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  • I mean, I too would be unhappy with the new games’ stories. They’re not very good stories overall.

    But, they’re better than the vast majority of video game plots, because that’s a low bar.

    Still, Jaffe seems to imply the old stories in GoW were any better, when they were pure drivel. I might still be very underwhelmed by the story in the two new God of War’s, but I at least like that they’re trying (even if I think the direction of relying heavily on animation and visual flair is the wrong one, as far as telling good stories goes).



  • That is what I think the owner is doing here. Scamming venture capital firms for a tech that cannot work.

    And I mean, its not like I have any proof. I can’t read minds; maybe he is a true believer.

    But this company feels like those companies back in the 80s that sold tickets to mars, for the rockets they were ‘just about to build’; a scam.

    This isn’t a research firm. This isn’t trying to find the exact settings and layouts to make fusion possible. If the article can be taken at face value, this is a company to make a commercial fusion plant. And I find that, in 2023, patently absurd.


  • I hope it works.

    But I’m skeptical enough to say that I think this is a scam. We’re closing in, research wise, on getting fusion to generate more power than it takes to run. Which is awesome!

    But its still a far trek from that figure, to producing enough power to be practical (I’ve heard it said you really need to aim for 10x more production than input, minimum, for it to make any sense).

    And that is still a trek from making a fusion plant competitive with existing grid power.

    I’m skeptical if this plant they’re building will even generate power, which is like three steps away from making commercial sense at all.



  • You are, of course, correct.

    But even so, costs are costs. It doesn’t matter if you’ve achieved communism, and are in a moneyless, stateless existance, you need labor and materials to build nuclear, and labor and materials to maintain it (along with other infrastructure).

    And, I’m not anti-nuclear; it does make sense to use sometimes, in some amounts. Its just very very costly for what it provides.

    But frankly, even only accounting for current tech, wide spread nuclear just doesn’t make that much sense compared to renewables + storage and large grids interconnects.



  • BedbugCutlefish@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlIs petrol vegan?
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    Its almost entirely made from plants

    And like, even if it was dinosaurs, Dirt is also (partially) made from decayed animals. And, oversimplifying, that dirt becomes plants.

    And that’s all fine for vegans, because it doesn’t involve exploitation of animals. Like, if you needed to raise and kill animals to use their corpses to grow plants, that’d be animal exploitation.