It’s possible that this isn’t enabled by default in Europe. I know that Microsoft has some things disabled in Europe in order to comply with local law and moving stuff to OneDrive without asking sounds like it might conflict with the GDPR.

The letters are too consistent (each “O” looks the same etc). It’s a font.

On the upside, they’d be an amazing fighter. On the downside, I’d give them about five minutes before they go completely nuts and do something very, very stupid. In any case, I’d prefer to be as far from whichever planet we’re doing this on as possible.

Either that or a Goliath Scorpion on way too much necrosia.

Yeah, it’s similar for a BattleMech with a torso-mounted cockpit; it can barely keep fighting when decapitated because one of three sensors is in the torso with the rest remaining in the head. If the third sensor also gets hit, however, they’re so blind that they can barely stumble off the battlefield. You can kinda tell that both Mobile Suit Gundam and BattleTech try to make their tech somewhat sensible.

We even see some of the same tropes. For instance, both mobile suits and BattleMechs tend to fight at close ranges, Gundam justifying it with fusion reactors emitting Minovsky particles and BattleTech with mechs emitting a horrible amount of ECM and RF interference. Both franchises have neurointegrative technologies that tend to be unhealthy for the pilot, although Gundam’s is a lot more powerful on the battlefield.

A major difference would be that mobile suits are much more, well, mobile than BattleMechs (especially since they can often fly) while many BattleMechs can tank hits that would blow a mobile suit to pieces. (Okay, BT does have flying mechs, but they’re horribly impractical mech-airplane hybrids straight out of Macross.) I suppose that makes sense; one franchise focuses on cinematic battles while the other focuses on big stompy robots blowing each other to pieces.

Heck, I’ve seen a battle turn because someone took a step backwards down a hill (using the optional rule that allows that with a PSR), failed their piloting skill roll, tripped over their own feet, and managed to fall on the cockpit, instantly crushing the pilot. In an otherwise pristine Supernova.

Y’know, superior Clan MechWarriors and such.

BattleTech explores this to a degree. While obviously mechs in the game have heads in order to look cool (and because headshots are a game mechanic), they do have in-world reasons for them as well.

Basically, since internal space and heat are major issues for BT mechs, providing a comfortably roomy environment at a human-survivable temperature is much easier in a part that juts out of the body than crammed in right next to the reactor. As a result, torso-mounted cockpits tend to be cramped and subject to heat issues. To make matters worse, nobody could get ejector seats to work with them so they’re less survivable in case the mech gets blown to pieces.

All of which is really unfortunate as everyone in the setting is aware that any major hit to the least-armored part of the unit is likely to result in a mission kill. The trade-offs of torso-mounted cockpits make them uncommon, however.

(Note: Visually, there are mechs with no apparent head in BT. Mechanically, a head is always present even if the cockpit is in the torso. That head might just be a section of the torso with a window in it but mechanically it’s there.)

Except we don’t have healthcare networks. Either a practice takes any insurance or it takes none. That’s a huge advantage over the American system.

It typically doesn’t. Most countries don’t care about where your ancestors came from. Being fluent in the local language and culture will generally give you a leg up if you already qualify for immigration so I hope your family kept those alive (and not Americanized versions like Irish-Americans wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day). But your ancestry is usually completely irrelevant.

Those genetic test results absolutely don’t mean anything. If you’re culturally American with an American passport, you’re American and that’s it.

Yes, but by threatening Denmark, Trump can make it so that the USA no longer get to have military bases on Greenland while also driving the narrative that more guns are needed, which no doubt makes some of his buddies very happy.

His behavior makes a lot more sense if you don’t assume he has his country’s best interests in mind.

Even ignoring the police officers, aren’t there clear rules for what to do when traffic lights are turned off?

In Germany, an inactive traffic light means that traffic control reverts to any present traffic signs (stop/yield/priority road). If none are present, the default rules for entering an intersection apply (which in Germany are to yield to any traffic coming from your right).

All of those rules already must be implemented for autonomous driving so why the hell couldn’t they implement a hierarchy?

Good point. I never think of those because we use bulky reusable plastic crates where I live.

I think that LSD takes away your ability to ignore things. That applies to things around you, hence the feeling of enhanced perception – your brain no longer filters out all the things cracks in the sidewalk that you normally ignore. This is independent from the hallucinations, of course.

But it also applies to all those thoughts you’ve been ignoring. Hence the life-changing insights people report having; in your case I think you were subconsciously aware that you should quit drugs but didn’t want to confront that thought. LSD made you confront it.

(By the way, that’s also why I think people with unresolved trauma should be very careful around LSD. Being forced to deal with your repressed shit all at once can go very badly depending on what you’re repressing.)

I know you mean like a six-pack of beer cans but for a moment I had the mental image of beer sold in tetra-paks and I really don’t want to know what kind of unholy concoction would warrant that kind of packaging.

At the time people welcomed it; Trident really was terrible. However, since then Gecko’s marketshare has fallen into the single digits on account of Mozilla’s terrible governance. WebKit isn’t exactly a big alternative, either (and is often regarded as the new Trident in terms of web standard adherence). Opera used to have Presto but nope, that’s also Chromium now.

That means we’re now stuck in a situation where an advertising company controls how the web works for 75% of all users. And they’re happily abusing that power.

I’m rooting for Servo and Ladybird as new entrants into the market but both are small projects trying to challenge a multi-billion dollar industry titan who wants the web to be as complex as possible so that only they and their token competitors can exist.

We might actually have been better off with Microsoft trying to keep Trident relevant.

I mean, it’s not like it hasn’t been implemented in games before. It’s literally one of the main features of the Left 4 Dead series.

Just like VR and the Steel Battalion controller, it has its place – just not in every single game ever.

For another ring was made and this one was made of gold and fetched almost 700 bucks at the pawn shop.

I do get pestered about mine, including full-screen popups about it. If I do agree to view it I get an error screen because they couldn’t collect that data due to my privacy settings.

You’d think they could check for that before bombarding me with disruptive popups. (Then again, Discord is 50% disruptive popups these days so it’s par for the course.)

I don’t know if they get a share or if they get a flat payment for every device that has crap preinstalled. Either way, not doing it would reduce profits and therefore go against the interest of the shareholders who would then have grounds to the CEO for failing to do their job.

I’m very much unhappy with how that works but it’s a consequence of how publicly traded companies work. Companies that make it their legally binding goal to maximize shareholder gains attract more investors, have more money, and are thus more effective in increasing their market share. Over time they outcompete their rivals until the market is dominated by maximally profitable companies.

At that point, shit-free products are only available if there is a clear indication that they will generate more profit than shitty products. And the handful of major players will happily collude to make sure only shitty products enter the market, increasing profits for everyone. Welcome to cartelville, population: the three companies that make up 95% of the world market.

It might but most devices only use HDMI. DP is pretty much only used by PCs.

Maybe the GPMI consortium decides to make their standard open; that might help. But I don’t see DP catching up to HDMI; HDMI is too entrenched.