This. The stuff OP hates in the games is added as the "endgame content" for people planning on spending half their lifetime in the game. That kind of "content" is generally not added to single-player-first games like those you mentioned.

Steve's dead baby, Steve's dead.

They are snake oil 🐍 🛢️

Well there's a base load of the grid that can be effectively served by the non-variable power plants - or is this outdated approach?

You make it sound like the completely predictable power output of nuclear is a problem and unpredictable variation in output of the wind/solar is great.

I can't be the only one that read "pom" as "porn".

Bertrand, is that you?

You could also think this applies to all corporations in some degree. But no, there's a fresh batch of bright eyed optimistic people out of school every year.

Sorry, but that's irrelevant to "if it's free..." implication. Those are just unrelated ways companies made suckers out of their customers.

"Let me tell you about my mother..."

And got fired for that??

In third panel those are the person's arms ;)

There has been an improvement - and regulations - in this regard over time, so you both may be right.

Similar top-down cultural phenomenon dictated by corpos is concept of "personal carbon footprint" - as a means of shifting blame and focus from them to individuals. This is almost conspiracy level unbelievable when heard for the first time, but true nonetheless.

Well first you need guaranteed food, shelter and safety for everyone, so people don't feel existential pressures. Which means you have to start with utopia before expanding on the ideas you present...

I love this "Cultural malware" as a name for things like these.

Interesting. That is very close to the setup I'm using. Maybe I'll give it another try.

This narrows it bit too much, LGs were the one of few remaining beands.

This plays with the idea of data poisoning for the advertisers. Maybe there are some actual practical options for this regarding TVs. The idea was already implemented on PCs for example in the form of browser extension - Ad Nauseam by some professor lady. Maybe it could be expanded upon in the context of TVs.

What kind of router do you use? That setup has never worked for me with Asus routers for more than few days.