Empire is actually quite literal too.
While their organized crime was the normal illegal and semi hidden type through a huge percentage of the galaxy they did also have worlds they literally were the legitimate and direct government for.
Some of the city states in Italy history do fit fairly well to this.
For Ladybird I think due to politics of the/a lead developer. I haven't looked into it and don't know it it is well deserved or silly. Just enough of a thing that I have seen it complained about before.
For Servo I have no clue why someone would downvote over that.
Safety. It improves visibility when pulling out and with backup cameras you lose no visibility pulling in.
I'll gladly take that trade every time.
The only way that might not be true is if your vehicle has an insanely large/long nose. If it does you shouldn't be driving it anyway.
I both lothe this happening and also know that it is often because of an intended safety feature called gray listing.
Basically due to resources cost a lot of spam will only get sent once and real emails will get sent again in exactly this kind of way. So it is a very low bar to pass when the system puts a low but above zero spam risk rating on it.
Yes of course more targeted things like spear phishing try more than once and get past this but bulk market type junk often does get blocked this way.
Most of those kids if things like parks and walkable safe cities increase economic health overall but it doesn't go into the specific pocket of a capitalist in a direct way they can see. Plus the general kick the poor attitude from the same group.
Having both a wife and child with ADHD you need to try different meds to figure out what works.
In spite of the fact that is it is basically guaranteed that it is an inherited genetic trait the meds that work for them are different and even from different categories.
I'm shocked nobody has brought this up yet.
I would absolutely be a town citizen in Phineas and Ferb. Ideally the guy who always has a new fun project and the side effects from the kids just drop everything in his lap.
Every benefit of a cartoon world with almost none of the cartoon downsides. Nearly Culture level tech after a few years once the boys grow up to by adults and actually start taking things "seriously" as shown in episodes where they go to the near my future.
The worst people in the world are so bad at being bad that they are consistently kept in check and even rehabilitated by trained animals.
TIE Fighter. Flying as a pilot for the Empire in Star Wars including flying alongside Vader to save the Emperor. Includes getting pulled into a secret society with a cool glowing force tattoo showing your rank in service to the Emperor.
The game never says your name but in the old expanded universe books you are basically the Empire version of Wedge.
Edit - It isn't open world but the limited story does do well at making you feel like you should in the role.
I'll add that the game came with a manual that did have the character name and a back story. Short version is your character was an illegal swoop bike racer on a world that had been in a multi generation war. Includes your father dying. The empire stops it by basically making it impossible to for the two world to even be able to send attacks at each other. Then recruits all the youth that would have fought in their own war and just sends them out to different parts of the empires wars.
Your preexisting flight skills gets you first a mechanic job on a Star Destroyer and then you save a VIP while testing repairs on a TIE Fighter and get pulled in as an actual pilot with a quiet push to get you up the ranks due to your impressive start.
It is categorized.
Oh I have lived outside the USA at one point and I'm well aware electricity isn't magic. There were other places too but Guyana most definitely doesn't have a stable power grid.
I'm not going to starve my kids over that kind of stance on cash only either though.
I can't understand why banks are as stupid as they often are. Why would you refuse money from the federal government. What do you think we successfully stole money from the IRS through a direct deposit?
I have a concrete and very stupid example.
We got a large gift card as an incentive to renew our lease at our current apartment vs moving. The format they sent it in had no physical card and would only work on either online stores or through a service like Google Wallet AKA a banking app on a mobile device as you mentioned.
So to get groceries while waiting on a tax refund (thanks crappy American economy and taxation methods) we had no choice but to connect and use it that way.
I have cats but this represents my children more.