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  • minus drag

    On Earth, this is the part that makes it so that objects do not fall at the same speed.

    on the moon

    This is the type of experiment they could not do 2000 years ago.

  • If two objects have the same size and shape, the force applied by air resistance will be the same. However, if two objects have different mass, that same force will result in different acceleration.

  • When accounting for air resistance, heavy objects do fall faster than light ones. They couldn't test in a vacuum back then, they only knew how things work here in Earth's atmosphere.

  • Very few things are ever perfect on the first try. It takes a lot of experimentation to learn what works and what doesn't.

  • I'd be too much of a lazy dictator to do anything truly evil.

  • I still buy physical whenever possible. But I've also come to accept that I'm a dinosaur for doing so. PC ditched physical a very long time ago, mobile never knew it to begin with, it's a matter of time before consoles drop it someday too. It's inevitable.

    I think a lot of people still see physical as the most secure form of preservation, that in 50 years when download servers are gone we'll still have our discs. But in an era of patches, updates, and DLC, how often is that 1.0 on the disc actually going to be the version you want preserved in the future?

    Asking myself that question sort of forced me to acknowledge that my preference for physical media may just be more sentimental than practical.

  • It's not at all uncommon for games with an online component to have elements you need to play online to access. That's been a part of Pokemon since the series first added online play. Hell, even before that, Pokemon was conceived from the beginning to be a social game, built around the Game Boy's Link Cable if you want to see and do everything. It's never been exclusively singleplayer.

    All I'm saying is that if you count online play as though it was part of a game's cost, you should be doing the same thing for games on other platforms too. You can't selectively pretend it only counts here.

  • Why do you only single out Nintendo for something that Sony and Microsoft charge even more for?

  • It seems a little disingenuous to single them out this way, especially when the competitors you're strangely silent on are more expensive.

  • Then you should be consistent and count the cost of PSN and XBL the same way.

  • Well, if you're specifically looking to play DS/3DS games, original hardware is the best way to do so. There are a few dual screen devices that hit the market recently, but IMO I don't think it's worth being an early adopter of any of those just yet.

    For every other single screen platform though? Really depends on what you're looking for in terms of form factor, price, feature set, and what games you want to play. There are so many good options on the market that you're probably better off looking into them and deciding what looks like the best fit for you. Retro Game Corps is an excellent source for reviews.

    Personally, I bought a Miyoo Mini Plus two years ago, and I liked it so much I wish I'd bought a more expensive model with analog sticks. But I also like it just enough that I haven't been able to justify spending money on an upgrade right now, because whenever I do there'll still be something better right around the corner...

  • I feel like we've long reached the point where the benefit of top-of-the-line hardware just isn't worth it. IMO, Switch 2 ought to be enough to target, and any game that can't fit on that can probably stand to be scaled back.

  • Just telling us "but someone else told me it's bad" contributes nothing to the current conversation if you cannot tell us anything about that discussion.

    Giving every user access to a type of power that is known to be abusable is not a good solution. As I said at the start, we've seen this with Reddit. We've seen why this is not the right way.

  • Well, you haven't even tried to explain it. You've just been saying "but minorities" over and over while refusing to elaborate.

  • This is a public forum. If you post to a public forum, you should expect your posts to be public. If you're posting something you don't want to be public, all I can say to you is that this isn't the right platform for that.

  • That isn't what I said. You're replying to me to talk about somebody else's argument, while completely ignoring mine.

  • I don't understand what you mean. Moderator bans do work, that's a moderator's job.

  • We've seen the problems with Reddit's style of blocking already.

    If someone's being truly abusive, that's something you should report to moderators or instance admins.

  • Been a while since I last played Shogi, but I don't remember this opening.