Sure. He made many millions of dollars within the first couple years of releasing it. That's why he can pretty much do whatever he wants, including continuing to work on the game without charging additional money for it. And of course, it keeps selling more copies, and will for many years to come, so he has tons of money continuing to flood in.

He certainly seems like a pretty grounded guy, and it's nice that he tries to be cool about stuff, including not gouging the player base for more money. Being an individual has huge advantages compared to being a corporation, in some ways. A corporation would pretty much be obligated to maximize profit. He can just be pleased that he brings joy to millions of players, and has already made a fortune.

Unless you have specific, Jason Momoa-type goals in mind

Lets just call it what it is. Aquaman. If you goal is become Aquaman, you should focus on largely aquatic gym tasks, such as lifting extra heavy weights deep underwater, swimming (lots) of laps, and defeating gigantic sea monsters. This is the quickest path to eventually become Aquaman (well, at least in some ways. There can be only one True Aquaman, but you can strive for it).

This article has some elements of truth, but skips over some important stuff. In particular, the odds of making a living writing books when on salary, writing the books for a big company or celebrities etc, are vastly higher than just writing your own books. You don't have to beat insane odds if someone hires you for 70k/year to write books...you simply make that 70k/year. It's the same as e.g. people working in the video game industry. The odds of earning a middle class income as an Indie Game developer are super bad, but there are many thousands of people working salaried jobs in the mainstream AAA game industry who are definitely 'making a living'.

Also, this is nothing new. There is a reason 'starving artist' is a common term. For centuries, a lot of the most well known people in all creative fields were people who already had money when they started e.g. nobility, and some of those people were able to become famous, largely because they didn't have financial pressures that the vast majority of people had.

I clearly remember an incident when I was a 20 year old pizza delivery guy who made a delivery to an attractive middle aged woman in a bathrobe who gave me a bit of mischievous smile when I showed up with her pizza. I didn't take the bait, but it was pretty weird. Luckily the pizza was from a really good place, so hopefully she wasn't too disappointed.

I assume the root problem is a near complete lack of money to make Friendica polished, or user friendly, or full of great features, or well-known. If it's a tiny team who may have other jobs, then it's hard to imagine it getting better.

Similar to the early Blizzard approach in some ways. A focus on delivering a vibe done to a very high level of quality and visual coolness, while leaving risky innovation in game mechanics to others.

Compromise! Seems like plenty of relaxing times are in their future, without all the MURDERING that might accompany it.

Spain is kind of nice, based on your list. I've been considering it.

'One quick question ladies. How big is your shower?'

Good chicken! What a pretty and fancy chicken...

Other new materials can and will be scaled up, such as hemp based cloth, mycelium based leather etc.

Since you have 5 speakers, one of them should be the center speaker, which is focused on dialog. Some Denon receivers have a 'dialog level adjust' or 'center level adjust' setting that you can turn on and then turn up the dialog level. If you don't have that setting the solution is to try to turn up the center speaker (or turn down all the other speakers) some way, such as using a mixer or some such (may require some research for specifics).

When they pass you in the hall at work, it's like you are invisible to them. Never any eye contact or acknowledgement that you exist, except for them not actually walking right into you.

I had a coworker who did this to me (and a fair amount of other people at work). She was young and pretty and had this approach to any guys a fair amount older than her. I wasn't trying to date her or even interact with her in any personal way...she just seemed to preemptively turn on her 'you are invisible' field to the many people she was not interested in. It was a bit odd, but effective.

Hell yeah, kitty! This new box DOES smell fresh and ready for fun, right?

I've been re watching this show in the last week or two, and it's kind of hard for me to enjoy, because to me EVERYONE seems fairly horrible. I guess the audience is supposed to try to feel some compassion for the characters, but it mostly seems like a guilty pleasure viewing experience, and I'm supposed to be entertained by how messed up everyone is.

The production quality is just amazing though. Like the OP mentions, stuff just looks great...it's a nicely stylized take on what the early 60's were kind of like.

Either the article editing was horrible, or Eno is wildly uniformed about the world. Creation of AIs is NOT the same as social media. You can't blame a hammer for some evil person using it to hit someone in the head, and there is more to 'hammers' than just assaulting people.

Joking, but not trying to troll

'Key demands included ending public subsidies for tourism promotion, regulating short-term rentals to prevent housing loss, cutting cruise ship traffic, and improving labour conditions with fair wages and stable work schedules.' - This sounds strangely sane. It's hard to believe that e.g. greatly reducing the ability of mega cruise ships to dump thousands of tourists at once into the city every day would be unfeasible to implement.

Blame the people in control of the system, not the random person who would like to see a bit of the world while they can.

With all due respect, the world needs improved approaches to education AND improved policy. Criticizing a person for helping out in one way but not focusing on helping out in your preferred way does not seem ideal.