I wouldn’t be surprised. But, I suspect there’s also a factor of just implausibility. Apparently, the main vessel they use is “experimental”, so it may just literally be impossible to have a recovery vessel without being a literal government.

My money’s on this being the result of someone ignoring the “hey, these are not good conditions” warnings.

One of the other posts in the feed makes it sound like they only do it a handful of times a year, and that cost is covering a multi-day excursion since they have to wait for conditions to be right. Still, no excuse to not have contingencies, but I think their take gets eaten into a fair bit more than the raw math would suggest.

So, in the live feed the BBC has going, there’s a post suggesting that a group of “explorers” were apparently on board based on one of them’s Facebook feed, so it’s safe to say they probably had the full passenger set on there.

BBC’s also got a live feed going for this.

Apparently, the sub’s supposed to have a suite of systems to more or less warn the pilot if things are looking dicey, so hopefully this is a communications problem and not something worse.

True Pacifist Undertale just the other day. Which, to be fair, took me something like two years to get around to doing because I was way too lazy to deal with some of the ending fights of Neutral route.

Now I have the itch to go back and play EarthBound again… Which may be related to the lo-fi Mother 2 mix that got posted earlier today over in the Music community.

Depends on the bot and its target subs. Some subreddits are set up to restrict posting below a certain karma line, so bots aimed at those will do stuff like posting to their own profile—to get around, say, a moderation tool that’ll auto-ban accounts that post in “free karma subreddits”—to build up the needed karma to post wherever. Those are the ones I assume @Kay_Angel is thinking of

But, a bot that’s aimed at a less restrictive community wouldn’t need to jump through the hoops so would work a lot more directly.

Seriously. If you enjoyed the X series and like roguelites in any form, 30XX (and 20XX, the first game in the series) are easily worth picking up. And even if you only like one of those things, I’d say give 'em a shot because I can’t think of many games I’ve played that feel as good when you really get rolling.

Y’know, I never thought about how old he was until now. But, I guess it’s because the “Unabomber” sketch was a lot younger-looking than he actually was.