![]() I first noticed it when someone referred to my constant proselytizing for the band Steely Dan as me trying to “Danpill” people. Mask skeptics won over by Anthony Fauci could be called KN-95pilled. You might hate Taylor Swift until you hear the “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)” and get Taylorpilled. Solve one Atlantic crossword and you’ll be puzzlepilled. pilled was ironically co-opted from the alt-right to connote a sort of forced subscription to an ideology. ![]() To be X-pilled meant to learn new information that made you an enthusiastic lover of X. The serious sense of “waking up to the truth” that alt-righters used redpilling to mean was weathered down with irony until it revealed what may be the true meaning of the term: to become a superfan of something, political or otherwise. Hence the Wednesday clue: “Suffix denoting indoctrination.“You take the blue pill, the story ends. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” Morpheus, The Matrix (1999) You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. In the Matrix, Morpheus offers Neo the choice of a red pill or a blue pill. The blue pill allows Neo to return to his fake reality (essentially the world we know). The red pill offers the chance to escape this virtual reality and live in the actual world a grim reality where humans are kept as mere energy sources for a web of computer intelligence. The metaphor of the red pill, or similar, is a recurring one in philosophy and literature from Descartes’ allegory of the cave, to films such as Total Recall, not forgetting the red vial which Alice is offered as an escape from Wonderland (referenced by Morpheus above).Īside – my favourite incarnation is in the superb Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I don’t think he is a native English speaker, but he still speaks English better than I can speak his native tongue. I do agree the navigation is a little less intuitive to use and there are way too many banners messages to close, but as a beggar, I can’t be a chooser. You wouldn’t believe how long it took me to make a custom image of a clear battlefield with zero obstacles on it to use for setting up the fighting tutorials to explain specific situations. You can’t refresh your way to generating a map with no obstacles to take a screenshot and if you saw the original file of the battleground texture map, you’d be shocked how the battlefield is actually generated. Even the hexagon overlay is strangely not evenly distorted on a plane to easily replicate. ![]() And I know my way around a graphics editor very well! I bet everyone who looked at the images never even gave it a second thought to realize, oh yeah, this battlefield has no obstacles and is actually not a screenshot! Somebody took the time to make this stuff from scratch! Hence, I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss how much prep work Gems did to put their site together, even if it looks like they only used Inno’s images. ![]() I don’t have a problem if they try to make money, but that’s the part that will get you into trouble with copyright though. If you make an informational site and isn’t making a dime off it, it’ll be of questionable value for them to take you to court because you can argue you are covered by fair use and will have a decent case. If you are making money off it and it becomes a commercial venture, then fair use no longer covers your behind and now you can expect to pay up if the copyright owners come for you. ![]()
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