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  • But if we’re talking about console sales, Microsoft has been downplaying its need to sell hardware for years now, pushing the idea that you can experience Xbox anywhere, namely on PC with day and date Game Pass releases, and on other devices through cloud gaming, which remains a niche market. The path to cash has been Game Pass subscriptions, as it’s more valuable to have players paying a monthly/yearly fee that will end up being far more money than a single console would be





  • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.worldtoScience Fiction@lemmy.worldSandworm size chart
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    7 months ago

    Everything about this is wrong.

    • Graboids are the smallest, maxing out at 10 meters in length.
    • The Sarlaac pit is just the mouth. The actual Sarlaac is 100 meters long
    • The Beetlejuice Sandworm has a head slightly larger than an average door, so about 1 meter wide.
    • Shai Hulud get up to 1000 meters in length (pre-Brian Herbert Lore) and around 40-50 meters wide.


  • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlFuck ads at the gas pump
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    7 months ago

    Watch out entire industry that’s been operating for more than a century, Dark Arc’s dad is an engineer and he has correctly interpreted the facts you can’t even seem to grasp.

    Quick, now do perpetual motion! Those simpletons have barely even tried.

    Not that this will mean anything to you, but this feels a lot like when someone says “why don’t we just run lean so we save fuel?”.



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    7 months ago

    Yes, which is why the recommendation is to keep your hand on the handle while pumping or touch a metal part of your car prior to returning to the pump, and don’t get back into a car.

    I have a real life degree in automotive technology and engineering, and you saw a Mythbusters episode.

    We can keep doing this forever if you like, but you’re still very poorly informed on how safety is engineered into your vehicle fuel system and the mechanisms that support it.

    Here is some reading to help you, API recommended fuel procedures (if you’re not familiar with the API just read any gas pump or bottle of oil until you are): https://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas/consumer-information/consumer-resources/staying-safe-pump

    Most important, motorists should not get back into their vehicles during refueling. It may be a temptation to get back in the car for any number of reasons. But the average fill-up takes only two minutes, and staying outside the vehicle will greatly minimize the likelihood of any build-up of static electricity that could be discharged at the nozzle.