Yep

https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Rivals

The government is always robbing everyone.

Governments are the enforcement wing of Capitalism. So it’s both really.

I’m playing FH4 atm and I feel that! The combination of NPCs always talking, the UI being locked while they do and the fact you can’t lower the speech volume below 1/10 is pretty fucking annoying.

I think FH5 was a bit better in that regard but it’s been a while so I may be mis-remembering.

spinning-down hdd’s when they’re not in use

I’ve just been through this recently. I decided to have my 2 backup HDDs spin down when not in use (99% of the time). I ran into an issue though where I needed them to wake up for SMART tests (which SMART didn’t trigger). Tried a few things that didn’t work so just set them to spin all the time. There’s about a 1-2w difference when they’re spinning all the time. So it’s just not something worth worrying about IMO (In the UK with high energy costs that comes out to 1.3 pence per day roughly).

Cunts.

I guess my 13 year abstention from purchasing Ubisoft games continues (bought HoMMVI and experienced Uplay in 2012, vowed never again).