Dark Souls.

You need to play NG+ and a fair bit of NG++ to be able to get everything on one character.

The hottest year on record… So far.

“beset on all sides, with idiots”

TL:DR:

Government contracts and the money that it brings with it. As well as tryingt to be on a certain politicians good side should he win the election in the US.

Obviously… Ubisoft

Come on… Shitty safety measures have never, ever, in the history of mankind led to catastrophic events with a lasting fallout. -some government that collapsed

After all after some point safety is just pure waste of money. -some dead CEO

It doesn’t take enshittification for something real bad to happen. All it takes is time. Add the mentioned enshittification and corner cutting and we know for sure what will happen…

Or how the saying in EvE online goes : it’s not a question on if your ship gets blown up but a question of when it gets blown up.

He’s so boned… Done goofed up now!

“prison warden advocates for locking everyone up for their own safety”

The network providers know full well that the market is saturated and that they have to make a better offer if they want to gain market share. The only thing device lock in does is improve their bottom line since they can force you into a shitty contract for longer. It has NO benefit for the consumer whatsoever.

Blocked instance… They can figure their stuff out without me because I don’t want anything to do with them.

Cool. But I can’t help the fact that it feels like a potential security risk to me. It is not unknown just how low they can stoop to get their way so I would expect that to be no different there.

Now that’s one shit experiment to figure something specific out.

Why not both?

I do give a shit, and at this point I want to see that platform taken down for good. Because otherwise it’s a platform for nefarious shit and abuse. And no one needs that. Especially not the gullible.

Everyone else could just say :" the rules say… But you don’t give a fuck about the rules so we won’t do that either. Get dumped…" And then just exclude him everywhere and revoke their access and all that. But that is unlikely to happen for reasons. But they could…

It’s an effect that our conservatives from CDU and CSU as well as liberals from FDP are denying to exist and are decrying the fact that it costs money (and helps the average guy, but they can’t say that out loud)

Hmm, I tend to do initial processing at the extraction location if it’s beneficial or neutral. No need to ship all the raw ore around unless I can’t simply do that for one reason or another. Then everything gets shipped to the big factory at the space elevator.

I then figure out what end product I need and how much and put the required machines into a building. I then build other building which do the inputs for that till I finally arrive at the raw ore or the pre processed stuff like iron ingots.

Basically clusters of buildings that provide output as necessary either with a bit of over production or underclocked to match.

I call it modular factory because I don’t care about having all of my screws coming from one place and only one place. It also means that it’s all custom built and not with blueprints. But at least it kinda looks like a computer Mainboard from above.

Pump powered? Pump pointing the right way? Pump low enough that it’s still in headlift from a previous pump?

I would argue that it’s a handheld PC since it’s not locked down to heck and back. It would also be the one thing I would buy but I have no use case for it so I don’t.

Crazy stuff… Ads everywhere. Makes my choice to not buy any console this generation seem a lot better. It saved me money and I don’t get ads forced on me. I call that a win win.

While I have not played overwatch myself, I have heard about a few things with it. From my point of view overwatch had it’s own problems including characters that did only one thing but that one thing really, really well. Which is frustrating. It also didn’t help that they tried to force things instead of actually working with what they had. IMHO it’s a master class of what not to do with a game unless you want to to fail.