I played more Civ 1 than any of the later games. Civ 2 is also great as is 4 (3 is decent, but I wasn’t nearly as enthralled with it). Every game in the series since has had aspects to it that I disliked enough to keep me from continuing to play and I heard enough bad comments about 7 to not both buying it.

Food sure, but low cost housing? Maybe a long time ago, but certainly not now.

The article clearly mentions California, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Washington and Wyoming. Perhaps others that I missed as well. Your comment I replied to was not specific to a location, you said “it makes sense to me that consumers can’t be pumping energy into the grid with no way to cut it off” and I was letting you know that it shouldn’t be a concern because that isn’t how solar power systems work. Do you think that Utah will work different for some reason?

Did you respond to the wrong message? Nothing I said anything to do with Utah.

I’m just being facetious, I of course know there is no bottom to how shitty things can be.

In many areas, they flat out don’t allow the second one at all.

These systems are designed to not push power back up if the grid goes down. In most areas, the municipality won’t even allow a solar installation to be connected or even finished without it being inspected to verify you have that sort of setup.

When I got solar panels on my previous home there was a $5 a month line charge. That when went up to $8 the next year, then $10, then closer to $20. The power company (Duke Energy in case anyway wants to the shitty company’s name) was determined to make it as painful as possible for people to use Solar. They were also apparently responsible for pushing to get it illegal in that area to go “off grid” and to have a cap on the amount of solar power a home could generate. At now point did these line changes stop them from raising the normal power usage rates mind you, this was just an extra “fuck you” from them.

The Civ 1 music was menacing and awesome. It reminded me of the Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back.

This lines up exactly with what ours was like in school.

Ours definitely didn’t convey anything about “make sure you are in a safe space if you end up taking it”, it was fully “don’t do it, it’s evil!” and was so over the top that it definitely backfired for many kids. I also think that their practice of showing kids sealed samples of said drugs de-mystified them and made some kids curious.

I greatly preferred Redmine back in the day. It was easy to extend it yourself too despite my dislike of Ruby.

That explains the explosion of unwanted AI features in Jira these days. No, I don’t need you to re-write my fucking ticket comment!

I imagine the big difference is that most Europeans that retire don’t have to then figure out how to pay for medical care and medication that they require to keep living.

Yeah, they have been on my shit list for a good while. The only thing I’d still buy from them would be memory, either ram or flash, but now the AI induced prices have put even those purchases on hold.

Yeah, I stopped buying Samsung phones after that as well, though I was still rocking the truly great SGS 2. I used that phone for years and years and then gifted it to a friend who used it for a few more. The magic of a user replaceable battery! It is no wonder they took it from us.

So you telling me Jira and all its related bullshit will get even worse? I hadn’t thought it possible.

That would indeed be awesome. There was a house near one of my previous homes that had a giant Moai (Easter Island Statue) head in their yard. By giant I mean like 6’-7’ tall or so, but it was impressive and I was always puzzled how they got it there.

Is this some sort of Disgaea as a Service? A DaaS if you will?

I did the same thing, their bullshit ad infested updates were the final straw,