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You are playing it on hardware that's 10 years newer than the game was designed for. That mod even lists SSD as the primary reason for the advancement, with it not making much difference running on an HDD.

Sounds like a great mod for today's equipment though.

If you get four 2500 degree ovens, then it will only take 30 seconds!

DVD players used to be (probably still are?) region locked, and those didn't require internet service either. The region was either hard coded or could only be changed like 5 times.

It was an attempt to enforce geographic licensing fees and stop piracy.

E.T.lon is trying to phone home.

Restaurants absolutely did and do have a problem with that, and I question the authority with which you state that there are no appreciable monetary damages from amazon denying a small business additional sales opportunities.

https://www.cpr.org/2021/05/19/restaurants-are-fed-up-with-grubhub-doordash-and-others-now-theyve-got-legislators-on-their-side/

If you're doing that you have zero need to bow to any single credit card company.

I don't even read 90% of the credit card offers I get, I have plenty of cards, and they are all at zero. Go ahead, cancel me. I'll have a new one in 15 minutes.

Yes, in fact that's on the cheap side for unlimited with decent speeds for both services.

I wasn't sure what you were trying to get access to, I had assumed internet.

I didn't think internet counted as a public service, but I could be wrong there too.

How long have you lived there?

I wonder if your address is blacklisted from a previous user for some reason.

I don't have first hand experience, but I think NYC and possibly some other large US cities do actually operate on a steam network. It's not a closed loop hot water system like I have in my house, from what I understand you purchase hot steam like you would buy electricity.

Take all of that with a grain of salt until someone that knows more can chime in.

Dates are fine, I figured out quickly that we were obviously wrong about how to structure those.

I remember the first time I learned that this was not universal; I was in my late teens and installing a set of fancy Italian speakers where that precision mattered quite a bit. I feel like maybe that should be at least a mention in math class here in America.