Kerbal players, knowing the delta-v to approach the sun: … (completely unimpressed-face at a bullet flopping into the ground less than a km away)
Satisfactory.
The good news is that everyone is going to be experiencing that for the first time again in about a week’s time!
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Thomas Midgley Jr. (leaded petrol, CFCs, lots of deaths at the “ethyl” factory)
It might be a trope by now, but when you mention “rich tourists and digital nomads”… have you read For The Win?
When Cory Doctorow considers this question, … His character, an archetype of the subcultures you mention, voiced by the most cyberpunk author you ever read, chooses a cargo ship.
Looks like the main options are the things you’ve already ruled-out:
Maybe you can find a “tall ship” that’s big enough to have passive passengers (example), or pay the small boat to bring a higher ratio of paid crew to let the passengers sleep.
“Cannot contain your email address” - damn right it can’t contain my email address in 20 characters!
… except they ask you for a photo in the other direction, showing your chair and desk and keyboard. And not by surprise, just “send us a picture sometime for the audit.”
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IDF claims this practice is forbidden
Literally a supreme court decision - https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/06/international/middleeast/israel-bans-use-of-palestinian-civilians-as-human.html (yes it was official policy and the idf appealed after being told to stop)
Same. It would have been 1997 or later.
DrinkMate are the main alternative.
City builders, transport games, and factory games are basically “System Design” work already - you could probably disguise a CPU or circuit board design problem as an OpenTTD or Prison Architect or Shapez scenario, and get gamers to design boards for you.
Andrew Camerata - building a castle out of shipping containers, amongst other shenanigans, with excellent cinematography.
Today you, tomorrow me