But does it have enough suffering embedded to be a worthy engagement gift?

Not yet, not even diamond phone screens are here. And tax evasion has not killed the nation-states yet.

Kind of true, but those are bad examples. Wait, is Taj Mahal a monument, not a palace? Also Mount Rushmore relies on knowing the faces on it, otherwise one might assume it’s some local car dealers. Arc de Triumph is actually abstract, how would you know its purpose if you don’t know the context?

So driving with a phone in your hand is as safe as keeping your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road? Got it. No mention of talking to passengers in the car, I wonder why that was not tested, that would be a distraction as well.

What do you mean people were not allowed to have material things? Joining the party and becoming a part of nomenklatura so you can get western stuff and a Volga was a dream of Soviet citizens. Getting anything, often even food in USSR required a personal connection (blat).

You're right; I should have said, "not allowed unless you have the connections."

Of course, as I understand it, if your background was too bourgeois, then your application for Party membership was rejected.

You’ll need a construction cooperative. IDK if those can compete with large construction companies due to the economy of scale. The construction cooperatives were a staple of late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, but were essentially outlawed later to make way for large construction business and mortgages-backed construction.

I'm not against them, but they are not the right answer for everyone. They are great if you want to live in the same apartment for a few decades, but if you move they become tricky.

You need to find a reason why it would be better than the original or UT2004.

New game means new players.

Maybe they can relapse a map pack like id did for Quake and Quake II, that would be a way to get in the news again.

Just one more abstraction layer will fix it.

How much time do we have till Apple blocks addresses of services that provide web apps instead of iOS apps or just crippling web apps altogether even more than they are now?

I thought that tech companies working in Europe take advantage of Irish/Dutch laws and skip taxes almost entirely. Is that outdated?