Now, however, I think a more apt descriptor might be “maniac.”

Well... if it was a floppy-based game that could load off the disk, instead of a tape-based game that had to get everything in one go, the reason was actually feelie-based copy protection. (Internet seems to say it requires a hard drive install. You definitely didn’t need to require the manual just for space reasons.)

The problem with this and other similar state-funded megaprojects is that there’s a large amount of Dunning-Kruger and sycophants (not necessarily mutually exclusive). Upper management believes anything is possible by just telling people to do it and throwing money at the problem. And while experienced outside…

People just need to stop having sex with birds and cows.

It had a hole right in the top!

If it’s already jumped to cows and dolphins, it’s only a matter of time until it makes the jump to humans, but at least, if the pandemic taught us anything, we’ll react to the coming bird flu pandemic in the most ignorant, uneducated, anti-science, and blindly politicized way possible, so there’s that.

I know where they could get $2 billion back...

I know Dubai is elsewhere. But they built that city to appeal to the elite of the region and the affluent tourism of the rest of the world, not the general populace. And they did so by hiding the literal slave labor that made it possible.

Saudi Arabia is trying to copy the idea while turning it up to 11 by appealing to…

Sounds like Snowpiercer.

The irony is they’re promoting a dystopian future with their “utopian” vision. Go look at the individual “projects” and you just see Saudi Arabia wanting to be the destination for the superrich tourist. They aiming for a Dubai for the people who see Dubai as too pedestrian and chintzy.

They’re creating a Disney World…

I don’t give a damn what they build, it would still be a theocratic monarchy where women are second class citizens. This will suddenly become a real problem if Trump wins in November.

Seems like one of the fundamental issues with anything Saudi Arabia does is I can’t think of any reason why most people would want to visit that country.

I mean, scant few people want to live in the desert, even if they’re housed in a large-scale terrarium with good AC.

Did they run into issues finding  workers willing to work in quasi-slave like conditions?

Maybe they shouldn’t have plowed all their money into state-sponsored crime, then they’d be able to afford their dictator’s vanity project

I can empathize, because my plans to dig a tunnel to China are similarly way over budget and have passed almost every deadline I’ve set.

The same was true of the Pocket Star Trek novels in the ‘80s and ‘90s. At the peak of their popularity in the mid-to-late-’90s, there were multiple original novels coming out every month, and most of them were crap. Part of that was a quality control issue, especially in the early days. But it was also the result of…

As expected, internet providers are not going to take this lying down and will pursue the options available to them to stop net neutrality from happening.

Let’s face it... Most of the old EU was shit.

The sad thing is, Dave Filoni is re-indulging in the old EU’s worst impulses.

and nothing bad happened.