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Apparently, they're shipping the physical hardcover early this time - I just got a notice that it's now on FedEx on its way to France. Yay!

Doubtful. The Zanclean Flood (which is the breakup of the Gibraltar dam and refilling of the Mediterranean you describe) occured around 6 million years ago. At the time, our ancestors were either still ancestors of the Chimpanzees or close cousins of those. Zero chance anyone remotely "human"...

Hell, there ARE people who will fuck their raid on a perma-death server just for the lulz.

The best things in the universe are the BWC megastructures ("Because We Can"). (Warning: 2h video)

I mean, they're not wrong. Mens Sana in Corpore Sano.

It's like all technologies. They start experimental and expensive, then get practical and affordable. The scale simply changes based on technology. In the 50s, "there is a market for maybe 6 computers in the world" (famous words by IBM). In the 60s, each university wanted its own. In the 70s...

Apparently, you can skip over the first (assuming you do not pick that character as "you"), but the second is a given. (I can't remember which human mage turned himself into a Lich based on an Illithid Brain)

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Nostalgia hits you for X damage!

Absolutely. But if it had formed into a really solid stable planet before being blown up, it would need something truly major (and thus highly unlikely). Big, and going very fast - probably at interstellar speeds - yet hitting perfectly a smallish planet. Earth got clobbered by a massive...

"You pay, we launch, no questions asked. It's your money." It's easier to measure, but way easier to scam though, as no one can check the actual satellite to see if there's no small ion "leak".

A possible recipe for that pizza: Beware garlic, yes.

Jupiter has demonstrable effects on the belt - there are clumps at some resonances (Trojan asteroids, notably) and empty zones of the belt where any asteroid orbiting there get tugged away (Kirkwood gaps). Shattering an already formed planet is a well-known model. For an earth-type planet, the...

By the way, one of the pizza recipes I saw from the 16th century involves... sugar and honey toppings. Yes, Pizza as a pastry dessert (to be fair, Italian renaissance involved putting sweet stuff on everything).

Too weak to break up a planet once it has formed. Those tidal forces aren't enough to break the moons of Jupiter, let alone a planet AU away (tidal effects work in the inverse cube rather than inverse square). They're strong enough to disrupt planetary formation, which is probably why the...

If the italians say it's a pizza, then it is a pizza. They invented the damn thing, they get to say what it is.

I don't remember which game it was, but the power-based matchmaking was specifically done so that whales wouldn't be matched too often against whales, so that they wouldn't be fucked over and over. They would face other power-buyers from time to time, so that they'd feel incentivized to buy...

You know if those things are available to buy, then the game is designed around that. Anyone playing a "reasonable time" will level at a crawl, get awesome loot once every quarter, and similar things. The usual argument of "but anything in the shop, you can get in-game" is a fallacy - the game...

That's the Kickstarter editions. Which, once I got them, made me realize that when you get 4-6, I'm going to get differently numbered books.

Nobody103, the author of Mother of Learning, has started a new serial: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/71045/zenith-of-sorcery

He basically fell off the writing scene with Covid. His editor exchanged words with him until he pretty much stopped talking. It think he got massive depression, as some people got during that time... I would also like to see him dealing with Earth, as it's obvious stuff is going on there...

Kaz is in the Rogue Dungeon series, I think? Guy from a fantasy world ends up Isekaied in a MMORPG as a mob, levels up by killing players only. He recruits a variety of Trolls, as they're the base mobs for the dungeon he spawned in. It's been some time. *EDIT* And yes, For the Salt is the...

If you want a series where the system was heavily inspired by EQ (6-man team cap, holy trinity, zone keying, dungeon-specific loot drops, boss raids with raid mechanics and legendary loot, etc), there is The Infinite Labyrinth (you can run webtoepub to get epubs for your kindle instead of...

Classic Krout. DK can't finish properly his stories.

That's about when you started to have anatomically modern humans appearing on the record. There were quite a few hominids around, and most of our cousins were already "smart".

Weirdly enough, I have 4 weeks of vacation scheduled to start on Jul 31st...

Yes. On a small planetoid, it's possible, but a large mass above the spheroid limit will absolutely collapse.

New one dropped today:

If you want the converse to "let's kill Hitler", that's basically what you do. Show him exactly how the history unfolds, and convince him that he needs to ally (at least on paper and temporarily) with the Soviet Union. They split Eastern Europe, while Hitler focuses on invading the UK and making...

Most of the dev team is based in the UK, with some more in Germany after they purchased the Crytek engine. Officially, Robert's company is american, but that's where the majority of the staff is.

Lots of arrowheads, lots of bones, what looks like a piece of another blade... That's an enormous find.

Followed by "can we bone people with it".

Please close this thread, it makes me depressed: https://indianexpress.com/article/health-wellness/anxiety-depression-ultra-processed-frozen-food-mental-health-issues-8622615/

Technically, even The Captain happens in the same universe.

We do have the advantage of knowing simple tricks that don't require power, yet help immensely with civilizations. On the topic of cultural knowledge, the movable type printing press is pretty much there to stay. It's one of those inventions that, once explained, everybody facepalms and says...

Is my 88-year old mom who prints Sudoku counted as a gamer? Because I remember that the definition of gamer is stretched to include people who use those "gaming sites". Oh, it's in the US. So she doesn't count.

At that point in a book career, you don't get much revenue anymore. You get a small blip in the first book of a series when a new book comes out, but less and less with each successive book. People see book 3 of a series, they say "I should check the series". They see book 12, they say "well, if...

His son was a bit protective of his dad's work but not that much. Once he died, basically all of Tolkien's IP is now managed almost exclusively by lawyers, which should be enough to tell you what will happen.

Any link on that? I know of massive "towers" being seen on Mars, but they're gigantic cylindrical funnels of dust, not actual physical tower structures.

Thanks whoever botched the pre-release and forced them to release early. (now, if only I had time to start reading today...)