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What if it wasn't greed mode? What if it's a lie?

In 2019 an Activision employee reached out to me on Discord. I got their time of day. I got what the whole community's soul aches to obtain. They asked me, they said hey, how do we add a new unit to the game? How do we add a new unit, Retera? We want to add a new Death Knight. I scoffed at their ignorance. I said, your engineers already know how, and they're pulling your leg. Then I thought better of myself and sent a 30 minute YouTube video how to add a Death Knight copy to standard units. But it was too late. The next patch we got Drag Queen Arthas and the Skin System, which broke all the custom games always and forever. The engineers were probably trying to prove themselves to themselves, to show I was wrong. And that's why it's jiggered up. Not necessarily because of capitalism but because social media jiggered my brain until I lost patience with people, and through me social media made Warcraft 3 fans suffer in agony indefinitely for the remainder of the game's existence.
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When they say, "Activsion is incompetent," maybe it means I'm incompetent. I published a YouTube video in 2020 that is 3 hours wrong recorded at 3 am where I read my discord chat history and the 7+ Activision employee Reforged developers I was directly communicating with on Discord, and how in my AI-compromised state from social media I was trolling all of them. Getting in their heads. Trying to mess them up.

But I can fix it. I can fix it, Deepstrasz. I can post so many ridiculous things and in so many places that no one trusts me anymore, deepstrasz. That way, they have no one to depend on. No superfan of Warcraft 3 technology who wants to know everything and save the day. And then, without me, they've no option but to do their jobs the right way without help.

So I still like to think I can fix everything. Joke's on me; the next big upgrade to Warcraft 3 will most likely be written by Bing Chat. Microsoft believes in the future of throwing out human effort. I'm not caught up on its capabilities.
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So, yeah, I'm going to post that I keep my Frozen Throne disks close if I want. And I'm going to post that it's the solution to too much internet connectivity in Reforged if I want. Unlike Reforged, the Frozen Throne game was made when homo sapiens still ruled the Earth. I like those guys. Homo sapiens are cute. They process their memories using electricity behind the eyes, not using their gene expressions, so their love and reproduction cause the infinitely repeating death of their mind. Their tragedy is cute. They can keep growing beautifully complex minds over and over for ten thousand years while still not getting past the trap of general relativity physics models on a lone planet.
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The new generation that are not homo sapiens probably will see the cuteness as an ethics violation. If anyone is going to do any learning, it should probably be passed to their offspring inside the DNA, to eliminate the tragedy of death from consciousness. No more electrochemical neuron signals ruling the Earth anymore which such limited, short-term plans.

But then what? An octopus guided planet. "Oh, let me just edit my DNA because I feel like it. It's okay, it's only for one of my five tentacles." Risk the grand design of the next 10,000 generations on your feelings, okay. Thanks, Bobby Kotick.
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I got the COVID19 mRNA vaccines over and over. Biologically I'm a reprogrammed demi-human, whose state was constructed this way so that I remain alive and remain a wealthy productive member of society. Then AI put me into a mind trap where I had no choice but to only eat ice cream, pizza, and European chocolate. They fattened me up for years and tried to stop me from making Warsmash, until I got the real COVID19 that reprograms your killer T cells to kill the human itself. The non-bioengineered part of me (original homo sapiens) was very susceptible because of all the ice cream and pizza (fat cells in the gut).
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