https://archive.org/download/OTRR_X_Minus_One_Singles

252.6 hours played, last played October 2024.

It’s enjoyable, but I’ve never been really engaged with it. There’s no progression, I don’t feel like my character, equipment, or ships are getting better even though I’m upgrading things. No planet is special, even though they’re all unique.

I think it would be better if you started out in a “settled” region with interesting factions, hand-designed planets, optional quest lines, etc. The infinite procedurally generated stuff would come into play if you push beyond the edges of known space.

You may enjoy Fritz Leiber’s short story, “A Pail of Air”, which involves the Earth being ejected.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51461

Funny “Haha” or funny “Uh Oh”?

Only people who live in the country.

Also, the census doesn’t only count citizens.

Also, your hot beverage of choice.

Pfft. Real programmers use butterflies

Carthago delenda est!

Stares in Care Bear

Left4Dead2 (also L4D1)

Some have stopped working, like SteamLink, but others still work. I know it’s just a matter of time.

Mine can because it also has Netflix, Hulu, etc. built in.

Almost certainly. You’d have to go out of your way to find a keyfob system that doesn’t. I administer a keyfob system at work, and I can tell you exactly whose key was used on which doors and at what times.

It almost certainly will record every usage of the keyfob. It may also record opening the door from inside.

A standard reference model in 3d modeling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot

At least “crushed by asteroid” is not contagious.

From a national security standpoint of the government, it absolutely does matter who has the data.

“Here come the test results: ‘You are a horrible person’. That’s what it says, ‘a horrible person’. We weren’t even testing for that!”

Bust this trust.