That’s cool! My grandmother was similar–discovered email in her early 80s and loved it, got herself a printer to print out letters to send to people. Last I saw her before she died, she asked me to help set up her phone so she could answer emails on it.

She loved getting emails from people too. It made me remember how exciting that stuff was when I first started using it and it still felt like a great, new thing to make it easier to connect with folks and explore the world.

There’s a specific breed of online Nazis who insist that it’s ‘punk’ to be Conservative.

This occurred about 20ish years ago. Mom had never touched a computer in her life before getting the laptop.

And, this is the same woman who got a new phone and sent me a text that said ‘do you like my new phone?’

I set up my mom on Microsoft Outlook many years ago, back when you had to set the server and so on.

She called me a few days later and said her email wasn’t working, so I walked her through looking at the options, making sure the right addresses and preferences were checked, etc.

After about 45 minutes, I remembered that I already set everything up correctly and it was working. Then I decided to ask, “are you typing the @ symbol, or are you typing the word at in the email address?”

Yep.

Ublock Origin in Firefox is my choice among all possible ‘sponsors.’

uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger plugins in the Firefox browser have me feeling relatively secure with most regular internet traffic.

Thanks for the clarification because that headline sure is worrisome.

The story is really what makes it so good–you start to feel invested in the character, in the world, and that helps with getting deeply immersed in the gameplay. It’s an incredibly well written game.

Beyond that, the screenshots show a lot–it’s a world that feels very lived-in.

Also the gameplay is a ton of fun. Open world, lots of places to explore–some of them beautiful, others treacherous, some both.

I agree.

I also just can’t really play games that force me to think about my bank account while I’m playing, charging fees or subscription rates just to fully participate in the game, like seeing a bounty hunting mission that requires me to send money before I can start it. Totally breaks the immersion–I play games so I don’t have to think about the real world for a bit. Making me enter bank details wrecks that.

I loved playing this game.

The online version of it fucking sucks though.