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Brothers makes sense, more so in an agricultural society where it was hard to find work outside of farming and you avoid splitting the farm who is bad if its already small. Add that marriage was much more an convenience thing than today.

Note that expanding or buying up other companies will cut into your revenue, this is not an problem if you assume they will make profit or you can eat the loss because stuff like WW 2, internet or Covid. And you can write of these losses. But the gaming companies has been folded into stuff who created the anti trust laws and are very cooperate. But its just entertainment so ignore it. Embracer Group or the facehuggers kind of enpowred this, it did not have an long term plan except buy up everything, do something like wearing underwear on top of spandex as it tend to work and profit. And games costing +300M$ who is idiotic unless you launch an new franchise and use years fixing it. But it was bunch of low effort always online games focusing on macro transactions. In 2040 this will be as obvious as why Germany lost WW 2. Now they had much better tools now but they disagree with that you want so you ignore them. As history repeat itself again, the 2001 IT bubble was fun util it burst. But all the large cigars might be worth it.

Termite would be more dangerous, but yes solid rocket fuel and high capacity batteries has many similarities. But you want to use gasoline or mix it with washing powder to create something more like napalm for an fire bomb. Now if you had an scifi battery with more chemical energy than gasoline it would be very hard to also not make it an very good high explosive. Same with superconducting rings or other ways to hold lots of power. Bad for an fast electrical car, very nice for an torpedo as the rest charge turns into blast effect.

Note its perfectly legal to have 5 girlfriends and 2 boyfriends and living together, you can however not be married. Now in this case I suspect you are leading an cult who is concerning, but its pretty common for student to share the rent of an house who tend to be cheaper than renting multiple apartments more so if you don't care if the house is a bit run down. And parents still hold plenty of power if they pay for you. And teens will teen, probably way worse now with social media and all the fake stuff and getting exposed to people way richer than you all the time. But you do stupid stuff. ---But 35 years ago getting beer was easy if you had money, its probably an mistake to make drugs easier to get than beer, yes that one is political.

One obvious problem with polygamy is that the powerful and rich would get most of the wifes. More so in an hierarchy male dominated society. This would easy generate lots of social instability more so as you could not manage an farm alone historical. Now if you had very high amount of combat deaths is start making some sense, but these sort of losses would not be sustainable. Do not know how Nepal avoid this trap but think it goes both ways for one, I also guess the relationships has been more fluid more like modern marriages. But it has never been common in the west at least not after the iron age. An ethical rule has to work in real life and preferable has to be beneficial but not required. Rule of law survives for good reasons, if rulers play Tommyball all the time you liquid people of and running some sort of business would be very hard. This is why even Pharaohs tended to play by the agreed rules. And not all people in an society share the same ethical rules. Lots of sub cultures or even professions, pilots and used car salesmen are different.

Worse is the loss in expertise unless you kill off projects and loose the costs so far. Unless using industry standards and the new one is good at them it takes 4-6 months to get someone fully operational. In short the game industry has over spend a lot and too much chasing an live service model who only works for some games but most fails.

Wait, some sold the right to loot peoples mail boxes? Yes this was obvious an scam and you had to be pretty stupid to fall for it. Stealing is legal is nobody catch you or nobody cares Now its not uncommon for organized crime to run an monopoly on some crimes driving of freelancers but not at that level.

Your link is doubled up https://companiesmarketcap.com/take-2-interactive/revenue/ Is the correct one. https://companiesmarketcap.com/take-2-interactive/earnings/ The earnings who is money left after expenses is way worse. It looks like an overall trend with gaming companies, games getting more and more expensive while creativity is drying out probably as you want as safe an bet as possible to make the huge investment pay off.

I see it very hard to solve the time warp issue with multiplayer. Say one player goes down with an lander on Duna with another is in the mothership. Real time passes during reentry, surface operations like driving or walking to location and perhaps back. Yes the one in orbit could do something else like upgrading the Mun base and jump back for the docking and refueling of lander. Long time warps and getting them synchronized is another issue.

A bit weird that it could chain fire unless you used lots of oil and then spilled powder all over it who might happen But see this as more likely on an standard revolver as the chambers are much closer and you had the front face of the revolver who could redirect leaked flames to the other chambers, at least your not shooting yourself. The first revolvers was muzzle loaded but you load each chamber with, powder, a bullet and put an blasting cap on the rear, you now had 5-6 shots you could shoot fast. Revolver rifles was never very popular, one reason might be chain fire risk and now left hand is ahead of chamber, the other is that its an gap between the chamber and the barrel and some flame will take this path. This is true on most revolvers, an Soviet design pushed the cylinder forward sealing the gap but this was an much later design.

True, using the rocket has an added benefit that the landing fuel is an reserve if you loose an engine and has to burn longer. But the main issue is that the more complex solution would be expensive to develop. Yes you have fold out wings on bombs but not on plane sized stuff flying supersonic. Note you need to qualify planes to drop stuff from hard points at speeds. SpaceX was able to get landings to work much cheaper as they was just modifying stages who would crash anyway, and the grasshopper test rocket.

