Oh vehicle controls are definitely a valid issue to have with the game. They are pretty well designed for controller use. However well designed is not the same as saying they are easy to use. True 6 degrees of freedom controls between orbits are definitely complex.

Sad to have that blocking enjoying the story or more accurately solar system spanning puzzle box.

Have you played it?

Guards! Guards! By Terry Pratchett

Part of a recent habit of reading to my wife in the evening while she plays Luanti to relax before bed.

Flip version of 11. The Perl flip.

Hop (2011) from Illumination is exactly that formula but Easter. Also agreed very few outside of the insane number of Christmas ones.

Nightmare before Christmas is also unusual in being directly about saving Christmas but indirectly saving Halloween.

Wouldn’t be a problem. G includes the West Indies places like Trinidad which has plenty of food that originated in India. So not the full list of all Indian food but it is perfectly real and not some crappy fusion restaurant knock off.

Results of the British colonial era bringing a lot of people from India after ending the official slave trade and still wanting people to work plantations. So they switched from literally slavery to the not quite but still awful indentured service. The British would get the lowest social groups in India that functionally couldn’t own property in India to sign contracts for many years of work in exchange for a 1 room shack and a micro plot of land of their own.

I feel this. Both in terms of driver engagement safety and in how much I loathe traditional automatic transmissions. Still stuck owning one in one of the two vehicles I have at the moment but only because it was all I could afford for the second of two vehicles large enough to fit all my kids.

I have had several manual transmission vehicles and the other current one is a PHEV and one of the rare models that is a series hybrid so it drives like a true EV.

Ok that is one of the most adorable things I have ever seen.

Sounds like we would have to build satellites with shades that would be selectively turned off and on as needed and only for specific parts of the globe like the overheating cities. Might be able to have some interesting effects forcing weather patterns that way.

However as you say none of that helps the ocean acidification and that is terrifying.

Right you are I missed that. So comets at least aren’t workable.

Kinda. The exact quote for it being lowered down without heating up from reentry is “the added ice would cool the water down by only about a millionth of a degree” But yea essentially useless in the big scheme of things.

The ice would be massively better used in space habitats or terraforming other places.

In a strictly technical sense if you source ice in space from something like a comet and bring it down slowly with something like a space elevator it would help a tiny bit. However the amount of effort would be much better spent on either fixing things we are doing or going for one of the crazier but valid options like building satellites that shade something like 1-2% of sunlight etc.

Very good list in my opinion and definitely matches my memory from learning about Andrew Jackson in the past.

I agree that Trump is no Hitler. While by some magic the crowds at his events like him he absolutely isn’t the orator Hitler was among a lot of other differences.

However I still say the overall party/political movement he is head of is extremely fascist and incorporating a lot of Nazi elements. The flip to that is that the Nazis got a lot of stuff from the USA and the Nazis loved our racist policies in the 30s and our history of doing things like the westward expansion and what that did to the native people.

I had a 1980 year Oldsmobile 98 that didn’t have as many crazy issues as yours but did have one amazing one.

Driving home one evening from college classes the headlights didn’t work so I took it into the shop.

Couldn’t find anything normal as a cause but I had one of those old time small town mechanics that couldn’t stand to lose to the car. So he said he wouldn’t charge us for the extra work hours if he could keep it as a project until he was done. Took over three weeks of him going through the wiring and finally found a harness/wire that had worn through and was grounding to the car frame.

So far nothing too weird for an old car. The bizarre part is that he had good current equipment and it is supposed to test if a wire is grounded out like that to the frame or even if it is broken by kicking signals along it like you can to find damage to Ethernet cables.

So with that tester in hand and knowing without question what the problem was he hooked it back up and it still reported nothing wrong. He called the manufacturer and they said as far as they know that violates the laws of electricity… Worked fine with the new wires so again definitely correct and his tool worked on everything else he ever tried it on.