Homer, I bought you the damn chair.

Personally my cat seems to crave the flavor of yoga mats.

Yes!

https://animal-world.com/do-lions-like-catnip/

"Decaf coffee"

It actually has 300000mg of caffeine

"It's well known that coffee has caffeine in it. Skill issue."

Being alongside people who are conducting an IR strobe disco party because they still mistakenly believe they have a monopoly on night optics is a terrifying experience. I'm told.

Gatling. He wanted to increase firepower per person, which would reduce the number of soldiers in a conflict.

Maxim:

"In 1882 I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States. He said: 'Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each others' throats with greater facility.'"

The American Model 1915 was a pretty good quick redesign I think.

Trade the magazine window for a witness hole, go from a moon mag to more conventional box mag, move the vertical grip forward.

One is meant to just hold down the trigger until it's empty. The Chauchet was one of the first of what we would know as a light machinegun. Mobility in order to support advances was the designated role.

In a world of bolt action rifles, the ability to lay down controlled bursts was a big firepower multiplier.

The 20 round magazine would be acceptable for the period. Same capacity as what the M1918A2 BAR was issued with in WW2 and Korea, and only slightly less than the many light machineguns with 30 round magazines that were used for decades after (and in some cases into the current day.)

Kingdom Hearts in shambles.

SG

The most entertaining result is them stubbornly refusing to admit that they are "Name" and the judge issuing a warrant for failing to appear because the named defendant didn't show up to court.

Usually at that point they crack, but I've seen one zoom court where the judge just ends the hearing with the warrant issued.

You seem unfamiliar with this circus.

This person was being the authorized representative of themselves. Sovcits, for a variety of reasonings, often refuse to admit that they are the legal person who is being charged. They often make a convoluted distinction between the actual person and the legal person, so they show up as the actual person to "settle the matters" of the legal person.

You can't be an authorized representative of somebody else for a crime/infraction unless you are a lawyer anywhere I know of in the U.S. A person representing is either a lawyer or self-represented. You can't just pick some rando as your champion to show up in your place. Judges have smacked Sovcits legally in various ways for this stunt.

That's great, though it doesn't really address the questions. I suspect only higher up people in the Halo 2 development could answer them.

This is a really interesting video. My first question would be why this issue wasn't caught early by the devs. The Id Tech 4 engine at the time was considered absolutely cutting edge stuff, and (as the video identifies) even it had to be constrained to interior environments. Halo 2 was using an iteration off of Halo:CE's engine, so unlike Doom the engine wasn't specifically built to do those shadow tricks. Who thought that they could rework an existing engine to do shadows like this, get it to work better than Id Tech 4 at doing outdoor spaces, and then get it optimized enough that not high end computers but X-Boxes could run it? And do all of that on top of actually just making the game itself inside of a market driven timeline?

Laid out like that, it looks like a crazy idea. I wonder if the art style was developer or management pushed, and who allowed it to get far enough that models were made with it in mind.