Must be an optical illusion then.

You did write that.

While it is understandable to look down on people who lack the technical skills and knowledge to avoid the cloud, I don’t believe they deserve to burn to death in their beds. That’s kinda fucked up. But maybe I’m too snotty sissy wholesome…

It doesn’t mean much that millions of people might be good at operating remote controlled killing machines?

From the link:

Definition: A gaming dark pattern is something that is deliberately added to a game to cause an unwanted negative experience for the player with a positive outcome for the game developer.

I should have said “literature”.

I agree with everything you said.

However, fiction world building and game world building are hugely different.