Taiwan being invaded would make the current component shortages look like nothing in comparison. TSMC fabricates the vast majority of high-end chips used by basically every computer and smartphone. They have a two-thirds market share while the next biggest player, Samsung, has around 10%, and Intel barely registers. If you want high-yield nanometer-scale precision manufacturing, TSMC is practically your only real choice.

Who amongst us hasn’t called for the extermination of marginalized ethnic groups after feeling a little economic anxiety?

Meanwhile if you’re part of Steam’s partner program you know that Valve are constantly improving things on the backend for devs and publishers. Just about the only “developer-friendly” thing Epic does that Steam doesn’t do better is asking for a smaller cut.

“Alright Michael, we’re going to leave you alone to write in peace. There’s food and drinks in the fridge, and a small mountain of psychedelics in the cupboard.”

I found the combat frustratingly bland, and Hello Games don’t seem interested in improving it. The first time I played was several years after release, and I was surprised to learn the only two enemy encounters that were at all fun or interesting (the sentinel mech and capital ships) were only recently added. That was years ago, and I don’t think they’ve added any new major enemies since. Last I checked there were less than twenty enemy types in the entire galaxy and most are braindead “approach and shoot at the player until you die” types.

The on-foot weapons also feel anemic and sluggish - even your heavy weapons feel like shooting someone with a Nerf gun while whispering pew pew under your breath until they explode, and your actions will often be delayed waiting for an animation to complete (unstowing your weapon every few seconds being the main offender). Ship weapons are better by virtue of not having animations and being the same as every space game ever.

I hope Light No Fire has more enemy variety and a better-designed combat loop.

IIRC you can get them through the derelict freighter missions (which take forever and are kind of boring after the first one), or by blasting NPC freighters if you don’t care about reputation.

For the latter I’ve heard (but wasn’t willing to try myself to confirm) that you can just shoot the external cargo modules off of friendly freighters without them becoming mad and summoning sentinels.

Your autocorrupt really likes automobiles, huh?

There are some non-porn games that get caught by that setting, unfortunately. I had to disable it back when… I want to say when the Witcher 3 was released? Not sure, but it was some huge release that got filtered.

Re: 3, unfortunately, pirating the game won’t let you avoid supporting transphobic lunatics. The person who cracked the game is even worse than Rowling - as in, “makes Rowling look like a paragon of progressiveness in comparison” worse - and uses the download numbers for her cracks (and the fact she’s usually the only one willing to crack Denuvo) to justify asking for donations.

I’d recommend emulating some nostalgic games from your childhood, ones you’ve played to death and wouldn’t mind any sudden interruptions of since you’ve seen everything a hundred times.

Basically, the video game equivalent of putting on old sitcoms.

Terraria has an option to pause while in menus, which is useful when you’re sick and might suddenly need to run to the bathroom at any time.

He’s a weird dude. Apparently he just decided to be racist out of the blue. A former childhood friend told the story of how Miller walked up to him in high school one day and said “I hate you now” because he wasn’t white.

I believe it was pushed for by Stephen Miller, one of Trump’s main handlers who’s responsible for a lot of the blatantly racist policies of this administration. He’s also the one who pushed for the child separation policy from Trump’s last term.

He’s also incredibly whiny and pathetic. There have been leaks saying that he’s been throwing screaming tantrums at random people in the White House over his arbitrary quotas not being met. And when he’s not angry, he has a reputation for cornering people and droning on about his racist beliefs until they’re able to escape.

Their publisher pulled the plug on the game they were making due to the accusations, so they probably can’t afford to stay open.

The assumption is that Valve made their procurement deals before the sudden price hikes, in which case the costs might actually be sane until the deal runs out and they need to renegotiate prices.

Unless he starts following Elon’s beliefs about spreading “superior” genes and pays tons of women to get artificiality inseminated.

Luckily we have War for the Overworld to pick up where they failed.

They announced a new one a few years ago alongside the Legendary Edition remaster of the original trilogy, but I don’t think we’ve heard anything about it since the announcement teaser.

I wonder if it’d be out by now if they had picked a different engine. It can’t be easy finding devs experienced in fucking CryEngine, especially when you’re using a heavily-customized fork of an ancient version of that engine.

He’s also using the funds to live out his dream of being a movie producer, something he desires as much (if not more than) being a game developer, with the Squadron spinoff mainly being an excuse to hire big-name actors he likes to deliver his script.

Not that that’s a bad thing, but he hasn’t really changed much over his decades-long career, flaws included.