Landing an first stage propulsive make sense but its sub-optimal, better to have pop out wings and jet engines on it. This make it much more expensive to develop. DC-X was an SSTO who is an very stupid idea with current rocket, no an Also most rockets has walked down an wrong path using SRB makes lots of sense unless you want to reuse the rocket. By an happy accident falcon 9 has 9 engines letting it use one to land. Finally you want to launch an decent amount of rocket for it to make economical sense, it would not if you just launch couple a year. And SSTO works well in KSP as orbital velocity is 2.3 km/s, an falcon 9 first stage could put the second stage and payload into LKO, so Starship level payloads. X-15 would be an orbital plane.

Makes sense, its not that they launch many Peacekeeper ICBM anyway and they have an expire date.

The Lego model looks like the man in can I assume its supposed to have an cockpit not just an roll cage. Remind me of the walkers in Avatar. The real life one is more like the power armor in Fallout without armor Last one from a game has replaced his arms and legs with robotic ones. Know about that one from Kenshi, here you want to loose limbs late in the game as the robotics are better.

Kind of like the chemical explosives set off an nuclear bomb who then set off an thermonuclear one. On issue is that white dwarfs are a bit heavier than nuclear bombs so you have an significant inertia. But an nova followed by an supernova would be cool.

Then hit land but don't think water and ground is very different as they are not landing, And I'm pretty skeptical to starting with catching, High risk modest payoff short term. Relevant then they have daily launches.

I guess the nova create an downward pressure who might trigger the supernova slightly before 1.4 , after the nova mass would go down some before starting building up, no idea above the downward force strength and if an nova going super is probable.

Yes noticed this tried all sort of stuff like setting docking force to 0 and undocking but nothing work. I was able to do primary objectives. Solution is not to do this. Here I could use an small strut on the back of rover and put an separator on it. My large science rover I put on top of an standard docking port with an separator and the engine of the lander. This worked flawless, I'm a bit afraid of launching stuff docked, as I understand this can also cause problems.

I would want two as one might be an happy accident, its also ways to negate an crash next to the tower,

Living in Europe, we had to wait months or download the movie, so I went to an party at an friend with much better internet, download took days and was almost finished so we watched the first movies while waiting. Being drunk was probably an benefit , for some reason it was the last blockbuster movie who did not have an global release.

Back in the Korean war this was standard for helicopter medevac as you could not fit an stretcher inside the two man cockpit. It was also realized giving trauma treatment during medevac significantly increased the survival chance after serious incidents. 25 years ago I studied engineering and the student dorms was previously only used by nurse student because we was next to an hospital. One spring night I woke up in shock an binding light filled the room and it was very noisy. It was an medevac helicopter using our high rise as an visual aid toward the hospital. It I had someone with something critical like an stoke I would also gone in very tactical, the students just start drinking again

Magic being something a few have is pretty common idea. Not unrealistic as in you need special properties to become an fighter pilot and its far harder to compete in the Olympics. In high fantasy like Elder scrolls there magic is common ordinary peoples like an farmers might know some healing spells and some spells to resist bandits or animals as an shield but they mostly used weapons. Its an skill thing. during WW 2 US has an benefit in that an significant faction of their recruits could fix cars. http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00214.htm obvious Freefall reference. Yes it was an idiotic thing to add, just point device and say the force is strong in him. Do not try to explain magic or advanced just make it make sense in universe . The prequels got lots of hate but they did not try to hyperspace ram their own ass as an main strategy so end up looking good today.

This, saling ships tended to pan out at around 10.000 ton, yes its larger like SS Great Eastern and some smaller modern cruise ships. Both sail assisted. But yes sail ships was used for cargo between islands like Indonesia very late because low operational cost then crew cost was low, and you did not need large speed or high cargo capacity, just servicing the islands.

Yes, I know about the rise of slavery in Soviet Union and Germany. Now these regimes was not very rational. It also makes sense to use prisoners as labor if you have to imprison them anyway. US and UK also did this with POW, who is legal if working conditions is decent and work is not dangerous or making weapons. You would anyway be scared of the sabotaging stuff. But if they can do farm work or make simpler stuff you can put these people on making weapons. As for not rational, US slave owners did not want to use their slaves for dangerous work like mining, they could easy loose the expensive investment. So they get immigrants to do these jobs, In both Germany and Soviet prisoners dying was positive as it was people you wanted to get rid of, or they did not care at all. Germany killed millions of Soviet POW, they stopped as they needed them as slaves. More people died making V2 than got killed by them.

Agree, extended family groups was the standard social unit until 10 K years ago. Yes it was larger units but they was mostly to meet others, trade and solve conflicts. Slavery was mostly ancient, it died out in most of the world, yes you had forced labor, but much softer. Slavery got an upswing after colonization of America as it was an labor shortage. Now part of the reason slavery died out in Europe and probably other places is that slaves has an added cost, you have to hire guards to keep them in line or treat them well enough that they stay. If you can hire people cheap enough why use slaves, if you have enough hungry unemployed they are likely cheaper. Back in the bronze age wage labor was not really invented yet, you was part of the family or you was paid for an task like gig or day work, or you was an slave. Rome and some other place probably took so many slaves because their wars they became an slave economy. Taking Jerusalem after the Jew revolt paid for Colosseum. Imagine wars being profitable, expensive weapon system has multiple benefits