The problem is that they're a monopoly abusing their position to make it impossible to have the basic privacy you should be unconditionally entitled to to browse the internet.
It should be blanket illegal to block/discriminate against traffic based on the browser used in literally all contexts.
So you, as an individual manually doing things, aren't going to DOS a server. If a huge amount of people did the same thing heavily, maybe (this was what the old "hug of death" from Reddit was; too many real users visited sites not used to that traffic). Probably don't make a bunch of hyper active bots without awareness of the resource drain, especially on a smaller server, but good faith use shouldn't be a major issue.
Realistically an account with a small handful of posts won't either. A server is already mirroring a bunch of other instances and communities and one account with minimal activity just doesn't take many resources.
I didn't make that choice, but somehow triggered them attacking me so just went with it.
Steamworld games?
I haven't beat all of them but Dig 1 and 2 are definitely way shorter than I wanted (I'd pay full price for an endless mode DLC lol).
Except Hades, Supergiant games aren't super long. Bastion and Transistor are decent, and Pyre might be a little longer but is pretty unique.
I'm interpreting your list of games as semi-casual with a strong unique flavor. The messenger is a little harder than the others but still not super long.
Those are all truly fucking awful.
That doesn't sound particularly fun, though. If I want to play a different class I want to play the whole thing as a different class. Starting halfway through with a new class is corny.
Yes? It's a full featured desktop OS. It can do most stuff you can do on Linux and most stuff you can do on Windows.
It can also, as an additional benefit, run iPad and iPhone apps unless the developer prevents it (if you have Apple Silicon), but I'm not sure where the idea that it's less of a desktop OS than the other two comes from.
I'm fully expecting to go pretty hard at both, and BG3 might have me engaged enough to not jump straight into Starfield at launch, but I need immersive 3D games, too, and except Elden Ring which is it's own thing (even if it does pretty comfortably check the boxes of ARPG), I've been waiting for something of comparable scope to Skyrim that doesn't have a fatal flaw for a long time. Even as old and janky as it is now, it's still a scale that's only matched by a handful of games in the decade since.
Then again, it might have just preemptively killed Starfield.
They're pretty different games. They're both RPGs, and there's some overlap, but turn based is ultimately very different gameplay than action, and one isn't going to scratch the itch for the other to a lot of us.
I didn't love fallout, but mostly because of the dinky crafted weapons and their handling and the fact that you almost had to use VATS to make it work. They're damn good at making giant worlds worth exploring, and the gunplay looks a lot more fluid than fallout. I like the premise of highly customizable shipbuilding a lot more than fallout's settlements, too. It's far from guaranteed to be great, but "sci-fi Skyrim with enough engine improvements for guns to feel OK" is extremely promising to me. There's a reason Skyrim is still selling copies a decade later when the mechanics are super limited by age, and if they're able to bring the same world building to space exploration I'm all for it.
I thought BOTW was a glorified tech demo and TOTK was a proper game using the same engine.
I still didn't get completely hooked, but it was a big step forward in terms of not being completely devoid of anything to do.
IQ is an extremely narrow, extremely limited metric that only measures very specific traits. I have tested at an extremely high IQ and it's done jack shit for me.
Using the recall/etc to enhance my learning about things that interest me (primarily what makes people tick and how to apply some of those concepts in software) has probably helped, but I'd argue the books I've read are far more important and far more valuable than IQ. If you make a habit of learning you learn and can do whatever you want. If you don't, "intelligence" doesn't do anything for you.