you techno utopians are funny.
I remember hearing this about solar power ten years ago. And electric cars. And cloud computing, even.
It was never going to be economically viable. Always ten years away from viability. Not competitive with whatever the industry leader was at the time.
Really putting all your chips on “nothing ever changes”
But will Fusion ever be cheaper than solar?
Eventually. But, much like traditional fission power, you’ll need a very large and complex piece of infrastructure to deliver it.
You won’t be able to put a fusion plant in your basement like you can put solar on your roof.
Practical power production through nuclear fusion still requires significant developments for it to be realised at scale, though several startups are already planning to deliver it within the next few years.
US-based Helion Energy secured the world’s first purchase agreement for nuclear fusion energy in 2023, promising to provide 50MW of fusion power to Microsoft by 2028.
I mean, time will tell. But that seems a bit sooner than 2100.
There’s good, actually.
Smaller communities don’t fill up with annoying bots and toxic personalities
Communities driven by bots should die
This is just a genre of porno.
Crazy that all those bots have IPs in Northern Virginia
The Lich system was pretty close to the mark. Possible that developers gave the underlying features of SoM a wide berth out of caution, but so much of this seems to boil down to “we don’t want to risk the possibility of a lawsuit” rather than “we can’t just do our thing and see if WB’s lawyers care enough”.
So long as you’re not directly ripping off the code from another system, patent courts have been pretty generous in interpreting overlapping abstract concepts.
But any kind of suit is scary, particularly for studios that aren’t geared up to fight them.
Millions of fake IDs have been leaked.
Why would they?
California’s the 7th largest economy in the world. You can’t tell me that their domestic policies have no impact on their cost of living.
If people in a blue state are hurt by the tariffs, it’s still Trump’s fault.
Tariffs aren’t the only public policy on the table. Plenty of our inflation has come from chronically poor real estate policies, droughts brought in by climate change, energy shortages from data center consumption, and a contraction in the labor market caused by Boomer retirements.
States, blue and red, have experienced inflation going back to COVID and before it.
Liberals only seem to notice when it’s conservatives complaining under a Republican president. And their panacea - just vote Dem to fix it - never seems to deliver the promised relief.
Surely the Blue States with Dem governors and legislatures are suffering less, though, right?
Do Harris Voters in Urban America think their cost of living isn’t also rising?
Yeah, it might be, but MA has some of the most progressive social safety nets and policies in the USA.
Like, not to knock MA, but your mileage really varies based on which neighborhood you’re in. The closer you come to NH, the worse things get. And Boston varies heavily by zip code, based on the prevailing income bracket.
Is the state better than West Virginia or Idaho or South Dakota? Sure. But its not some kind of paradise. You’re still in a heavily privatized and financialized capitalist hell-hole. You just live closer to the money, and that’s where we put all our nice things.
But it’s just vanilla combats with predictable outcomes.
So they invented… the first dozen seasons of the Pokemon cartoon?
They patented a very specific algorithm for a very specific kind of game. You can still do knock-offs of the system in the same way you can make RTS games without asking Blizzard’s permission or platformers without asking Nintendo’s.
I would suspect that SoM’s system is complex enough that nobody’s been eager to try and replicate it. But they high level concept of randomized enemy generation isn’t something you can patent. Neither is randomizing story elements between NPCs.
Why did the Romans fail?
I remember learning that the Romans fell because they were too gay and debauched and woke, so they lost their manly vigors.
Nevermind, history doesn’t like copypasta
I suppose its worth noting that the Roman Empire lasted centuries (millennia, if you see the Byzantine/Ottoman Empire as a continuation of Roman history). The UK is more comparable than the US, which flourished after WW1 and made it barely a century before fumbling.
But also, the book is hardly closed on the US as an empire. China, India, Persia, Rome, France… they all had their ups and downs.
The US writes the history books, runs the universities, and manages the international media networks.
In fairness, this would be both a more accurate and more German style name.
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They don’t call it Klanada for nothin’
Not all heroes wear capes