It wouldn't be a STALKER game if it wasn't filled with bugs on release
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Unless the rules have changed, scamming players wasn't only allowed but actively encouraged. The theme of the game is unregulated hyper space capitalism where players have little to no built-in protection from each other.
Groups can hide bases in space and players from rival groups would attempt to join up in order to find the coordinates and the best times to attack. Sometimes going as far as hanging out with the other players irl to gain their trust.
Market traders would claim to be running mutual funds that you could buy into and receive huge returns when in reality it was a Ponzi scheme.
Players would offer high paying contracts to ship an item to a player owned base. Once another player accepted the contract they'd be denied entry to the base forcing them to fail the contract and pay a cancellation fee.
In every way except for income and exchange rate. If you're converting most of the money you earn into Rupees and sending it to India, America is the better choice.
When looking up why he went to jail I also saw an article about how he's Russian and has complained that "politics" (sanctions) have taken his paycheque from him. Apparently that didn't go over too well, especially from Ukrainian devs who said "politics" have taken their loved ones from them.
Context: in 2020 he accidentally killed someone in a motorcycle accident. He has since been released.
Shaq was literally at the fight though...
The first round was the only hope Tyson had. By the third round he was just standing there eating punches. The fight ended with Tyson landing something like 18 punches in an 18 minute fight.
Hopefully people remember and learn from the Australian government who allowed water to be traded like stocks. The idea was that farmers and companies that needed water most would pay for water rights from people who didn't need it.
In practice it lead to mega rich foreigners buying up all the water rights in Australia and preventing anyone from using them which created artificial scarcity and drove up prices. These mega rich foreigners then sold Australians their own water back to them at exorbitant prices.
America was built on the ideas of freedom and equality by slave owners who didn't think women should be allowed to vote.
Steven Hassan was a former member of the Moonies cult who obtained a PhD in psychology after being deprogrammed and has written books on the psychology of cult recruiting. Interestingly, he points out that the same tactics are often used by organizations that aren't cults. I highly recommend reading one of his books!
Valve wrote literal research papers on player experience and level design. The stuff they came up with have just become the norm in other games. For example, Valve found that players never look up without a reason to. They came up with ways to get the player to look up without directly telling them to with level design choices. Things like rays of light coming in from above, or ropes hanging from the ceiling.