Yeah, this is exactly the point of the "problem" OP complains about. Charge people for overproduction, so they're encouraged to buy a home battery and contribute in the night.

Eventually home batteries will become a standard part of such installations.

Because they have to give that energy away in order to keep the grid stable.

Hopefully better battery storage will make this better in the future.

The aim with it is to naturally discourage people from overproducing in such overproduction times - e.g. maybe you disable your solar panels when you predict it will happen, lessening the sudden impact on the grid.

FWIW you could buy a high capacity home battery already to eliminate it yourself (charge the battery in those times), but they're still expensive.

HEVC is so good at compression though!

It sucks about all the patent bullshit though, same thing blocking HDMI 2.1 adoption too.

The answer is nuclear power.

I learnt Spanish like this. Mainly finishing Duolingo and downloading some textbooks and doing a few MOOC courses and listening to slow podcasts, and then watching basic movies.

Once I got to the point I could watch movies and TV, I would watch a movie almost every single day.

It's a lot of work, but to get to the point of speaking and listening it is necessary.

It took about 2 years in total - and then I started a job working in Spanish.

• Ultima VII
• Baldur's Gate 1
• Daggerfall
• Morrowind
• Oblivion
• Deus Ex
• Thief
• Ultima Underworld
• Kerbal Space Programme
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Honourable mentions for Baldur's Gate 3, Crusader Kings 2, and Tears of the Kingdom.

Sweden has devalued the currency massively (over 20% since 2020) - so it makes for cheap foreign investment.

Kerbal Space Program, Shadow Empire and Baldur's Gate 3.

The issue is the physics. 60Hz doesn't give you much time to do everything that needs to be calculated in the interval. All the objects can interact with one another so it's not easily independent and parallelisable.

There's still optimisations that can be made - disable physics and have only certain actions enable them for nearby objects, smaller physics range, fewer physics-enabled objects, etc. - but those all have drawbacks for the gameplay and realism too.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68203820

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?end=2022&locations=US-EU&start=1990&view=chart

We were already a lot poorer than the US, and now the gap is really opening up. At this rate China will overtake Europe by 2040 or so.

It's really the combination of the energy crisis (we are dependent on Russian gas or US LNG - we don't have enough nuclear), demographics crisis (the public pensions are unsustainable, and yet it continues to be forced upon workers having their income stolen by governments who almost certainly won't provide a pension for them in the future), and just a general lack of investment in the future infrastructure and technology (it's been over a decade, and we're still not ready for full electric vehicle switchover, nor is international high-speed rail competitive with airlines, etc.).

I prefer BG3, as DOS2 has the awkward separate armour systems - so you're forced to either target physical or magical armour specifically.

Also BG3 has Baldur's Gate which is awesome with all the city quests, etc. - lot of quests you can do entirely with stealth.

D:OS2 didn't have the branching questlines though - BG3 added a lot too, but I agree the main base of the game was there.

But yeah they're the only developer I will preorder from.