As someone who played a lot of U2:XMP back in the day, I can confirm this is the case. Honestly I’m not sure why Epic killed their master servers, since it seems like something that can run on a toaster in a supply closet, but good that it was relatively easy for the community to reverse engineer and adopt.

I work for a company that (tragically, not my choice) has a private jet. I’ve been on the calls where we have tried to convince the fairly progressive CEO (oxymoron) to spend millions of dollars annually on voluntary SAF. They did not go well. This is for one private jet.

No airline is taking meaningful action on SAF just because a small number of flyers paid extra. They’re gonna pocket that cash and do nothing until legislation forces action. The pilots in CA aren’t altruism, they’re being mandated by law.

These airlines are still figuring it all out. The amounts they charge for the privilege of “offsetting” your flight are less about the cost and more about the extra revenue, and quite frankly a lot of airlines put the $ given to them into the cheapest carbon offsets they can possibly find, not into SAF.

Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re putting your $ into meeting their CA SAF minimum requirements.

Unrelated, but I am loving the new tag feature in Voyager

Seeing how some very particular relatives are, I wonder if much of the gas leaf blower cloud is less “watch me stick it to the libs” and more “look at me, I’m cleaning my yard, that makes me better than you”