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XsNR t1_je2uouo wrote
Imagine you're making furniture, you can build it entirely yourself from scratch, or you can buy something from IKEA and modify it how you want, paint it, add draws, do what ever you want, but you bought the base pre-made which saved you time, and tools required to make the IKEA part.
A game engine is similar, its the base of a game which you could create yourself manually, or you could use something else and modify it. With a lot of engines it can be as simple as "painting" it, or as complicated as using it for an entirely different genre of game.
Examples, are things like
- Source engine, which is primarily an FPS engine used for mostly FPS games
- Unity engine, used for all kinds of things, primarily made for cross-platform compatability
- Unreal engine, originally made for Unreal Tournament as an FPS engine, now expanded to be mostly a 3D environment engine, so can be used for all things from FPS/RPG games, to strategy games, and even Film creation
XsNR t1_je2p3bt wrote
Reply to comment by Jayn_Newell in ELI5: What does it mean to identify as a man/woman ? by Fakeid7
That's really all it comes down to. If the pronouns you're being called feels bad, and being referred to as the others feels better.
XsNR t1_jaews2x wrote
Reply to comment by FrozenKyrie in Eli5 if a phone number is 7 digits then how aren't there more people with the same number? by FrozenKyrie
Even with that, countries do recycle numbers when they go out of service. Sometimes you'll get texts or calls from people's contacts who previously owned your number.
XsNR t1_jaesnua wrote
Reply to ELI5: why are male to male USB-C cables not dangerous like male to male wall plugs are? by KeyStomach0
USB as a whole is both female and male. They have interconnected shapes that make use of both types, with the power being supplied from the internal connection. Most AC connectors utilise the same principal where the pins are shielded from prying fingers, the direct wall plugs being the exception, but they're also fairly poorly designed as a whole, and from a time before our current understanding of proper power safety mechanics. Some are better than others, the US' standard is quite poor by comparison to the other standard's.
If you've ever had a laptop or games console with a barrel plug (looks similar to USB-C, but circular), they are the reverse of USB-C, with the live outside, and ground inside. They're still not terribly dangerous, as they also don't carry a very high voltage. Although you can actually feel the power flowing through those, where as USB standards, if you touch the metal are such low voltage that its almost negligible. Both work on the same principal though, that DC is not terribly dangerous in low voltages, where as AC is consistently quite dangerous.
The lightning cable (Apple's phone standard) is effectively the reverse of USB-C, with the male cable plugging into the female device. Although these are live on the outside of the connector, Apple doesn't utilise quick charge technology on it's lightning connector, so the power delivery is lower than most of the previously mentioned barrel plugs.
XsNR t1_jaenr1b wrote
Reply to comment by supergooduser in ELI5- Given the average cost of a cup of coffee is marked up about ~80%, why hasn’t a company come in and charge significantly less to take a greater share of the market? by Educational_Sir3783
McD's have some free coffee offers in some markets too, to try and incentivise people to come buy McBreakfast. That's probably more like what u/Educational_Sir3783 was thinking.
XsNR t1_jebd10d wrote
Reply to ELI5: how can the female to male population be almost 1:1 but men die more than women and the birth rate of men and women is almost equal (and the fisher principle doesn’t make sense because men have a higher death rate so how can it even out)? by noobia0009
Women have a far more dangerous modern day issue facing them than men, giving birth.
While we've mostly overcome that issue in the modern world, it's still one of the most dangerous things that you can do, and only half the population can do it.