And/or ADD

Open the front door, Hal!

I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave.

Public performance in general can be stressful; people get stage fright all the time.

Spock is going to have to give back that valuable whale vomit.

Lots of places already operate like a cashless society. It just happens to be that their cashless infrastructure is owned by another country.

The better debate would be between a Star Destroyer and the Enterprise. I feel like that comparison would be fairer.

If you’re going to compare the Millennium Falcon to anything, it would likely be a runabout or Delta Flyer.

There was an age where Microsoft was trying to do that as well; it failed miserably.

I partially blame the anti-trust settlement preventing Microsoft from being more aggressive.

The XBox has always been a play by Microsoft to keep one toe into the console space to keep the pipeline between console and PC games open.

The problem for Microsoft right now is that it isn’t making money on being in either space.

Why would the manufacturer take on liability for a design issue they didn’t design?

How many open source projects include safety guarantees of use? I can legally sue car manufacturers for faults in design of the car that I or others purchase. Who do I sue with open source projects if the crash is due to a flaw in design?

Why would someone design a car that anyone could copy? Even worse, how do you handle certain legal issues where the designer and manufacturer don’t have a legal agreement with each other?

Locking lug nuts are a thing already; this just sounds like they don’t want to give the key to the end consumer.

Answering the first question, the Confederacy had a functioning national government by the time Abraham Lincoln officially became President in March 1861 including a provisional constitution and President. The American civil war was primarily between two governmental entities trying to assert control over the same territory. In video games, it is easy to model the Confederate rebellion as a nation since it acted and functioned as a nation until its dissolution.

In contrast, a lot of other civil wars are usually between different political groups of various qualities of organization until a cease fire, internal peace agreement, or capitulation of other sides is reached. The Russian Civil War was mainly between two government like entities combined with several other armies with different political goals. The Spanish Civil War had a much larger mix of cobelligerent political groups

Of all the strange engineering charts and graphs I saw, the weirdest ones were in geotechnical engineering.

Wow

An interesting bit to this news is that air quality improved outside of lower Manhattan. A lot of areas outside of NYC were fighting congestion pricing as they thought they were going to see increased traffic due to people parking there and taking a short train in.

That’s how my bard keeps their nips tight.

It is an ok hedge on inflation, but it is pushed a lot by scam adjacent businesses to push up consumption.

It depends. I’m playing at a table where it isn’t any of the players’ first game and several players have wargaming experience. I can easily see the DM doing something like this and I wouldn’t fault them for doing so.

my heart.