Valve is one of the profitable companies in tech, it ain’t going anywhere.

It’s only not happening because companies aren’t going to do it on their own, the government needs to force it to happen, and the people need to force the government.

I automate business processes across multiple industries (not using AI currently)

My retirement fund looks crap, I’m worried about all of this too but it’s still a terrible idea to try to retain a job when it’s no longer necessary. Just tax the company a little bit less than they saved, and pay people to go enjoy their lives.

You won’t even notice when it’s done right. We’re still in early days at the moment where you can actually tell.

You have fun checking the fine print on every future game just to make sure they haven’t used it.

While we’re at it, we should also go after all the car companies for putting so many horse stables out of business. IBM for putting computers (this was a job title for humans before it was done by machine) out of jobs.

and a million other situations where technology has replaced a particular type of worker

There’s zero chance this catches on, nobody wants to get rid of a camera bump badly enough to carry around a second device.

Fair, but in this case, it’s Raph Koster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Koster

He was Creative Director for the original SWG, and then Chief Creative Officer under Sony once they bought it.

He also was a lead designer for Ultima Online before that, and did work on multiple other games (Including EQ2) afterwards.

Nothing stopping you from setting out on your own.

There is limited worlds, but they aren’t static, the number of worlds (and which worlds) will change. The surface of the planets can (and will) also change. There’s someone in alpha right now cutting down a mountain (literally). There’s also a system for planets dying, and being restored.

Just use bigscreen VR.

It’s been out for years, and works great for this.

Anything over about 90 feels great to me, and I can’t even notice the difference between 144 and 240.

War

Why do so many people hate this?

If I want a single player experience, I’ll go read a book. There’s far better and far more stories available.

Games are for playing with other people.

Factorio’s space age expansion

A game I played as a youth, but was bought and killed by Sony that has been resurrected by passionate devs

Infantry Online https://www.freeinfantry.com/

Just “finished” Factorio’s new Space Age expansion. Just a few more achievements to collect, but I need to start a couple new runs for those so I will be continuing on with that until Path of Exile 2’s early access in December.

Almost to the Fourth extra planet in Factorio, just beefing up Nauvis production first so I can bang some higher quality items out first.

I always rate my games on price per hour played, rather than just total cost.

Factorio is one of my cheapest games ever.

If you enjoyed the base game, you’ll like the expansion. It’s a lot more content with tons of new things to deal with and optimize.

I’m almost 60 hours into factorio’s space age expansion that just came out out 10 days ago. However I have over 2500 hours in the base game.

That being said, factorio is notorious for never once having gone on sale.

The only other game I play launch day for is path of exile expansions.

Everything else I buy later on sale.

Everyone should get off X, I stopped using it the moment that Muskrat bought it. It wasn’t great before, but it’s turned into an absolute dumpster fire now.