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You make a great point about the state of post-expansion endgame. But loving the Auction House loot system is akin to banging your face on a brick wall because it feels good when you stop.

I command you to show me the manual

So if your MAF sensor shits the bed you'll never know about it because you're overwriting its data. And from there it's only a matter of time before your car requires dealership service to turn on because it can't phone home properly because some bullshit proprietary data key is broken.

The game of cat and mouse will continue. People will hack their cars and manufacturers will install anti-hacking measures and then people will hack the anti-hacking measures. It's just another thing where instead of being a mutually beneficial transaction it will become a hostile arms race between the consumers and manufacturers. We're already on this path; the only real hope I'm holding out for is the advent of an open source car.

Around where I'm at you're at semi-significant risk of getting pulled over if you're driving under the speed limit. The police assume you're drunk or high and if you're not they'll give you something about "being a hazard to other traffic". Speed limit+10 is the safest speed to move at around here because you're matching other traffic and matching what the cops expect of you.

Yuzu wasn't completely free; that's sort of what got them into hot water in the first place and the reason why Nintendo hasn't also sued SNES9X into the dirt. Yuzu had a patreon with certain releases gated behind it. That's what got them in trouble.

Counterpoint : Kool-aid man doing Lil Jon's YEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHH!

More for me then, cheers mate 🤙

It's less that they've actively made things better for anyone and more that some of their currency is actually circulating to these folks in the first place. Think about the most dirt poor shithole town you can imagine in Bumfuck Kentucky, where there's no running water and barely electricity, and then make the place 30° and covered in ice for 8 months of the year. That's real life for some Russians. There's not any money to even make out there even if the effort was put into it. So being put in the army and paid a soldier's salary, even if half of it is being skimmed, is probably more money than some of these guys have ever seen in one place before. Add to that the ~~requirement~~ ability to travel through civilization, and they're suddenly living a whole new life they've never dreamed of before. I'd call that an increase in quality of life, even if you're only upgrading from Russian Peasant into Russian Soldier that's still a fairly significant boost in some cases. Right up until some Ukrainian high schooler drops a pipe bomb in your lap from a drone to complete his killstreak.

Respect. You know what you did, why it sucked for everyone, accepted your consequences and moved on to tell it as a warning tale to others. If only we could all be so graceful with our mistakes.

And the transatlantic data cable is estimated at about 340,500 miles (547,981 km) of cable over 2500 nautical miles. Getting all of that up there to the moon would definitely be its own project but the cable itself isn't unprecedented. It's doable.

Probably cheaper to park a reactor on the moon though.

Nioh can be best described as "dark souls gameplay with Borderlands itemization" which I personally love. It's not for everyone. But the folks it is for will love it. You know who you are.