This is actually why a lot of games have separate categories. Many (perhaps even most) speedrunners don’t enjoy doing runs like this - they’re gamers, they’re here to game. Runs like this get pushed by the sort of programmery nerds that treat the game as a software puzzle to solve, rather than a sport to get good at.…

For Ocarina of Time specifically, Japanese and (American) English have the same glitches - while there is a 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 version (each revision fixing more bugs), the Japanese and North American builds of each are the same, save for a single byte to tell it which localization to use. There’s also the 1.0 and 1.1 PA…

Black is getting answers to enchantments now. Not the best (definitely behind green+white), and so far fairly few, but it’s getting them. So far it’s been in the form of forced sacrifice - they don’t want Black getting targeted removal, because they like making deal-with-a-devil enchantments that would be too good if…

Look, if you’re going to be a pedantic twit about something, at least make sure you’re correct.

Falcon is equipped with a flight termination system, which can trigger a vehicle destruction either autonomously (if it leaves the defined flight corridor) or remotely by the Range Safety Officer. This did happen with the last F9R test flight back in 2014 - they were testing it to the limits of its controllability,…

You could still fake that by inserting a delay. The Moon is just over a light-second away, easily simulated by audio gear (like the echo pedals used by guitarists), some acoustic delay lines (as used on early computers), or even just a big spool of wire, all of which existed at the time. (Well, the guitar stuff was in…

The question of “are Tesla shares worth $500+?” depends on how long you plan to hold them.

Oh ffs, even here I can’t get away from this bullshit “GDQ is full of *drama*” narrative?

I wonder what the oldest game of mine that has any surviving copy is?

The niche for hydrogen is probably mass transport - city buses, cargo trucks, trains (that for whatever reason can’t be externally powered electric).

From a technical perspective, I’m more concerned about the severe pressure than the hydrogen’s flammability. A 700bar (10KPSI) tank is a bomb waiting to go off, even with an inert gas. The flammability is a risk mostly during fueling - I don’t know if I trust consumer-facing, low-budget fueling stations to keep…

I wouldn’t say “full of shit” so much as “savvy”.

More likely, it’s a tour to raise PR for the final sale. Costs them more up-front, but they’ll easily make it back at the auction. And doing it gratis widens how far it will be shown, increasing the pool of potential buyers.

You forgot the H-II orbital rocket, also made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (technically not Mitsubishi Motors, which makes the cars). A million pounds of thrust at liftoff, and up to sixteen tons into low Earth orbit - not the biggest rocket around, but one of the biggest made by a single nation (that isn’t America,…

If you don’t care about range so long as it’s over 50 miles, then yeah, better aerodynamics will just save you a few pennies on your power bill (electricity may be dirt-cheap compared to gas but it’s not totally free. A “full tank” for a Model 3 costs ~$2.). It doesn’t really help you, but it’s not like it hurts.

Aerodynamics are arguably more important on a BEV. The electricity itself is cheap, but battery capacity is expensive. Any decrease in drag is a corresponding increase in range.

Okay, I’m getting a lot of replies that make similar points, just gonna reply to myself instead of each one individually:

There are two problems with Stadia.

Wing loading is basically how much force the wings are under. It’s a measure of pressure (pounds/square foot, or kilograms per square meter in science units). For most aircraft it’s simply total weight divided by wing area, but blended-wing and flying-vee stuff gets a bit tricky.

The Spruce Goose held the record for heaviest flown aircraft until 1952, when the B-52 Stratofortress first took flight, and the record for largest wingspan until April of this year, when Stratolaunch made its first test flight. This was mostly because of the wood construction, the wings needed to be big to spread the…