There was a whole episode on how it actually was.

Could the ship’s computer resign from Star Fleet and go do something else?

It isn't the debt levels that are causing the rates to spike, rather the start of the emerging Bretton Woods III era.

Could you be a bit more specific about what you think "Bretton Woods III" is?

Not sure what GP meant, but I found this googling that term: https://static.bullionstar.com/blogs/uploads/2022/03/Bretton...

This is indeed what I meant.

DOS 5 was awesome. I can't recall a single bug?

But DOS 6 was buggy as hell due to DoubleSpace.

As a kid I vaguely remember our family had a stack of Dr. Dobb’s Journals with one particular article actually warning about the dangers of doublespace, and since it was completely optional (despite being touted as a flagship feature) we kind of dodged a bullet and had a pretty reasonable experience with DOS 6.

Those people aren't wealthy enough to have any real political power, though.

Nor do they have much economic surplus worth extracting so there's no reason for the .gov to throw them a bone or otherwise curry favor with that demographic.

This is why I had to quit. I enjoyed it way too much and would spend nearly all my free time playing it, much to the detriment of the rest of my (non-professional) life.

It was kind of a blessing for me that I was forced to quit after they introduced PLEX and in doing created a conversion rate for ISK to dollars. Suddenly I was too aware of how worthless everything I was doing was. It's one thing to spend an evening grinding to buy that new ship, it's another when you know you were grinding for 73 cents an hour. Risking losing a ship you spent a week earning the ISK for is thrilling and scary, losing a ship you can replace for eight dollars is just annoying.

For me, that was the thing that made the game feel real. The feelings of actual dread and anger when losing a a ship made for some of my best and most intense gaming moments ever. The times I managed to come out on top were amazing.

Participating in the big corporation wars was boring in comparison to small scale stuff. In the big wars, I was just a pawn for the commanders that actually made decisions and could play a giant strategy game.

I was a criminal, and me and my crew would pull in about $200 worth of isk daily

Yeah it made my day when I’d pop some T3 cruiser gang in wormhole space with my buddies.

It was substantially less fun when I was on the other side of that and got scanned down in my officer fit Archon and popped. Finally I said to myself “why am I doing this to myself?” and quit. My wife approved.

> I enjoyed it way too much

Well if you enjoyed it it's was not a waste of time! Much human endeavour (and _all_ hobbies!) are ultimately pointless.

If it negatively affects other aspects of your life it's a different story though.

That’s the implication with any of these mmo stories, really - they’re addictive by nature

In Canada that list is used by foreign telemarketers to spam us. Our enforcement authorities just shrug and say the criminals are not in our jurisdiction. That being said, my phone is pretty good at stopping it.

Only if you average it all out. The over 65 crowd does not produce more than they consume.

> The over 65 crowd does not produce more than they consume.

So that's the end goal our species should aspire to?

Produce™ and Consume™?

Eternally without relent?

Canary tests on my data showed I needed xhigh to get good results, but they are good.

Your experience is night-and-day from mine. Both myself and the AI correct and remove each other's gaps in understanding. There is never what I would call arguing. Disagreements are resolved by back and forth discussion and reaching consensus.