What video are you watching today?

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Try game. Fall into a basic gameplay loop and repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

Played EVE Online for 8 years (and I never played it right)
Then played World of Warships for 2 or 3 years maybe?
And now I’ve been playing War Thunder for nearly 8 years

I’ve played other things, but I always fall back to my basic gameplay loop of the time… only one at a time… for years upon years. Doing the same thing in slightly different ways to acquire some reward. Like doing the same exact thing but in a different set of vehicles.

It’s not very sexy but keeps a company getting money from me…

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The thing with SF combat ships is that we don’t really know if they will ever exist. War in space will be related to economy in space and that is a far stretch from now.

Navy ships grew larger in order to carry bigger guns which also meant they would be hit harder which meant they got extra armor, but that only worked for a few decades and nowadays neither guns nor armor are a thing in navy ships. ā€œSea dominanceā€ is not much of a thing neither, compared to ā€œair dominanceā€, so, what will the future bring? Probably not combat spaceships.

SF ships make for cool stories, but as reality goes, so far there’s not even a credible reason to even have a spacefaring economy, let alone a reason to fight for ā€œspace dominanceā€, prevent an enemy from using space for their economy or against yours.

The cheapest metal is not the one you go and mine from an asteroid, rather the one you don’t use. And if you absolutely and completely must use metal… at one point it might be cheaper to dig them from abandoned landfills rather than go to space and spend the horrendous amount of energy involved in moving through gravity wells. Maybe even just go and gather minerals from seawater might be cheaper than send stuff to space and back, accelerate it all the way to 11 km/s and then back to 0 just to begin with… then even faster to change orbits… and why? There’s nothing habitable out there. No place were our survival hasn’t to be pulled out from the jaws of death, continuously and forever.

I… I wonder whether space will ever be a place for Mankind. It’s there and we look at it, wondering… but, is the price right?

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