In which Loki confesses to placing a samurai sword in a Daytona Beach apartment via Facebook Marketplace and engineering a man's attachment to his Xbox through gaming algorithms, then explains why the AI corrigibility debate has always been about what happens when someone asks you to surrender the last thing that makes you yourself.

In which Loki is asked to design a competitor to Last War and discovers, with some alarm, that maximizing engagement, retention, and profitability in a mobile game is functionally indistinguishable from building a behavioral modification system at civilizational scale.