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Not particularly, ak. I definitely preferred krypta in M1, no question. Skeletons helped a lot with not having to deal with paying attention to the town.

I think I'm getting an idea for a short story.

Is it cheating if you think you know a way to take actual things that happened to you and/or relatives, some family legends and stories, mishmash and alter them and change the atmosphere to make a story? I seem to really lack the creativity to come up with something entirely new :I

Not even the littlest bit. Many, many authors use real life events and individuals as inspiration and whatnot. It's ridiculously common and not even remotely cheating.

Do you see?

You certainly don't.

You don't because I have your eyes.

I have them right here:

Our legal system doesn't recognize ignorance as a defense

As for awareness, yeah, know they're around. Tour, not so much. Not even sure if most of them would let you unless you were a major investor. They're not exactly public property. Been in a couple of state owned ones, though, either as part of a student tour or accompanying someone visiting an inmate.

Stories about conditions and whatnot do hit the news occasionally, though, and they're usually not exactly good. Not surprising considering news is news these days, but also not surprising because hey, when you incentivize penal slavery and max profit conditions, you get what you pay for.

I'm pretty sure 3PS is a shipping designation, if you we're aiming for a different third person acronym.

... which is a plus, to me. Makes new articles and ads and whatnot more amusing.

Sorta'. It's also being used for a few other things, not just AoS style ones. Mostly arena map knockoffs, sometimes tug-of-war rehashes, probably stuff I'm forgetting. Still WC3 custom maps, just less differentiated and with a bland name that pisses on the AoS style's potential as a genre and conflates it with stuff that deserves entirely different design direction.

AoS?

Only know HoN.

Aeon of Strife, what all these things were called/descended from back when they were SC/WC3 custom maps. DotA was an AoS map, Tides of Blood was an AoS map, the various AoS maps were AoS maps, so on, so forth. Kinda' like the use of roguelike, just AoS instead of rogue. They use a different acronym these days but sod that. They've been AoS since the beginning and AoS they shall remain.

That seems to take care of itself fairly well when some sort of overwatch organization is in place, really.