I think the point he is trying to get at is if he's out and about with his gun, this adds the possibility of "Oh, I forgot my . Now the bear shall eat me."

In other words, there's the crisis this won't influence (gun is stored) and the one it will (gun is on him).

> Did all of these countries he sold them to fail to do any testing on whether they worked?

They passed the bribe test successfully. What more do we need?

I rated it 4 stars because I legitimately enjoy the game, and I think other people can too. It's not a singleplayer city builder, and that seems to be what a lot of people expected when the preordered the game. If you go in there thinking of it as a primarily multiplayer experience (like Natural Selection 2 or Team Fortress 2), the always on aspect isn't as bad.

Yes, it sucks that they decided an offline mode wasn't important (given I can still play when I lose connection and it resyncs later it doesn't seem a stretch...). Yes, the servers shitting themselves constantly sucks (lines occasionally, losing connection about every 1 to 2 hours, waiting to authenticate or getting stuck checking for updates). Yes, the standard deluge of day one issues that QA missed sucks (getting stuck in a mini-tutorial because it paused and I just used the last of my coal so I can't gift? WTF?).

But they're working on the servers, they're working on the bugs, and Maxis is being completely open about what's going on. Oh, and the game itself is enjoyable, I can play it with my friends, and it hasn't lost any progress even when I lose my connection and keep playing. So hey, maybe some of us are rating it based on if we enjoy it, not if it's Sim City 4.5.

Not the first, just the first to get super popular. Check your own wiki link - Aeon of Strife was the first, and they used to be called AOSs.

Honestly, I'm not surprised. We had a customer complain about having to buy an app on Android and iOS - said complaint somehow went straight to a VP. It trickled down through a couple layers of management before they came to us (the mobile app team) where we could explain that no, there's nothing we can do, it's no different from buying Office on a Mac and a PC.

The point being, these VPs are very knowledgeable, but their knowledge is a different domain (business, hardware, etc, not software). It's likely the same here - the people who decided on the brand name don't actually have much domain knowledge of software.

Probably because most people won't know how to fix it.

If we're going to do that, make sure it has the A for Autonomous (or Automatic?). ARRR!

And cut the cord. The streaming services out there are good enough for me.

I wonder what the CPU and memory load graphs would look like for a probe versus some standard desktop applications. Might explain a lot.

There's actually a novel that touches on this (I think one of the the Familias Regnant series by Elizabeth Moon?) - a character mentions having been crew on a ship where the captain changed the default audio so every weapons battery sounded like a different instrument.

Lying to the court is still misconduct, so whether or not his personal feelings were allowed at that point they shouldn't have reached that point.