You know, I've been watching people play the "My Time" games & I noticed something.
We never really get a direct answer as to what the direct cause of the Day of Calamity was.
Like, all we hear is that technology did it, but no one ever says which technology.
I mean, in Sandrock, we see that the Age of Corruption actually had quite a few green technologies. Such as the biocrust & the water purification tank. And in both Portia & Sandrock, we meet AIs that aren't evil & destructive.
As such, this means that it wasn't technology itself that caused the Calamity.
So, what specifically actually caused the sun to hide?
I get the feeling that the answer is much more complicated than what the Church of Light would have us believe.
In fact, why do people assume that it was technology to begin with? How do they even know?
I remember that Duvos was described as a wasteland, so maybe the place where Duvos stands was ground zero for whatever happened?
I've been working at a motel for over 2 years. I made $11/hour in the last half of 2020, $12.50 in 2021, and $14 in 2022. I get my first paycheck of the year in the morning, and my next course of action will depend entirely on how much my boss has decided my time is worth in 2023
$14.00 - $14.24, I quit on the spot
$14.25 - $14.49, I submit my two weeks notice
$14.50 - $14.99, I quit the moment I reach my savings goal (sometime in February), at which point I can buy a car and leave the godforsaken Florida Keys in my rear view mirror!
$15.00 - $15.49, I stay on until this summer. I'm still gonna buy a car once I reach my goal, but instead if leaving right away I'll spend a few extra months to build my savings back up. I won't reach the high water mark of my original goal in such a short period of time, but I'll have enough to sublease an apartment for the summer, so I can take my time looking for a new job instead of stressing about finding one as soon as possible
$15.50 is my best case scenario, so I guess I'd stay on indefinitely. I'll get my car, then I'll save, save, save as much as possible for as long as possible. As soon as I've built back up to my pre-car goal, I'll put a third into a savings account, a third into the stock market, and the final third towards a creative endeavor that's been thinking about for a long while (I'll keep you posted, if everything works out)
No plan survives first contact with the enemy, so I'm sure something will come up that prevents me from following through with any of this. It's not that this is a hard job, it's actually quite easy and the hours are almost ideal, but the customers are the absolute worst human beings I have ever had the misfortune of interacting with and my boss is the stereotypical living embodiment of the word boomer.
My time is worth more than $14.00/hour, and I need to figure my life out so I'm not stuck working customer service or retail for the rest of it.