If you want to accelerate a person to “fly high into the air” speed over a distance of a see saw’s arc is going to kill the person. There is no sweet spot

Yeah Baldur’s gate 3 and hell divers are both doing terribly

Minecraft is pretty unique, or was until its imitators appeared and is the most popular game (or is it second to Tetris?)

I think release then fix became common as soon as internet distribution became practical

Back when everything was on physical media the releases were more polished

I hear about people getting Minecraft on game pass. Those people don’t play Minecraft like I play Minecraft

If they die, other companies will buy that IP

They’re fun when you’re winning, the votes tell who’s winning

People here describe them as tankies, which I take as meaning a person who thinks the Soviets did communism right

I prefer old commies. They wanted a local revolution and only liked the USSR in that they were the best source of money for funding such revolutions

That’s a tad selfish.

They aren’t allowed to pay donors in Australia. There are worries that payment would attract people who shouldn’t donate and incentivise them to lie on the qualification form

O+ here, the blood centre wants my plasma more often than my blood, but around peak road accident times they want my blood

I presume they would do as many O- people do and have blood drawn for their own use if they expect they might need it

Scorched spam is good spam. Goes well with fried pineapple rings

(That should annoy enough people)

Spoiler tags don’t seem to work in my client, so beware if you have only just started the books or tv series, or wish to not have your suspension of disbelief broken

That plot line is closely related to the biggest plot hole in the books and tv series

Sophons are sent to Earth at near light speed, presumably accelerated in a particle accelerator. They are the size of and very like protons. In fact they are protons that were unfolded, had AI computer logic etched into them, and were then refolded. How would they slow down? How would they change direction? Note that they are shown to turn within a fraction of the radius of a retina and hardly interact with matter at all.

A proton takes a fair bit of energy to accelerate to a high fraction of light speed, and just as much to stop or turn.

BadlyFoldedProtein (prion for short) would also be a good name

They are made of food

$35

I like Steve Mould’s ad reads. He does science content and seems to only advertise products and services he uses, so his ads are mostly straight “this is what I like about the product, what makes it different to alternatives, this is why I use it, this is the stuff they told me to say”

He’s one of the few YouTubers I actually believe when he says a product is good

I was taught to use spaces for thousands in Canberra

Funny, in Australia we have school dances and they don’t get anything like American proms, with the possible exception of girls’ debutante balls which we dress up for

The angles you can fit on a pin head depend entirely on the precision you’re using. Quite a few with nanoseconds of a degree. Not many with radians.

(You mistyped angels)