“The French”? The homogenous singular entity that all have one singular set of goals and no differences whatsoever? Or the Frrench people who’d like cheap energy or maybe the French electricity lobbyists? It’s not that simple.

Who would “they” be in that case? The people who’d like cheap energy do indeed need storage. The nuclear lobbies on the other hand need to cripple their competition, so they only need their own, already present facilities and whatever means they can get to sabotage upcoming competition and secure their primary position.

I’ve made a quantum leap in food technology: I have invented french fries with a dedicated AI… let’s say napkin. Not like it matters. It costs 450 dollars per month and requires the area of a small town’s worth of rain forest to be razed in order to produce a single one. What does it do, you ask? It’s AI, it does AI things, you bumpkin. You wouldn’t understand with your uncultured peasant brain but if you’re not on board, the evolution of civilisation will leave you behind in an instant.

Any first-person-shooter is technically a point and click game.

Pokemon isn’t about catching shinies every other attempt either.

Mention the concept of a daily stand-up pledge of allegiance in schools in any other democracy and get laughed at.

I bet astronauts are great at showering.

have you ever had a shower in under two minutes and washed your whole body?

Yes. My first thought was whether there may be a “best practice” way of showering efficiently and which professions may have suggestions on that (either jobs that are very time-constrained or jobs that are tight on resources?) and whether there were more effective ways of catching the water than a bucket (maybe some elaborate tarp placement? probably not feasible. the ultimate tarp placement would be one just around the body like one of the shields in star trek or star wars. maybe one of those bubble soccer balls upside down filled with water and one showerer? rolling down a hill in a plastic hamster ball full of water would be fun. also terrifying and basically dynamic waterboarding, but fun) and that was when the two minutes ended.

Are you limited to either having a thought or moving your body at any given time? I hope you don’t drive cars or perform other activities that require more than zero thoughts at once.

Well, actually, a skull can exist, can lie on the floor, can decay, so it CAN do something after all.

And then the entire billionaire-controlled propaganda industry behind him would jump in and start inventing reasons why AKTSCHUALLY, what he said was right all along, not what all those high-falutin’ elitist leftist “experts” were spending their lives researching.

If movies and right-wing propaganda have taught me one thing: forget about knowledge, facts and expertise, if you really want something to be true, and it benefits Donald Trump, then it IS now true!

No, it’ll be running THAT cave from DA2 over and over, but this time in different colours!

Experience and memory, mostly.

“People were complaining that I sent them to fetch me a sandwich every five minutes, so we listened to their complaints and next game, the player character will have no legs and thus not be able to move anymore.”

You now have a one-quest-long window to do these three steps in order otherwise you will never be able to complete this quest line due to missing out on the item that’s only available if you use this specific thingamajig on the other thingamajig in the hidden room. There isn’t any indication of that in the entire game, except that some quest will never ever finish and be stuck on the vague “find x things” stage forever. If you google how to finish the quest in thirty hours of game time, you’re just SoL. Better luck next run.

What exactly is the “role” one is playing here? Diviner? Psychic reading the game dev’s mind?

FOMO - the game

When cars encounter predators they cannot outrun in the wild, they sometimes shed a tire and maybe an axle to distract their enemy. Don’t worry, I believe they grow back in time.

Yeah, but you see, they stubbornly refuse to do it for free or at least slave wages, and you can only imagine how bad that is for wotc’s shareholder value. Selfish bastards, Larian, demanding to be PAID!