Not all open world, but:
As far as I’m aware, they/them and she/her are both good for Steph. They said on their podcast that they use she/her most often in their personal life (because tiddies and long hair) but either set of pronouns works.
Fair enough, yarn and notions will get more expensive. There’s also the issue of access to supplies in the first place just because JoAnn was a lot of people’s only option.
Oh, I don’t mean on an industrial scale. Sorry for any confusion. I was thinking of small-scale artists who have crochet businesses. It might be easier to sell $30 plushies if all of the plushies from Vietnam (and other places known for cheap hand-made products) are now $50.
You could check for yourself: https://www.protondb.com/
If a game is rated Gold or above, it’s generally good to go on most systems. Platinum is the best rating other than Native, which means it’s a game with an official Linux version. Proton is the reason I switched to Linux.
Bronze and Silver games might play fine too, but you’ll either have to do some tinkering or it just won’t work. It’s not that often that these games work “out of the box.”
If their cost goes way up, that might make hand-made American items comparatively affordable, maybe for the first time in modern history. It’s (potentially) a good thing for a bad reason, I guess.
Society can’t do much against laws that actively foster wealth hoarding.
Increase corporate tax rates, shut down loopholes, go after companies that use tax havens, fine corporate irresponsibility commensurate with the damage it causes (no ticky-tack fines), imprison white collar criminals and seize their assets, limit executive compensation relative to the lowest-paid employee, outlaw stock buybacks, etc.
Ah, damn. I did buy it many years ago, but it’s unfortunate that new users can’t access it.