I read a lot and own game science dice. Game science described the process in their marketing to explain how their dice were different

They often are polished the way rocks are, tumbled with abrasives, which randomly wears them down

Few expensive dice will be polished carefully

I trust internet dice rollers over commodity dice, d6 is pretty much the only one easy to get fair versions made for the gambling industry

Most manufacturers deliberately include an error on the speedo so they report 5km/h high (about 3mph). My two cars have 2km/h and 3km/h errors

You can look up the speedometer error for most cars, you can test your own using a stopwatch and a measured distance and maths, or a GPS that shows speed to one decimal place. I use GPS essentials

GPS speed is very accurate.

The cybertruck was destroyed by the effort

I guess Musk never succeeded in his “you could use it as a boat” statement

I wonder if it’s West Australians who call American beaches bad. West Australia has the most beautiful white sand beaches, everywhere else looks dirty to them

In Australia, they park and walk

Most do, then they’re replaced by the next cohort of young men with dad’s muscle car

They grow out of that sort of bad behaviour

Youth love the roundabout near me for turning tyres into smoke, then they speed down the residential street.

We had a break for several months when one wrapped his dad’s SS Commodore around a front yard tree on the inside of the first turn

In Australia we have a point system, each driving offence (whether caught by a cop or a robot) deducts points, reach zero points and you lose your driver’s licence

People on a handful of points become very careful

Best of all money won’t save you

Prusa video about their colour systems

The blog post is practically the transcript of this video

I think that’s the flavour of free that Joseph Prusa likes, for maximum distribution, but not ensuring freedom for future versions from other people

People typically don’t use fair dice. There’s often a much higher than 1/20 chance of getting a particular result

Dice are polished to remove molding marks, which also rounds off edges and makes faces different sizes

One of the things I like from d&d 3.5 is the critical system, where an attacker who rolled a 20 makes a critical threat, but must roll again and hit to confirm the critical, so people with high AC don’t get hit critically every time they are hit

Druid solution: wall of stone, shaped as a ramp to send the tram off the rails, onto its side, away from the staff and party and me

Or maybe if the tram is full of innocent people, a wall of stone as a ramp over the restrained party members

My 386 had turbo on practically all the time except when playing earlier era games where half speed made them playable

It really was an unturbo button

It’s not that internet explorer was good that made it successful, it was packaged with windows where Netscape wasn’t. People used the one that was already on their computer, then as they got market share they extended http to encourage sites to make stuff that wouldn’t work in Netscape, and couldn’t due to patents

By the time Microsoft was forced to unbundle IE and windows it was very hard for Netscape to get market share back

I’m sure that back in the day there were adults in charge of the big companies. I know that where I work management used to listen to tech areas for tech stuff. Now they just trust whatever the Microsoft agent tells them

DOS 5 docko was fine. I wonder* when they went wrong

*I don’t really

Maybe. Maybe it’s just having 5x as many print heads so 5x as many failure points