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XsNR t1_jebd10d wrote

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.

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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  • Unreal engine, originally made for Unreal Tournament as an FPS engine, now expanded to be mostly a 3D environment engine, so can be used for all things from FPS/RPG games, to strategy games,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
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XsNR t1_jaesnua wrote

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.

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