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Which somehow has an indoor jungle, an ice cave, an underwater section, a fire cave, a cathedral, the entire Library of Alexandria, the inevitable clock tower, an arcade and bowling alley…

I imagine No Man’s Sky is doing this specifically to reference the trope as was originally commonly portrayed in e.g. Flash Gordon serials and various golden age comics. Similar to Starbound, this also has an intentional gameplay implication in that it forces you to leave the planet and find another one with the biome appropriate for whatever resource it is you need. Otherwise you could park your butt on one planet and never have any compelling reason to go anywhere else which really rather defeats the intent of the game.

As far as other works of fiction go, though, yes. It’s just lazy.

Megaman 1 was indeed quite difficult, partially due to some sections of it that were particularly bullshit. Luckily it’s also riddled with bugs, many of which can be abused to the player’s benefit, although back in those days we did not have the internet to enlighten us as to all of them.

I figured out the pause glitch all by myself. I’m just special like that. I also got myself stuck in various amusing and, alas, game-ending ways by stuffing poor little Rockman into all types of walls by abusing the platforms with the magnet beam to see if I could find anything interesting. In addition to not having the charge ability on the mega buster, Rush, or a seventh and eighth robot master, the one thing everyone forgets Megaman 1 did not have was the password system. If you got wedged someplace and couldn’t get yourself zipped out of it or contrive of a way to have an enemy kill you, that’d be a reset. If you wanted to beat the game you had to do it in one sitting.

My first Megaman game was actually 4, followed by 3 on the recommendation of a friend, and then 1. It’s surprising how archaic Megaman 1 is if you’re not already familiar with it. It’s amazing how quickly Capcom nailed what would become the iconic Megaman formula and how consistent the games became, starting right at… Megaman 2. The first game feels like a Mandela effect fever dream, certainly something that came from some parallel universe and was not, in any way, any of the games we actually got. Except it was.

Basically all of Elec Man’s stage has you climbing up a ladder. The pre-boss corridors are entire obstacle courses, not just the transitional anterooms we became used to. Rolling cutter kills Elec Man in just three hits, and somehow he also has two other weaknesses. Mettools don’t pop up but instead shoot at you by just lazily tilting their helmets to the side. You drop in to Bomb Man’s room from the top. The health and weapon energy pickups look nothing like in any subsequent game. The robot masters don’t have spaces in their names yet. And so on, and so forth.

RIP to the Microsoft support forums, then. Although if these get tanked in the search results that will probably be a small net benefit for society given that not a single problem has ever been successfully solved by the Microsoft support forums in the entire history of computing.

You’ll have to eat the insulation foam if you want to go around getting high on cyclopentane. Or maybe smoke it.

This is diabolical. Thanks, I hate it.

You can mount your drives on boot in fstab (/etc/fstab). This is only a low-key pain in the ass, and it’s probably a good thing your internally installed drives won’t change very often.

If whatever method you use to mount them outright requires using the full mount command, possibly with a shitload of parameters attached, you can also do it on boot as a cron job that fires on boot (crontab -e) by prefacing the command with @reboot rather than the usual set of time parameters. This is how I handle e.g. mounting complicated network shares on my servers. This will fire before you even get to your login screen, so the drives ought to be accessible by the time Steam has to do whatever it does.

Jest, perhaps. But you can already buy copper bullion for “investment” purposes the same as you can do with gold and silver:

https://www.jmbullion.com/copper/copper-bars/

This is, of course, for the express purposes of parting fools who listen to too much AM talk radio from their money. Copper is worth, what, a little under $6 a pound right now? So these one ounce ingots that they’re hawking for nine bucks each in reality contain about 37 cents worth of metal.

Copper is self-evidently not an investment or speculation vehicle, unless you are able to front the money to deal with it in quantities measured in tons.