“They” didn’t do that. Texas Governor Greg Abott put that into effect, defying the federal government in doing so. It was only afterwards that the courts agreed that it was okay. Without Governor Hot Wheels, it’d have never happened.
It took awhile for mine, too. She took to my wife instantly, but nowadays if we’re both sitting in the couch the cat will come lay on my lap instead of my wife’s.
Not everywhere, Joe, not everywhere. Texas is still well and truly red, much to the chagrin of sane folks everywhere and despite those same folks voting blue wherever possible.
I personally went from having to have everything on low or turned off to literally cranking everything all the way up and it’s still playable. Mind you, I’m running an eight year old quad-core Xeon, 64Gb of 2400mhz ECC DDR4, and a 2080ti. Game’s installed on a SATA SSD that isn’t exactly new.
And yes, I’m aware that’s an odd mishmash of parts. Most of it came from an old server my last job was throwing away.
Not, I dunno, the writers or the directors or the other staff that helped make the show?