The only reason I started to enjoy the prequels was because of r/prequelmemes

How can you not enjoy the classic cinematics of III?!

That’s fair. Although I think they did the best they could with how complicated the game is, playing as any form of caster gets cumbersome real quick, especially from lvl 5 and on.

Funnily, two of us are experienced DMs, but I think we’re both tired of being DM. At least, I’ve literally never played actual DnD as a player and I DM’d for a group for 5 years.

I never said something like direct nerve interaction is terrible or nonexistent. My brother also does not like the idea of having something implanted, and would much rather have a mechanical device that he has a chance to repair himself should anything break. That’s not being ignorant to anything, just pragmatic.

What I did say is not to trust a money-making business to do it right and not leave you high and dry if they go belly-up.

ETA: also, under the USA healthcare system, something like you suggest is unaffordable for a good chunk of people and the VA only approved the mechanical device any way.

I don’t see limb replacements this way at all, but typically limb replacements also do not rely on 3rd party services that might disappear at any time and are almost purely mechanical.

My brother lost his left arm, and what he is getting is controlled entirely by the nub with no outside influence or implanted microchips.

Bingo. Being handicapped in any way doesn’t make you less vulnerable to exploitation or decisions driven by shareholders and money. In a lot of cases, it actually increases the chances from my perspective.

Next up: 2+2=5

I get where you’re coming from, but being paraplegic doesn’t make Musk and Newell any less driven by money. Maybe Newell will surprise me and make it open source, which would help me see it as an actual philanthropic venture.

If society was headed towards Star Trek I’d be less apprehensive, but as it is we’re in for an even more bleak version of 1984 somehow.

Shit, you’re right. I was just using what engineering gave me, but yours tested much better with the focus groups. Let me know if you ever want to transfer from QA to Marketing, you got a real future here 👈😉👈

Now with 50% less barbarism!

Something something Half Life 3

But also, fuck no. I would never trust modern software or hardware companies to develop something that is going to be connected to my brain. We can’t even trust social media or AI companies not to fuck us up without the physical connection.

I think specific solutions for each type of content would be better in the long term if you have a lot of stuff to host, and management/organization will be better since they are catered to whatever the content type is.

Others have already said it, Audiobookshelf is a good one. For EBooks though, I would highly recommend Calibre Content server. Calibre is pretty much the defacto open source EBook manager out there, a lot of features and abilities specific to ereaders and ebooks of all formats.