Subnautica 2 Design Lead Anthony Gallegos recently explained the reasoning behind the game’s no-killing policy in an interview with MinnMax.
Gallegos said the decision was not made because the studio opposes violence in games:
“We’re not like ‘we’re a game about pacifism’ or ‘we’re a non-violent studio’the studio was founded by modders who made Half-Life mods, and their first mods were all about shooting aliens.”
Instead, he said the team had two main goals. The first was to shape how players interact with the world:
“Our intent, actually, was two things. One, we wanted to avoid giving players the attitude that they were dominators over the world, because the message of the game was very much about people learning to live in parallel with the world they’re in.”
Gallegos also explained that the team wanted to preserve the sense of danger and tension and cited SOMA and Alien: Isolation as major inspirations:
“We’re really inspired by games like SOMA and Alien: Isolation.”
“If [SOMA] ever gave players the means to fight things, no matter how intentionally miserable they made the experience, players would always be like ‘it’s always better to master the crappy combat than it is to deal with the constant threat of the thing’.”
According to Gallegos, removing creature killing helps maintain the feeling of vulnerability and encourages players to survive, adapt, and coexist with the alien ecosystem rather than simply eliminating every threat they encounter.
When people say data centers use millions of gallons of water, they're describing an old technology. Before, water went into evaporative cooling towers. Warm water pulled heat off the AI chips, then evaporated into the air to shed it. It was effective, but it burned through fresh water continuously, which is where the headline numbers come from today around "data centers use a massive amount of water."
The data centers we revealed at Build today don't work that way. The cooling loop is closed. Water is added once during construction and recirculates indefinitely between the servers and the chillers. No evaporation, no fresh-water resupply!
Satya put the scale in plain terms: a full year of water use is roughly what a single restaurant uses.
Keep in mind that for us, every liter and every watt is an optimization target. The economics and the environment push in the same direction!
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Adam Carolla says people who make $70M a year are the one flourishing in California
‘There is a kind of a level of wealth that things don’t bother you anymore and people gas is $785 a gallon you know if you make $70M a year what’s the difference between $4 and $5’
‘Alot of this guys don’t care before they suck it up with the wealth tax,when I was growing up in California the idea of moving somewhere else was absurd’
‘And they were like move to Nashville and I’m like what ride house I don’t even know what Nashville is when your from California you don’t even know what Montana is’