I just played through Fallout New Vegas “Dead Money,” and it got me thinking about this.

What made it immersive for me was that the constraints were (a) explained within the story line, and (b) effective in making the situation consistent.

In the normal game, you start from nothing and eventually become massively overpowered, which is immersion-breaking because if you can do it, why not all of the NPCs? In Dead Money, you are strapped for resources, pressed for time, and feel the looming fear all the time. The experience is more visceral.

Set it up in the living room. Make sure the kid knows that you can see what they do.

Parent.

You answered half of your own question.

“it would raise the value of rocket producers like SpaceX and Blue Origin.”

The other thing is a complete lack of jurisdiction. At least theoretically, nobody can go after them for generating grossly illegal content in space.

Also, pure hypermasculine fetishism.

Hatred, anger, insomnia, self-loathing, political action, arguing on social media, and profound clinical depression.

Not necessarily good strategies, but that’s not what you asked for.

Look up the very real group, “Jews for Hitler.”

sigh

Yanks.

They shouldn’t be.

Space, especially LEO, is cluttered with way the hell too much garbage already.

Nobody should be allowed to put garbage up there for no benefit beyond CEO pocket lining.

Every single space mission should be carefully considered as a resource usage. Every object left behind in orbit should be scrutinized ten times as closely.

Fuck no. They’re a stupid, terrible idea peddled by psychotic grifters.

Running Windows apps “natively” is impossible, by definition.

That said, I could imagine a kernel module that ran everything Windows in a microContainer like Kata. More likely would be to have Windows executables intercepted and run under Wine.

It’s an interesting question.

Worth mentioning that this wasn’t a problem on other systems. Unix had long, case-sensitive names before DOS existed.

Or a collecter of porn mature content.

“Sorry everyone, just got swept up in the moment. No hard feelings, right?” – A. Hitler

Pretty much the TERF archetype.

Hypocritical bigots are still bigots first and foremost.

Becauae making a good product is not their goal, and never was.

MS exists to monetize their products, or in other words extract maximum profit. When they were an underdog or competitor (Win 3.1 era), making a better product was the primary way to beat Apple et al.

But now they rely in integration/lock-in of their ecosystem, and making their products better will not increase their market share. That means improving their products is against their financial interests.

Nah, spotify is like google for streaming: shitty, abusive, monopolistic, evil, and unrepentant.

Canadian here.

Stop it. Stop it stop it STOP IT!

Refuse tips everywhere. If a business gives you the ‘option,’ refuse. Refuse, explain, and stop going there.

PENALIZE any place that sets up tip options. Hurt them. Drive them out of business.

Break the spine of tipping now. Before it’s too late.

Years ago, a company wanted Tom Waits to do a commercial. He refused, so they hired a voice impersonator to do it instead. He sued, and won.

Not in the US, but here are some ideas.

• citizen’s arrest
• protest local government to have the perps arrested and charged
• doxxing

The last of these will eventually lead to the ultimate and worst response - retaliation and possibly civil war. Frankly, I don’t know if the US can avoid it at this point.

You got part of it. The Swiss get formal training during their military service, and understand that owning a gun is a responsibility and an obligation, not a right. They have a sense of duty around their ownership.

But another big part is that nobody on the planet fetishizes guns like the US. Guns are a symbol of virility, of sexual prowess, of “American Freedom.” Facebook recently showed me a reel by a woman who poses (nude) on OnlyFans with guns and motorcycles. That is a profoundly US mindset. (And of course the guns are assault rifles.)

Only in the US and a few other pockets of rednecks are guns fetishized.

Guy nearing 60 here. Average of 1/day, sometimes a bit more.

Sadly married to someone who has absolutely zero sex drive or desire for me.