I know who the fuckers squatting in hisec are. I spent half a decade killing them. The nullsec guys mostly play the economy and rat in nullsec because the bounties for it are too high.
They're not the same people as the afk miners. Nullsec corps don't need Plagioclase and Veldspar.
I spent a long time killing both groups. They're not the same people. That's just cope tbh. And the people criticizing carebears are different people too.
Here I thought I'd make my point by talking about "make line go up".
The nullsec guys are complete tools, yes. But the bulk of the playerbase still squats in hisec mining and ratting, and that atrocious isk fountain of incursions. Fully half of them are afk at all times to boot. You can bump them into another cell for God's sakes and nothing, because they're logged in to not play the game, just trying to make line go up.
It's no surprise when they quit. Because nothing about any of that is actually fun. What little fun was left in Eve consisted of finding inventive ways to kill those people.
I was a lowsec and wormhole player myself, with several awox and suicider alts. As far as I'm concerned that's the actual game.
Eve Online is dying, and has been dying for a decade, because the present crop of devs don't know what fun is.
Namely, not PvE. If you want a game for "make line go up" there have always been better choices. Eve was about the emergent gameplay of a world with barely any rules besides "don't hack the game".
Ironically given that Eve was founded by people who missed the way Ultima Online was before the Trammel update, the game turned into much worse of a carebear catering experience.
No you were trying to compare apples and oranges. No one is increasing the cost of the groomer books artificially. There aren't hoops to jump through to go get one. And you don't end up on a federal list for owning it, although you certainly should.
Child grooming not being subsidized by taxpayer money isn't some kind of poll tax. There is no right to taxpayer funding.
There is a right to own both firearms and ammunition. Restrictions against those are unconstitutional on their face.
That's an injustice because the Second Amendment says "keep and bear". You can't bear a weapon you aren't allowed to buy ammo for.
There is no Amendment that deals with giving porn to minors, and the Founders would shoot you themselves if you suggested it falls under free expression.
If you can buy it, it's not banned. It was just removed from the elementary school library because it's gay porn written by a child molester.
If you want to buy a copy of that filth, be my guest. You want to read it to your own kids, well if you even consider it you're probably molesting them anyway.
But that isn't good enough for leftoids. They demand to use your tax money to fund perversion targeting single digit age children.
They won't stop until someone puts a stop to them.
Starsector, Tails of Iron, Age of Wonders 4 for single player. Deep Rock Galactic and Helldivers for multiplayer games.
And for tabletop I've been running a game of Ascendant, a superhero game from the makers of ACKS, and a system I highly recommend to anyone interested in a superhero game.
It shouldn't amaze you, even if you aren't old enough to remember the mass cognitive dissonance that surrounded the USSR.
The left is not opposed to large business entities. There were plenty of them in the Soviet Union. They're opposed to entities that don't conform to whatever the leftist narrative is at the moment.
It's also good for driving up the price of graphics cards.