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Graphics sell, gameplay retains.

And they'll call it a season pass?

That would be Mike Morhaime, so he's already fled.

You probably missed the part where Amazon's Lord of the Rings series will feature black hobbits. Yes. BIPOC Hobbits.

Wasn't there one cinematics where one of the characters point out that the Warrior of Light always nods? Something about huge "nodder" or something?

They usually have one side system per expansion. 2.X has the hunting logs, 3.X had the Grand Companies squad (which I expected to be extended to 70, given that Grand Companies are still heavily involved at least in the Ala Mhigo story, so your squad should have been mobilized there as well, but...

Fan of Penrose, I surmise? We don't even know what consciousness actually is. It's seemingly an emergent phenomenon of all kind of repurported structures in the brain. Take the recent hullaboo about "internal monologues". And the question "are those without one really conscious?". The thing...

Had a look at the Patreon after he released an extra chapter. $13,947 per month. Now we're talking money. (the next ten chapters are also good, but won't spoil. Except maybe... who needs Gravity Mages? It's just warped space, right?)

Insecurities?

I finally dropped my last RSS feeds from mmochamp and wowhead. I think I was somehow hopeful that the game would turn around but the latest "let's move from 1 of every talent to complete talent tree" for flying made me finally realize that there was no hope for WoW.

It's also a staffing/experience problem. You have built over a decade or more a kick-ass team that design graphic chipsets. This is a very narrow, very complex expertise, which requires a significant investment. Will you simply tell your team "okay, take a year of two of breather, we don't...

Elon vs Chris? I bet on Elon getting first...

Chapter 78 has shown up on RR.

I think he just locked the blessing. You acquire the various shards one by one during ARR, it's visible when you get one, and they aren't there in the soulspace until you get them. After he locks you, they're still there, but greyed out/depleted, until you force them open again.

Fun stuff I've stumbled upon: A WH40K fanfic (russian girl get isekaied into the WH40K universe): https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/48358/kryp

The other (Igor) died just after New Year. Both COVID deaths.

You're right. So probably Alan Dean Foster then, specialist in novelization of movies and TV.

The usual joke is that the last two volumes will have Brandon Sanderson on the cover name along with GRRM (cough, Wheel of Time, cough).

I am reminded of that old game, Anarchy Online, where one race was entirely clones and thus, while technically "neutral", was exclusively over-steroided males. I wonder if they changed that. It would seem a perfect target to massive outrage. Probably too small these days to even attract attention.

Zuckerborg and his Metaverse VR team beg to disagree...

When it comes to women, there are advantages to having a little... depth.

Lunar telescopes are... problematic. First of all, day-night does not matter much for the observation - shield it from the reflections of the ground, and the sky remains dark anyway, since there is no atmosphere to scatter solar light. But it matters a lot for engineering. The difference in...

Phantasy Star is a game franchise that tried to copy Final Fantasy, stayed mediocre, and led to PSO, which - like the PSO2 - was a game with about as much content releases as a B-tier game. PSO2 was emptying quickly in its Japan incarnation, so they tried a "ARR" with New Genesis, but they...

Gamigo is the graveyard where games go to die. They have a zombie powder to keep them shambling around with zero updates, no support, and harvest as much as they can from the decaying corpse, before they finally shutter the server (because they rarely maintain more than one).

They've increased that to 21k last Wednesday. But otherwise, it's essentially correct - once the total in the queues get too high, then you need to babysit your queue by having a second (and third) client ready to fire up and recover, since the 2002 error kills your client instead of sending you...

I got D3 because it was "free" with that one-year sub to WoW.

I've had a smooth connected experience, but just a couple hours ago, we were four of my guild doing a dungeon, and we got hit by a lag spike (and wiped), but one of us was disconnected - and found herself with a 3000+ queue, so she wasn't going to come back. The queues themselves have been...

One of the things YoshiP repeatedly said is that FF14 wouldn't exist without WoW. Square Enix learned from WoW. A lot. And that's what Blizzard failed to. Blizzard has - or rather, used to - been able to learn from others, to deliver stuff that distilled the best of a genre. And then, they...

Apparently, this is very specific to the english text, as neither French nor apparently Japanese include the innuendo (couldn't find the german text).

But, but... muh mythic raid testing?

Just a reminder in these times: those 25k/year will never be adjusted for inflation...

Some people got a notification, but even if you haven't, the keys are supposed to be there anyway.

It's a matter of timing. If you take more than 1min between the moment the login server times you out (which may be before the client notifies you) and you re-enter the queue, you lose your place. A friend of mine got a solution: after you're in queue, login again and start a second client, and...

I'm not into RTSes at all. I got a free copy of SC2 which I never ever registered on B.Net, and although I tried WC3 at the time, I quickly removed it from my then-PC. I want my strategy games measured in Minutes-per-Turn, not Actions-Per-Minute.

Prime time in EU isn't the right time to try. It's not the 4k+ queue that's the problem. It's the disconnect, and by the time you managed to relaunch twice the client (because the first time gave you a 2002), you're at the back of the queue, 500 places further away than when you started. Not...

I wouldn't know, since I no longer even have the Battle.net app on my computer.

Blizzard repeatedly gave a day, sometimes three or more of free time when stuff happened. At least, that was the case early on. My sub history would include those free days, so they were easy to spot. But that was always for downtime, not queues. Of course, they almost never had those problems...

It looks like they've moved the AFK code from client-side to server-side. Unless you send a new command to the server because you are doing something, the server will boot you. That's why any interface opened won't work anymore, not any form of auto-stuff (like running or auto-attacking).

Title screen is nice with the moon moving in position and all that. Queues, on the other hand... aren't nice.