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  • In no real particular order, games with highest impact on me:

    1. battlefield 1942 - desert combat mod

    Ground breaking at the time. Physics and gamespeed have never been captured by any other game. Consumed my free time for a long time.

    2 counter strike

    Simple concept, extreme depth. I’ve clocked several thousand hours into this franchise.

    1. The witcher 3

    In terms of world building and story telling… Incredible.

    1. The Witness

    Absolute masterclass in game design, world design. Puzzle design… This is an incredible puzzle game that will shift your perspective.

    1. Faster than light

    I haven’t found anything else quite scratch that replay ability, that tethering on the brink of losing, itch. It’s a unique game.

    1. Guild wars 2

    Completely changed the way mmorpgs were played, and was a great mmo.

    1. Monkey Island

    I wanted to mention a point and click, several spring to mind, but this still series lives in my mind the most. Although space quest is another that impacted my young brain.

    1. Minecraft

    Like… I was there since its debut. Still watching and enjoying mc related content.

    1. Elite

    Space is pretty big and cool

    1. Eve online

    Getting back stabbed by the person you’ve been back stabbing for, so you join the enemies of your friends to be able to backstab your backstabbers.



  • So let’s be very clear here. This is basically true for any new car, practically no ‘normal car’ has come out (in the US) for the past few years. The amount of feature creep has been massive, some due to regulations, some because adding it is cheap. The only place where you can get relatively bare bones is in pick ups. Not in suv’s. Cars except sportscars are no longer being offered, only two ‘normal’ models (accord and camry) still exist. These all have driver assist tech and large screens as well. You won’t be able to get around features hiding behind touch screens, simply impossible to find in today’s market.

    The problem for Evs is that beyond styling the only differentiating factor is tech. They are all fast and differ not that much in range, speed, comfort, handling in their price ranges. This has pushed tech into the car industry, especially in the US where people are willing to go into debt for cars, to the point where the average price for a new car is 47k. Compared to eu: 27k

    In principle, the less you pay the less tech you get. But for any new car, there is tech. No way around it anymore. You can buy the car and ignore it.








  • The power needed to power the laser, if identical, is what determines the temperature here, not the color.

    A thousand watt laser is going to make the lead melt while a 5 watt laser won’t.

    Another limiting factor is how fast the lead/target material can dissipate the heat. A 10kg block of lead is going to stay a lot cooler than a 5 gram piece of lead.

    The colour of the laser has no influence on the final temperature, at all.

    The photons are just transferring energy from a to b. And whether they can do it fast or slow doesn’t really matter. Both blue and red photons are subject to the law of conservation of energy. The amount of energy you put in is the amount of energy you get out.

    In reality there is probably a difference in how efficient a blue and red laser diode are, so there are losses. And if one is slower than the other, the target material is losing energy to the surrounding air. And that’s why you’ll get different temperatures.

    In an ideal setting with exactly identical lasers, where the only difference is the colour, the end result is also exactly the same.






  • Do you even know what communism actually is? I mean do you know where it came from, and why?

    If you’re 17 and in America, there isn’t a lot of hope that you have been told about this in a non-biased manner. Young people especially are susceptible to the ideology that they can make it in life through hard work and equal opportunities. You might even already have felt some success in this regard, was able to achieve a goal because you worked for it. And it all makes sense to you.

    And you think, In some way or another, that communist are perverting this, maybe by giving away shit for nothing or worse want to take shit from you.

    But that’s not true.

    Socialism wants you to fully get your complete value of your labour for you, instead of most of it going to a boss who didn’t work. And communist want to make sure that the system doesn’t allow for bosses to make decisions about the conditions workers live in.