I would probably choose my favourite movie in SD, a few dozen of my favourite songs, a few dozen old school games, and then fill out the rest with a few hundred ebooks.

Variety can be way more valuable than pure quantity.

Humanity every few months

My first thought was people giving birth to unplanned babies since October is 9 months after Valentine’s day.

Yeah I did spend quite a number of hours in that one

My one complaint is that there isn’t really anything that punishes you.

No need to eat, drink or sleep, no weight capacity, etc. there’s absolutely nothing pressing you to do anything

Ran out of resources? Leave the game running In the background while you watch Netflix for a few hours or take a nap and then come back to all of your storage bins overflowing.

Because that’s where they trick you. They sell you something as if it’s a good deal when really it’s not, and they make a ton of money by selling the same thing to 50 other people.

You need to book it because you are not the only person who “owns” it. Many people do, and usually you can only book like 1-2 weeks a year or something.

Despite paying the full price of an apartment you’re only really buying 1/52 of an apartment

Plus they have you pay a bunch of maintenance fees which can be a few hundred to thousands a year.

Hot dogs and Burgers

Where I am if it’s inside the house, like the outer door’s wall is insulated, than the room is a foyer/mud room. If it’s outside the house, i.e. the outer door’s wall is not insulated, then it is a sundeck.

If there is only one door and the outer area is exposed with just a railing instead of a wall it’s a porch/patio.

Biology, unless you go into health related stuff.

Why can’t you complain about a company being shit when there are other options?

I don’t use a lot of products, I still complain about them being shit because they deserve the bad press.

I quite liked it, don’t usually like musical shows but the tunes are catchy and somewhat funny sometimes

A lot of times that’s where people cross the street. Want people to stop before the spot people might step out into.

You can buy a house? Damn

I have three. The third doesn’t really boost my productivity much, I have it vertical just to show my file browser because I open and switch through different files quite a lot. The other two are to show the actual files I’m working in or comparing.

The thing about older games and Minecraft being addictive is that it’s sort of fine, because they don’t benefit financially from it so obviously it was unintentional and just because of the entertainment.

It becomes a problem with these new games when they are subscription based or have lots of microtransactions because the more addictive the game, the more money the company makes.

In the case of Minecraft the issues you listed are pretty much present in almost anything entertaining, video games or not, including in-person events and social functions.

As with anything moderation is key and people just need to learn not to let it control them. Some people are incapable of that though.

There are definitely certain things that game companies need to avoid doing but multiple goals, a little bit of luck, and online cooperative play is not it.

There’s a difference between addictive and entertaining.

I wouldn’t call nicotine entertaining.

Opening lootboxes you paid $5 each for is not entertaining.

There should be a tiny fraction of a sliver in the corner somewhere to indicate how much the boss pays on those stolen profits.

I’ve stopped caring really, humanity can go extinct. We don’t deserve this world. It will be a much better place when it’s just deers and wolves frolicking about.