This is absolutely the case. In the documentary “The Fog of War” (a great documentary IMO) Robert McNamara explains how he helped create a personality test to screen applicants for Ford (I think it was them).

One of the questions was “Would you rather be a coal miner or a florist?”. McNamara says his family had owned a florist but the answer they wanted coal miner. For “obvious reasons”.

RIP A1 Thick and Hearty Burger, your 1100 calories per burger were too beautiful to live!

When scammers stare into the void that is my bank account and the void stares back.

The thing you need to do is make a song to let people know that you don’t diddle kids.

In no particular order:

• Wing Commander: Privateer
• Rim World
• Kotor + Kotor 2
• Any first person Elder Scrolls Game
• Europa Universalis games
• Portal + Portal 2
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Elite Dangerous
• Eve Online
• Dwarf Fortress

Have you played Wing Commander: Privateer? It predates Freelancer by a bit but it hit a lot of the same notes for me.

It is….precious…to me

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Do you have anymore background on that?