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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

[Off topic]

Reamde by Neal Stephenson.

Techno-thriller about a billionaire's niece who gets kidnapped by the Russian Mafia after her boyfriend sells the wrong people a computer file loaded with ransomware. Much of the action takes place in the virtual world the billionaire created to compete with WOW.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/reamde-neal-stephenson/6431158?ean=9780062191496

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Ah. The birth of a username.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

Ah, my second addiction (first was Ragnarok Online). I'm damn glad I always played on private servers, so I never got "fully" invested, being aware the server could shut down anytime

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Thus starting the transformation