Per the Comprehensive Rules, Section 104.3a, players may concede the game at any time, which causes them to immediately exit and lose the game. See also Section 800 for details regarding cards and permanents owned or controlled by a player who has now left the game. While sometimes considered “impolite”, it is not…

Inductive charging is vastly less efficient, resulting in drastically slower charging. Possibly even below breakeven - a big semi might use more energy to drive a mile than it would be charged over that distance, at highway speeds.

You forget this is Square Enix. I’m expecting an “Aerith Reborn” DLC within the first year. They’ll label it as non-canon and charge you $20 for the pleasure.

If you look at the context of the presentation - held in DC, relatively few space journalists invited vs. mainstream journalists - it becomes clear that this was not aimed at engineers. This was aimed primarily at politicians - the lander is practically tailor-made for an upcoming NASA contract solicitation, BO…

If all the lands had been marked identically, or all had been marked randomly, that might be plausible. But the marks were specific enough to identify which specific card was present. Three sets of marks, distinct, on only the three cards (each a playset of four) most critical to the deck’s function? That cannot…

It is a TAS, but one that is limited to strategies that humans can and have executed. It’s just doing them more or less flawlessly - I don’t expect this TAS to have been optimized enough to squeeze every last possible frame out of it (considering it’s three and a half hours), but it’s basically executing every trick…

I could maybe - MAYBE - buy his new excuse if the marks were similar on all twelve Urza lands. Having different marks on the three different types, IMO, brings the possibility that it was unintentional down to an infinitesimal. I could believe “all my lands ended up scuffed the same way because I drum my fingers on my…

Wow, despite being right, that guy is still an idiot. It has nothing to do with film vs digital - it doesn’t even have anything to do with anything under the domain of the cinematographer. (He is additionally an idiot for thinking film is any better than digital, or at the very least has not used a good digital…

The correct punishment would be to fine the company for the full cost of the lost vehicles and payloads. This would, almost certainly, drive the company into bankruptcy - and when the assets are sold, the American people ought to be the first ones repaid, not the at-best-negligent-more-likely-evil company owners. If…

Here’s the thing: even if the electric grid is 100% fossil fuel, it is still better to electrify vehicles.

The uncommon planeswalkers don’t make games stall out the way the normal ones do, because they aren’t endless value engines. With no +L abilities, they act more like enchantments that can be destroyed by damage, with a pretty low number of activations of the -L ability before they become unusable (think “charge…

Maybe he opened one in 1993, and sold it twenty years later and bought a Lotus instead. Possibly with enough money left over for a small house, if it was in good enough condition.

It kind of makes sense, actually. If you remake a good game, you’re going to be compared to that good game, and probably come up short - and you don’t have many obvious places for improvement. Remake a bad game, though, and you have a huge list of obvious fixes to make, and can easily surpass the original even though…

So the actual story here is that Tesla is claiming a particular short-seller is following their test cars and deliberately driving dangerously to try to cause an accident, as he stands to profit if their stock price drops, as it usually does when there’s an accident with their self-driving tests. To that end, they are…

You are literally wrong in pretty much every way it is possible for those sentences to be wrong. Emulators are completely legal, explicitly so in the case of the United States, and it wouldn’t even be Capcom’s IP being violated if they were not, but that of whoever designed the hardware.

MAME is GPL2+, which allows commercial use without royalties. The main goal of the GPL, as a copyleft license, is ensuring that changes made to the code are also released - but a product like this likely wouldn’t have made any changes to the MAME parts. So they are probably in the clear on that front.

A typical, but not universal, practice in collaborative open-source projects is for contributors to assign ownership of the copyright to the project, either in the form of a non-profit corporation or the main developer. This allows for the project to change licenses in the future, which is sometimes necessary. In this…

Oh, there’s been plenty worse. Hydrazine, and the more popular monomethylhydrazine and dimethylhydrazine, are pretty average as far as rocket chemistry goes. Very few rockets use straight hydrazine, most prefer the more stable and less toxic methyl compounds. They’re still nasty but they’re considered safe enough for…

Stratolaunch actually doesn’t have a rocket specifically designed for this thing. They tried partnering with both SpaceX and Orbital Sciences, the former decided they would rather focus on finishing Falcon 9 and the latter failed to meet expectations. And their own rocket project got canceled earlier this year. For…

It’s more like it’s a plane whose purpose got canceled, but they still finished building it. It’s kind of like the Zumwalt-class destroyers - they canceled the special ammunition for the special guns, and so ended up with a kind of useless ship because it’s raison d’etre ceased to be.