Paywall, didnt read
there are power plants or factories that basically heat water with their residual heat production (that would just get wasted) and pump the heated water to residual areas where people use it to heat their homes
yep it was.. which makes it more impressive to implement it this way
The randomized empty open world planets wasn’t great but they also did that in Daggerfall so I don’t think it was totally unprecedented
Well, in case of daggerfall you could actually move through the land to the next city/town without a single loading screen. And in theory you could move from one end of the land to the other end (but the game would likely crash due to procedural generation or memory issues before)
and neither case provides a service in a state that should be exposed to the outside. Either due to malice or incompetence.
AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","what do i put here????" ATD99**1#
or even opening a website that uses less than 10mb on initial load