If you set it up correctly, this is essentially what it does. You have a disc that is, say, 1tb. It's encrypted, so without a key, it's just a bunch of random noise. 2 keys decrypt different vaults, but they each have access to the full space. The files with the proper key get revealed, but the rest just looks like noise still, no way to tell if it's empty space or if it's a bunch of files.
This does have an interesting effect. Since both drives share the same space, you can overfill one, and it'll start overwriting data from the second. Say you have a 1tb drive, and 2 vaults with 400gb spent. If you then go try to write like, 300gb of data to one vault, it'll allow you to do so, by overwriting 200gb of what the drive thinks is empty space, but is actually encrypted by another key.
It's been a while since I've messed with this tech, and I'm mostly a layman, but this should be a fairly accurate depiction of what's actually happening.
Definitely wasn't the take away I got. It was much more "all 3 are useless in their own ways". It honestly feels much more in the same vein as "in Soviet Russia we have the right to arm bears" kind of humor, than anything glorifying them to me.
No the "point" is that in any given game, fast travel is a system that is either there or it isn't. Particularly in a single player games experience. That's a feature that's expected, and locking it behind a paywall, even if it's listed as a feature only added by dlc, feels shitty.
It would be like releasing a game, and charging for a pause menu. Some games don't pause, some do. To lock that basic feature behind a payment is silly, greedy, wrong.
I feel the same way when I go to some gas stations here. Everywhere has the lowest grade on the left. Then you get this shady AF shell station or something, and the high grade is the left most one. You KNOW they're doing that to catch people unaware. Is it illegal? No. Does it instill any confidence in your business? Hell no.
I thought the game was really fun as far ARPGs go, but I play primarily on controller if I can, and while I was able to run through the bulk of it with 2 characters, holy crap it was infuriating. Every menu has a completely different input scheme, using the wrong one probably forced you out of the menus because you dared to move your character, and it really makes me wonder about the logic involved with that design process.
Believe it or not, in certain contexts, this is an appropriate use of dimension. Dimensions can be thought of as parameters, essentially. In 3d space, you have 3 parameters, length, width, and height. Add in time and you have 4d spacetime. From there, if you're defining a system with more parameters, it's a higher dimensional space. A movie with 3 spatial dimensions, then programmed smell releases, like someone else mentioned, would then be 4 dimensions: l,w,h,s. The reality is, it's a bit silly and definitely a marketing gimmick to refer to your movie experience as "9d", but it's not entirely incorrect.
She's one of the few who actually put the "billionaires should be free to donate how they choose!" thing up in good faith, it seems. I'll reserve some skepticism, but as far as the mega wealthy go, she seems to actually be doing okay.
This is easy enough to test. Take a tire and fill it. Test the pressure. Let it sit outside overnight on a cold night and test it again. The pressure will be lower.
Consider this, as well: yes, it's about differential pressure, but it's also volumes. "Pressure" is the outward force from all of the molecules in the air bouncing around in a space. As temperature increases, those molecules move faster and bounce more. Since pressure is just us measuring that bouncing, increased temperature increases pressure.
Why doesn't the atmosphere increasing in temp balance it out? Size. The tire is SIGNIFICANTLY smaller. This means each individual molecule only has to go a little bit before it's hitting another wall. Compared to outside the tire, those same molecules bounce off everything, some ricocheting into the tire, and others in whatever random other direction. The change in movement speed of the particles may be the same, but the change in how frequently they're smashing into the tire is different, thus different pressures.
There wouldn't be all the crevices we have now, though. Plus, I feel like a soft surface would hold on to scraps less tightly. Hell, you'd probably be fine using just mouthwash.
Let me ask you this. If the puberty blockers were essentially a pause button, how would you feel? If given them, instead of experiencing puberty at, say, 13, you (as a potential trans person) can take the blockers for however long until everyone is sure of which way you want to go, and then you can do that.
To my laymans understanding of puberty blockers, this is essentially how they work. Obviously, there are some risks with delayed development, but compared to other more invasive measures, this one is relatively benign.
Honestly the biggest issue with transitioning is puberty. Once you hit that line, it's a lot harder to do the work necessary. It's still doable, but I think anyone who has tried to transition post-puberty wishes they could have done it sooner. There are opportunity costs on either side.
I totally understand wanting to prevent youths who may not actually be certain what direction they want to go from making an irreversible choice. To my (admittedly shallow) understanding though, puberty blockers are pretty benign, no? They just delay what would happen, more or less, and that progress can begin again when the blocker is removed? If that's correct, then this seems like the least logical transitioning tool to be blocked. Plus, stopping puberty will probably have the biggest impact on your post transition 'success' of anything, for the level of invasiveness it has.
I thought it was at first. They're not entirely uncommon, just giving the pistol a more stable platform. But no, this one appears to be a buttstock holster. Giving me Luger vibes in a way.
That's way too cumbersome. I have to take a buxom wench with me everywhere just to defend myself?? And I have to pull my gun from between her boobs? I'll just grow em myself at that point.
That's my reaction with a jager mule usually. Just a Moscow mule, sub the vodka for jagermeister. It sounds way too much, but the flavors of the ginger and the jager fit so well together, it's really more than the sum of its parts.
If you set it up correctly, this is essentially what it does. You have a disc that is, say, 1tb. It's encrypted, so without a key, it's just a bunch of random noise. 2 keys decrypt different vaults, but they each have access to the full space. The files with the proper key get revealed, but the rest just looks like noise still, no way to tell if it's empty space or if it's a bunch of files.
This does have an interesting effect. Since both drives share the same space, you can overfill one, and it'll start overwriting data from the second. Say you have a 1tb drive, and 2 vaults with 400gb spent. If you then go try to write like, 300gb of data to one vault, it'll allow you to do so, by overwriting 200gb of what the drive thinks is empty space, but is actually encrypted by another key.
It's been a while since I've messed with this tech, and I'm mostly a layman, but this should be a fairly accurate depiction of what's actually happening.