Specifically, this record is for VCSEL. As noted, there’s already plenty of hardware out there which can achieve 100G over a single strand.

It didn’t look good in SotN, and it doesn’t look good now.

And of course, there is the free advertising.

tl;dr - People project their real-life assumptions onto a pile of pixels in a video game.

once people get geared up. At that point it will ONLY be decked out players griefing new players.

I’d rather not have a whole room dedicated to VR because I need to run around flailing my arms like a lunatic because somebody had the bright idea of incorporating motion controls

A decade from now, head tracking will seem normal and “Virtual Reality” will be the holodeck or something.

it’s the rare game where the outright bad guys have been entirely successful

Bigger question- shouldn’t they be paintball guns, not water guns?

I figured it would just break and make dirt like it does with all the tools.

I thought British citizens didn’t need visas to visit the US.

Unfortunately, this is not the least bit surprising.

The devil is in the DETAILS.

He should have RTFM.

I can see the boilerplate defense:

there should be a mailing list or something for visa holders

Right! Every morning, I

He’s a British passport holder,

If enough people raise a stink about this, you think they’ll clear him?

True enough, but you can look at their personal and family history and run the odds.