Troy

https://yabolfibonacci.bandcamp.com/track/get-your-ass-to-mars

Everything else went up due to tariffs

Unpopular opinion (largely discredited in anthropology circles): cold weather encourages resourceful behaviour and improves human cooperation. In climates where you can survive winter outdoors, homelessness is not as detrimental to continued existence. Three walls and no roof is fine in a slum in Florida, but harder to pull off in Minneapolis.

This societal coordination which is required to survive winter leads to more orderly and more socialist civilizations. Because hairless apes have no business being in that climate. So it is human ingenuity that is selected for – and that includes development of systems of cooperation.

If I extrapolate, our space faring descendants will face much bigger hurdles, but ideally will develop even better systems to deal with it.

Bonus picture. Me doing arctic exploration.

have been for like, 30 years now?

The genre is much older than this. The market is huge (something like 10-15 billion $USD) with about 50k different self help titles being published every year. Obviously no bookstore is going to stock 50k different self help titles (except maybe Amazon). But much of this market is served by special interest bookstores, like religious bookstores attached to churches or whatever. And those have existed forever!

I’m old enough to remember the 1980s and the parenting advice books that told my parents to beat me with a wooden spoon – that they purchased from their church. It biases me against the genre somewhat ;)

Self help books tend to be part of a radicalization pipeline, where the authors are considered “experts” because they have a published book. Once you’re in the pipeline, like youtube conspiracy videos, eventually you’ll end up buying into antivaxx and other woo.

What game?