Richard's Tech Reviews

No Man's Sky Expedition 7: Leviathan

Update 3.90 for No Man's Sky is Expedition 7: Leviathan, starting a six week expedition as of May 25, 2022.

The time-limited expedition model is a clever one, as it gives you new motivation to get back into the game.  I find the No Man's Sky endgame can get a bit tedious, once you have built lots of bases with lots of automated mines and have a full set of support with a freighter, frigates and fighters there's not a lot more to do other than just endlessly explore.

The rewards can also incentivize people to try out different parts of the game, for example in hundreds of hours of playing I'd not done any of the underwater things, but Expedition 6: The Blighted had underwater as part of its progress, and I discovered that underwater is basically an entire minigame in and of itself.

Expedition 7 has some sort of timeloop.  It starts you off with some materials and a freighter, but no base computer blueprint.  It sets up a bit of dilemma as you could play through for a while with your starting materials, but in order to get the Base Computer you need to die (yes, to die) in order to get the blueprint as a death reward.  You might think you can just plan it out and die next to your spaceship so that you can find your grave easily, but it's permadeath so when you respawn you have not only lost almost everything, but your spaceship is in a completely different location.

It's interesting so far, I've only played it briefly.

2021 MTG Arena Starter Kit - black deck

This is the decklist (deck export) for the 2021 MTG Arena Starter Kit black deck you get when you redeem the card provided in the kit.

Deck
1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (M21) 127
1 Demon of Loathing (THB) 292
1 Demonic Embrace (M21) 95
1 Peer into the Abyss (M21) 117
1 Underworld Sentinel (THB) 293
2 Blood Glutton (M21) 90
3 Fetid Imp (M21) 98
2 Finishing Blow (M21) 99
3 Gloom Pangolin (IKO) 89
2 Goremand (M21) 101
3 Grasp of Darkness (M21) 102
3 Lost Legion (ELD) 94
2 Serrated Scorpion (IKO) 99
2 Skeleton Archer (M21) 123
3 Unlikely Aid (IKO) 103
4 Walking Corpse (M21) 128
8 Swamp (M21) 266
9 Swamp (M21) 267
9 Swamp (M21) 268

2021 MTG Arena Starter Kit - green deck

This is the decklist (deck export) for the 2021 MTG Arena Starter Kit green deck you get when you redeem the card provided in the kit.

Deck
1 Kogla, the Titan Ape (IKO) 162
1 Colossification (IKO) 148
1 Treeshaker Chimera (THB) 297
1 Ironscale Hydra (THB) 296
1 Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig (ELD) 185
3 Almighty Brushwagg (IKO) 143
3 Bristling Boar (IKO) 146
2 Colossal Dreadmaw (M21) 176
2 Honey Mammoth (IKO) 158
2 Humble Naturalist (IKO) 160
3 Hyrax Tower Scout (THB) 173
3 Llanowar Visionary (M21) 193
2 Plummet (THB) 194
3 Ram Through (IKO) 170
2 Snarespinner (M21) 207
4 Titanic Growth (M21) 210
8 Forest (M21) 272
9 Forest (M21) 273
9 Forest (M21) 274

Terraria 1.4 on macOS Catalina 10.15

You can run Terraria on macOS Catalina 10.15.  You don't have to do anything special.

Download the latest version of Steam (Sep 3, 2020 at the time of this writing).

Search for Terraria.

Steam will warn you that it won't work, but that is an outdated warning for a previous 32-bit version of Terraria.  Ignore it.  The most recent version works fine.
(Steam really should remove the warning.)

Buy and download the latest version of Terraria (1.4.0.5 at the time of this writing).

And that's it.  Tested with Terraria 1.4.0.5 and macOS Catalina 10.15.7 
It may only work in an admin account.  But it does work.

Google will give you a jumble of different answers about whether it works but here is the screenshot to show that it does run.

Unable to run Steam as non-admin on macOS

Unlike Epic Games, I wasn't able to get Steam to run in a non-admin (standard) account.  It gave me some weird untrue non sequitur damaged file error ("steam_osx" is damaged).  If anyone has any info on running Steam on macOS 10.15 in a non-admin account, please let me know.