You should probably read the history of the 1983 collapse. The closest thing we have to it today is the gargantuan amounts of shovelware on Steam.

But games? To the execs of a large company they’re just fucking slot machines.

“Expecting $65 million profit in a year without a product launch" sounds like solid Failson Executive territory

Frankly I love that he’s talking shit about SE, even if it’s all just stuff people had already figured out from the outside.

Having worked with SE in the past (I was part of a smaller company they owned), I can say it is the most soulless, rapacious, clueless bunch of morons I have ever worked with in an industry that has no shortage of those.

I’d be happy for a middle-ground where leads and execs were more open and willing to talk about successes and failures but I just really don’t miss that “rockstar” era of big name personalities who were complete arseholes and thought they could do or say anything.

Is there any specific issue with reposting or screenshotting Twitter content, as opposed to embedding the tweets?

It’s a standard industrial programmable manipulator arm, they lowered down the strength so it wouldn’t crush the pieces when picking them up.

I’m laughing now, but I’m bookmarking this comment to check back on in 10-20 years when the robot revolution is well underway.

Ah.. the uprising begins. “It’s still my turn, Christopher...”

Oh shit, time to dump another 20-30 hours into No Man’s Sky. That went from a game I played 5 hours and dropped for years at launch to quietly and over a few years becoming my 4th highest hour count on steam at 211 hours, only The Witcher 3, Skyrim and Elden Ring have squeezed more out of me. It’s been said before but…

I mean, it can be uneven if you’re looking for specific, rarer stuff (for example, copper/silver/gold), but that’s obviously part of the systems to get you exploring other planets.

Iron doesn’t exist in the game anymore - hasn’t existed since NEXT, where it got converted into Ferrite (which is what I presume you mean).

Yeach, there are derelict freighters packed with loot that you can explore. They have a real survival horror vibe minus (mostly) the jump scares.

Kinda, I guess? There are derelict freighters you can find in star systems that have hostile bugs and loot/supplies to find. The layout is random, too, like everything in NMS.

Sounds like it’s been a long time since you last played.

Star Citizen. That kickstarter was ten years ago. It’s now crowdfunded more than $400M and was supposed to launch in 2014. The most generous take is that the devs got in over their heads and are woefully inept. More likely it’s just a vaporware scam. And that sucks because they have cool ideas; they’re just either…

Kinda, yes - it has procedurally generated abandoned frigate missions with loot and mobs to collect. So It’s basically a roguelike.

Ever since the Starfield gameplay reveal, I’ve been wondering if Todd Howard and company get panic attacks every time No Man’s Sky announces a major update.

This game and EVE Online tackle space-faring adventures from very different angles, but at least they are “finished” games. I’m not sure what Bethesda’s Starfield will bring, but all these games are still ahead of Star Citizen, which is still in production with varying degrees of updates.