Maybe you should just give up

Good point.

While the environment is very important, I think this is the least important reason Trump should not be president.

Billion dollar loser… AGAIN

I hope every customer is looked into. All of his side projects smell like money laundering operations to me.

I’ve been cooking up an idea for a smaller style MMO with as few NPCs as possible. It’d take a large skill tree in which you can’t possibly put points into everything so people have to specialize and work together. NPCs might fill in jobs while a player is offline like taking sales at the store or unattended crafting but all quests and rewards come from other players. Something unavoidable is that I think there has to be an end or else people either 1) can branch out and become so skilled they don’t need other people or 2) stagnate. So after X real world days, an apocalypse happens. Plague, dragon attack, aliens, zombies, blight, pirates, whatever. If you win, you can rebuild and get a benefit before your next go around. If you lose, you migrate to a new place (generate a new map) and try again.

This, or something close to it, is sometimes called cluttering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluttering

SimplePush. They have an API that is simple enough to call with a curl statement and the parameters of that call are used as a notification on your phone. As a developer, I use it for long running tasks that I want to be notified about.

You can even E2E encrypt the messages so nobody can tell when you pirate something download the next version of your favorite distro.