It's on an instance/community basis dude, and everything is community hosted and not centralized.
Sometimes, it's better to find another comm that suits the atmosphere you prefer. If an accidental automod flagged you, appeal it, since it's a human on the other end of review and not a corpo employee. People get overwhelmed, so they need a bot janitor to sometimes clean up messes.
Not to ridicule your prior decisions, but it's been obvious since at least the xb360 days that gaming on a locked platform (console ecosystem) would always lead to the revocation of ownership and the inability to do what you wish with your own hardware and games (unless you modded them, and I recommend modding your old consoles if you still have them).
There is no future for true game ownership on a locked platform. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft understand this quite well, which is why you are lured in to a walled garden with the cheaper "cost of entry", and have no true exit that lets you keep your stuff as they gouge you further and further.
I mean it might just shift to services like GOG. I use Bandcamp for music and don't buy physical CDs anymore because the files are DRM-free and easy to archive. Same with GOG for games I own on it.
Now, Rockstar is definitely not doing a DRM-free release though. Hopefully a cracked version circulates eventually.
Thank goodness online adaptations allow people to play without having to consider the identity of their opponent (because I don't mind who I play against).
Might be a hot take, but vodka is one of the more desperate choices when looking to get drunk on your own time (at least in terms of taste). Rubbing alcohol for wounds is also far cheaper.
100%. The optics definitely aren't good though - those kinds of tents tend to spring to mind things like FEMA deployments or temporary accommodations for the military.
Anything personally important data wise has a backup stored in a container that won't sustain liquid damage (and also acts as a faraday cage).
However, anything that is super-critical should the infrastructure around power, etc fail is just printed out as a physical copy on paper (first aid manuals, food cultivation/preparation techniques, how to construct and maintain water purification systems).
I'd argue that's one of the least overkill ways to handle potential media restictions and geopolitical/climate disasters in our age, since all you need is a printer and maybe one or two secure cases for backup storage drives.
Technically any x86 PC with the ability to have two separate Ethernet ports would work, but unless you plan on grabbing a NetPC from the 2000s/2010s (which will have dogshit processors and probably no expansion slots for the second Ethernet port), you might be out of luck.
Although if there is an ARM based version of the software (or if you could run it through a compatibility layer like FEX somehow), there's tons of low power devices that could be repurposed.
Image projection where the brain combines two separate images into one cohesive picture by filling in the gaps is absolutely 3D video's territory, and expansion on that concept was at the very least utilized in the development of VR headsets.
Now, they aren't one to one, of course, but lessons learned from 3D video were certainly used in modern VR development (and perhaps adjacent to 3D video's at the time).
3D video did serve as a legitimate stepping stone for things like Virtual Reality headsets and heads up displays for vehicles, so I don't think it was a total waste.
The rest of the buzzwords are relatively obscure in the grand scheme of progress though (unless by The Cloud you mean VPS services/storage solutions, which are almost ubiquitous)
I'm definitely not against charging as a concept - it's just in my current circumstances it's not viable. Without doxxing myself, the current college I am in does not have charging at any of their parking garages or at the dorms.
Wendover covered the issue in this video he made 5 years ago (so maybe it got solved), but you could not drive from Denver, CO to Dallas, TX from either direction. The maximum range of cars on the market combined with the lack of changing stations along the way meant it was impossible without getting stranded in the middle.
It's on an instance/community basis dude, and everything is community hosted and not centralized.
Sometimes, it's better to find another comm that suits the atmosphere you prefer. If an accidental automod flagged you, appeal it, since it's a human on the other end of review and not a corpo employee. People get overwhelmed, so they need a bot janitor to sometimes clean up messes.