I had, but there wasn’t anything. But I checked the game again recently and it’s sorted now. Details in another reply. Thanks. 🙂

Sure, as soon as I complain about it… 🙄 I hadn’t seen any patch come through, but I went in to check anyway, and now it was telling me to build the overseer’s place, which it hadn’t before. Now that I have it lets me upgrade buildings normally. So I don’t know if it was a time thing, or a patch slipped through without me noticing it. In any case, it’s sorted now. Thanks.

And yeah, with my first settlement, I was trying to upgrade the housing first, you know “putting the citizen’s need above my own” kinda thing, 😛 but you’re right, the HQ upgrades are trivial comparatively so might as well.

Look under your chair… It’s an ad!!

There are limits to free speech just like there are limits to other freedoms. For example: “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.” IOW where harm is done. So the question becomes do messages like this cause harm? IANAL, but I believe that it would qualify as hate speech, which is widely considered to cause harm.

Since dactyl mean finger, which can also be translated as a digit, it kinda works. 🤔

Swamp thing was what came to mind for me.

Flashing back to Red Planet.

Somebody call Tom Selleck!

They have a series on Gates too.

The answer to OPs question is that these people they admired were just as bad, just better at PR. Unless you think that social media has had some kind of positive effect in outing these newer bastards. Being young and naive may also have been a factor (which I can personally attest to since I was a fan of MS back in the 90s before I learned about them).

In my case, finishing them.

Except they don’t tell you that they did something different and you have to spend half an hour just figuring that out.

Seeing this post about the sale made me check out the Wikipedia article about the game, since I never knew anything about it either. After reading that I’m pretty much sold on it. For a few dollars it’s worth a try.

I appreciate your attitude about dealing with people. And the other stuff too.

Even the TST?

You don’t need humanoid robots for that, just an economic system that is not based on trading labor for income. That is what has been holding us back for a long time.

Maybe he had one of those ties that have musical notes on them, and got curious (and careless)…