For some delicious irony, the NMS community was nominated for “best game community” the same week 4.0 dropped and the minmax veteran players lost their collective shit. :D

There has been a creative mode since one of the earliest updates, which facilitated what you’re looking for. however, the new difficulty settings allow you to fine tune how the game plays in your “normal” saves -

Slight clarification: there always was a Creative Mode. Relaxed mode is a mid-point between Normal and Creative, and the new difficulty options allow you to tailor how you want to play the game to an incredible degree. For example, I always hated the electrical wiring update (for some reason I was fine with it in…

Yes, in that sense these updates actually reflect real world disruptive events that change the status quo.

It absolutely isn’t, and frankly it never was. These factories are all monuments to hubris, not necessity. I can still marvel at the design and work that goes into them, but at the end of the day they’re just giant dick-waving contests.

Don’t forget the Boomers were once the Peace and Love generation...you either die a hero or live to see yourself become the villain, as they say. Boomers dying off won’t change that cycle.

The lament of every aging, soon-to-be irrelevant generation since the dawn of humanity, and also a very Western, affluent bias.

I wish real world robber barons could be sentenced to living out their malignant greed fantasies in virtual worlds rather than plundering the real one. :D

I have some empathy - the minmax players had 100's of hours of grinding made moot overnight, and that always sucks. I say that as an NMS 1.0 player who lived through the Next universe reset that wiped all of my bases, and basically having to learn the game over again every time they made changes to resources or…

The Switch port doesn’t support multiplayer (HG hasn’t given a definite “never,” but not holding my breath) or the proc NPC settlements added in the Frontier update, so there’s a technical hurdle even beyond the typical console manufacturer walled-garden shenanigans :P. Even the Xbox <-> PC cross-save is limited to…

As others have stated, you greatly overestimate humanity. If you have never seen one of the pro-life movement’s shameless talking baby billboards, consider yourself lucky.

There was a screening at Fantastic  Fest in Austin - https://www.polygon.com/23372425/marvel-werewolf-by-night-reaction-michael-giacchino

If I were a vampire, it wouldn’t be living in Dubai. But since the OG vamps Akasha and Enkil ruled what is now Egypt, I’ll allow it. :)

I mean, it’s hard to be more direct than the titular opening track “Bloodletting,” which, along with The Damned’s “The Dog” and Sting’s “Moon Over Bourbon Street,” were all directly inspired by Interview With A Vampire. They’re all part of my head canon too. :)

Complaining that some formative decade you lived through actually sucked is a tale as old as time. :D

Not a euphemism at all, just a practical business decision. You are correct to a certain point - anyone involved in a film production can only do “one job at a time.” However even directors are essentially freelancers, so they’re spending significant time lining up future projects, based on the known schedules for…

“Woke” is just “politically correct,” rebranded.

Doesn’t change your basic thesis, but to the best of my knowledge, the first time it was mentioned was in the 1995 anthology Tales from Jabba’s Palace, and didn’t come from Lucas himself. The fact that it persisted to make the jump to official canon in 2017 is the real headscratcher.

It’ll never happen, at least not before games are actually released. There’s a reason that all those behind-the-scenes specials on Disney+ are released well after the shows are out. The internet basement dwellers destroyed any chance of transparency by at best being ignorant asshats, at worst sending death threats to…