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You'd get a couple of new materials, like deuterium, dilithium, nd Trellium-D. And instead of sending a rocket to space, you call in a starship that transports your resources aboard.

Sounds like stuff a mod could do, if Satisfactory allows proper modding.

For some, this subscription model is great. But do you agree, that is it a bad thing if they force it on us?

You are asking them for their fish. This request seems to be an attempt to teach your politicians how to fish.

I'd much rather see them use it to lobby in favour of taxes on the wealthy, than seeing a handful of them give part of their money away.

Also used by doctors here in the Netherlands.

"Don't worry miss judge, it's just the tip." - the average bard.

That is still a fair amount of effort. The goal here is not the get rock solid proof, but to filter sufficient people that deportation costs remain low.

Just like motivation letters for a job: they show effort and serieusness. Even though it is trivial to let someone else make them (or let an AI write something). They still filter a decent amount of applicants.

These speeds have an actual use for the military. Since they are faster and fly higher than anything else in the sky, it is really hard to get a missile to intercept these birds. Hence, they can fly over interesting locations, take pictures, and scedattle.

Maybe even drop a payload. Which effectively turns them into reusable ICBMs.

Https is explicitly designed against man-in-the-middle attacks. Modern browsers make a bigggg fuss if a man-in-the-middle is attempting some shit. Those attacks do not work.

And if you do manage to make it work, it sure wouldn't be easier than pointing a gun at someone and telling them to pay up for their internet connection.

That does not work without forcing the users to also use the proxy. Any website that uses https instead of http does not leak passwords, unless the device/browser of the user is compromised.

It sounds like a mechanism to make the town dependend on the cartel for internet, and then demand extortion prices for the internet.

Jup. They do that. After an edition of the challenge where someone fainted and crashed due to the heat, they also added regulations for airflow. It might be hot outside-air, but that is still way better than inside-over air.

Europa Universalis IV and Stellaris. For exactly the same reasons.

I spend way too much time in those games. Hundreds of hours each. But the end game is just too much of a slog. You already won, so there is no challenge; the framerate tanks into unplayable territory; and the micromanagement to manage the late game wars and economy becomes insane.

But starting with a different empire, and doing early/mid game again is awsome!

I agree with that. But that is not a conclusion that should be drawn from the article. Hence my reaction. If anything, the article shows a prime example for why we should spend all those trillions.