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I blame Ruby.

The series petered out (for me, at least) around book 6.

And now, we have to wait for... Reaper! (interesting title)

Now... that sounds potentially interesting...

In terms of cultivation things, I remain partial to the Memories of the Fall, which is a self-conscious effort of "how much can I cram into this". I'm even more of a fan after the April 1st chapter, which is titled "The Epic Quest for Spicy Soup" (Epic Quest for Mighty Loot is an old - defunct...

And you can be that both Ghostcrawler and Morhaime have contact lists on social/email and are going to jump on the slightest trace of disaffection from the ones who stayed behind.

That was quite common for most of the ancient times, since kinship (clan appartenance) was more or less equal to what has become citizenship in modern times. For example, after the Mongols (in the form of Manchus, who were ethnic mongols) ruled China, the military system was distinctive between...

SpaceX is the videogame studo of aerospace. It works because everyone knows they're making historical achievements (and hope they will make History, capital-H).

True, but the scam would be exposed ("why do we pay so much for what I get on spotify for pennies?"). That way, "it's satellite, man. Of course it's expensive". (that said, I have no idea as well)

Actually, not that much. In those matters, the president proposes, and the congress dispose. They're the ones who make the actual budget. Most of the time, the White House has proposed some stuff, Congress said "why don't we spend it more on those contractors instead", and the negotiation ended...

It's government agency. Except for a very, very tiny window when the Space Race against the Soviets was everything, the one thing it is responsible for is sending money to the appropriate contractors in the districts (or rolodexes) of the senators and congressmen sitting on the appropriate...

Yea. In pure terms, they don't have customers lined up for Spaceship yet - besides that Japanese billionaire and his mission around the moon, which he wants on Spaceship rather than the cramped dragon capsule refitted for a week-long trip. But SpaceX is almost certainly in the black if you...

They have a lot of customers lined up: - April: Crew 2 for NASA - May: Sirius XM radio - June: CRS 22 (Commercial Resupply Ship) - Also June: multi-satellite rideshare launch - Also June: Turksat - July: GPS satellite - Also July: USSF massive launch (Falcon heavy triple-booster launch with...

They're probably cheap (all things considered). When you're putting several tens of millions of capital every two weeks, those dev costs are relatively "low-key". It still adds up, but it's less catastrophic than, say, a SLS destructive testing would be. They can probably afford to blow 50...

Sometimes you learn the oddest stuff, like the existence of Suitsat-1: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210328.html

India's made cryptocurrency illegal already. Heavy fines if you're caught buying it, selling it, or using it to purchase anything (also owning it, but that's probably not a provable offense).

Going to stop you there - it was always, always intended as a satire and stuff, and absolutely not as a reflection of Heinlein's own politics. The man was more libertarian and stuff. That, however, is relatively true of many of the smart authors of the era (or any era). "Let's assume that all...

"I was bored during my vacation"

Shelters are your friend. Otherwise they breed like rabbits. Need to run your recyclers for cloth for a while to stockpile for those, then you're ok. The colonists seem to switch jobs too easily and too often, that feels a bit wrong if you pay attention to them. Bunch of dilettantes, all of them.

Oh yes. The most useful feature of Christianity, which was its hard-on against clan-structures, was mostly about being able to get those little youngest sons as church priestly figures, and getting the wealthy to bestow their wealth to the Church for "good causes" rather than get the...

They are wrong, but not stupid. All of the current crop of religions are the succesful product of thousands of year of memetic evolution; the truly stupid has been weeded out of them. That doesn't make them any more true. Just non-stupidly wrong. I'm talking about the religion itself, not its...

That's mostly cultural and upbringing, not anything intrinsic. That's the advantage we have over those 50ky ancestors of most of non-African mankind. 50k years of cultural accumulation, better practice, better teaching method, the whole shebang. In terms of innate capacity? Nothing much has...

On... which side of the debate? :)

And it's not even going to fly; it's just there to test everything (and maybe, as Scott Manley said, it will fly by pure accident during an engine firing test or something)... Meanwhile, in NASA land...

Basically, Banished meets Surviving the Aftermath. Since it's no longer early access, it has good features, and is well balanced. The weather/radioactive falls are maybe a bit too random, so at one point you no longer really care about it, and simply plod on.

As I said, the game has slowly painted itself into a design corner. FIrstly, the time where XP was meaningful has dropped relative to the rest. Expansions last two years, and the time to cap has shrunk steadily to the point where you essentially cap in, what, 25 hours of /played. 30 if you're a...

That's a bit about reward vs time. In EQ, most of every mob gave you something. Components for spell crafting, gems for spellcasting, faction, but more importantly, XP, notably when AA appeared. Named and their drops were important, sure. But they were not 100% of what you were there for. But...

That's what tells you you're getting older: all the stars of everything you liked die...

Some aspects of AI-based calculations are... crazy scary.

I knew who I was going to see, but I did not expect to see it that way...

This is where a pantheon meme might be appropriate: Rise of the Fallen, anyone?

I'd look greasy as well if I started asking if you touched my tralala...

Aaaaand, the Menoch Loop is back for book 4!

Spoiler alert: the book was "a bit better" than the movie.

Forget Korea. Korea is now the realm of mobile-PC crossovers "MMO", riddled with microtransaction shit.

In other news, NASA decided to "increase its prices" by ending all subsidies. Like from $3000 to $20,000 for 1kg of cargo. Hope that crew who has 4 seats to visit the ISS got the old prices... https://spacenews.com/nasa-hikes-prices-for-commercial-iss-users/ (to be fair, 3k per kilogram did...

Don't they plan to catch it with the upper flaps instead of letting it land on legs?

You still had a hundred variants of Legolaaaasssseh elf hunters running around, so you can probably get creative. Although with something as short as Lux, it's going to be harder.

If it's a MMO, then you are probably not playing any of the main characters from LoL. Lux is probably going to require you to collect 4968 some crystals, 125 stones of something, collect 300 elemental runes, or somesuch instead.

Hmmm, no. Everyone knew that Earth was round. It was known since the Greeks, and pretty much canonically accepted. Flat Earth is a modern movement that based itself on a few allegorical illustrations, like the famous Flammarion engraving (which depicts the end of the quest for knowledge, not...