Devial

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[–] Devial@discuss.online 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Devial@discuss.online 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Devial@discuss.online 3 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] Devial@discuss.online 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] Devial@discuss.online 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

[–] Devial@discuss.online 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (26 children)

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.

[–] Devial@discuss.online 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[–] Devial@discuss.online 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I mean they do have some small number of seats with extra legroom, that you can pay upcharge for. Exit row seats, bulk head seats, premium economy, to a smaller degree simply choosing an airline with a more spacious configuration in their planes.

[–] Devial@discuss.online 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm sorry you have to deal with that but it's not really a good argument. For one, the airline can still actually sell the seat in front of you.

If a person is so large they physically block 2 seats, then that's an extra seat that can't be occupied at all, so it's not really a fair comparison.

And ultimately, not every mode of transport can reasonably be accommodating to every single possible body type. I know that it sucks for people are stuck being an untypical body type and have to deal with nothing much fitting them,, but what do you suggest the alternative should be ? Spacing seats out more just so the few very tall people can sit everywhere is going to increase ticket prices for everyone, even those who neither need nor want that extra space. It will also increase the number of flights required to move the same number of passengers, and therefore increase the fuel use per passenger and mile flown.

[–] Devial@discuss.online 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I mean they literally DON'T charge you for extra cabin weight, or body weight, even if they could. Most airlines don't even put weight limits on cabin luggage, only size limits. And even those that have weight limits, in my experience, very rarely enforce them. Generally, only size is enforced for hand luggage.

And they only charge overweight people double if they're so large they physically block more than one seat, which imo is fine. If you need more than seat, it's perfectly fine to expect you to pay for that extra seat. It has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with either excessive greed OR mass/fuel issues.

[–] Devial@discuss.online 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I mean making shadowheart a light domain cleric when her literal goddess (at least if you're still in Act1 ) is literally the goddess of darkness isn't exactly in character, so I wouldn't see anything wrong e.g. respecing Astarion to a wizard. He's 200 years old, he's had plenty of time to study and I'd say him being a wizard is less out of character than Shar Shadowheart being a light domain cleric....

[–] Devial@discuss.online 5 points 6 days ago (7 children)

There's already a solution for that. It's called premium economy/business class.

And if you're gonna say "but that's so much more expensive", well guess what's going to happen if you reduce how many pax can fit on an aircraft.

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