This was huge. No, huge doesn't begin to cover it, this was tectonic. He said out loud the thing very few people have been willing to explicitly state: the old world order based around US hegemony is over. And that's a good thing. We must now build a new, democratic rules based order in place of US hegemonic dominance.

Folks, this will be one of the most pivotal moments of the 21st century.

I am so happy that we finally have the ability to really build custom starships. The existing custom ship building system was severely limited, not least because the base starship designs were in desperate need of updating. But, the Corvettes are a completely different scale, compared to regular ships, and the game has been designed around the scale of the existing ships. The Corvettes don't fit in freighters, they don't fit on ship landing pads, and when you're just teleporting from base to base, they might spawn partly inside of structures. They're somewhere between a starship and a freighter, but they're not very suitable for either.

I would love to be able to build a small custom starship, that isn't just one of the existing fighter, hauler, etc designs, but that is still just a single pilot cockpit vessel, like an x-wing. I would also love to be able to build a fully custom freighter! The existing freighters are unnecessarily large, with most of their size being totally useless polygons. I would build a fully custom large capital ship, with a holding bay for single pilot starships, that would stay mostly in space or in orbit around a planet, and then have those starships for hopping around from planet to planet.

I think Hello Games needs to once and for all figure out the scale of things, because right now it's kind of all over the place. Like, it's great that we can now walk into our Corvette ships, but why can't we just get a cockpit that opens? Why can't I just have a small fighter that has a cockpit I can just get in out of?

I'm going to keep playing with the Corvettes to see what I can come up with, but I really think they further expose a fundamental flaw worth the scale is the game as it is. But, maybe that can only be resolved in a completely new game.

"The incentives behind effectively everything we do have been broken by decades of neoliberal thinking, where the idea of a company — an entity created to do a thing in exchange for money —has been drained of all meaning beyond the continued domination and extraction of everything around it, focusing heavily on short-term gains and growth at all costs. In doing so, the definition of a “good business” has changed from one that makes good products at a fair price to a sustainable and loyal market, to one that can display the most stock price growth from quarter to quarter.

This is the Rot Economy, which is a useful description for how tech companies have voluntarily degraded their core products in order to placate shareholders, transforming useful — and sometimes beloved — services into a hollow shell of their former selves as a means of expressing growth. But it’s worth noting that this transformation isn’t constrained to the tech industry, nor was it a phenomena that occurred when the tech industry entered its current VC-fuelled, publicly-traded incarnation."