Things going to shit, in the US, correlates strongly with Reagen Era economic policies. The term "trickle down economics" says a lot about why it didn't benefit most people.
In my option, all presidents from both major political parties since Reagan have done more to make it worse, than better.
My conclusion is that what's really going on is class warfare by the ultra rich against the rest of us...
I used to always use Minecrat for this. Sure, they can't do everything immediately, but I put the game on peaceful and let them explore at their own pace.
I say "used to" because Luanti (formerly MineTest, an open source Minecraft Clone*) is finished and free.
(Okay, Luanti is a lot more than a Minecraft clone. But for this discussion that's all one needs to know.)
Nice. Minecraft used to be my go to answer for a first WASD game, too.
Lately, I recommend Mineclonia on Luanti, because it's free and has stronger optimizations supporting weak laptops and big multiplayer servers. (It's a popular Free Open Source Minecraft Clone).
This was really helpful. Thank you.
I remember those days, as well!
I'm with you.
Thankfully, corporate bullahit isn't the only way to create a discovery algorithm.
I expect that we will have a diverse set of discovery algorithms available to opt into here, in a few years.
Any politician launching their own media network is a reprehensible piece of shit.
Prove me wrong.
Counterpoint?
Obviously I don't have any examples here.
I'm sorry if I got anyone's hope's up
I hope this was a brief, fun, moment of mystery for a few of us.
I always wonder about the people who drop off just before finishing the game.
That's me. It used to be common for games to have a sharp ramp up in challenge at the end boss, and I often don't have the time to get through that.
So I habitatually abandon games when I feel close to the end, and I watch the ending on a stream, instead of playing it.
I realize that minimal research could tell me which games are which, but even less research finds me a decent stream of the game ending.
Nothing anotger fireball won't solve...
International stock index funds are, in my option, the best place to make that bet. It's been a losing bet (compared to other index funds) for decades, but you might notice that lots of folks still buy a solid amount as a hedge, anyway, because they agree with you, or at least aren't willing to bet their entire retirement that you're wrong.