Honestly, just with numbers I feel like help here is hit-or-miss unless there is an obvious/straightforward answer. Personal issues, I’m even less sure about… might be easier for those who actually can make real connections with people here, but that sounds rarer still.

No idea on the bike stuff though. Except maybe the Arrested Development gag “And that’s why you always leave a note!” .

Imagine how bad a game D&D would be if skill checks were realistic for the first 5 levels

and 1 every 20 swings you’d fail so miserably at it that you’d injure yourself.

Morrowind’s accuracy system when starting the game, especially if you built your character wrong (or just are using something you’re not built for). Misses don’t add to skill either, so you will continue missing for a long while.

Though you don’t injure yourself, instead you die because you can’t even fight a worm (because you miss more than you hit).

In fantasy it’s easy and guaranteed. You pay a pittance to learn from an expert who you met randomly for an instant boost. You get better just by doing something 1000 times and your skills likely will never degrade.

In reality, you tried something and failed without learning much new. You watched tutorials that did not help, or you tried making something work and all you got was a headache and an ugly mess. You are stuck with projects/progress due to external factors that you don’t know how to (or can’t) fix currently. 1000 iterations probably doesn’t mean as much skill improvement as you wish it did and you also lose proficiency because you did not have the time/reason to engage those skills.

or released on itch.io requiring an account to download

Is this a client limitation or poor phrasing? Itch’s website doesn’t require an account for free games. Unless there is some regional shenanigans I’m unaware of… EDIT: Or, download size maybe? >1GiB the less likely I am to attempt a download

If it is a client thing, an open-source itch (or itch-compatible multi-launcher) client might be the answer.

Does endorsement by their socialist and green parties mean nothing?

If they had elected Orban again, would that make positive change more likely?

If Magyar was lying and goes further right, is revolution somehow less possible than it has been? Especially if Orban loyalists are gone/not-on-his-side and Orban policies are actually undone in such a way that future elections are more fair? (though that actually assumes their left parties can actually gain traction)

The key point for me is that their socialist and green parties stepped out to endorse the new (non-progressive) party so it could have supermajority instead of Orban’s party. In other words, they took the strategic/pragmatic path, unlike the result in the US.

It’s illegal to say.