I fully undetstand the housing problem. Especially with services like airbnb making many apartments unavailable to rent for the locals, but i cant but think how many people make their living from the tourism. For example Hawaii Tourism Authority calculated that visitor spending in August was over 800 million. That means pretty many family got their bread from tourism.

Its unhealthy way to grief sure, but the dead dont really care about the respect. I mean in the history of everything not a single person has ever come back to complain about how they were treated post mortem.

It really depends of the implementation for me.

I completelly understand that if you take a mission where you kill a merchant, you loose the option to purchace from them or miss their questline etc. Its a story point where your acts changed the world.

But if you miss some unique loot item from dungeon you can go trough only once, because, it was too well hidden or it was behind some convoluted puzzle that you missed, im pissed.

Im going to make you origami so hard!

Its hard to asses things when i dont know what you are doing, but average for new company to get profitable is about 2-3 years, but its not uncommon for it to take +5 years. Especially if its a new thing like the patent makes it sound.

At the four year mark i would recommend you to take a step back and look the processes you do and try to figure out if there is a way to streamline something on it. Its really hard to notice some inefficiences when you have used to do things in that way.

If you have a lot of competion on your business try to figure what is a thing they do poorly and try to do it better. That way the people who are disapointed for that specific thing have good reason to switch to use your product. You dont need to be better than everybody at everything, just find the group of customers that find you as the best fit.

Also if you chance something you do, dont get too stuck in fear of loosing customers. If some change makes you loose 10 customers, but makes you 20 new ones thats not a loss.

If you are operating at loss raising the price is not unreasonable thing to do. For excample if you raise the price 5% you can loose 5% of the customers and make the same profit with 5% less work

I agree you on all points, but i want to add that weapon systems where manufactorer has a back door open and they can do things like remotelly lock the missile systems or other weapons, does not really sound appealing.

I understand whole handedly what you mean and i agree that we could do more, but i find it extremely naive.

The production and recources does not matter as long as they are in wrong place and we lack the infrastructure to either move the products so it does not drain the coffers dry, or can get reliable production on site.

That is true. Im not expert, but new machinery, synthetic fertilizers and pesticides are the reason why we can produce so much right now, but all those come with a downsides.

Machinery is resource intensive and uses mainly fossil fuels. Electric machinery is a possibility, but it recuires rare elements and requires specialized training to make and repair.

Synthetic fertilizers need also minerals and can be almost as nasty for enviroment, same with pesticide.

I try to be optimistic, but without big leaps in technology i dont think we cant keep producing food like this forever without destroying the enviroment even more.

With global warming and the damage turning wild land in to farm land causes i think that even if we could fix global hunger now, i dont think it would last.

But that does not mean we should not aspire to do it.

I think people underestinate the logistic hurdle behind making the food available for everyone.

We produce enough calories for sure, but delivering the extra meatball from my plate on the arctic circle to the plate of starving kid in the South Sudan is not that simple.

For effectivelly to end famine in everywhere need to make a massive push to train locals to farm effectivetely and get working infrasturcture for them to farm, process and deliver the produce where it needs to go. It would need full cooperation from the leaders in those countries to be effective and in unstable countries in africa and middle-east its not given.

Also many places where the famine is a problem there are also other hurdless like not having enouhg arable land or landscape that makes it impossible to make farm land. Those places need to rely on food deliveries where fossil fuel use and product shelf live would be one new hurdle.

This all while, not easy, is doable, but it would need long term planning and unwavering support from larger countries and in the current situation where USA is in a tug of war, where after every election new leader spends 4 years in undoing the last leaders decitions, India has its own problems, China is doing their their own thing and Russia is doing their best to make world as unstable as they can, while EU has their own problems, i dont see how we could do it.

If solving hunger world wide would be so easy as some people think it is, it would be done allready.

I disagree.

From what op wrote i dont get any malice from the spouces gift. I belive they sincerelly tried to do nice thing.

Would you not be hurt if you really tought you did a nice thing to your loved one and were scolded for it? I completelly understand how it might have upsetted the spouce.

Thats why i would accept the gift and very carefully tell the other side they should not do it again.

They bought you thing they were sure you would like and tought they were thoughtful. Maybe they expected other kind of reaction and depending how you declined it, it very well may feel like you threw their nice thing against their face.

To most people, especially the spouces it may not be about the present, but the idea behind it. Like i dont generally think my wife knits very good socks. If i would go shopping socks my self i would never pay anything for that quality product. But i know my wife thinks i need to keep my feets warm and she is thinking me when she makes them. Saying her socks are bad would not be review of the product, but attack against her.

