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  • Battlefield 2.

    I only got into it because my gaming friends did. It was never very good, but my friends liked it because it was a much slower game compared to the arena shooters we played before and they wouldn’t admit their reflexes were getting bad. The game isn’t very realistic or very fun. You can bend realism for fun gameplay or you can have an unbalanced game if it’s for realism, but BF2 was neither.

    oh and another thing. The official maps are very repetitive and because stat tracking only works on them, they would be the only ones ever played. I’ve played some custom maps that were much better at LAN parties, but those rarely got played because a bunch of grown adults needed to have their rank for all to see.








  • It’s doesn’t matter really, this is a red herring.

    This is not a red herring. A portal can be assumed to be massless and might not interact with anything. In theory, it could have infinite sharpness and cut though the piston when force is applied. But that’s not the hypothetical. The hypothetical has the portal fixed to the piston, interacting with mass. If it can interact with the piston, it can interact with

    There is the problem with your logic. The box doesnt move, there is a shortcut in space that moves around it.

    The box moves in relation to the portal opening. The reference frame is the portal opening. If, from start to finish, the box takes 1 second to enter the portal, it has to take one second to exit the portal. Everything works backwards from this. If traveling through the portal quickly would cause the box to be launched, then the energy has to come from somewhere and the piston is the only source.


  • If the box enters the portal at a certain rate, it has to exit the portal at the same rate. Unless there’s relatively involved, that has to be true and everything else follows.

    How is the portal affixed to the piston? Whatever made up system that affixes the portal to the piston would also allow it to interact with the box.

    The box has to exit at the same rate it enters and the law of conservation of mass and energy dictates that no new energy is created and it has to come from somewhere. If there is no way for the energy to be transferred from the portal to the box, then simply, portals cannot exist.