They already commented that the game will not have microtransactions (at least on launch, who knows what happens later...). You buy the game fully and that's it.
To me there are lot of elements that reminds me Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. The several last times I was hyped for a game was either a disappointment at best or a disaster. Just wait until game comes out. There is not much to think about the game.
I would have purchased and played it, since I played the first game and "semi" liked it as a Star Wars fan. Even with the technical issues. Game was on sale for 8.38 Euros on Steam. Why didn't I buy? Simply because it "Requires 3rd-Party Account: EA Account" and "Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: EA online activation and EA app software installation and background use required". Which is a deal breaker for me.
I am actually aware of parallel and use it for a different tool / script I built. The purpose of parallel is different than xargs, right? I mean xargs works on each line of a stdout string, which is what I was using it for. I never thought parallel as an alternative to xargs and need to investigate into this idea more. Thanks.
The example itself is not incorrect. It is just an example to show how the foreach works, not meant to be a full command on itself. Usually I don't have newline characters in files either, so that is not a concern for myself. If I would want to be sure, then yes I would use zero option. But its good to point that out.
You should use -r option for read command to preserve backslashes. I was using while loops before too, but wanted to have a compact single command replacement. And doing it with a while loop as an alias (or function) didn't work well, because the command has to be interpreted. xargs does exactly that, as it is designed for this kind of stuff. Other than having less stuff to type, I wonder if there are benefits from one over the other while vs xargs. In a script, I prefer writing full while loops instead.
About time. This bugged me in the past a lot, as I like to customize my keybindings, because sometimes they conflict or interfere with my other bindings for my window manager.
If I listened to you, then I would never try Vim and never understood how wonderful it is. Before that, i thought Vim is ugly and dumb. Why would anyone use Vim? Someday I had enough of the bullshit with the GUI tools and tried out this mystical Vim... and fall in love. Whenever I use a non Vim editor, it feels lacking, it feels holding me back. Or more specifically, I like to think how a Vim user thinks with combining the keys (wcw to replace next word in example).
Lot of people like using Vim. Just because you didn't like it does not mean we should stop recommending or bringing it up. Let people try and find their own opinion, do not force your opinion on others.
There is one in Neovim that might interest you. It opens up the current file content you edit in a new web browser, Firefox in example. The cool thing is, it is also synchronizing the current position of the document in Neovim and the browser view. I don't need that functionality, but found it very cool.
The thing is, Markdown is just regular text. So there is no real need for a dedicated editor. In example I edit and write Markdown files with Vim. Maybe you can install a plugin to help a little bit, but there is no need for.
They already commented that the game will not have microtransactions (at least on launch, who knows what happens later...). You buy the game fully and that's it.