I remember my first game of Stellaris many years ago - I had bought some pack that included some of the DLC out at the time. The crisis was bugged so that even after I beat the crisis and wiped it from the galaxy, the game didn’t recognize that I had done so which left the game unbeatable. This was my first playthrough, no mods or anything like that, and I hit a game-breaking bug.

I played quite a bit of Stellaris as it was (still is?) a fun game, but I am more of a casual gamer and every time I picked the game up again they had changed at least one major mechanic, and there was yet another DLC out if you wanted the full experience. Encountering bugs in a play through was common, and game breaking ones would still pop up from time to time. Finally I just got fed up, especially for the cost of some of the pricier DLC you can buy a game like Factorio which is a much better value.

So at this point I’m done with Paradox. I suppose if I really had the urge to play Stellaris again I’d find something out on the high seas, but there’s enough other, better polished, games out there to keep me busy.

And for all the money you spend on a Paradox game, you end up with something that feels like a half-finished beta.

While we’re at it, let’s also vent about cars and trucks with loud modified exhausts.

Challenger had a fleck of paint damage one of its windows on an early mission.

Why not use gvim on Windows? That’s my “IDE” on Windows. Though with modern versions of Windows, trying to run vim in the Command Prompt isn’t a complete disaster like it was in the past.

“IDE” in quotes because I consider vim a text editor, and I don’t try to make it an IDE with a bunch of plugins.

I managed to get this: How to Fire a Gun.

So it’s at least plausible.

And you’d know they’d gerrymander it into a small handful of high population blue territories and a giant pile of mostly empty red territories.

Canada is one of the founding members of NATO. But so is the USA. Could get interesting, but not in a good way.

“I’ll show you the photos once I get them developed.”

I’ve had good luck with Gigabyte, but I’ve always considered them an “Intel” brand - as in their Intel offerings are decent but there are better choices if building an AMD system.