I miss the days of high production values for every part of the game. Obviously the majority of games from my youth (after dinosaurs and the invention of color, but not much) were mediocre or even flat out shovelware, but the greats are still shining achievements.

By then, they’d already been including such maps for close to a decade!

I don’t recall if Ultima III had one, but IV certainly did. Not to mention those glorious manuals.

Also an old.

The outrage machine has never been anything but a slow drip of poison to keep us too overwhelmed/afraid to see what the oligarch class is doing to us.

Now it’s a fire hose.

Gros Michel still exists, but on an extremely small scale.

Cavendish is also a monoculture so it may well happen again.

Realize that we’re talking apples and oranges here (PC monitor vs TV). I was responding to someone about their invasive TV practices.

I’m lazy and curmudgeonly on my PC, so it’s running an IoT version of Windows 10 LTSC. No such shenanigans here. For now.

I bought an LG TV last year. I has never been online and never will be. It gets served through a streaming box and that’s all the info it gets.