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That is just every country, countries would hardly try to look worse than they are.

handwaved it away as perfectly normal and expected

"Yes, but space is boring and therefore it's realistic" is still one of my favorite excuses for a game.

Nothing at all, if it's been maintained and "upkept" much better than theirs has. But, y'know.

Starfield is starting to seem pretty spackled together, and the engine was already sort of infamous for bugs. It's not just BSW being sloppy about content (although they are), it's also the engine and tooling. The CKs tend to look... grim.

What do you mean, "nowadays"? Mobile games always sucked.

Scientists and other rationalists. If you wanted to be dramatic, their fight to save ourselves and the planet would be against the inertia of "common wisdom", known bugs in human psychology, the resistance of wanting to disregard the unknown or unpleasant, everyone for whom the truth (to the best of our knowledge) is economically inconvenient with the considerable economic and societal power they wield.

They are not good odds, but it is correct against incorrect and often against malignantly incorrect, and they are all extremely formidable villains.

Oh, no no, capitalism welcomes competition, don't'y'know.
Just as long as it doesn't mess with the profit margins.

You giant nerd, you. :)

Not so much manga and anime on my youtube, even though I'm also a bit of a weeb.

Technically true, which is the most generous I could possibly be. It is not good advice. Telling someone to live more brightly is, begging your pardon, freaking useless.

Edit: to be clear, a lot of the rest of your advice isn't bad or anything. I just really hate this particular phrasing. It will not help, I guarantee it.

My youtube recs would mostly just out me as a huge fucking nerd who's into cooking, I think it may be a rare W.

Absolutely essential. SponsorBlock is very nearly as important, and BlockTube also does a lot of annoyance damage control.

Reclassify meaning "still protected, we just don't consider it the literal antichrist anymore"

Pretty underwhelming but I guess it's better than nothing.

Not in the very rare case where the positivity is warranted because the product is decent, appropriately priced, and not too shittified.