Yeah, they’ve left us alone so far because we’re small potatoes. It’s only a matter of time.

Judging by the moon landing pictures, most surfaces on the moon are roughly flat especially in the dusty areas.

The games are also a bit inconsistent about what happens when the surface moves. Sometimes the portal fizzles out, and on rare occasions it doesn’t.

I think it’s a stretch of the prompt, but someone else said the deathstar. If that’s allowed I’d take the SDF1 itself. But really it’s for that main reflex canon. In the Robotech TTRPG the stats for the main gun was something like “destroys everything in its 1 mile wide path for 10,000 miles” no defense measures work.

Nah, huge limitation that it only works on walls painted with moon dust. Even without that detail, the surface needs to be flat and judging by the main characters height, roughly 1m x 2m. Those details really limit its functionality outside the enrichment center.

I agree that the wooden spoon thing is horse shit. Never once seen it work. The oil in the water does work for me. Now I know that many things may affect this. If you crank your stove up to eleven, maybe nothing will help. Maybe your altitude will affect it in some way. I live at about 350m above sea level. What I can say for sure is that in a large pot of water, at a rolling boil on my stove, about 3 tablespoons of oil in the water and a full pack of pasta, my pot will not boil over, but it absolutely will if I don’t add the oil.

It changes the surface tension and keeps the pot from boiling over. Very useful if you’re also preparing a couple other dishes.

When Miamoto Iwata died, Nintendo just had to stay the course. They were never dominant, but they were ubiquitous and everyone enjoyed their products. Now the new guys don’t even play games, and the switch 2 price point is ridiculous, and they never fixed the issue with the joy con sticks, and prices never drop like they used to. You can’t count on new leadership being capable of continuing success, even when all they have to do is keep things on the exact same course.