Sure, as soon as I complain about it... 🙄
I hadn't seen any patch come through, but I went in to check anyway, and now it was telling me to build the overseer's place, which it hadn't before. Now that I have it lets me upgrade buildings normally. So I don't know if it was a time thing, or a patch slipped through without me noticing it. In any case, it's sorted now. Thanks.
And yeah, with my first settlement, I was trying to upgrade the housing first, you know "putting the citizen's need above my own" kinda thing, 😛 but you're right, the HQ upgrades are trivial comparatively so might as well.
I think that you can leave reddit and do other meaningful things as well. In fact it might even help you do so. And being a little dramatic might just be what some people need as a push to do it. I didn't get through all of this either, but then I have already left there.
The answer to OPs question is that these people they admired were just as bad, just better at PR. Unless you think that social media has had some kind of positive effect in outing these newer bastards. Being young and naive may also have been a factor (which I can personally attest to since I was a fan of MS back in the 90s before I learned about them).
Dual booted for the longest time, until sometime last year. Windows partition is still there, but it's been long enough that I've forgotten the password. 😳
But we're not in the correct-information-only age. There's a lot of noise to filter out, and most people aren't trained well enough to do that (i.e. critical thinking). I think that we may need to address that issue before things improve significantly at the political level.
Oh, I've certainly thought of alternate time-lines. Aspiring writer here. Trying to turn one of them into a novel (well, novel series lol), but you know, ADHD. So I could certainly talk at length about that.
Thanks. I've tried getting help. What few have accepted never seemed to have the time, or else they had too much trouble with the wiki paradigm? Idk. It's been a struggle. Which is too bad since I tend to work better (i.e. more often) when others are involved.
Audhd here, so way too many interests to list (short list here: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Murdoc). But my biggest long-standing one is called Technocracy. Not how the word gets used most of the time today, but rather the proposed sustainable and post-scarcity economic system devised in the 1920s. Not only is it just interesting from being a novel and well-designed system, but it deals with so many important issues like poverty, environmentalism, sexism, racism, crime, and all in an objective, hard scientific way (i.e. not "political science"). All that science and progressivism (from 100 years ago too!) just delights my autistic brain no end.
Here's my attempt to make the topic more accessible to the modern audience: https://technate.org/tiki-index.php
I believe it's called internalized ablism. Adopting the belief structures of neurotypicals because for most of our lives we didn't know that there was any other way. It's a lot of work digging those roots out of there.
I had, but there wasn't anything. But I checked the game again recently and it's sorted now. Details in another reply. Thanks. 🙂