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The higher voltage has nothing whatsoever to do with ring circuits. The UK runs on the same 220-240V AC as all of mainland Europe. And Africa. And most of mainland Asia. And South America. And Oceania. And most of the middle east. So not quite "higher than any other country"

Also those two claims are diametrically opposed to each other. Unless UK people use over twice the amount of electricity than Americans, the higher voltage will lead to LOWER total current. That's quite literally the specific and sole motivating factor behind choosing a higher grid voltage.

And the current a conductor can pass has nothing whatsoever to do with it's safety. You could have 50 amps blowing through a circuit, if it's at 12V you can still touch it without getting a shock. Your car battery is capable of peak currents of several HUNDRED amps, and those are considered safe enough to just carry around by random people with bare hands.

Again, the amount of current passed depends only on the voltage, which again, is the same in the UK as all of mainland Europe (and most of the rest of the world except America and Japan), and has been since the early 20th century, so I've no idea what you're trying to go on about there.

And lastly, no it isn't. For one, the child safety shutters on all UK outlets are certainly not contained in a Japanese breaker panel. Neither are the fuses in the plug, which protect the external wiring. And nor is the insulation on the lower legs of the contacts contained in a breaker panel. The Japanese plugs are basically the same as American. You can literally get an electric shock if you hold them wrong whilst unplugging. There's exposed live contacts from when you start unplugging until the prongs break their connection to the outlet.

Basically everything you said is demonstrably false. I've rarely seen someone be this confident and this incorrect about something.

Reminds of the old pile of gold (empty) meme

I mean that is kinda exactly what the developers want to provoke with timed dialogue choices. Timed dialogue choices are a game design mechanic to try and get a player to answer on instinct/gut feeling, rather than over analysing and trying to optimise the dialogue.

You not getting to think about it long is very much the intended effect, and allowing a pause would entirely defeat it.

There are of course definite accessibility concerns that should be considered and worked around, such as people with dyslexia who may not be able to properly parse the dialogue options before the timer runs out, but as a game mechanic I think forcing the player to pick on instinct definitely has merit. It helps make the game more immersive, because it puts you under the same pressure to react as your character is in the story right now, and it can lead to more interesting and ultimately enjoyable games by forcing players to potentially make a mistake, and having to find out a way to deal with the fallout.

Games that don't allow you to pause and skip cutscenes.

I don't want to have to miss half of the cutscenes just because someone interrupted me or the phone rang or something half way through. Alternatively, when I'm on my 23rd replay of a game, I do not want to have to sit through every cutscenes I already know by heart.

Oh, and modern games that allow manual saving at any time, not having any kind of regular auto save (looking at you here BG3).

If you're fine from a gameplay pov with having the player save whenever, then there's really no good reason whatsoever to not have one or two auto save slots that get saved every 10-20 minutes or so, at least as an option in the menu. ESPECIALLY in open world games (like BG3...) where you can easily go literal hours at a time without hitting a checkpoint save. And yes, I am still salty over learning about BG3's lack of regular auto save when I lost like 2.5 hours of progress on my first run.

Fun fact, basic ethanol works excellent as a fuel additive to reduce knocking, but because it's already a well known compound, fuel companies couldn't patent it as an additive, that's why they invented leaded petrol instead, so they could patent it.

(E: For full completeness, it should probably also be noted that potential legal difficulties surrounding reliably obtaining or producing industrial quantities of Ethanol alcohol in prohibition era America probably also played some role, but the patent thing was definitely the main reason)

Way to demonstrate the intellectual maturity of a 5 year old. And since I don't engage with random 5 year olds on principle, consider yourself blocked.

Commercial jet liners are the safest mode of transport by a massive margin, and several orders of magnitude more safe than anything that is on a public road. If you start driving and flying at the same time, by the time you've encountered even a serious, much less fatal, incident in the aircraft, statistically you will have been killed dozens of times over in the car.

Don't see you raging against buses or taxis here.

It's possible to that of course, but I doubt it's worth it. It also couldn't be adapted as is, because fuses in each plug are always required t for UK plugs, they aren't for EU plugs. And if you have to adapt a narrow EU plug to hold a replacable fuse would eat into size savings, require adapting the standard and require entirely new production lines for the modified plugs, so almost certainly simply not worth it.

Dude. Larger spaced economy seats would LITERALLY be doing the same exact thing. There is no world where you get more space for the same amount of money.

Airlines already don't make a lot of profit on economy seats, if any. It's not like they're price gauging you on the basic economy price. The majority of their profit comes higher classes, baggage and other service upgrades, and at least in America, credit card reward programs. Economy class by itself is already barely, if at all, profitable. Making it significantly more spacious will inevitably and without doubt lead to higher prices. And if you're willing to pay those higher prices, we'll that's literally already an option today. The only thing you're advocating for here is forcing literally everyone to pay that upcharge, even those that don't want or need it.

It's also bad for the environment. As uncomfortable as it is, stuffing as many people as you possibly can into one aircraft reduces the total number of aircrafts/size of aircraft required for a certain passenger number. Not that that's why airlines do it of course, but it's a genuinely desirable and positive side effect of the cramped economy seating.

Spamming this on inappropriate communities is just going to make me NOT watch your videos out of spite, if nothing else.

No, because the rest of the world isn't America.

Those ring circuits WERE up to UK standard, and perfectly safe when they were constructed, and nowadays are either still covered by the standard, or grandfathered in, meaning at minimum in existing buildings, they still in fact are up to UK standard.

The reason other counties don't use ring circuits isn't because they're less safe or inherently worse in any way, which the term "substandard" clearly implies. It's because they're less convenient. It's easier and more convenient to make and use, and easier in terms of individual steps, to make safe seperate fused circuits instead of a ring circuit.

The reason the UK used ring circuits was because they use much less copper conduit, and given the massive ~~copper~~ everything shortage in the UK during and after WWII, the convenience of modern circuits simply wasn't worth it.

I don't see any reason to really insist on keeping characters their original class, unless you explicitly want that class in your party.

I find respecing characters to different classes is a great way to allow you to choose which companion storylines you want to persue, without locking you into a specific class comp, and there's plenty of class changes that imo stay perfectly in character.

For example oath of vengeance paladin is very easy to integrate into Karlachs backstory and character. Shart would work well character wise as a shadow magic sorcerer.

I can also totally see Astarion being a wizard, as I stated above, especially a Bladesinger.