I do like the raider power armor. I'll never use it, but the aesthetic makes sense for them.
They found a working frame, which is the hard engineering work done, so they just weld metal plates to it as best they can.
All EVs use electric heat just because electricity is the only source of energy they have.
Some use heat pumps, which are actually just the air conditioners running in reverse. They're fun because they appear to break the laws of thermodynamics at first. For every watt of electricity they consume, you get ~3-4 watts of heat out. The trick is they're not actually producing heat, just condensing outside heat and bringing it in.
Almost all EVs will also have resistive heaters, either as their only heat source, or because most heat pumps don't do too well when it gets really cold, but they're not as efficient, despite being, by definition, 100% efficient at turning electrical energy into heat.
It's funny how the IFHE requirement is mostly for the larger 140mms.
The 100s get an improved pen of 30mm, which covers a lot of common thicknesses that the 140s with their 23 mm pen can't.
There are 14 dunkins inside Logan Airport. That's at least one in every terminal (departures and arrivals) and a few before security.
Also, Judges are punished much more strictly than other people. A minor infraction that would get someone a few months in local prison would send a judge to a penal colony on Saturns moons for 20 years.
Not only is it heavier, but the electric drivetrain gives it wacko amounts of torque, so it can get a lot of mass moving fast in a short amount of time if you're not careful, and stopping that is no mean feat.
You see it a lot with people who buy 4 wheel drive SUVs when they move somewhere snowy and then immediately slide into a ditch because once they get going they can't figure out the slowing down part.
Or at the very least, done by a more competent surgeon.
40 watts out of an LED or CFL bulb is a lot more light than out of a traditional incandescent.
60 watts was a pretty standard, and some people would use 100 watt bulbs pre-led.
A modern LED bulb will use somewhere between 7-9 watts to produce the same amount of light, they're orders of magnitude more efficient at turning electricity into light.
100 watt LED bulbs are commonly found in streetlights, which would absolutely blind you if you installed one as a bedside lamp.
I get that the wedgetail and other more modern AWACS are better, but they just don't look right without the giant frisbee.
99 times out of 100, hacking isn't anywhere near as dramatic as movies make it out to be.
The other 1% of the time, you get something like stuxnet, which spread around the world on a single minded quest to destroy Iranian nuclear centrifuges, spoofing control signals and fiddling with the machines operation in just such a way that nobody knew that the centrifuges were being irreparably damaged, ultimately reducing the facilities refining capacity by as much as 10%.
I don't know if killing off DoubleFine would really get them much.
The studio was funded by Shafer after he left LucasArts when they were pivoting away from adventure games, and even their more recent releases have relied heavily on crowdfunding.
If the studio closes down I don't think there's much stopping a core team of people from going off and creating TripleAlright or something with a renewed focus on smaller titles. Other than a few IPs, there's nothing major for them to loose.
Especially against Battlefield 1. EA was running a massive marketing push, and it was also smack in the cultural zeitgeist with the centennial anniversary of WW1. it felt like half of Youtube was connected in some way from gaming creators to historians of all stripes.
Combined with the fact that it had been 5 years since the last 'real battlefield' game, with hardline not having much staying power, and 1 being the first game for the PS4/XBOX 1 generation of consoles (4 was a cross generational release) I don't think anyone was shocked when the sales figures were through the roof.
It's mentioned in 4 that synths are like locusts. They'll pick sites absolutely clean of materials to bring back to the Institute.
The gen 3s don't even need that, they're almost entirely organic, so the vast majority of their raw materials may just be grown in the hydroponics facility in the Institute HQ.
There is more significant Dunwich stuff in 4. Dunwich borers is a quarry that was doing a lot more than mining stone pre-war.
I think they could have still given you the power armor, but engineered some way for it to be more work to get it back to working after the deathclaw fight.
It feels like they expect it to be really beat up, with a significant number of destroyed pieces after the fight and a nearly dead fusion core.
But the problem is that even if you do get it to that state, you have two settlements with default power armor stations and enough scrap to cover the fairly low repair cost within sneezing distance.
exploring or trading will keep you in enough fusion cores from there to basically be set even very early.
If they had broken just a couple of links in that chain, requiring you to get the perks and materials to build a power armor station, or made repairing the pieces take levels in armorer or at least some more expensive materials, it still could have kept the power armor portion of the tutorial, while rewarding players for completing the settlement portion with the tools and materials they need to keep it running.
The Bolt isn't listed for sale anywhere on their website unless you specifically google to find one, and production seems to have ended at the end of last year.
GMs announcement of a new gen bolt came out last year, and the best guess is that we won't see one until model year 2026 at the absolute soonest.
If they see good sales on their larger, higher margin electric SUVs, I wouldn't be surprised if the new bolt is quietly axed before it hits the road.
Once they sorted out the battery pack fires, the Volts and Bolts were solid cars if a little less high tech than some of their competitors.
Unfortunately, GM has since killed all their non suv passenger vehicles aside from the non-hybrid Malibu.
Hummer is a GM brand, so they have plenty of EV experience to draw on.
SEA and APAC are two different zones.
APAC is all of east asia, including Australia if you want to stretch it. That would catch the members in Japan as well.
SEA is countries south of China, which covers Indonesia, the Philippines, and a few other countries including Vietnam and Singapore.
A modern CVN can still do this. In addition, they can provide an airbase and ATC for coordinating relief flights, significant water purification capacity, advanced hospital facilities, and all manner of other useful services if you're an island or coastal nation that's suffered a natural disaster.
I had a game where I was way ahead in science, and had just built my first few basic nuclear weapons.
This caused the AI to collectively freak the fuck out and immediately enact the non-proliferation agreement, despite none of them being even near the tech themselves.
That meant that I was suddenly the only civ with any nukes, and my previously antagonistic neighbor was suddenly a lot less inclined to mass troops on our border.
"i would have followed you my brother. my captain. my king" b*tch me too, tf
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