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The only difference I see is that “dark” is understood as unknown and not necessarily a single thing.

A lot of older stuff we talk about seems to be assertive in their existence and what they are. Not all of course, but in the absence of a term that indicates “we really don’t know”, it seems random ideas were pretty common.

That’s not to say we don’t still do that, but I think it’ll be ideas that came out of or overly supported “dark” nomenclature. Like, say we find out we got Hubble’s constant wrong. I don’t think history will remember us as “believing in dark energy”. Just that we got Hubble’s constant wrong.

If your device permits it, run raid on disc, and use nvme as cache. My Synology does this.

Yes. They are bigger. It sends a message to the entire predatory ecosystem. Which would not happen if they went for a smaller Gacha game.

Other than that, no, let’s give them fines too.

Not sure what to do. I gave it my IMEI but it said that wasn’t recognized as belonging to a Pixel 4a…except my phone clearly is, isn’t running custom firmware, and still in my purchase history.

You might be interested to know that there are several hardcore modding scenes, where the point is to mod the game for fun. The mod guides are updated every month or so and includes thousands of mods. It takes days to install, and actually playing is optional. In most cases, a new save is required every update, so modders keep an additional playable state if they actually want to play the game.

Lexy’s LOTD is my fav one, it’s only over a thousand mods, has very detailed instructions, and a very friendly community.

I feel like starfield is an experiment in user driven content (mods) to sell a game. The issue with Skyrim is that there is really only one map, and before any map extension mod came out, there were so many mods out there that competed for space on the map. Even today, large world overhaul mods are constantly stepping on the toes of other mods. City redesigns are also a problem unless you’re really good at load orders and merging.

Starfield feels like each world is an open map, ready for people to start designing content: either a colony, a cave, or anything really. The story seems loose and open ended so that it won’t interfere with large collaborative content. It’s not a game they are selling, but a modding storefront. It’s like Skyrim Creations, but putting the horse (armor sold separately) before the cart.

It’s good that you were able to quote the regulations. You’re not wrong, I’m just apathetic; the question was more rhetorical. To be clear: I don’t have faith that this is strong enough to deter and/or that governing policies have enough teeth to enforce. I’d like to be wrong, but I’m not hopeful.

Or what? A slap on the wrist?