So somewhat like the the techno amish from freefall? source: http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3200/fc03150.htm

Part of it is the initial conditions of states experiencing socialist revolutions, as those generally don't happen when things are going well, and fighting during the revolution itself will also destroy some infrastructure, so even the more powerful of those states start on the back foot. In addition, during World War 2 both China and the USSR saw major invasions by the axis power causing even more damage to them, while the mainland of the US did not see any fighting which allowed them to maintain their productive capacity and infrastructure. Due to these factors, the western powers did have more resources to inflict and resist sabotage. That is not to say that it was necessarily the only reason, but it was certainly a significant factor.

No Man's Sky is not as focused on realism as Elite : Dangerous, the planets are at fixed points within the system. The resources used to fuel your ship in NMS are found on asteroids and planets.

In earlier versions the sun was a part of the skybox rather an object within the gameworld, so it couldn't actually be visited, which you can now do with this new update. Haven't tried it myself, but from what i have heard it takes somewhere between 5 and 15 minutes to get there (probably depending on how upgraded the impulse drive, this games equivalent of supercruise, is) from the systems hyperspace exit. Should drop you out of impulse at a certain distance, planets and other points of interest do that too. Getting too close deals constant damage to your ship.

Reminds of this bit from Freefall: http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3200/fc03150.htm

The ports being there to help illustrate its synthetic nature was more important to me than how it looks exactly so i left that open to the artist who i suppose had one lying around and used that as a template for this.

As indicated by the "gray fox android" in the window labeled "bio.txt" in the art, completely mechanical. Also, what does champions online have to do with this?

Well, there would be an extensive media collection stored inside, so there are a lot of options. Just to pick one example, the new Ghost in the Shell anime feels fitting.

Thanks UwU. And yeah fair point regarding the color palette, though i suppose having explicit hexcodes on there would mitigate the issue somewhat.

The 24h wait period is a part of the so-called "advanced flow" which will become the only way to install apps not verified by google once their new rules go into effect, as described here: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html

I have been playing Time Snatcher Handy recently, a roguelike centered around a time-stop mechanic, which only uses 44 MB. It is pretty good. Going through my steam library from the lowest up, here are the others i would recommend, stopping at one GB, because most of my games are under 20 GB and i tend to be relatively selective with what games i get so i consider most of them good also:

• TIS-100 (80 MB), programming puzzle game by Zachtronics
• Islanders (150 MB), minimalist city builder
• Enter the Gungeon (346 MB), bullet-hell roguelike
• Streets of Rogue (417 MB), roguelike which emphasizes having multiple possible approaches for how to get any given objective
• Opus Magnum (493 MB), another Zachtronics programming puzzle game
• Vault of the Void (554 MB), roguelike deckbuilder (one of my most played games, especially recommended)
• Backpack Hero (616 MB), roguelike focused on maximizing adjacency bonuses on your inventory grid
• Urbek City Builder (685 MB), city builder (obviously)
• Slipways (735 MB), a game about optimizing trade routes between planets
• Cassette Beasts (1 GB), similar to Pokemon, with the main differences being that you turn into the monsters instead of summoning them, type advantage/disadvantage giving unique status effects rather than just changing damage and battles generally being 2v2 instead of 1v1

I always used offline reader because the feeds i subscribed to don't have that many updates (most of them are currently webcomics updating 1-3 times a week) so i generally just check on it a few times a day and none of it is really urgent, so there is not really much point in expanding the time where i could check on it. Another factor might also be that i started using RSS with Firefoxes inbuilt reader (which they removed back in 2018) which didn't sync across devices, so i was just used to it being like that.