You are aware that you don't have all the information and that trying it yourself could cost you significantly more time than asking for help. Doesn't sound like dumbass behavior to me :)
Are you by chance on an Nvidia 10-series GPU? Nvidia dropped support for them from a few months ago and several distros are now shipping those drivers by default, so you may need to use your package manager to select 585 versions rather than 595 or whatever the latest is.
What makes it much more fucked up than music is that it's not a license to any particular copy of the game, it's only a license to whatever the publisher says the game is at any given time.
They could replace the entire game with a My Little Pony gardening sim and they'd be completely within their rights. It's broken.
In most drivers ed programs, they teach 4 second following distance. You pick a landmark, start counting when the car in front of you passes it, and you should count to at least 4 by the time your vehicle passes the same spot.
Unfortunately I don't think it's actually a law in many places.
You are aware that you don't have all the information and that trying it yourself could cost you significantly more time than asking for help. Doesn't sound like dumbass behavior to me :)