Elite Dangerous

no Imagine you paid $20 for a game where you watch paint dry. This inherently sounds boring but people do it, and there's lots of colors/styles/shades, paint is an amazing thing. Anyway, you decide to buy this game, and you start with a small paint brush, and a wall, and a paint bucket. Eventually you paint the wall and watch it dry. you stand back and admire you're work, it looks great! You did a great job! AND then you find you have to pain the rest of the room, well ok, you paid your $20, you get to work.... BUT this time you find out you need to go to the library and sift through the old cardex system and find our the specifics of how latex dries onto paint and how long it will take at what temperature and humidity level. Well that sounds complicated, but you paid for the game and now it's time you tried out one of those new paint brushes, or that paint gun you saw advertised, that'll get the job done faster! So you research the data, grab your new shiny paint brush and get to work.....only this time you have orders for a new color, so you go back to the cardex at the library and research how this new color paint will take to dry, and you paint the walls with your new paint brush and new paint and watch it dry, and you stand back and admire your painting and wall drying...... and then you find out.... You need to paint the ceiling too, but it has that popcorn stuff on it and you have to remove it.... well heck why didn't you start with that because now if you scrape the ceiling it'll get all over the place and on your new shiny pretty walls..... but you paid for the game and you may as well do what the devs tells you to so you research how to remove the popcorn ceiling.... and clean up your mess... and find out you need a different type of paint for the ceiling.... so you go back to the library and research which paint you need for the ceiling, and paint the ceiling, and watch it dry.... and then you find out... You need to paint the doors, but that is a whole new thing because it's a different style of paint and the trim of the doors has to be different than the door frame, but you paid for the game and actually bought some equipment like a new paint roller and this nifty pouring cup that keeps the paint from spilling all over the place when you pour it in the paint tray.... so you get to work on this door frame and paint it and stand back and enjoy your handy work, the walls, the ceiling, the door/frame, your new equipment you bought with your money..... and then you find out You need to pain another room in the house, but this time the devs want it another color... and another style and another brand of paint..... so back to the library to the codex and look up this new style/color/brand of paint and how long it takes to dry and at what temperature and what humidity and remove the popcorn ceiling (you did it in right order this time), the walls, the door/frame and you stand back and admire your handywork..... and then you find out. You need to paint the rest of the rooms in the house, but this time the devs want another style/color/brand and TYPE of paint ( I could go into details of gloss vs flat, and acrylic versus latex but you get the idea).... see you're getting the hang of it now....so back to the library and research in the old codex how this new style of paint works for what temperature and what humidity it takes to dry and there's different styles/colors/brands and types of paint for each room and you just bought this shiny new paint gun, that'll make things easier and you're getting the hang of it now so you start in this new room, you also find out it's easier to paint by removing the outlet covers, and putting masking tape down on the trim so your paint colors/styles don't bleed over from wall to trip/ceiling and remove the popcorn ceiling and paint the ceiling/walls/door/frame with the appropriate colors/style/brand and type of paint and while you're watching it dry you step out of the game to smoke a cigar or get a drink or use the bathroom or eat.. and while you were gone a squirrel came in and stepped into the that paint tray you left out and parkoured all over the new walls... and how the heck did he get paw prints on the ceiling, I mean it walked on the frigging ceiling, danggit.... well squirrels do what squirrels do, so you clean it all up and repaint it all careful to stay in the house until the recommended time for the paint to dry and it dries and you stand back and admire all the rooms and equipment you bought and think this is a great game! AND then the devs want you to paint the outside of the house, well back to the library! and you read about exterior vs interior paint and what type of paint/color/style dries at what temperature and humidity level, but you also need a ladder and oh wait theres some scaffolding too but that's too expensive you just get the ladder for now and you get to work painting the outside of the house and you stand back and admire your handywork and your new ladder and then the devs tell you about the rest of the houses on the block that need painting and they all want different styles/types/colors of paint for every room/celing/door/frame and exterior .... but you're this far into it and have invested real money into some equipment to make your job easier and you kinda like that game TBH, except for the part where you can't walk away from the game for a few minutes... so you go back to the library and research each and everything you need about every style/type/color of paint and how long it takes to dry and what temperature/humidity level and you get to work, except this new house you started on has some mold in some of the rooms from a roof leak, you gotta fix that first or your new paint will just be covering up mold, so you research back at the library how to fix roof leaks and you get the equipment you need, invite some friends over and you replace the roof/shingles have a few beers and some pizza , celebrate you're new room and heck ya'll all get to painting houses and doing research and talking about how cool this game is and you get to painting a few houses, fixing some roofs and then you find out the davs want you to fix some fire damage from and electrical fire in one of the houses, so you go back to the library and research how to rewire the house and replace the sheetrock and what style/color/type of paint you need for this new house and you fix the electrical wiring, replace the roof, repaint the new house, you stand back and admire your handywork and while you're watching the paint dry a torrential hurricane comes along and rips your roof off, yanks the electrical box out of the wall and changes the temperature/humidity and stops the paint from drying and now you have a choice....rebuild the whole house and repaint it all... or quit the game. There I saved you countless hours of time invested into a game.... and if you do see my playing the game.... it's probably because I like watching paint dry and I bought some new shiny paint brushes, and a ladder... and that scaffolding I mentioned earlier and want to think i'm getting my monies worth out of it all, and you can come enjoy the pain too if you like all that stuff.