I FOUND IT! I ACTUALLY FOUND IT! I had exhausted all my more targeted ways of finding it and resorted to Google images searching for “point and click game bar” and found a screenshot I recognised.

The game is Mudlarks.

Sorry for the couple of details I misremembered, and thank you to everyone trying to help.

Looked though stream and itch.io with the filters and can’t see anything that’s jogging my memory. Also it’s not CITY 2000, sorry.

It’s not The Silent Age.

1. I think it was voice acted, but not the protagonist.
2. Male protagonist
3. I watched it on YouTube, could have been anyone I’ve been looking through the videos of my YouTubers from back then and not found it yet. It was a long time ago 6yrs+.
4. Could be older than 10yrs but not older than 15yrs, I think it was a new release at the time I watched it.
5. I think there was the normal animations not 100% though.

No it wasn’t fmv, interesting game though.

It’s not this one’s sorry.

I also remember a scene on the street outside the missing friends flat (apartment) and the protagonist talking up to a woman hanging out an upstairs window. Think he convinces her to throw down the spare key for his friends flat.

PC only I think, the at style was interesting it was photo/high quality drawn. I remember seeing it on YouTube but can’t remember whose channel I was watching it on.

Just PC as far as I know.

Is it that height and up or just a band?

This week on “I threw a Scrabble bag at the wall”…

UT99 so shoot me lol

Amazing, had no idea how much Pokémon lore was lifted from reality.

I wonder where he expected the shortfall to come from when he cut council budgets…

So next I’d be checking logs for sata errors, pcie errors and zfs kernel module errors. Anything that could shed light on what’s happening. If the system is locking up could it be some other part of the server with a hardware error, bad ram, out of memory, bad or full boot disk, etc.

The drives in the zpool, are they SMR drives? Slow write speed and disks dropping out are a symptom of I remember correctly

Finally.

It’s not just the poor level of pay, it’s also the crippling workload and lack of progression. Beyond a certain point your only way to progress up the pay scale is to move into the middle management of schools, which becomes less and less actual teaching, so to get slightly more reasonable pay you have to sacrifice the reason you got into teaching in the first place. For the teachers I know who’ve quit though, they could never be paid enough to get back into teaching, the workload and stress, the lack of backup with agressive pupils, hostile work environement generally (multiple people have said the kids are bad for bullying, but the staff are worse). We need to look at teaching in other countries and take note, because they way we’ve set it up isn’t working.

I find pinning my WhatsApp tab sorts that out, it seems to autoload pinned tabs into memory on launch.

Ooo a dam made out of this might be interesting…

You can literally see the pound signs in his eyes.