Highlights:

• Fishing

• Spaceships

• Space stations & asteroid mining

• Multithreadied pathfinding & lighting

• New biomes

• A computer chip that makes walruses sentient

• New weapon systems

• Fishing

• Blueprints & advanced planning tools

• A lot more

Creator-owned platforms are the answer. I pay 2.50 USD/month for Nebula, and I have a less invasive experience, no ads, and the creators are paid better.

I also pay ~5/mo for Dropout, which is entirely owned by the people who run it.

In both cases, I feel as though I’m getting more value out of my time spent watching compared to the average YouTube video. Higher quality, less fluff, less algorithm bait.

AFAIK, VM gaming is still a pain in the ass. You need to jump through a lot of hoops for any kind of GPU passthrough.

Huh. I never even considered the possibility of putting SteamOS on a laptop/desktop… I have a spare engineering laptop sitting around, might try it.