It's not technically wrong but the super-short abrupt sentence format of "A. B. C."[0] is weird if you repeat it.

You can get away with it once or twice as a kind of rhetorical flourish but if you keep doing it, it starts to sound like a one-trick pony (or a clanker.)

(IMHO, obvs., I'm not the King of English.)

[0] e.g. "Three pinpoints of light. One photographic plate. Vanished within fifty minutes."

https://github.com/2b2tplace/1m_release has it at 24TB for overworldx2+end+nether

A +1 for Bluemap. Plus because it's actually tied into the server[0], all your wacky mods have their blocks rendered correctly instead of confusing whatever map generator you're trying to use.

[0] Plus you can get live player positions, update markers in real time, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDyze1YlOrI is a good explanation of what they did

> What I remember is the big box book stores coming to town and putting the independent and smaller stores out of business.

Weirdly, in (central) London, that didn't happen - the smaller stores survived people like Borders et al. The only "big" stores there now are Foyles[0] and Waterstones (who own Foyles.)

[0] In its new soulless incarnation.

> there is some very dubious sexual exploitation as an entirely unnecessary plot point.

Taking the thinnest of fair slivers, I think that's reasonably common in pre-(80s?90s?00s?) sci-fi/fantasy.

"entirely unnecessary plot point"

Are you sure it is dubious?

Woman used as sexual party favors still happens in real life today. Since it is a common weakness, why can't an AI exploit that.

Some might say our own government is now in control of a foreign government, purely on exploiting that weakness. So it is realistic tactic.

> Are you sure it is dubious?

You'd have to ask 'ideonode who actually said that, not me.

We do - https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/child-protection-system - but, at least in England, as with most governmental functions, it's been slashed to near death by years of austerity and "small government" lunacy.

It's not lunacy. It's the parents' child, not the state's.

> It's the parents' child, not the state's.

And who should look out for the child's interests if the parents can't or won't?

Who decides what the child's interests are?

Also the altitude of a given lat/long can change due to geological processes, climate processes, war, etc.

These are too obvious - 5-15 minutes gives your victim way too many opportunities to narrow down the location.

What you really need is one that chirps once every (multiple of) 20-28 hours (with weighting towards 23-25 to keep it roughly around the time you set it going and an infrequent skipping of a day.) Also with different volumes and, ideally, different chirps. Occasionally a double chirp just for extra insanity causing.

(A Michael Jackson "hee heee" would be another good option.)

Next time I'm bored and need a project, I'm building that ;-)