If that were true, we'd all be immune to neutron radiation. It's just there's a lot of stuff between cosmic neutrons and us, and that's where carbon-14 comes from. It's not perfect but at least we're not walking balls of cancer.
Well, it may depend on the exact wording. If it's what we've all assumed it is, then it's dead. Even with a 6-3 conservative majority, there's no way that will fly. Some of those conservatives have principles, and even the rest can think, and can look ahead to the day when the Democrats run Florida.
But some people are claiming that the bill isn't the way we've been taking it. Some claim that it's like this: If you're a blogger, and political party X is paying you to blog, and you're covering Florida politics, then you have to disclose the source of your funding. If it's that, and it's just that, it likely will pass SC review. It would be just like the radio ads saying "this message paid for by the committee to re-elect Senator Blow." Either that's never been tested at the SC, or it passed. And I personally don't have a problem with a paid-for blog being given the same treatment.
So: Which is it? It's going to depend on the exact wording, because those two versions of the bill are not very many words apart.
The thing about that is, now instead of just printing cards and some rules, interested parties now need to program at least a large portion of the game logic to make this work which increases their cost a large amount. (Not to mention that most trading card companies would not have the in-house capabilities to do that.) The thing that makes trading cards so popular for kids is that they are cheap. When I was at school the Kaiba starter deck for Yu-Gi-Oh was $30 and I got 50 cards, a mat for the game area, instructions and some art. A 2" e-ink display is like $10-15 wholesale which means for the same price (even adjusted for inflation) I'd receive maybe two cards at cost price. That would not be enough to keep 11 year old me entertained and as a parent I would not buy things that can be easily broken for my kids.
For what it's worth, the actual Yu-Gi-Oh trading card games has rules and the anime uses a very loose interpretation of those rules.
Yeah, I know. I've been trying to design it in a way to push costs down the whole time, but it's still a far cry from paper. My idea was to target $80 for a "starter kit", making it the equivalent purchase of a video game.
For interested parties needing to program, I could probably partner with them and do the development myself (or have employees do it). The real hard part is designing a game, the software to run it will be pretty basic to start with, once I write the general framework for taking turns, etc.
Could you have paper cards that have a barcode or qr code that are "activated" when placed into the console and then represented by your 2-3 E-Ink cards? Then the paper cards could be boosters/environment effects and all/some E-Ink cards are affected by them.
Just adding on to the other explanations here. Dart has little point outside of Flutter. We have tried to use Dart to create helper tools (which we'd usually do in Python) but because of the fact that threads can't efficiently share memory means it's basically useless for anything that is remotely intensive.
Dart uses a microtask queue which the Dart VM controls. Each process you run is called an isolate, with its own instance of the Dart VM and memory stack. The only way to speak to other threads is to use Send/ReceivePorts which have a massive overhead themselves. In our mobile app we do a lot with many cryptography algorithms. Originally we had to send each item to be encrypted/decrypted/signed to a background isolate to ensure the UI thread doesn't freeze. This is fine, for small requests, but once you reach the realm of tens of megabytes this process becomes slow as all hell. The recommended solution for this is to write the file to disk and just send the file location to the isolate. Which itself incurs IO overhead.
Anyway, our use case be damned, just the fact that because Dart runs a microtask queue with non-sharable memory makes it hard to use for anything other than Flutter.
