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The incremental design of SNx reminds me of the scenes in The Right Stuff where they repeatedly push the button, with a fade to a rocket blowing up.

Also, forgot about the "America exports a lot of gun essences" remark on He Who Fights With Monsters. Because of course it would :)

Rofl at the movie reference. But apart from that, funding for that old and slightly misplaced radio-telescope was always iffy, so there is indeed a real risk that funding is cut and a new, more modern radio-telescope built somewhere else instead.

Which pretty much means you run it for your main, not your alts (unless you're a massive poopsocker or a multibo... oh sorry, multiboxing is now forbidden).

Well, at least they are starting to try to apologize for the mass DMCA wave. (by suggesting "check if there is somewhere in your game conditions a mention of streaming music. There must be one, right? Right?")

Balance the numbers (since the numbers are now all fake, since everything is scaled), and open up a shared server in which you can be playing EQ OR World of Warcraft characters. In the same place.

Well, it's not entirely in french. You see, the service "izi" is pronounced "easy" (with a french accent), because it's supposed to simplify your electricity installations.

Stadia is the shittiest streaming version possible, right? You need to purchase games. There's probably a few free ones included, but I did not check further upon discovering that the pro subscription gives you 2 free games of Google's choice per month. And that's it. You pick stadia, you spend...

For a long time, we had very simple models of history based on a handful of documents and archeological excavations. Then basic genetics. The original model of mankind's history was a basic narrative: 50k years ago, a handful of upright apes started to colonize all of Earth, and here we are...

That's mostly cultural/technogical advantage, yes. Farmers were already sedentary all over Europe by then. The era of the nomadic hunter-gatherer was ending 15k years ago. But primitive cities only started as soon as farmers had enough tools and practice (correctly interpreting climate, etc) to...

Voice is far too slow in terms of bandwidth compared to keyboard/mouse/controller.

Yea, it's 2020. What could possibly go wrong this year...

Bacterial resistance isn't a world-ending threat. Just like COVID. If we did exactly nothing regarding COVID, we'd quickly settle to a "new normal" where a tiny additional percentage of our population dies every year. Up until the 20th century, we had zero antibiotics, and civilization...

There's a good argument for fossil fuels end. The use of cheap, easily mined, plentiful fossil fuels propelled our economy to today's heights, and it is allowing us to transition slowly to the much harder, probably more durable, post-fossil use (if we're not prevented, for political reasons to...

It's also trivial to bypass. Just mail all of your currency to an alt safely tucked away, and you're headed to your warmode with coppers on you.

That's a lobby, except in 3D environment. The interactions there are barely above the level of lobby chat. That isn't a MMORPG. That's a MORPG.

The one problem with instancing is that it removes any form of spontaneous interaction with people in favor of curated ones. In an instance, you only interact with the very specific team you've brought in, no one else (well, except for the /1 for those who haven't disabled it). The only...

Rofl. Without scaling exploits, Rextroy is now relegated to brawls: https://www.wowhead.com/news=318937/rextroy-battlegrounds-40-death-knights-vs-40-hunters

It's mostly like all hardware. It will either fail fast, or fail late - rarely in the middle. Given that the idea is to make lotsa cheap satellites, if you have a failure rate of 1 or 2 per launch of 60, you're good. Most of the first batch has already been de-orbited, but I assume that's what...

The St. Etienne area was a hotbed of the Resistance during WW2 (the main underground newspaper for the Resistance in the southern France was printed there). Lotsa badasses there in the Maquis those days. Regarding names - that happens a lot. If you have throw-away characters, and pick a random...

Love how the article aged: ... and we all know how that turned out for those three :) But, as usual, Bartle's points stand out as mostly true.

What everyone wants to see NOW: 1) Farrah freed (probably going to happen Soon™) 2) Mini-Jason (Emi) getting magic (not going to happen for years) 3) Taika Iron ranked! (whenever Shirtaloon wants) and then, you can have Jason finding the secret operations of the Builder Cult (who might or...

Some data on the beta vs their competition: https://www.pcmag.com/news/tested-spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet-service-is-fast-but-itll-cost

Also, the Starlink satellite constellation acts as a kind of Internet itself. Classic satellite internet is Ground Station->Satellite->You, which requires a high altitude satellite which can see both the ground station and you, which gives you high latency (round trip to GEO at 36000 km...

Apparently... after a while only. Also, LOL at the "you can't use a mount in the Maw".

Thanks a lot for re-assuring me I am certainly never going to come back, as this was the only part that interested me, essentially, and it seems even that is fucked.

Investors are starting to pour out money whenever SpaceX does a funding round, because it is starting to look like they have a potential second major product (beyond, you know, cheap launches).

That warrants a double worf reaction. Because the James Webb is next to "Delays" and "Overbudget" at the same time in the dictionnary. I'll believe in the launch maybe a week or two before it happens...

Not that many. Shirtaloon is an outlier. But you still have a significant number doing in the 5k range, which is extremely good. Heck, even some of the best known serials draw 2k or less.

"Kunark is Norrath's Australia" :)

There's still a strong possibility they're what remains of a broken-up Builder cult, but as magical underdogs, they seem to work out.

You were not the hero in Everquest. Heck, Everquest barely had quests for a very long time. Sure, 50% of the player base want a single-player RPG where they can play with people at times, but that's not what MMOs were supposed to be. What EQ had was backstory, not story. One of the advantages...

/worf

Procedural generation "works". You can feed it rules, like, say "an inn is based with a large common room with bar+stools, plus storage, plus cooking room, then optionally..." and you get functional inns. But once the procedural generator explores the space of "functional Inns", it WILL stumble...

That's why I said "advanced" procedural generation. We can actually generate stuff that feels different - the problem is that the generators at one point make weird/surreal stuff that screams "random generator" because it stops making sense to the human mind. You need to couple procedural...

Defiance of the Fall is slow as fuck as well. As one comment on the latest update says: "One chapter for dragon materials. One for viewing the reward. One for choosing the reward. One for the vision. One for the starting town perspective during all this. One for viewing gains. One for the fight...

That's weaksauce cliffhanger. More of a boathanger...

Yea. One of my old dreams designs for MMO would be the "single server non instanced MMO". Use next-gen procedural generation to create a continent with 50 times the size of current WoW, and like 8000 static dungeons. You use a GW2-style event system rather than an on-rail story-driven quest...

The problem is that most of the recent MMOs were short-term ones. It's all asian cash grabs that look completely copy-pasted: action combat, flashy effects, knockdowns (seriously, every game I see features the characters being knocked on the ground as soon as they don't dodge the attack), with...