I have no other explanation of how us kids managed to play in tall grass and woods all the time, and never get bug bites. We picked up the occasional tick, but it was the dogs that the insects went after, not us.
Vitamin B-12 wards off ticks, fleas, chiggers, and mosquitos. If you take an excess you’ll sweat it out, which masks the smell of your blood. Unfortunately it doesn’t work on bedbugs.
I went to university with a Comp Sci major who looked an awful lot like a very young Prince Phillip, (he wasn’t, this was a US university, and he’s about 4 decades too young) who could barely function at all sober. Give him some weed, and he’ll debug your mess of a program and explain what you did wrong in less than 30 minutes. I watched as he coded, and documented his own OS on LSD over a period of about 12 hours once.
I’d put a pair of Sai behind the mace against the unarmed guys. Those things are useless, unless you know exactly what you’re doing. A mace is just an improvement on a warhammer, so even untrained, I have a pretty good idea of how to use it. A sledgehammer is similar enough.
I think I remember an interview where Keanu openly states that The Crow, and a few other classics were the inspiration for JW. Mission Impossible, and The Boondock Saints would also be candidates.
Astrox Imperium (this is a single player version of EvE Online, so definitely not for everyone)
Dyson Sphere Program
Factorio
UFO:AI (admittedly this is a FOSS XCOM game that started as a clone of XCOM Apocalypse, and morphed into something bigger)
All developed by either a single person, or tiny teams with basically no start up capital. I’m sure I can find more, since the FOSS list of games is enormous.
Labor develops society. Capital enshittifies society.
"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money” (Matthew 6:24).