They don’t make vhs players or CRTs now do they?

There’s an enormous inventory of New Old Stock and refurbished units that more than meet demand.

You literally cannot buy a non smart TV any more

That’s absolutely not true. The real limit on Dumb TVs is the size. Emerson and Westinghouse both make dumb TVs, but they cap out at 50".

TNT has 1162 Wh/kg ratio.

How do you recharge TNT?

We are hitting the limit what is doable with energy density.

I mean, we’re definitely running into a problem of how you build a battery without also building a bomb. But the entire point of TNT is rapid thermal expansion. The point of a battery is very low voltage steady release of electrical charge.

I might also note that C4 has around 6 Mwh/kg. A bit of applied chemistry can go a long way to improving energy efficiency. And that’s before you take advantage of geometry to focus pressure, via a shaped charge.

Point being, there’s a lot of clever ways to juice a lemon. We’re a long way from the end of the road on battery improvement.

Going to need a control ball relative to the variable ball to calibrate your measurements.

But how are people so basic.

I would like a thing. All retail commerce has been monopolized by a handful of big box storefronts. One of those storefronts sucks marginally less than the others, such that I can actually find what I want to buy and expect it to be delivered in a timely fashion.

But I shouldn’t shop there because… ???

Wonder why bad things continue to happen.

Damn, so true. We should never have quit shopping at Target Walmart Sears Woolworths. Now we live in Capitalist Hell and its all our own fault.

Okay, but have you considered that Amazon is the reason prices are high?

Obviously, none of these other retailers had a hand in it.

If you take away the grunts, you lose half of Barrett’s dialogue! /s

I’ll have to keep an eye out for this in FF7R-3. But I’ll be honest, I barely noticed. Might be cause I’m a bit of a grunter myself, though…

In fairness, she looks better in it

They won’t be profitable in a few years

I just don’t know where you get these claims from

What are you, Swiss? Australian? Irish?

The same applies.

Planet is choked with guns. They’re everywhere and very easy to get. Absolutely no reason you need one that’s been churned out by a printer you got on Temu.

Housing might, in theory, be guaranteed in your home town.

Idk why you’re trying to couch this as a hypothetical. Imagine trying to talk about Social Security this way - “oh well maybe in theory…” No, brother, the checks are in the mail.

People really do have family housing that really does exist for real in China.

But it’s certainly no Soviet Union

The Chinese Communist system was not organized under the Soviet model. Absolutely true. Maoism-cum-Dengism is not Lenin With Chinese Characteristics.

Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Cuba, and Venezuela also had their own district unique models.

if you go up to local officials and say “I have no job and I want to work”, they’ll find something for you to do pretty quickly.

If you go to your local Chinese jobs office, you’ll get a bureaucratic exam that determines your fitness for entry level positions.

23% of the population works in the public sector. That’s roughly 300M people - China Is Hiring.

But the private sector is also hiring, often with salary and benefits that outcompete public jobs. The idea that you need to be a trash picker to earn an income is flat out wrong.

Finish a run, excuse me

I do go out to live shows and buy t-shirts and other merch like nobody’s business.

Who doesn’t love a cool band t-shirt?

One of the nice things about Factorio is that you can finish a level and put it down and come back later. That’s harder to do with an RPG like Expedition 33 or Dragon Age.

Not a ton of plot. It’s mostly just a building sim.

I waited years for the FF7 Remake and then even more years for the FF7 Remake to come to PC and then even more years for the sequel to the FF7 Remake to come to PC and now I’m waiting for the three-quel to release, at which point I will begin waiting for it to come to PC.

3D printing your own guns

Just buy a normal fucking gun, this is America ffs there are more guns than people.

Too bad DVDs and CDs will quit being made soon

We’re still making vinyl records. What on earth makes you think we’re going to stop making DVDs?

I’m happy to just pirate this shit.