LazerFX

Late response, sorry - but I don't see why not? I mean... this is part of the standard plug-in module system available in most malware creation tool-kits, so it should be assumed that USB drives of unknown provenance will either 1) contain malware as part of the USB auto-run (Now not used very often, but can infect older computers), or 2) part of the USB firmware just as standard operating procedure.

I've got the Feb 1980 (5th printing) edition of Basic Computer Games - Microcomputer Edition sat on the shelf next to me... looking forward to comparing the dialect differences :)

Don't do this - plugging in an infected drive can infect the secondary computer; you may wish to plug it into a linux or other hardened system to get the data however. The post by @silverdiamond is a better response.

LOL! Blast from the past... Dead n00bs scattered everywhere.

And this is how you handle responsible disclosure... 34 minutes for simply an e-mail list, no login details or private information.

There are places where it's used well. The Matrix, for example. Someone elseThread said Max Max: Fury Road, and I agree on that. Those are... at the moment... the only two that aren't abominations of decolouring, though.

Caring for others is good for you. Even if you look at it shellfishly, it is still true.

Had to.

I've never free-swam, but when I was a kid (up to early teens, maybe 14?) I had swimming lessons. I was always told the lessons of the waterways, which I vaguely remember now, but one of them was kick off your shoes because they will kill you. We had to recite those back at the start and end of the lessons, what to do if you fell in. Kick off your shoes because they will kill you.

Only lesson I remember, funnily enough.

As Terry Pratchett, via the voice of Sam Vimes, once put it, "This is love-in-a-canoe coffee if ever I saw it."

They've explicitly acknowledge the overpromise in the part of NMS (And, thanks to the continuous, rolling, free and global updates to NMS, have more than delivered on everything they promised and then a load more that they didn't promise, including next-generation graphical updates, and entire new procedural generation systems that have added even more to the environment).

They've gone above and beyond to deliver, I'd even hazard a guess that they've over-delivered as far as any bureaucratic or financial director is concerned. They're working full-time on NMS nearly 10 years on from release! They've done enough to warrant a modicum of trust.

I'm not pre-ordering, but I'll be watching with interest, and will likely buy on day-one.

That's what the guy said. Money isn't "intrinsically" real - it doesn't have something in-and-of itself. It's extrinsically real - it represents something in the society we live in, a system of arbitrage and barterage that we use to represent an amount of work (Poorly, and with little benefit to a large number of people).

So no - if the extrinsic reality changes, then the barter or arbitrage currency will change - bottle caps, for instance, take over. But for a large society to function, a commonly accepted means of representing "value" has to be agreed upon. I can't just say, "Well, I've got the worth of x hours worth of time spent on projects to provide", instead I'll say "I've got x pounds to provide".

Originally, this was made more explicit, and it still exists on UK currency: "I promise to pay the bearer..." At that point, the notes had a (Bank-enfornced) intrinsic value. The words meant a promise to provide the currencies face-value in Gold. Now, we've done away with gold-backed currency, and the raw value is arbitrary, it has no intrinsic value but that set by extrinsic realities.

It's pseudo-realtime; things happen on a tick, but that tick is pretty generous in timings and you can pause the game at any point.