Sure open source would not be a drawback but First place you’re looking for the information is in the documentation, not the source code. And then it depends on how the game is designed.

Sure worst case scenario an open source game you can rewrite the entire thing and document it as you see fit. But is it really modding then?

About 24 hours. I’ll almost fall asleep standing up at that point and whatever reason I’ve got to stay awake just is not worth it.

Some sabotage of undersea cables in the Baltics.

I’d like to go back many times to earlier in my life and try different dialogue options.

Like that time you thought of the perfect comeback two days later?

Or just learn how people act and react. If I say this, they react that way. Now if I say that how do they react?

But every vote from the center is a vote you deny the other party.

So extreme left/right policies have to be twice as popular to be worth it.

Why would that persuade someone living in a swing state that sometimes vote republican and sometimes democrat to vote D?

I think you over estimate how many hard lefts don’t bother voting at all because both parties are too similar.

Going more left will cost more votes than they would gain.

Depends on what you want to achieve.

Video games are an easy way of losing yourself in a hobby for an afternoon. Can become addictive and you may lose the entire weekend.

Do you want games that focus on the social aspect and make friends? The story? Quick reactions and precise timing? Building something? Compete? Challenge yourself and improve (at ultimately a pointless task in a video game)? Simulate something accurately?

Before you start, as a gamer what do you non gamers do to spend your free time on anyway?

That I’d be a fool to strongly hold a belief without equally strong evidence.

How many restaurants do they need to qualify as a chain?

There is this local burger place that makes fast food burgers but of slightly better quality than the usual suspects.

Otherwise they tend to be the same to me.

I don’t want kids so that narrows down the dating pool to something more like a dating puddle.

I generally keep to myself. Every social skill I have comes from deliberate practice.

I did manage to find a girl. What I did:

Figure out what my strengths are and in what situations I get to show them. I get compliments on having a pleasant voice. So anywhere I’ll talk some is good.

Work on mitigating your weaknesses.

Work on being a {pick one or more: fun/pleasant/useful/positive/etc} person to be around.

What I did not tell you is how long I had to do this.

Carmageddon 2 is the racing game I played the most of. Followed by Need for speed 3.

Both very old because I have not done much racing games since then.

Eggs. I did not like them at all (except as an ingredient in pancakes) for a quarter of a century. Now I do like myself a hard boiled egg with a pinch of salt for breakfast

For me personally? Most likely worse, so far 2024 has been good with unusually few issues. I expect 2025 to regress to the mean amount of misfortune.

Work, gmail with a regrettable name i picked in my teens and can’t be bothered to migrate away from. Other gmail that I only have on my phone. Work mail, personal mai with firstname@uniquesurname

Given the opportunity move somewhere where your rent to pay ratio is better.

I’d make more living in a big city. I have much more leftover every month by living in a small town far away from everything.

Am I the only one who can’t think of anything like this?

Avoid them when you can. Clear, minimal, a bit more polite than you would like to be when you can’t. If it’s work related focus on your common goal.

I’d also advise you to take some time to reflect on what makes them dislike you. If you find a lot of people who dislike you for similar reasons you may have to evaluate if you should (and can) change.

Provoking illegal behaviour should not be encouraged.

Attitude: I generally don’t care unless they try to tell me what to do based on their religion. This is generally never a problem, I’ve had more vegans and environmentalists bother me.

Getting along: we have some high faith denomination of Christianity here. I’ve worked with a few and generally don’t notice unless they drop something heavy on their foot and don’t swear.

Thought of believing: not since I was 12 or something.

Do not like faiths: I acknowledge they can create a sense of community and belonging. I have a dim view of the dogma that tends to come with them.

Implying I’m hated in real life? I try my best to be reasonably polite and mind my own business. I guess that is reason enough for some.