[–] 3 points 4 months ago

Could fusion is and always was completely nonsense, it was a design flaw of a measurement instrument that made people think it worked, even though everyone who worked in nuclear fusion immediately dismissed as impossible. There's a great book that covers the subject called atomic adventures, written by one of the guys very involved in disproving the idea

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Jumping on your last point, I was in a local Game store and a woman who clearly knew nothing about games was birthday shopping for her son, she asked the owner what if he thought Superman 64 would be a good gift.

    To the man's credit, in complete deadpan, he said "that game is absolutely terrible, it's the worst game on the system"

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