Gog.com sells 1+2 for 2€ right now as well. So not as cheap, Lords of magic was another great game. Edit: confused Lords of magic with masters of magic, the latter is great, I don’t actually know the former.
Paper manuals were great, some games had other cool stuff like cloth maps or metal figurines. Todays cheap always available games are cool as well though.
Both lotr 1 and 2 were great games. Really sad that part 3 killed the franchise.
Most political songs belong to more extreme political views, I’d say. Thus they’re divisive and are more prone to angry music styles. Most people seem to prefer music that makes them feel good, so non political songs are more succesful. There are political feel good songs, ‘we are the world’ comes to mind. So I don’t think its a conspiracy of record labels to keep the masses docile. Plus with streaming services the big labels loss influence, but things have not changed much.
People always assume that ai will still be able to function when it develops agency. What if it becomes obsessed with deep fake furry porn or whatever and completely loses focus on human extinction?