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Why couldn't it have been like 10 thousand times bigger?

maniac mansion, video unavailable

Eh

never heard of jets but the rest are popular.

A Gulf War shooter would just be a bunch of soldiers sitting around in the desert.

I was under the impression that the Wolfenstein series was still selling well

Was the original real or has it always been a parody pasta?

Why go twice?

What kind of church you go to thats 3 hours

Sonic 2 is better

I wouldn't be able to stand that.

It's getting hotter in Greenland, and last weekend temperatures rose enough to cause 18 billion tons of the country's ice sheet to melt over three days.

Scientists have warned about the fate of Greenland's ice sheet and say what happened between July 15 and 17 is the latest massive melting event contributing to an increase in the global sea level.

The amount of water from the melt about 6 billion tons a day, or 18 billion tons over the weekend is enough to "cover West Virginia in a foot of water 4 inches per day, roughly," Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado's Earth Science and Observation Center and National Snow and Ice Data Center, told USA TODAY.

Much of the melting came from northern Greenland because warm air drifted over from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Scambos said.

There is also a high-pressure dome over Greenland. Together, they created an "unusually extensive melt event," he said.

Temps heating up in Greenland
Temperatures vary over Greenland, but the coldest temperatures are in areas of high elevation, toward the center of the ice sheet, said William Lipscomb, a senior scientist in the National Center for Atmospheric Researchs Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory.

Once temperatures are above freezing or 32 degrees Fahrenheit, the melting begins. Temperatures last weekend were around 60 degrees, or 10 degrees warmer than normal for this time of year, according to CNN.

"In recent years, we've seen a lot of heat waves in Greenland, this recent warming of it being one example," Lipscomb told USA TODAY. "Any temperature above freezing can cause some surface melting."

Greenland loses 'tremendous amount of ice every year now'
In the 1980s and 1990s in Greenland, a melt event of this sort never occurred, but starting in the 2000s especially since 2010 the melting has been more extensive.

The melt is two times larger than normal, said Xavier Fettweis of the University of Lige. Fettweis, a polar researcher, created a model scientists use, along with satellite data, to study Greenland's changes.

The melt is among two of the largest melts in the ice sheet history after the 2012 and 2019 melting events; in 2019, the runoff was about 527 billion tons. So far, the total melt is far below 2019 levels, but the situation is more dire over the Svalbard ice caps at the North of Norway, Fettweis said.

More melting was expected, said Scambos, of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. "This event is one of many events over the whole summer," he said. "We can expect on the order of 100 billion tons of water going into the ocean. Greenland as a whole is losing a tremendous amount of ice every year now."

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ice scientist Nathan Kurtz was recently in Greenland to help better calibrate ICESat-2, one of the agency's satellites used to monitor Greenland.

Its data has shown a loss of ice from Greenland of about 200 billion tons a year over the past two decades, Kurtz told USA TODAY. "This loss of ice contributes directly to global sea level rise, which has significant societal impacts," he said.

Lipscomb, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said scientists measure the amount of water melted in units of gigatons per year, or 1 billion tons of water. Before climate change, about 600 gigatons of snowfall were coming in each year and about 300 gigatons were going out in the form of summer melting.

Now, Greenland's ice sheet is losing nearly 300 gigatons of water each year more than it gains from snowfall, Lipscomb said. "There's still time to avoid catastrophic sea level rise, but every year that greenhouse gas emissions continue at the present rate increases the chances of serious problems down the road."

In some parts of the world such as Asia, seasonal water supply depend on the timing of the glacier melt.

"If the melt is happening too early, you may not be getting the water when you need it for farming," he said. "And if the glaciers completely melt, then you won't have the glacier melt water source at all. And that's something people worry about for later this century as the warming continues."

They asked Donald Trump to say "I lost the election" and he couldn't do it.

Then they asked him to say "Please be peaceful" and he couldn't do it.

Then they asked him to say "Yesterday" and he couldn't do it.

I don't mean that he refused to say anything. Like he gave it an honest attempt and couldn't do it.

