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It took its time on RR finding the right style. Brink did switch from a pure litrpg to a cultivation/litrpg hybrid after a few chapters. I dropped the series when he did a fridging. That's a mostly unforgivable sin in narration nowadays.

The lottery system is: 5 days to bid on plots Roll occurs 4 days to come back to the plot to check if you won, and claim it (or recover your money) Loops back So, in theory, you'd have 4 days until the next batch (including the unclaimed ones) goes back on sale... except they're extending that...

Yea, pisses me off, since I was the last bidder on my plot, which means I had almost certainly 0% chance of getting it.

Remember, we live in a high inflation era, so spending is typically better than hoarding your money (unless you've got insane returns there). Anytime prices are going down, it's an opportunity that is sure to vanish sooner rather than later.

There's only one appropriate rating for this one...

InadvisablyCompelled (the author of Blue Core and more recently Paranoid Mage) said that LitRPG is a trap for inexperienced authors, because most focus on the system discovery and initial progress, and once the system is known and "mastered", then they find themselves lacking a narrative to...

Just a reminder: the more active account types are usually perceived as more numerous than they really are. The guy who plays 12h/week, mostly with a few friends, is the guy you never notice.

Buying on April 1st is a joke...

Now that you say it...

Even worse are "gaming NFTs". Because they are completely undistinguishable from centralized proofs of ownership. I mean, I know. If you want players of your game to sell their gear to each other, just say so, and put a trading platform on your site. I mean, it didn't end badly for D3...

So, just in case you didn't think Sylas was even capable of the slightest empathy... here you have.

Ahh, Kunark levelling. People starting shouting "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm okay" across the zone to indicate a drop of that hat...

The second one in the series just came out, and it's, of course, called "Anything". Can you guess the last title of the trilogy?

Hard to justify? To whom? None of these committee members are ever called to account for how they spend money. I mean, they can always claim that they're spending it on their own states, which mollifies their own voter base, no matter how much they swindle the other states for it.

I'm French. Alas. We get Aldi instead (which was owned by the same guys until they split, apparently).

Wait a minute! There is no better chocolate than 99% cacao. Just like people who pretend to like coffee and dump a ton of sugar in it - no, you don't like coffee, you like coffee-flavored sugar. 99% cacao FTW. All of the goodies of chocolate, none of the fat and sugar shit that's added to make...

That's a commercial price. NASA adds enough red tape, meetings and custom requirements to its launches that you can probably add 20-40% to the price. Still a bargain, though.

As I've shelled for the Patreon, so that I could get a peek into the end of book 1 before it arrived on Amazon (it's now on Kindle, but not KU, if you want the last 3 chapters in advance) and early book 2... There might be disinformation going on, but as privileged observers, we - readers -...

For the Fate of all Creation. Good reward.

And then, a chapter pops. You should ask more often!!! :)

The newest chip production issue is, of course, Ukraine. Apparently, it was a major source (60%) of noble gases which are used a lot in chip making. So you now have a new shortage (not a long term one, but chip makers are reorganizing yet another supply chain).

Unfortunately, the commitee overseeing NASA (and proposing the budget) is entirely bipartisan on the matter of pork. They all love it, and care for nothing else. Unless there is a significant pressure (like the cold war space race), expecting them - and thus, NASA's higher-ups - to care about...

The end of Abaddon's Gate isn't really a cliffhanger, though. You've opened the Gatespace, it's there for the taking, and it's a new era for mankind. The End. That works. Sure, there's lots of stories remaining, and that's what they wrote afterward, but the first trilogy is self-contained, it...

The point is, you will not get the same game experience. The game will be designed around extrinsic rewards - rewards that you have get from out of game, in the store - rather than intrinsic, in-game, experience. Those extrinsic experiences are always lesser than in-game ones. You get the bling...

The difference is that the first one offers you all the entertainment you paid for, while the other has to be designed to offer you as little as it can while pushing you toward the expensive stuff locked behind the cash shop. By design, it will slow your levelling, so you want to purchase that...

That's slightly different. What we were discussing seems mostly about using brain implants to augment stuff. Things like artificial retinas, anti-epilepsy systems, or memory enhancers against Alzheimer/dementia are an entirely different category. And usually pretty much a "hell yeah" thing...

A cautionary tale about implants: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

They're probably looking to sell themselves as a NFT...

Yea. Starting a series is easy, managing to finish one is hard. Specially in the case of the Expanse, since it was originally planned for the trilogy only. And usually, your publisher isn't that helpful on that point - they always like when you keep churning a popular series.

I think I mixed that with the stylist (or whatever) that you need to unlock so you can get a personal haircut in your sleeping room. Here's a list of fashions, and one you have one, you can apply its effect using the menu: https://ffxivcollect.com/fashions

Fashion Accessories are unlocked by a blue (and do what it says) Collections, if I remember right, comes later (4.0?). You get a few items used regularly, and rather than being in your inventory, they go into a separate tab. I have mainly my compass for Aether Currents there. Raid Finder unlocks...

Amos absolutely owns that emissary scene (specially the ambassador asking himself "who the fuck is that guy?").

As I said earlier in the thread, at one point, one the twins compliments you for being such a good nodder. Builds neck muscle.

The thing is, if the game is F2P, then it has been designed around getting people to fork money in micro-transactions. There's no going around it. A game that is designed to be F2P has to include those hooks, and hobble "normal fun" to make it potentially profitable enough. So yea. It's free...

It was Larry Niven's "ARM" universe (used in multiple stories) where you had Wireheads, who had a brain stimulator device like it. And yes, the "legal" versions had limiters in the amount it could deliver.

Nope. Nopity nope. Those... things... are not dwarves. No way, no how. (yes, I know how all the First keep "normal" names vs the ones used in the Source) I watched Qwazii's video on the hilarious thread on the origins of the Lalafels, and I agree with reddit for this one: they are giant...

Well, when I made my character, my first chat remark in the FC was "OMG, I look like a weeb now". Meaning I'd made a male hyur, which is the furthest anyone can be from being a weeb. (okay, that was a reaction from the fact that I couldn't make a dwarf, like any proper game, dammit)

And there's even little details to push that emotional thing, like the "Duty Completed" cutscene. Up to Shadowbringers, when you do, you see yourself cheering along with all your team. And then, in those dungeons, your character is now looking forlorn and all "fuck for having to do that. Why so...

2 decades? Not possible, it's 5. I remember those billboards touting "now in beta" in Cyberpunk 2077.

Then you aren't going to like the game, period. As Chris tends to repeat, it is primarily a story-driven game, not a game of chasing gear, dungeon speedrunning, or doing DDR in raids - even though those aspects are there. This is truly a game where the game is the journey, not the endgame...