Not really. This is effectively fan fiction which they do actually have discretion on. If they were making money off this or if it weren’t clear it were a fan game, a case could be made for brand dilution which would effectively compel Nintendo to order a takedown, but since it clearly is a fan game and they aren’t…

1. Cannons at the time were muzzle loaded which means that to fire it, it either needs to slide all the way into the turret (making for either a very short barrel or very wide turret), or rotate upward while moving downward after firing so that you can drop in the ball safely (this would have been more reasonable due…

Because people like killing things? I’ll admit that it looks cool, but I’m totally with you on it being exclusively a murder tool. You can’t use it like a knife for camping because of the three curved blades. The only thing it’s good for is causing bleedout, but if you’re using a knife/dagger for self-defense, you…

Not really. A more conventional knife would be just as effective at self-defense. The curving of this blade is designed to tear up the inside of the target causing massive bleeding. The blade doesn’t make an individual stab any more imminently dangerous. It just makes a given stab eventually lethal. If you’re getting…

You know what? This article made me happy. Genuinely warm and fuzzy. Why? Because now that we’ve had a death in a self driving car, traffic fatalities have left the realm of hoping the driver isn’t stupid and have entered the realm where it’s an engineering problem.

Honest question, is there even a situation anymore where the US would actually start conscripting people? We didn’t use it to overthrow Iraq. We didn’t use it to try to stop the DPRK from getting nukes. We clearly won’t bother using it if we go to war against someone with a nuclear arsenal. Who’s left, ISIS? They’d…

I’m curious why you think it'll take longer than most people do. Any reason in particular?

How feasible would it be for Blizzard to make PotG into something solved by a neural network rather than just a fire accumulator? Sure, it would still put out weird shit now and then, but it would at least be able to recognize things that the current system can’t even dream of understanding.

you could have them play while everyone is on the postgame stats screen...

Super hot you say?

Eh, I feel like this is more just a symptom of a techy running a car company. The two industries just operate very differently.

That’s too bad. Was hoping.. Still, it should cut down on fuel needed to decelerate then, which would cut launch costs, so at least there's that.

Wow it’s been a long time since I’ve seen that first video, or at least it seems that way. They’ve come a long way since it was posted. I am thoroughly impressed.

Well... That’s interesting... If they can pull it off, that’ll be fantastic, but I’m questioning if they can... They’ve consistently not hit targets and they have build quality issues, but I can’t help but wonder if this is just the nature of starting a car company today. That there simply is no better way to do it,…

...It... depends... There’s enough that Tesla can safely double global LIB production to pump out its 500k cars per year, but for how many years can we sustain radical growth beyond that? No idea.

Even if we could just convert matter into antimatter (which you can’t because reasons) to the point that we had an effectively infinite supply, the stuff is so fucking dangerous that it would be on lockdown like enriched uranium is today. You might have antimatter reactors in warships and power plants, but they’ll…

This is more or less my feeling from being in the beta. Very cool, but it’s not the sort of game I can see myself getting invested in long-term.

I feel like “Yes, I’m serious” could be applied to just about any japanese series. It’s like calling water wet.

I’m kinda in the same boat. (Admittedly, I worked for Volvo for a couple years, so bias, blah, blah, blah.)