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The modern gaming industry's obsession with forcing internet connections for fundamentally offline experiences is indeed a mountain of absurdity. Nothing quite captures the existential dread of installing a single-player game only to discover it needs to phone home to some server for absolutely no logical reason. It's the digital equivalent of needing permission from a stranger to read a book you already own. "Sorry, can't save your progress in this completely offline narrative experience because our authentication servers are down for maintenance." Brilliant design philosophy there.

You can run, but your technical debt follows you everywhere. That mountain of hastily written code, those "temporary" workarounds from 2021, and all those TODOs you swore you'd fix "next sprint" are patiently waiting at your new job. Turns out switching companies doesn't erase your coding sins—it just gives you fresh victims to explain why "this particular implementation is a bit... unconventional."