Hence the desire for a single player offline version of the game…

Not everyone believes that devs are the authority on what makes a game fun, which is why mods are so common on PC games.

but that’s part of it, just like irl.

Some people might not want annoying aspects of IRL in their fantasy escapism games involving roleplay…

That’s the part I always hated. It was hostile towards people who liked the lore but didn’t want to group up with some guy named LaserButt4000 who didn’t want to go to the same dungeon as you, but was happy to get your rare loot in a bad roll of the dice.

Private servers with scaling for dungeon soloing were a godsend. WoW is actually awesome as a single player game. It’s unfortunate the devs never realized that.

Backup ASAP as thoroughly possible and accept you’ll probably need to start over. Schedule backups more often in the future as a lesson learned.

Add time tracking for time tracking with every other task.

Find a student at a university whose student accounts get access to jstor.

It might be similar to a song you’ve heard but you’re misremembering the notes of the existing song.

Maybe try playing it for an app that recognizes the song that’s playing and then listen to any songs it guesses might be the song.

I’m going to be disappointed if you didn’t type this out on a command line.

This is a decent one, but a ton of the HFY stories are just so problematic. Many just feel like they’re congratulating humanity on being vicious and creatively violent, like they think the Terran Empire in the Star Trek Mirror Universe were good guys.

Otherwise, a bunch just feel lazily formulaic and repetitive with others. Take a random human trait or convention from a human culture like say…fried foods. Use an alien narrator to describe how weird they think it is to fry foods. Find an angle to portray humans as plucky and great for their fierce devotion to frying foods and involve it in a narrative about humanity winning against greater odds. “And the human just dumped the entire chargizoid corpse into a vat of boiling oil! And then he took it out with something called tongs and ate it, skin and all! And that’s when I knew I needed humans on my side in the coming galactic war…”

I guess I feel like the subgenre plays on the optimism of Star Trek utopianism, but ditches any real criticism of humanity’s past (or our present). I think the message from Orville’s Season 3 Episode 10 about what made humanity better in their past is a better heir to Star Trek utopianism than most of the HFY stories I’ve read.

Happens to everyone eventually.

None of this is an opinion.

This isn’t Reddit, in case you hadn’t noticed.

Do you read fortunes? There isn’t enough context in our brief exchange for you to know anything meaningful about me. You really like the shadowbox with straw men.

I’m so mad! This is just awful. Some Dunning-Kruger University graduate is schooling me in how awesome his life is! Make your money writing whatever bullshit you want. Even trolls have to eat, especially when they’re bad at bridge guarding. Tell Chat GPT I said hi next time you “write” an article.

Is sealioning mentioned in the rules? I hadn’t checked.

I think this is hilarious. I’m talking to someone who acts like a kid who thinks they just invented being obnoxious on the internet.

If you don’t want respect then you’re terrible at acting like it. People who don’t care what others think don’t brag anonymously and call randos jealous when they don’t know anything concrete about you to be jealous of other than your weak trolling.

I’m guessing if you have an ex-wife, she probably complains about you. This is literally the first time I’ve commented in this community but you think I’m a regular. You’re great at reading people. Keep it up! You’ll get there someday…maybe…

I didn’t say anything about forum rules. Upvotes are irrelevant. And yes, I’m wasting your time, apparently quite successfully, and with your apparent eagerness too. Keep wasting your time. Keep writing like a middle school kid bragging about how his dad can beat up someone else’s dad. I’m sure you’ll get that jealousy and respect you think you deserve. I’ll just be here dying every second.

You’re really killing it here. Put me in my place. I’m jealous of a rando on the Internet who thinks his life is so good that he has to tell other people that they’re jealous.

I’m just here wasting the time of a troll and letting him spin out in rants and non sequiturs. Keep going. I’m sure you’ll convince us you don’t care with more effort.

Ooh, a rant! “No seriously, guys, I don’t care what you think! I’ll keep telling you just to make sure you understand! I’ll respond again just to make sure!”

Oh no, an angry troll wielding the power of nonsense! This is the most boring souls-like game I’ve ever played.

Okay…? Now you’re just posting random shit.

You’re sealioning about sealioning now.