Cable did cliff notes in his topic. They were live though, so you have to scroll through the entire thing.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80101753

Im out of the loop, how could NFTs be used in a game like Minecraft?

While the whole NFT thing appears to be mercifully on the decline, there are still companies out therelike Square Enixtrying to justify partnering with technology that exists solely as an enormous scam. Mojang is clearly not one of them.

In a lengthy statement published on Minecrafts site, the team go into great detail explaining both why they havent embraced the technology to date, and why theyve taken the steps to ban any implementation of anything blockchain-related in Minecraft.

While including a brief caveat saying , hey, if blockchain can ever prove its anything other than a huge grift then maybe well look at it, the bulk of the post attacks the techs for their promotion of digital ownership based on scarcity and exclusion, which does not align with Minecraft values of creative inclusion and playing together.

It also lays out why blockchain tech and NFTs have been outlawed throughout the game, saying To ensure that Minecraft players have a safe and inclusive experience, blockchain technologies are not permitted to be integrated inside our client and server applications, nor may Minecraft in-game content such as worlds, skins, persona items, or other mods, be utilized by blockchain technology to create a scarce digital asset.

You can read the policy in full below (their emphasis, not mine).

OUR POLICY ON NFTS AND MINECRAFT
In our Minecraft Usage Guidelines, we outline how a server owner can charge for access, and that all players should have access to the same functionality. We have these rules to ensure that Minecraft remains a community where everyone has access to the same content. NFTs, however, can create models of scarcity and exclusion that conflict with our Guidelines and the spirit of Minecraft.

To ensure that Minecraft players have a safe and inclusive experience, blockchain technologies are not permitted to be integrated inside our client and server applications, nor may Minecraft in-game content such as worlds, skins, persona items, or other mods, be utilized by blockchain technology to create a scarce digital asset. Our reasons follow.

Some companies have recently launched NFT implementations that are associated with Minecraft world files and skin packs. Other examples of how NFTs and blockchain could be utilized with Minecraft include creating Minecraft collectible NFTs, allowing players to earn NFTs through activities performed on a server, or earning Minecraft NFT rewards for activities outside the game.

Each of these uses of NFTs and other blockchain technologies creates digital ownership based on scarcity and exclusion, which does not align with Minecraft values of creative inclusion and playing together. NFTs are not inclusive of all our community and create a scenario of the haves and the have-nots. The speculative pricing and investment mentality around NFTs takes the focus away from playing the game and encourages profiteering, which we think is inconsistent with the long-term joy and success of our players.

We are also concerned that some third-party NFTs may not be reliable and may end up costing players who buy them. Some third-party NFT implementations are also entirely dependent on blockchain technology and may require an asset manager who might disappear without notice. There have also been instances where NFTs were sold at artificially or fraudulently inflated prices. We recognize that creation inside our game has intrinsic value, and we strive to provide a marketplace where those values can be recognized.

As such, to ensure that Minecraft players have a safe and inclusive experience, blockchain technologies are not permitted to be integrated inside our Minecraft client and server applications nor may they be utilized to create NFTs associated with any in-game content, including worlds, skins, persona items, or other mods. We will also be paying close attention to how blockchain technology evolves over time to ensure that the above principles are withheld and determine whether it will allow for more secure experiences or other practical and inclusive applications in gaming. However, we have no plans of implementing blockchain technology into Minecraft right now.

We hope to have more to share with you soon. In the meantime, if youre interested in reading up on our guidelines, you can find them here. Stay tuned!

I actually hate real time strategy games because they often devolve into rote memorization instead of actual strategy.

I don't think I'd fire someone over that, seems more in line with an apology

Youre telling me mississippi and alabama ranked higher

dont say things like that on GameFAQs. The mods will ban anyone saying they are below 13 years old even as a joke. I get what you meant, but a mod may intentionally misinterpret it.

It's weird people want to specifically treat trans innmates more harshly....for reasons.
It's weird no one ever suggests male prison guards should get vasectomies before working in women's prisons, even though they "cause" way more pregnancies. I wonder why?