The irony

People need education.

I really wish the competition was better.

Misleading is the way of journalism these days. It's all about clickbait and partial facts.

Don't you love it when Satan is efficient?

Which is what modders have been saying since release

Start with changing the engine

Xmanager is perfectly safe, been using it for a couple of years now. For a client, I recommend Spicetify. Setup is a bit more involved than a simple launcher but all instructions are provided and as simple as copy/paste. It also has editable themes and plugins for all kinds of additional functionality via a (free) marketplace. I've been using that for about 3 years and now won't accept anything less.

For the majority of disc-based media, any large store would do the job too if we're talking post apocalypse situations but a lot of games these days are absolute crapfests without the plethora of updates. As for servers, I did specifically mean places to download from, not stream. I'd already be downloading every film and TV show I could think of I might like or have already seen and think I'd like to rewatch someday.

That said, the internet is also my means of satisfying my social needs since all of my friends live in different countries. Without that and them, the dire loneliness sets in real quick like.

And libraries have a lot of books, I agree and I already enjoy reading but I have relatively niche tastes that would likely only be catered to by large libraries so the vast majority of a small library's collection would be worthless to me. I know the end of the world is more a "any port in a storm" kind of situation but if I'm just running down the clock before the last human alive becomes the last human to have lived, I'm not really looking to pad that time out by reading How to Win Friends and Influence People or 15 different DIY books.

So even a well-received game isn't enough to save people's jobs now. Ever-glowing news from the shitfest that is the gaming industry. I can understand the point of teams downsizing once a big release is out but let's be honest here, it's not like SEGA won't immediately be starting work on yet another Yakuza game.

If we used that 200m to build a guillotine to use on him on his last day, does it still count as a severance package?

To your credit, you eventually figured it out and grew. Cult leader brainwashing is a powerful thing and often occurs in an echo chamber so you shouldn't blame yourself for not being able to see through it sooner.