Where are you where you have those options? Id love to be able to checkout tools at the library.

According to their careers page, they have about 60 employees. And, knowing japanese game dev salaries, a lot of those devs (excluding senior devs) probably make around 30-50k a year depending on seniority unless it's a unicorn company.

You can enable them in about:config if you search vertical.

Edit: to be more specific, the setting is 'sidebar.verticalTabs'

The big cities are walkable / have good transport, but the countryside is inaccessible without a car for the most part.

How is Japan going to do that by 2035? Almost nobody has a garage, and there are no charging spaces at the parking spots most people are forced to rent (you need one within 2km of your residence). I haven't heard of any mandate to get charging spots installed at these rental parking areas, and then there's the issue of how electricity would be billed. Electric cars are for the very wealthy right now ( in Japan ).

I wish the game was as good as the cinematics

I think there are a multitude of reasons for why it may not be doing well, but personally I had no clue it was coming out this month, I don't trust my PC to be able to run it (rtx 3070 isn't enough for a lot of high fidelity games these days), and I got hellblade 1 at full price and beat it in under 6 hours. I'm looking forward to playing it at a lower price and on better hardware in 4 years or something.

TIL, I had no clue why we call this arbitrary important file a file stab, but fs tab makes sense now. F stab is more fun to say though (but has probably confused more than just me)

They had (still have?) some creepy humanoid bunny / dog sculptures in golden gate park. Freaked me out taking a midnight walk when I was visiting!

(Sorry for the blurry photo)

As a game dev in Japan, I can tell you nobody I've met has given any concern to pc ports, and it has been a royal pita to get anybody to care to the point of making me question staying in the industry.

The US seems to primarily still use sms. I've heard it's tied to having unlimited messaging phone plans being the norm, so people weren't as drawn to other platforms.

I wish I could fully abandon my windows partition, but sadly my sim racing peripherals don't all work on Linux, and I bought those before I started thinking about switching.