Police rules of engagement is shockingly 0, cops kill anyone for any reason if they perceive even the slightest chance of a threat to themselves. The military has a rigorous 5-6 steps for using increasing amounts of violence from shouting to actually firing.

I think the next book is mostly finished, and will release before he dies if he lasts a while or will be in a state where it can be finished easily by an outside writer. The last book will never be finished so if he has the ending written and some solid notes someone could write it but probably will just be unfinished.

Sapphire is basically transparent Aluminum and it is used now for strong clear glass, just in small sizes.

Map suggests it might not like hot dry areas.

But really you could make a fantastic game with the engine they had and starfield could have been good if it had great writing and great characters and quests. If people loved it and had some gripes about technical limitations that would be one thing. It's an okay game with technical limitations, that makes it a bad game.

The fundamental concept and theme of the game is trash. It literally makes everything you do meaningless, it inevitably leads to you becoming the jaded villain. It would be better if they had an end where you destroyed the universe shifting thing and were locked in one.

Thank your erect spine.

Well that's not really in there, he is often described as an adversary. But it is notable that there are many times where he is used by god in a necessary way.

No. It's more that they have higher costs and it averages out around 20 years. So it's close to the average length of a life sentence except if they're young. It's only real cheap if you have a kangaroo court and just shoot people.

That's why he changes his hand placement. But like a boss he doesn't let it slow him down or distract him.

Even with the chair arm wobbling

You won't have general purpose true AI until it can actually think and reason, llm will never do that. At most they would be a way of interaction with an AI.