It’s a dichotomy. You have to decide what’s more important. Showing support for a niche game maker, or saving money and getting a stable version of the game.

oh interesting, what reasons make the ups safer?

It doesn’t sound like you need a UPS. It sounds like you needed automatic voltage regulator.

It’ll condition the power so it’s clean, and if it’s not clean it’ll cut the power off.

Many good UPS’s have a voltage regulator built in, but then you have the hassle the battery and everything. Up to you depends on what’s easier to find for you locally

it’s about consent. asking people to volunteer is fine, but mandating it isn’t. People have lives, kids, obligations, which might be worth more then two days of time in lieu.

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That’s just a bad way to run a company

at $70 a game, that’s $70 million dollars in revenue!

But I think the rumor mill has the games budget around 250m dollars.

Their break even point is 5.5 million units sold. Maybe when they release on steam

Never thought I’d get to share this … Super Sinia does lots of video blogs about her life, she spent many years on Diego Garcia!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxrrYn3RecyCGvmc_0S-C9_NPlUzmiySi

Most people don’t know what a phone app actually is.

That is 100% true

yes. mail

or crypto like monero

or prepaid credit cards

or voucher resellers, etc

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/

Donate to a non-profit organization, that’s well audited and regulated, that’s not a problem.

Donating to a for-profit organization is a huge problem. The incentives are all misaligned. And should not be encouraged.

Neighbor neighbor

Fully agreed. The highlighted color should indicate a dangerous state.

Being locked is not dangerous, you attempt to use the microphone or camera and it doesn’t work, and you remember it’s locked. So it’s a self-solving problem

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Sunken City… it just drags on and on and on. I want to finish it, but every time the main mission gets interrupted by a side quest or I can’t find the “trigger” for the obvious next step clue I lose the will to play the game.