Funny, me being here can be considered a protest against Reddit for the last year, and it’s still working fine.

There are lots of people who said that China’s semiconductor industry would collapse. (Many still do think China itself will collapse, which is possible, but not very likely as they think it is.)

I’m not sure why this is surprising or even notable, they’ve been using this 7 nm process since last year.

“Are we the baddies?” -someone in Florida’s state government

I first read about it in the Wikipedia page about post-scarcity, as one of the fictional examples of it. It looked like the most detailed and advanced example of a post-scarcity civilization in fiction, and the Wikipedia page about the Culture series got me interested. That, and it’s the most pure example of Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism in fiction.

Since reading the Wikipedia article on the Culture I’ve read A Few Notes On The Culture, Consider Phlebas, Excession, and am working through The Player of Games. Excession is by far my favorite so far.

Ace Combat, mainly Ace Combat 5 but all of them are well known for their soundtracks.

More recently WARNO has excellent music so far, even though most of it was licensed by Eugen from third parties so it doesn’t really count as a soundtrack specific to the game.