StarDreamer

• I can’t simultaneously play a third MMO (already got FFXI and FFXIV)
• X4 custom start allows me to jump to the parts I want to play instantly, no matter if it’s starting wars, flooding the market, dogfighting, etc
• My X4 save is a gzip file: no need to worry about latency after moving to another country etc (my EVE account is locked to a region halfway across the world)
• I don’t have to wait for irl people to do something fun in X4
• The gziped save file is in xml format. If something breaks I can just fix it
• X4 has a huge modding scene for whatever features you want
• X4’s modding tools are super easy to learn: it’s all xml and lua. Took me only 2 hours to figure out how to modify the UI from scratch.

Because it’s in a genre that has no good alternatives?

EVE is spreadsheet simulator, Elite Dangerous is space-truck simulator, NMS is all planets not space, StarField is StarField.

The only viable alternative I found was X4. Even that is slightly different from what Star Citizen promises (it’s more empire management than solo flying in the endgame, vanilla balance is also questionable: you can “luke skywalker” a destroyer with a scout with pure dogfighting skills)

Agreed. Personally I think this whole thing is bs.

A routine that just returns “yes” will also detect all AI. It would just have an abnormally high false positive rate.

Having a good, dedicated e-reader is a hill that I would die on. I want a big screen, with physical buttons, lightweight, multi-weeklong battery, and an e-ink display. Reading 8 hours on my phone makes my eyes go twitchy. And TBH it’s been a pain finding something that supports all that and has a reasonably open ecosystem.

When reading for pleasure, I’m not gonna settle for a “good enough” experience. Otherwise I’m going back to paper books.

1. ChatGPT gives bad command, system fails to boot
2. Drops into emergency shell
3. Ask ChatGPT how to fix fstab from emergency shell
4. Goto 1), rinse and repeat

You can also replace ChatGPT with Devin and achieve the same results*

*Your mileage may vary depending on the quality of your Devin