The anti-pattern of IoT and their creepily Orwellian dependence "on the cloud" or the ability to "phone home" for "reasons" no one understands is a minor runni

The anti-pattern of IoT and their creepily Orwellian dependence "on the cloud" or the ability to "phone home" for "reasons" no one understands is a minor running gag in a game I've been building [SB]. Fragility of our civilization's life support systems and critical shared infrastructure, in general, is a theme. Because its a real issue today. And with the twin pressures of growing threats from climate and against democracy it is this very kind of stupidly nterdependent complexity which can act as a kind of Achilles heel PITA when enough of the dice all happen to roll a certain way, at once. We saw it happen due to COVID: the massive but also weird and counter-intuitive economic distortions. But I believe its likely to happen on a much larger scale in the future. Therefore we'd all be best served by choosing to use as many robust/redundant (and anti-fragile) tools as we can. Preppers once seemed crazy. I believe you'd almost have to be crazy to NOT be a prepper anymore. (Thus, my game: a mix of entertainment, but also education and hopefully political influence and a little bit more shifting of mindsets.) Example rules of thumb I help to teach: 1. Never own a hammer with a remote kill switch. 2. Never borrow/rent/lease a hammer. Own it, possess it, know where it is, control access to it. 3. Have two (or more) hammers. etc. --- [SB] - https://synystrongames.itch.io/slartboz https://synystrongames.itch.io/slartboz