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Oh, there will be a 10.0. The thing is, it might be the first expansion to... cough... reuse previous systems. Because nobody will be paying for new ones, they'll be told to reuse code. You'll have spreadsheet-designed loot ladders, maximum model re-use with minimal recolors, and a single...

He's published the series first on RR (Royal Road) plus Patreon. On RR, we've just finished book 7 (Arc #3, book 1), book 8 starts next week (it's already started on Patreon). Note - unless you've got some of the interlude chapters with book 3, in which case it should be obvious immediately...

That's because it's not Amazon. Bezos founded BO as a completely separate entity, and well before Musk founded SpaceX, and the first thing he did was to recruit and put in charge people straight out of classic Aerospace while he was still busy managing Amazon for the next 15 years. His first...

Yea, I'm not holding my breath for an Arrogant Youngmaster Template A-style return.

Because it is not exactly zero gravity. The comet is tiny (4 km diameter), but that's still a significant mass. It exerts a minuscule gravity (around 2 mm/s^2, or 0.02% of Earth's gravity). You can probably achieve escape velocity by jumping... but those rocks don't have legs. If they hit the...

At least he's honest about modern art.

I ended up bailing out during book 2. Most of the quirkiness was still there, but not as good and new anymore. Plus they were too much reality-based (yes, they live through COVID times) and... well, it didn't click anymore. But book 1 is one of the best fantasy/scifi-ish dungeon stories I've...

Aren't those the ones that California made illegal due to how much power they drain even when in sleep mode?

If you're interested in tales of plagues and horrible things happening, Connie Willis's "The Doomsday Book" (a play of words on the Domesday Book) is a tale of a stranded time-traveller in the Black Plague era as well. It's not entirely horror, but it's grim to an extreme.

Two more weeks!

There's a second one? (/s)

The original one was in the mid-80s on arcades.

Took them too long to release, they lost the momentum they had back in the Kickstarter days.

I agree. Which is why I went out of programming and into real estate investment. May I interest you in some opportunities about a bridge in upper NY? No. I've dealt with both software editors, in-house dev, and the users. What people want today is code-that-ship. That's it. You used to write...

And then someone comes up and says "yikes, database locks are hammering my performance, stop locking transactions!". Once you've read www.thedailywtf.com regularly, you stop believing in the innate competence of developers. Because there's the Right way, the Wrong way, and the way of the...

They really didn't like the "we didn't tell anyone initially" and "by the way, we're flying again without taking time to properly figure out why, because paying customers".

The Timeless "Holms" thing is a bit weird, but the story works well within its structure.

I want my space elevator.

And China wants to have the biggest dick (because it's going to be very elongated, of course): https://spacenews.com/china-researching-challenges-of-kilometer-scale-ultra-large-spacecraft/

It's... different. I'm far too high in every crafting/gathering profession (except fishing/culinarian) vs. my main jobs, though. Any time I'm going to do something serious, I find myself crafting stuff instead or unlocking nodes for my retainers. (also, instant healer queues)

Almost certainly not. By the time they launched WoW, they had seen what EQ could do. EQ kept growing and growing and growing, quarter after quarter - it only plateaued and crashed at the time WoW actually launched. I'm pretty sure they had the idea that the game could run on pretty much forever...

All of us old-timers know.

SpaceX was no stranger to litigating earlier, when it tried to break into the Security Launches quasi-monopoly of ULA. The big difference was that they were flight-proven by then. Remind me, how many orbits did Blue Origin achieve yet? They started 2 years before SpaceX, surely they must be ahead?

Sounds like a WoW refugee.

Got caught in that one. Managed to relog fast enough, but some of my guild found themselves facing a 2500 people queue.

The French nearly had theirs. I was working at CNES in the 90s, and they were still modelling it. It got cancelled just when I left. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_(spacecraft)

Yea, I was going to post that this is Blizzard, people who offer 30% under industry average "because you will be working in a legendary gaming studio!", but she demonstrated that she's paid plenty enough. She just have her priorities screwed. No bonus? Sell your fuckin' horse.

Fun bit: China is participatory to the Outer Space treaty (disallowing national claims on the Moon and the rest) because... Taiwan signed the treaty originally (and the PRC only ratified it, which means they considered the original signature "valid enough").

Gimme a few Lokidile cameo here and there, and that's all you need. Maybe an Old Loki cameo saying "I'm retired now, I've given a boost to the kids, let them handle it. Faking THAT death was way harder than Thanos".

"Chronic age-related illness", unspecified. The Prize was entirely managed by the trustees for the last few years before his death, as he could no longer do much of anything as he was wasting away. Speculation is that it might be HIV-related (since he was gay), but it could be cancer or...

Nvidia apparently even tweaked their drivers to avoid overheating to destruction that specific model. Bet is that they overlooked an edge case which the NW programmer "managed" to stumble upon.

He had a very few who were deluded enough to move to the preliminary demonstration phase (where they test the protocol), and none managed to get past that. Which is expected, since they outright state that the formal demonstration is likely to succeed if the test one did. As for Randi, I hope...

It's only a specific card model (EVGA 3090 FTW3) that gets completely bricked. Given the reassurances by Amazon Studios that they never had a bug, I assume they don't have that specific card.

Spell trigger that's assumed to mark the end of the fight has a value of 50 (percent) on heroic and 45 on mythic.

Oh, and reminder: anyone who can demonstrate any of those under proper conditions get an instant 1 million $ from the James Randi Foundation.

That's Psychokinesis, not Telepathy. Telepathy is transmitting/receiving thoughts from a distance, psychokinesis (aka telekinesis) is moving things with your mind. "Real" psychokinesis (if it existed) is SCARY. Want to kill someone? Shift some internal organs around, and see how much strain...

Now try to imagine the sentence "Your character butt's size adjust based on equipment" in a WoW patchnote. The meltdown would be epic.

After a while, he switched main characters, having more or less exhausted Bob's potential. The "spin-offs" are relatively interesting, but less so. Bob (S-tier): The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue, The Fuller Memorandum, The Apocalypse Codex, The Rhesus Chart, The Delirium Brief...

There isn't a new TVA. If you keep in mind that the TVA lock the memories of the Variants they recruit, then the fact that the New Management TVA has nobody remembering Loki's previous work is easy to explain. Same TVA, different directives (and a mind-wipe so that they don't question too much...

"a whole bunch". Understatement of the... timeline. It would have been ever better if , but I guess they need move dramatic moves for season 2 and phase 4. (and I presume )