Yes, that’s all true, but Budget =/= Profit. One can hope that budget - and most who fund them obviously hope so - leads to profit, but that’s not something a studio or publisher can rely on today.

Ign, Resetera, Eurogamer, Reddit etc. You really only need to Google it. 

Word. SotT was good, but didn’t grip me the same way the 1st and 2nd did. They changed too much about the combat and gunplay that it yanked me out of it, even though the setting and themes were fantastic.

Budget is not what defines whether a game is successful or not. 

Marketing is definitely not defined as 2-3x the development costs. Shadow of the Tomb Raider was one of the most expensive games ever made when it came out, at 75-100m for development, and about 30+ million for marketing and promotion.

Of mostly the same mindset. 

I mean, “left” dog whistling does absolutely exist. Just like any other virtue signaling. We aren't immune to it anymore than the extreme right is. 

In this case, I feel like you would absolutely have a case against them. If it had been shared online before hand, of course. 

I mean, just by sheer extension of human creative thought throughout the millenia; almost everything that can be thought of, has been already, in the general sense.

Nay.

I’m not saying don’t listen to them either. What I am saying, is that there are certain factors that must be met to either ignite, or not ignite flour under those conditions.

Lol, alright. You are perfectly free to behave like a child and plug your ears and sing to yourself whenever you decide you know better, that’s your right, of course.

Dieing on a hill? Lol, no, just that you are talking about the extremes of what will typically happen. In the literal video you linked, part of the issue was a buildup of grease on the vent hood, and as I already mentioned previously, if you haphazardly throw a bunch of flour from several feet away (as they did on the…

I’m not saying that any dust can be used, just that in order for flour to form the chain reaction you are talking about, the fuel (flour, in this case)/ air mixture must be at a certain point, and dumping large amounts of it onto a grease fire (as in a wet fire) does not generally produce the kind of flammable mixture…

I mean, yeah, but that would be the case for any hot oil (or liquid in general) above 150f or so.

You CAN add hot grease to a glass bottle, you just can’t have the bottle come out of the fridge before hand, or have the oil at a ridiculously hot temperature so as to increase temperature of the glass that quickly.

It generally won’t melt through though, however hot the grease is. It’s the same concept as adding water to a plastic bottles and then heating it up to disinfect the water (as done in survival situations where you need clean water, and don’t particularly care about the obvious plastic contamination at the moment).

Aye. They really are. They aren’t wide enough to do large batches. I just use a large - like 4qt - and deep sided pot for it, with a simple electric thermometer for temperature monitoring.

Deep frying isn’t inherently bad. You just have to make sure you keep the temperature in the right range and don’t overfill your container with oil.

It is, but it has to be very finely distributed through the air in order for that to be a legitimate concern. Flour (and other powders/dusts) have been used for ages in dousing flames.