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Original Scorched Earth (which I also loved!) let you choose whether movement was allowed in the ruleset, and it was quite slow so you'd be up against the turn timer. Similar for Worms. I think it's a viable part of the game if nerfed or made riskier (mines?)

I see why people think this, but it is also anti-social. Once you've introduced art to the public market, two things happen:

- people form a relationship with and an emotional response to the art

- they give you money for the art

Now, the latter gets into questions like Sony or Steam removing games or films which people have previously purchased. A consumer rights question. People tend to feel they have been treated like a sucker when the publisher does this.

The former you are effectively rescinding the emotional relationship with the art. A much more complicated question. This can certainly be pathological - see kpop and the idol industry. But I don't think it's unfair to say that insisting that the art relationship should be totally unilateral and you owe the audience nothing, is going to anger the audience.

The media won't last 70 years. It has to be (infringingly) copied, or no copies will exist.

Some of the players are entirely fake! It's a nasty little business model of socially harmful fraud that youtube are enabling.

At that point, I'd publish them: nobody's going to come after you, either.

Upvoted for use of the correct terms from marine law. Nice.

No you can't just give people free rein to sexually harass the female staff.

> Doesn't Finland, like the other Nordic countries, have a long history of alcohol abuse and pushing against it (like, with draconian prices)? Isn't maybe just that policy "winning"?

Yes and no; all the Nordic / Lutheran countries have some mildly prohibitionist policies like the Norwegian wine monopoly, and yes it gets very dark and depressing up there which led to alcohol abuse becoming a social problem in the early 20th century, but that situation was stable for years and the decline in alcohol consumption is a global phenomenon.

Erdinger Alcoholfrei was a low alcohol German "health drink" before it was popular - has been around for about 25 years. It's fairly available in the UK.

It is indeed a completely different scene, which is genuinely interested in variety.

It's a bit of a cliche but you really can split Europe into "beer country/wine country/spirits country". France, Italy, Spain and Germany west of the Rhine are wine country. Munich is clearly beer country. And Germany has focused on perfecting a very narrow set of light beers, if you want diversity of taste that's all in the wines. Similarly you're not going to get Parisians interested in beer diversity when they have French wine to argue about.

(It is possible that climate change will shift this; England is starting to produce a few pretty good wines)

Guinness 0% is fantastic. Unlike a lot of brewers the Guinness company were very keen to retain their standards rather than slop out an inferior product to tick a box.

It's still illegal federally in the US! It's illegal in many European countries and the UK. The places which have legalized it exist in a fragile state that could very easily be washed away with a moral panic again.

I would be more willing to bet on someone trying Prohibition 2.0 again.

I think the underlying causal factor of both is actually phones/social media.

The problem is the inexorable logic of war - fighting everyone everywhere all the time - has led to the war expanding until it collides with an enemy that is actually comparable to Israel, i.e. Iran. And that war has now expanded to include the world's supply of oil.

It's going to affect everyone, and I don't think you can stop Western voters noticing that the price of fuel has gone up. Then they're going to start sharing the blame around: Iran, yes, but also Trump and Netenyahu.

Not every Palestinian is dead yet. And they've moved on to Lebanon. Not to mention that the war has widened to include Iran.

> evacuation orders. This prompted an estimated 1 million to 1.4 million civilians

"Evacuating" a million people who will not be allowed to return is "ethnic cleansing".

No, have you? Is there any independent confirmation of their existence?

Hah. A while ago I concluded that all the cheap PAL capture devices were so bad in software that my go-to setup became a PAL->HDMI converter followed by HDMI capture. It certainly crashed a lot less.

In this case it has a video encoder and and HDMI-in on the single SOC itself: https://rockchips.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Rockchip-RK...

That description could cover almost any game released in the past decade. I suppose the more popular ones have multiple warring subreddits with different mod rules.

(pet hate: it's perfectly OK to call your subreddit xyz_offficial, even when you are in no way officially affiliated with the game developer or publisher)

Person you're replying to is in Moray, Scotland, referring to local tax relief for petrol stations: https://www.moray.gov.uk/media/yrcjso12/file79893.pdf

Probably not all that rural by US standards, but it is by UK standards.

The EV rollout is still early stages here too. If we had regional electricity pricing (contentious question!), Scotland would have cheaper electricity and potentially at zero on many occasions.

(ID Buzz? Very expensive though)

This prompted me to check how the UK Costco rollout of EV chargers is going, which seems to be proceeding slowly and is not all that much of a discount at £0.50/kWh. Type 2 plugs so slowish?

> "smart home-graveyard"

That's when you put a QR code on a tombstone.

> EV charging in mechanical parking system is still an unsolved problem

I'm not familiar with this; don't you just plug it in?

Aren't boats typically highly geared direct drive? Hybrid only really benefits when you have lots of changes in speed or are using it for torque conversion as in diesel-electric trains.

Round here Toyotas almost immediately took over the taxi market. They're ideal for that use case: high milage, but stop/start in cities. Not seen many pure EV taxis yet apart from the occasional Tesla.

BEV deployment seems to be following fixed infrastructure. In Europe you can see it spreading out from Norway. Various mundane factors like "do I know there's charge points near where I go" and "does anyone I know drive an EV" affect adoption. That's why I quite like the UK green number plate stripe, it's a near costless bit of official EV promotion.

This has been tried, but back in the day the automatic transmissions weren't really up to it, and they don't really like thermal cycling. And they're noisy. Exact opposite of modern stop/start petrol engines for urban driving.

I also suspect all attempts to keep doing combustion engines for mainstream driving are going to get gradually overtaken and lapped by BEVs.

Textile art enjoyers of HN may also like the https://www.greattapestryofscotland.com/ (near the ruins of Melrose Abbey), or the https://www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk/ (conveniently located in Kendal for visitors to the Lakes)

The original Bayeux tapestry is a remarkable artefact though, simply because so little art has survived from that period let alone fabrics. I wonder what the original expected lifetime of a wall tapestry was, especially in great halls warmed by open fires.

The strange thing is that there's only visualizations and no photographs! It's not like it's difficult to find the moon to take photos of, nor the sunset.

Or is this a variant of the "counterintuitive" long shadows of mountains at sunrise/sunset? e.g. https://www.fox13seattle.com/weather/skies-erupt-in-color-du... shadow from underneath the cloud layer.

I'm sure I've seen a picture of the long downwards shadow of a mountain on a desert or plain taken from the top with the sun behind the photographer, but the search seems to be sufficiently AI poisoned now :(

Bonus score if your Meta AI Agent does something with your account that the Meta AI Moderator deems inappropriate and bans you.

That's just humans; now there's a lot more of us and we have advanced gossip technology.