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The ones still standing when the music stops are going to be plenty hurt...

I was going to ask about Icewind Dale 2, but that's the only one without an enhanced edition that runs on modern computers correctly. (according to wikipedia, that's because nobody has the source code. Like, WTF?)

Had it happen to me. I lasted 10 minutes before I ripped out the battery again to make sure it stayed silent until replaced.

I want them to use Shkadov drives! (basically, you do half a Dyson sphere around a sun, and use the resultant asymmetric solar wind and light pressure as a reaction to propel your entire solar system around)

In the States? Probably. Not for Europe, but then, we're all filthy socialists out against corporate profit motive or something...

The "contact us discreetly and negotiate a deal" one.

New one: The WEIRDest People in the World: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51710349-the-weirdest-people-in-the-world Starts with a few generalities before getting into the thing that savaged psychology in the 21st century: almost all psychological experiments were unable to be replicated...

It's a kind of weird gamelit-adjacent series. It's a "real" magic system, not a RPG system. It's properly called "Progression Fantasy", the umbrella for every fantasy book where the character's personal power levels grow in an objective manner (and there's a lot of classic fantasy that falls...

It's a bit worse than that. He says he's rewritten entire sections of the book to fix the issues in them. Which means you have to re-read the newer book if you want to continue the series, since I'm expecting some "uh? when did that happen?" issues to crop up later. So, no.

I have issues with M. Kerr re-releasing his third book in that series due to massive editing problems. Even if he promised a free copy for anyone who had previously purchased it, that's the kind of move that makes me drop an entire author, no matter how good his series are. Rohan Vider almost...

Not half, apparently she "only" got 25% of his Amazon stocks... still enough to plunge him down.

Also, on Amazon on Jan 12th (at least book 1 - we're on book 3 now on RR).

Musk ditched his wife. Twice. (plus a previous one once)

When it comes to cultivation stuff, I recently discovered Memories of the Fall, which is full-on xianxia written by a westerner. By full-on, I mean sects plots, multiple worlds, mega-powerful million years-old cultivators, corrupt families, the inevitable Arrogant Young Master... And a god...

He could use his capital to finance Starship to mars!

He's no flunky of the Emperor, though. He now has more money than Bezos: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/elon-musk-is-now-the-richest-person-in-the-world-passing-jeff-bezos-.html (oh, the two richest men in the world are both Space Geeks! Get them to work together, dammit!)

... made in China.

"It's a small indie company, give them a break..." https://www.wowhead.com/news=320333/placeholder-anima-powers-in-torghast-cripples-twisting-corridor-runs TL;DR: Several classes still have Placeholder anima powers in Thorgast (that is: none), which is becoming a massive issue when you need to...

If you look at the stats, then no. There are more people dying at 50 from heart attacks than at 40, and less than at 60. It's just that 40 is the age at which heart attacks begin "in earnest". Evolution stops caring very much about your heart after you've finished having babies.

Yes, I think in chapter 4, the two guards who welcome the Flatts to Spur (back when they are still not understanding the language) are commenting about the fact that he ogles both of them equally:

Incanis are proto-demons; horns, blue to red skin shades, and weird eyes, if I remember right. Orcols are green-skinned ultra-tall top-models. With tiny fangs.

Don't worry, Magnus will save us!

Well, the author is taking a small vacation - posting is suspended until next year :)

Case in point: the epilogue of the Mandalorian. (it's still rough, I admit)

One of my friends has basically given up on getting any refund on that one. Despite the strong protections that EU gives you, it's been close to impossible to get any form of refund for a few years, once it became apparent on how much of a scam it was.

Ah. Forget some parts of the world don't have fiber and 10Mbyte per second downloads. (seriously, that's the deciding factor when I hit retirement. I'd love to go countryside, but fuck if my speed goes below at least 50Mbps)

With your feet?

Pre-order? Never pre-order anything. I know they are all trying to scam you into pre-ordering based on exclusive cosmetic rewards and whatnot, but resist. The only time you should pre-order something is the day before launch, after the final reviews are coming out. Unless it's Cyberpunk 2077...

That's basically the promise of 3D immersive gaming. Which will not be Star Citizen. ... Probably?

I'm soooo behind on Wandering Inn, I'm not even sure I'll figure this one out. I think I did the technocrat starship hijack "while in the Eternity Tower" months ago? Unless he does it again? (I'm only splurging the updates every now and then) We get a proper Apocalypse coming. With Jason as...

It's an old game as well...

Thorgast was the only redeeming feature of Shadowlands - everything was pretty much "more of the same". I could already see the writing on the wall when they introduced all those control-freak features like Torments and stuff. There was no way they were ever going to let Thorgast go into truly...

Wait, it's not this guy??? Shame

Strictly speaking, it wouldn't work. As we've seen, people create their own mythologies if your culture fails to provide and enforce one. As said, if you could teach three thing 6000 years ago: - Writing (we're in the era of proto-elamite and similar pre-written era), the importance of...

That's one of the things I always love when I show someone "that's a cherub" "WTFFFF?" "Why? It has the required four heads... Why, you thought those were little babies with dove wings?"

Hey, don't diss Star Wars fantasies, will you? :)

TLP = Time-Locked Progression (aka the servers Daybreak start with expansion locked every year to get the nostalgia going and the krono flowing)

You mean, it's being unmade right now?

Who knows. Given how asinine their business model, and how weird their technical system is (the reason why there are so few Stadia games? Each game has to be ported over to Linux, since that's what Stadia runs onto)... they might simply haven't even factored this into their financials risks yet...

Hadn't realized that it's Elon on the front of the picture... (needed to see the tweet)