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PSA: You can change your Monster Hunter Wilds character once for free before Capcom makes you pay up

Monster Hunter Wilds is doing alright for itself, having smashed the 1m concurrent players barrier on Steam. And if you're one of the many players who've doubtless nipped back into the character editor because you've somehow made a hunter that looks like potato with a moustache, you might appreciate knowing you can actually modify your character once for free before Capcom makes you cough up some cash.

The good news for anyone already regretting their character choices is that certain elements - dubious hairstyle. Makeup, etc. - can be modified from your camp tent or the save select screen without impediment. However, more fundamental aspects of your hunter - gender, body shape, facial capabilities, and. So on - can't usually be changed after confirming their designs early on unless you're willing to pay real money. The same goes for your Palico.

Obviously, the fact you need to pay anything at all to tweak your character's base design isn't something Capcom deserves applause for, but. It's a stance the publisher's taken since Monster Hunter World festooned the series with DLC - so it clearly isn't planning a reversal anytime soon. However, in Wilds, the publisher does at least let you change your hunter and your Palico once for free, even if the slightly convoluted process means it's not immediatley clear.

Fundamental character changes can, somewhat unintuitively, only be made from Wilds' save select menu after the title screen. And only when you've got a Character Edit Voucher or Palico Edit Voucher tied to your account. These in turn, must be purchased as DLC - with three Character Edit Vouchers or three Palico Editor Vouchers costing £ on Steam.

Don't be in a rush to cough up, though; Capcom's also released a 'Character Edit Voucher: Single Voucher (Free Trial Version)', plus a Palico equivalent. That you can download at no additional cost - but only once for each one - then spend to access the character editor on the save select screen. And if you're wondering, yes, I did almost pay change my stupid idiotic Palico after forgetting the free voucher existed - hence why I've now written five paragraphs about something you might already know.

Anyway. That's that. Monster Hunter Wilds' launch has been a big one for Capcom (so I expect there are more than a few players with a mild case of facial regret out there already), but. There've been some understandable performance grumbles from players. Digital Foundry called the game "undercooked" on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S (the PS5 Pro version fared advanced), and. It's also issued a stark warning that the PC version is experiencing "substantial technical problems. Hopefully they'll be addressed before Wilds' increases the challenge in April.

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That Ryan Gosling Star Wars movie is looking set to take place after The Rise of Skywalker, so maybe it'll help us forget just how rubbish the 9th film was

It turns out that the Shawn Levy directed, and potentially Ryan Gosling led, Star Wars movie will be the first one set post Rise of Skywalker.

You know. I honestly think it's quite impressive that Lucasfilm managed to make a Star Wars film so universally disliked by everybody that it's essentially prevented any more movies getting made within that universe for six years. And yet here we are, supposedly on the precipice of a bunch more of them, though none have yet to materialise. But speaking to Deadline, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy did at least offer some updates on multiple different Star Wars movie projects, including that one from Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy, which is reportedly going to place Ryan Gosling in the lead role.

When asked about the Levy directed film, Kennedy explained that she's "producing the Mandalorian movie right now, and I'm also producing Shawn Levy's movie, which is after that." Quite notably here, the whole interview comes off the back of a recent analysis that Kennedy would be stepping down as Lucasfilm president later this year - when asked about that particular point. She explained that the "truth is, and I want to just say loud and clear, I am not retiring. I will never retire from movies. I will die making movies."

In terms of those movies she's producing, Kennedy says the Levy one will be a few years after The Rise of Skywalker. Saying that it's " all post-[the first] nine. Shawn’s is a standalone Star Wars story that’ll take place post-nine, maybe five or six years out." She also noted that it "may bring some of the characters back from the sequel saga," but. It's pretty much mostly new characters. Here's hoping it'll be good enough to erase Rise of Skywalker from our collective memories.

What didn't get a mention in that interview is the solo Rey movie. Which just seems to be in perpetual trouble; we'll see how that one turns out. Currently the only movie with a release date is The Mandalorian & Grogu, which is due out May 22, 2026, so I'm sure Kennedy and co are hoping they can get something more concrete in place soon.

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TSMC takes 'chip binning' to a whole new level as entire wafer 'found in a dumpster'

'Chip binning' is supposed to be the process of testing newly manufactured silicon to see how many of the essential bits work and. How high the thing will clock. But TSMC seems to be taking the notion a little too literally, as one Redditor found when they apparently discovered an entire TSMC wafer in dumpster.

The aptly monikered Redditor, AVX512-VNNI, says the wafer. Which appears to be fully intact, was found discarded at TSMC's Fab 16 chip factory or fab in Nanjing, China. While it's not the most advanced fab in the world, it is still producing 12nm silicon, which is fairly high tech.

On Reddit, AVX512-VNNI pondered how the wafer. Which visibly contains scores of chip dies, might be cut up into usable GPUs. But it wasn't a serious query.

As AVX512-VNNI points out, the wafer doesn't contain any customer chip designs. Instead it's a test wafer containing dummy circuitry layouts used to evaluate the performance and calibration of the hyper-complex lithography machines that etch the patterns onto the wafer that are then cut up into chips.

Still. It's a good opportunity to speculate over the best way a keen enthusiast might try to cut the wafer into individual chips. Diamond tipped pizza slicers are the obvious choice. That mentioned, the mere gaps between the chips would call for a very steady hand.

Actually, you'd need a bit more than that. Over to another Redditor for a précis of what's really required.

"You just need to have a clean room. And by that I mean a room with absolute zero dust. Then you will need a special wire cutter. Not wirecutter - a wire cutter, that is a machine with a thin wire that cuts wafer into chips and minimizes dust. After that, you need an assembly machine that will place your chips onto a substrate with submicron precision. And, of course, you'd need a working PCBs with all components. Easy-peasy."

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And, you might say. Lemon squeezy. Of course, an easier solution might just be to wire up the whole wafer as a single chip and side step the whole slicing malarkey. That's actually a thing and it's called 'wafer-scale' computing. You'd need a lot of thermal paste, of course, and the power requirements would put even melting Nvidia RTX GPUs to shame.

Overall, Redditor AVX512-VNNI does seem to be suspiciously well informed on the subject of chip production. Which does rather beg the question of exactly how serendipitous the discovery of the wafer really was... But it's a fun discovery all the same.

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