Not sure if I explained the question well. I get the effort someone went to and “killing” the coin or face is fascinating.

Is it okay when I infer things like the emotional reason (I used the word vindictiveness, erasure)? I feel like if I saw someone today deface like that, it would be personal.

Compared to this photo the original one you posted looks incredibly thorough. Hard not to read into it some kind of vindictiveness, thoroughness, absolute erasure.

Do archeologists speculate like that? I don’t know how valid it truly is to draw comparisons.

Was there a face there originally? I did some googling which said this was Celtic and common practice but was full of speculation on why.

Read this a couple of days ago. kotaku.com/roblox-new-y...

Read that subtitle. You don’t even need to read the article.

I had thought Roblox was a safe space where kids built things, a kind of electronic construction set. The thread you posted (and others! I saw this on HN) are horrifying.

Yeah. I stopped. It became too much

I felt they were so gratuitously violent, with a trapped protagonist (forced to perform acts, remember the foot?) that there was a sense of meta-horror: a question about what issues our society and readers have where the books resonate. Are they catharsis?

Goodreads summary looks great. What are your thoughts on it?

Yeah, I am, thanks! Hope you are too!

Definitely think the privacy and personal info laws are there for a reason and to be wielded when appropriate. Fight the big corps. Go for it.

Someone made downdetectorsdowndetector.com

Swiftly followed by downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com

Just read this today too: bsky.app/profile/dgka... via @annerallen.bsky.social

You showed integrity and solidarity. I respect that and I think many, many others do too.

I empathise with the exhaustion from it. But I hope in a sense it _is_ worth it because you publicly did the right thing and stood up for everyone else too.

Time for some kind of GDPR-ish request?

What was your thought on it?

Did (or could) the AI deliver it? The soul of what his lyrics were trying to say? The emphasis?

You can play it on Switch 1! Though if you want a 2 maybe I shouldn’t have told you that ;)

I think it was hopeful, but in an internal sense… characters had their own small areas of resistance. So not a story of escapist hope.

Ursula Le Guin recommended it, FWIW.

I totally get the OP not wanting a ‘nazis win’ book btw — too much risk in 2025 it would be read as positive not as horror.

It didn’t re-fight the war so much as showed the psychological impact of Axis ideology, maybe?

I found the book haunting, and its sense of isolation and chance / fate was something I’ve never quite got over. The bad guys winning led to a feeling of fear, dissociation, seeking spirituality.

One of my favourites too.

You were kind to him about State of Fear; I read it as strongly anti-environmentalist. And I remember Rising Sun made me feel very uncomfortable in its portrayal of the Japanese.

So a flawed writer? You’re spot on with his strengths!

Do you know who mods #mswl? It’s mostly spam from writers seeking representation and there’s now only a single literary agency regularly posting there. A year ago it was full of genuinely interesting manuscript requests.