The setting reminds me of Afterlife

A Rimworld style game wouldn’t be the worst for the open source model. It certainly doesn’t have the problems open development brings for story-driven games with spoilers.

Well, at 2 years it is probably older than at least one other game.

They’ve only pushed garbage with their majority market share.

That is not really true. I am as skeptical of their intention as the next guy but they have also pushed a lot of security enhancements and other decent standards (among some more crappy ones).

Similarly, stop saying “x is worth … dollars” or “x earns … dollars” when talking about rich people.

I sort of assumed deporting a few hundred people a day was the minimum in a country of 330 million to make it even worth having a concept of deportation. If you fall below those figures you might as well get rid of it completely and close down the relevant departments.

Without any migrants in either direction you would still need to account for deaths before having children, infertility and similar effects, that is why the figure given for a stable population is usually 2.1 and not 2.001 or something similar like your 2001 figure.

What you call “things are shit” is just an incentive to not have babies.

That might all be true but it is still rather stupid to refer to it as

‘X’ sex markers

in a headline rather than something more descriptive of the actual meaning, not the implementation detail of passport forms considering a lot of people are either not in the US (such as the Guardian writing this) or have never needed to apply for a passport.

Not quite the same concept but it reminds me of Jeffty is Five by Harlan Ellison.

They don’t fear retaliation from him, they fear retaliation from his fans. Those won’t suddenly disappear when he is gone, look at Stalin fans in Russia.

Would you happen to have a link to that presentation? Yes men is not exactly a great search term.

Probably wouldn’t sound at all since it would likely collapse under its own weight considering how soft gold is.

Depending on age they might have aged out of the kind of relatively primitive games handhelds had back then by the time those were released.

I also don’t find myself that interested in the games from major studios because they’re generally just not very good.

Luckily they seem to be required to warn about their status with that triple A warning label in most sources mentioning those games. I hear some major game studios have even updated to the quadruple A warning label because their games are so bad.

Second, the “Game Library Completion” preoccupation is another mistake, imo. I understand feeling bad about “wasting” money, but turning one’s hobby into a (monumental) task/chore isn’t gonna help that. It’ll probably just ruin that hobby.

It is really just a sunk cost fallacy. The same applies to books, movies or any other media. If you don’t enjoy it don’t finish it. Doesn’t matter how much you spent on it or invested into it in other ways. Stopping right when you don’t get anything out of it is the best time to stop that is still available (given we can’t change the past).

OP seems to come from a console background, they have been indoctrinated with the “game goes with this console generation” thing a lot more deeply than PC gamers ever were.

I think it is not so much that people want to be angry as that they want someone to blame for everything that is going wrong in their life, someone who is not them, not someone powerful enough that they couldn’t do anything against them anyway (such as the people actually responsible for most of those issues) but someone they can hurt to make themselves feel better, even if that doesn’t solve their original issue.

Elon Musk seems like the kind of husband that would set the world record for artificially aging his wife based on being annoying to constantly have in your life.

What is the deal with US universities having the power to even make those decisions? In regular countries universities don’t enforce the law on their campus, police does, just like everywhere else.