Number 2 is a great point. That’s what I hate about LinkedIn and why I only use it to look/apply for jobs and occasionally scroll through if I’m super bored.
My experience in my current job are endless cold emails from salespeople who don’t even understand that I have no use for their product. I work in a field where I have to research a lot of different equipment/parts for my client, but that I don’t use myself. I had to request a catalog from one of these places which involved giving my work email address. Now I get endless emails about how they’ll ‘be in my area’ (LOL no you won’t because I work remotely across the country from both my company and my client) and they want to demonstrate their new product…which I don’t use because I don’t work in that field. Makes me laugh every time and yes it is very spammy.
He would be an immediate block for me, anytime I see a sentence and not a job title under their name. It’s served me well so far the rare times I open LinkedIn.
So I played it for a while several years ago and kinda got bored with it. I got to the bottom of the mine and had married one of the characters, and my farm (such as it was) was mostly automated so not much to do there. I know there are a bunch of story moments but I got tired of wandering around randomly trying to meet the conditions to trigger them. I wanted it to happen organically without looking it up. I just felt like I ran out of things to do and there was no point to keep playing.
At the same time, I want to play it on my Steam Deck because I did enjoy what I did play!
I’m happy for people who like these games, but I am so tired of seeing articles about them in my feeds. They are still companies, they still don’t care about you, just your money, but everyone acts like these two are their best friends and the saviors of gaming.
I thought she WAS in the Academy but ended up leaving…
Edit: Yep, according to Memory Alpha:
Beginning in 2366, Torres attended Starfleet Academy, where she participated on the Academy decathlon team. She later admitted that after quitting “The track and field coach was furious with me” (VOY: “Basics, Part II”)
She also had to dodge several punches in the lab, which Chakotay later joked about, saying, “Only you, B’Elanna, could start a brawl in Astrotheory 101.” (VOY: “Future’s End, Part II”)
Interstellar history was, according to Torres, “the one subject I almost failed at the Academy.” (VOY: “Year of Heck”)
Also among her Academy training was EV suit simulations. She thought “they felt peaceful, like floating in the womb,” but years later, in actual practice, she said she felt “a little sick to [her] stomach.” (VOY: “Day of Honor”)
During her time at the Academy, B’Elanna dated Maxwell Burke; however, their relationship did not last long. (VOY: “Equinox”)
Ultimately, B’Elanna had a hard time fitting in, often getting into trouble with instructors and faculty. Within two years at the Academy, she was suspended once and had four disciplinary hearings against her. Even though quite a brilliant student and promising engineer, she eventually dropped out of the Academy in 2368, at the age of nineteen. (VOY: “Caretaker”, “Eye of the Needle”, “Parallax”, “Extreme Risk”)
One of Torres’ teachers at the Academy was Commander Zakarian, who taught Survival Strategies (VOY: “Caretaker”); another was Professor Chapman. Torres and Chapman argued constantly; she even later admitted that “I was always questioning his, his methods, his assumptions, and he was always slapping me down like some upstart kid.” She was later surprised to learn that Chapman thought she was one of the most promising students he had ever taught and was disappointed when she dropped out. He had placed a note in her permanent record saying he would support her if she ever reapplied. (VOY: “Parallax”)
I came to a realization a few years ago that I am too boring to play sandbox games. I need a tightly crafted narrative, I cannot be left to my own devices. After a long time of trying to get into every sandbox game that looked cool, it was such a relief to finally realize that about myself.