You've stumbled into the core reason why Harry Potter is still huge: the setting is so full of plot holes, so poorly constructed, yet just interesting enough that you started writing fan fiction that was better than the original, purely by accident.

Every school but Hogwarts is just "magic castle" run through Google translate, and all of them are varying degrees of racist. Castelobruxo requires students to wander through the jungle to find it, because it's in the jungle of course.

Israel wants that land, it seems unlikely they'd be going around irradiating the place. And there's plenty of countries that have the ability to detect nuclear events and the interest in reporting if Israel is doing it. Seems conspiratorial

Higher than 90

The OP of that thread has been banned from hex several times because they're a debate pervert who keeps insisting they're open to new information and then refuse to budge when given that information. The worst kind of white liberal MLK wrote of, who is perfectly polite but steadfastly opposed to change. Every time they've posted you can see they're trying to sway us over to their malformed, petty worldview, and it never works because we're all so terminally online we can see through that shit.

If this were an echo chamber there'd be just one school of thought instead of like fifty. I think there's hoxhaists in here

You need ionizing radiation like UV rays or shorter wavelengths to cause cancer. Phone radios can't generate UV rays, and that's not an engineering/software thing, that's Actual Physics. Furthermore, harmful ionizing radiation caused by photons would cause distinctive sunburn injuries. Also wouldn't penetrate clothing unless it was up into x-ray radiation and you need specialized machines to do that, phones simply don't have the power needed.

Also, cancer from radiation isn't an instant thing, it requires years and years of compounding cell replication errors to eventually stumble into the right combination of mutations. We're talking years to decades from initial exposure to cancer, and it's not even 100% likely to kill you.

If the CIA wanted you dead they'd just shoot you or cut your brake lines or something similarly quick and easy.

Bingo. You don't need a 4.7 GHz 8 core consumer CPU to power a car and its associated data mining utilities, you need like forty microcontrollers and one smart lightbulb worth of wifi capacity.

I've always felt that photorealism takes second place to good art direction. You look at Half Life 2 and it's dated, but Team Fortress 2 hasn't aged a day despite being old enough to vote.

Imo a lot of the effort is coming out of film animation and doctorate mathematicians, but I don't doubt Unreal is funding a lot of that research

Shipbreaker is an entire game purely about taking ships apart in exactly the fashion Star Citizen wants its infantry boarding to work, with running concerns about pressurization, gravity, radiation, and sensitive parts like power and fuel. It's a perfect example of that balance of gameplay and concept. I don't think star citizen could do it better even if they wanted to because it turns out that even a gamified simulation has parts that wouldnt be fun in any other context. Pop open a door with air behind it in Star Citizen with Shipbreaker gameplay? You're going flying, and in pitched space combat that means you, the player, get to spend fifteen to thirty minutes waiting for your air to run out, to be picked off by the enemy, or to be eventually scooped up by friendlies.

A job creation program as effective as the army and not nearly as evil