I would say just swallow your pride and use the newer nicer thing and thank them for thinking about you, but say in the future you want to get similiar things yourself.

Did momma not love you? Or did daddy love you too much?

Im trying to fight urge to say, “i bet you are often confused.”

Im not arguing anything. Im just saying that progress in sience does not matter if it comes from goverment, or billionare, or dude in a barn.

From all the things billionares could be competing against eachother, space isint the worst. Its not the best thing either, but it is a fuck ton better than buying football teams or building golf courses.

Yeah. It also was american program, but every country benefits from it today. Scientific break troughs tend to get out there.

I mean technologies like imaging improvements used to scan moon made CT and MRI taking better images, Robotics tech that has pushed prostetic limbs and robotic surgery foward, remote diagnostics has taken leaps because, well ISS is pretty remote place.

Dont be a moron. Last space race was not some humanitarian deed from goverments. It was just a one front of the cold war.

Do you really thing that any progress there is going to happen in robotics or anything else wont be commerialized and after some time normalised?

Do you really think biggest capitalists in the world would not try to capitalize on every single innovation they might get on doing there.

You are doubting other peoples inteligence when you dont seem to have any clue how world works. I guess its just easier to think everybody is one dimensional cartoon villain.

I have no love for Bezos or Musk, and they definedly are not saints, or even care about normal people, but they are not going to just sit on some breaktrough technology if they can sell it.

I don’t recognise you.

Well last time when we had space race we got: gps, medical innovations, lighter materials, knowledge about weather helping things like hurricane predictions, better fuel, new methods to preserve food, cordless tools, memoryfoam.

I dont know how those helped humanity at all? Like insulin pumps? What a fucking waste, right? /s

I much rather have the billionare competing with rockets than that they compete with yachs.

Best thing would be if they payd taxes too in same relation to normal people

Uh. Mutation card system? Crafting system while not unique but extracting legendary mods is differend to many games where you just farm drops untill you get the perfect roll. Power armor is also something i havent really seen done that well outside of bethesda. Also they enviromental story telling in map big as FO76 is top notch. I understand if you have trendy hate for Bethesda. I dont especially like they releasing skyrim every few years or how they made the planets in Starfield, but i get the feeling you are not sharing your own opinions. Just yelling stuff you have hears in the internet.

About portal. Valve saw an idea, bought it out and gave it a new shine. They did a good job recocnizing talent but it was as much innovation from Valve as Adobe shows when they buy new shiny software.

I had fun with back 4 blood. It was shame they stopped the support for the game so early. Also most people i see bitching about it played it at the release time when it was very unbalanced or tried to jump on the higher dificulties too early without ever learning how to really play the game.

Also about the map mutations in general. Its not a problem to be solved. Reason why some maps are so popular for example in CS or CoD is because people have learned the maps and enjoy playing the game in a way where they can antipiciate the opponents movements and know how to play the game on “high level”. Some people enjoy more random maps more for the opposite reason. Its not a problem, its a preference. You are right that it makes it harder for the noobs to jump in to the games, but that is something many companies are trying to fix with match making.

I used alien as a example because it has similiar director behind the scenes as left for dead has. You know. The another big reason why the levels feel fresh. Id argue even that the director does more for the game feeling different than the small mutations in the level layout.

About valve vr… you were talking about innovation. They did not create the vr. They arguable made a great game and pushed it to the limit what can be done right now, but in its self there is nothing inherently innovative in the mechanics, except they are very well executed.

I found it pretty obnoxius that you raise yourself above the “normies”. Especialy when im feeling like most of your opinions come from other people and from gaming echochambers instead of you thinking things yourself. Personaly i have started gaming before windows was a thing and it has been one thing i can always get passionate about.

Another thing i find obnoxius is how people always think “big game companies bosses are incompetent” i bet most of the people in those position know much more about the markets than you and i. Their sole job is to try and generate money. Maybe its easier to think they are some cartoon level evil morons, but they are hitting their marks more times than not and we really only hear about the royal fuck ups.

And your quip about the star field. Bought it pretty late after the release on pc and on purpose tried to avoid any reviews before i finished the game. And im glad i didint. The game was not awsome, but it was not as bad as internets opinion was. Reading review can screw your perspective and make you focus on the minor inconviniences that you would ignore or not think about if somebody would not have brought those on the top if your mind.

Try sometime to test completely unknown game to you from either a demo or use the steam return policy and after you have your own opinion see if you agree with the reviews.

Sorry. I forgot the /s