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The elder scrolls 3: Morrowind. Jokes on the game designer though doesn't matter how many main story npcs I killed because I have no idea which merchant I sold the shadow shield to.
'Almost all' makes me wonder about what the other ones are
4 and 5 were both fun if you ignore the in game store and goals and just play around in the open world with other players or find some stretch of road to see if you can get a top speed, perfect a drift around a sharp turn, etc.
And he's not even a professor of medicine or pathology, this talking authoritatively about things outside your field is really getting out of hand /s
I find cultivating some creative outlet and hobbies provides a resilience against my desire to ride the hype on the latest thing/tech/game/book/etc. Also using lists, waiting for sales, and spending more money where I spend most of my time.
Looks like someone wrote a pretty recent dissertation on the subject
The Downside of Wealth: Toward a Psychopathology of Money Accumulation, Noah Laracy. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2017
For a summary of a summary wealthy people have better health and quality of life, which shouldn't surprise anyone due to the food, housing, access to healthcare, etc security money buys currently, and when controlling for age (comparing like aged individuals instead of only looking at wealth) paranoia increases with wealth.
Full text https://www.proquest.com/openview/4e788e9e34bca1073784da0d0c99705e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750
Nethack is a command line classic
If you want to check out some classics look up project 1999 for EverQuest or the classic world of warcraft servers. RuneScape isn't a bad choice if you're into the grind.
Modern I don't think there's much I can recommend, even the subscription based games have stores attached now & few or no in game events run by GMs
When she started she was a pop science channel, relaying new physics research to a general audience. Apparently that wasn't enough and she dove head first down the conspiracy theory and pseudoscience slide to ad revenue and clicks, abandoning all reason and peer review standards.
https://apnews.com/article/sex-abuse-catholic-church-mormon-5d78129a2fe666159a22ce71323f6da3
Multiple religious organizations established abuse hotlines, which publicly appears to be an effort to address the higher than average child SA criminals within their clergy/employees.
But they are actually getting used to establish a loophole so if they report it to clergy using the hotline they want to use religious protected speech (like confession), or if they report it to a lawyer they want it to be attorney client privilege speech. Then they always have a clergy or lawyer answer the hotline and never report the crime to anyone outside their organization ignoring local laws.