There used to be an old joke in role-playing circles—it isn’t funny these days—that there were only a… — Charles Stross
There used to be an old joke in role-playing circles—it isn’t funny these days—that there were only a thousand real people in the UK—everybody else was a non-player character. Now it’s pretty much the reverse.
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