Also says, “subscriptions open at 9:30 PM 1/11/2014 EST” (emphasis mine)

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This, especially if you have NVIDIA.

Granted. The Monkey’s Paw is now replaced by an alternative wishing mechanism that is slightly more evil- it had previously been wished out of existence by the Paw, you see.

I can see the halfling thing being an interesting origin story for a villain. Heroic halflings need some sort of evil individial or force to fight against to work as a solid narrative- so if the culture got a little bit too risky with using a specific fictional individual as that enemy, they could become real