Toribor

In their defense many people are exceptionally dumb.

It really seems like you're trying to blame people in poverty for being in poverty and that if only they'd follow these simple steps they wouldn't be poor so clearly it must be their own fault for not educating themselves. It's so simple and easy, just don't doordash your avocado toast and put some money in your 401k!

Poverty begets poverty. It's not a personal failing. People can't make a home cooked meal after a 12 hour shift on minimum wage. People can't just decide to not take on credit card debt when their car they can barely afford needs maintenance because it's the only way they can get to work every day to make enough money to keep barely scraping by. Systemic issues trap people in a cycle that literally destroys their bodies and minds.

You're not wrong but generally it's very difficult for anyone to develop financial literacy unless they already have financial stability. Real hard to learn about the details of contributing to a Roth when you are already struggling to meet basic needs.

People think that frame rate isn't very noticeable until you give them access to a toggle that lets them double it.

People who buy these things to play whatever Windows-only anticheat games seem willing to put up with a lot of jank. The issues you're describing were exactly the sort of things that made me initially skeptical that the Stand Deck could deliver. Valve really managed to pull off something that is quite stable and easy to use compared to other devices in the same category.

Half Orc Barbarian already gets you like 50% of the way there.

Some sort of bug or mod issue caused Lae'zel's camp clothes and underwear to go missing by default so the first camp cutscene with her threatening Tav she is completely nude. It's very intimidating. I thought it was a one off thing but it happened with two other characters too so now shamelessly nude Lae'zel is part of my head cannon for the game.

I imagine the other characters telling her to put some pants on and she's just like "Chk! No, make me."

I've had exactly this happen to me. It was my own fault but it took a bit of work figure out.

I don't really engage with the online mechanics in Elden Ring... Maybe I should? I've put hundreds of hours into the game otherwise. I rate and leave messages but I've never summoned help for co-op or invaded people except for Varre's quest where I always just get obliterated by people who are way better prepared than me.

I take no delight in killing but Russian forces could leave Ukraine at any point and put an end to it.

Backups need to be reliable and I just can't rely on a community of volunteers or the availability of family to help.

So yeah I pay for S3 and/or a VPS. I consider it one of the few things worth it to pay a larger hosting company for.

unless they open source their code and/or provide some public interface to test and validate feed content

This honestly seems like a good idea. I think one of the ways to mitigate the harm of algorithmically driven content feeds is openness and transparency.