I'm one of those people. My mom was an executive who traveled to DC practically weekly, so I have fond memories of going go PDX often go see her off and pick her up with my dad. That carpet features in those memories.

> Fond memories of the time I discovered this effect for myself using a medicine ball and a friend's hamster I was petsitting at the time.

Uh..

This mental picture is even better given the TFA's effect so described used the word "relativistic". That hamster time travelled - briefly.

Time certainly seemed to slow down for me!

Gracie was uninjured, for those concerned. Caught her gently. Learning experience. Future experimentation was done with a lacrosse ball.

I'm sure it underwent contraction along one axis.

Or, don't get it.

Its a crime that Halo 1 had Boarding Action and it never resurfaced (outside of Forge recreations) in later titles such as Reach with movement options like jetpacks.

I'll be honest I was never a huge Halo buff at least until Multiplayer.

Maybe you can help me. My earlies memories of Halo2 multiplayer involved a map with two bases on opposite sides in a canyon. I bring it up only to talk about it, I know I could look up the name...

It was the first online pvp game I had played. Having 1v1s with people with voice chat was so addicting.

I remember it used to use an ELO calculation for rank so I would calculate my buddies matches when I was at his house telling him how much he would gain or lose in the current match.

Good times.

I think you mean Coagulation[1]. I remember playing this map with a bunch of friends and two split screen TVs. Hearing somebody swear at you from the neighbouring room is a wonderful experience.

[1] https://halo.fandom.com/wiki/Coagulation

Yes that was it! Thank you. Good times.

While my only exposure to laughing gas was while being put under for dental work, I can certainly see the appeal. Even that controlled application was pretty fun.

Well I'm filing this tip away for future use.

Same, I've never liked spanning a window across multiple monitors. The discontinuity of the bezel is a handy mental break. Often I'll have email and teams on one screen and my main item of work on the central screen.

I feel like we're due for a proliferation of anti radiation munitions.

Half of the LD50? Lol

I have to say, taking the night train from Moscow to St Petersburg was eye opening.

I went from modern metropolis of skyscrapers and tower cranes to run down rusty industrial facilities that wouldn't look out of place in a STALKER game to sod roofed villages that look as they might have when Napoleon was making an ill fated expedition. Then of course a vast expanse of nothing at all.