as hard as possible.

He’s working too hard. We just care about his well being. He doesn’t need to be doing everything by himself.

Doesn’t mean he’s right, either.

No, this is their answer to overpopulation. We’re meant to find our way to the nearest back alley or empty land and lie down to quietly starve to death out of their sight. That or be forced to do the back breaking labor that the robots are too expensive to do. They might give you food and a tent for that.

We’re dealing with at least two intervening languages and generations of oral history here. Nitpicking semantics isn’t terribly useful.

Basically, it means don’t be yandere.

Our first mistake as a nation was not kicking out the royalists.

It’s not like they ever stopped. If you’re rawdogging ads, you are part of a bot net at the very least.

I mean, they are morons.

Riot would have to be really big assholes not to revert the ban,

So, yeah, that’s not getting reverted.

It sounds like at least one cheater already figured it out. Just swap the chips. Then sell the old one used and pass the problem onto someone else.

At least the rebuild time will be quick in your case.

It is a horrendous insult to Pad Thai.

It was also mostly made up of leftover stories that didn’t make it into the original series.

That and they would have had to pay the author to use it. That’s the whole reason they de-canoned the books in the first place.

Our immune system isn’t that efficient. There’s always at least some bacteria in there. Just not enough to kill us, most of the time.

As others have said, not sterile. Even if it was, though, sterile doesn’t mean safe to consume.