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Well, if your design features a fast-track to re-gear every season, why not? At this point, you are no longer playing a character in a RPG, you're playing a roster of unlocked characters like a MOBA game...

I was watching the feedback thread for Thorgast new changes - the introduction of timer-like debuffs. Because Blizzard is deeply worried that groups might wait for cooldowns between pulls to "win", which would make the run longer and "not fun". So their solution: YOU WILL KEEP HAVING FUN THE...

Yea. I remember the time when we were pretty sure we were the only people to have figured out how to make Emperorbane weapons for SSRA. It broke out in the open weeks later, but we had already spent days of AOE raid farms down in the basement tunnels.

One of the biggest problems is that almost every prediction of relativity based on the black-hole model seem to be vindicated. So, the "dark energy" model of black hole needs to basically provide exactly the same effect as the singularity models up to the event horizon... and then change gears...

The tweaks and rebalancing are significant. Destroying nearly every +%pop effect is hard on your expansion.

Same. It's been a while since we got a good civ-like, but Epic? Nope.

Well, if the sea level doesn't rise, you can't get an immersion.

Well, he's a heavily bearded Canadian. Also making jokes about Baylonia's Nebuchadnezzar ("I'm so going to trigger people").

There's four sets per year. A "core" set in summer (basic cards), which is the one that your starting decks come from, two sets in winter/spring, one set in fall. Every fall, the sets before the last four are rotated "out" (you can only play those cards for very specific formats), so your card...

An early look at the game:

https://www.mohawkgames.com/oldworld/ A new turn-based strategy game that I discovered on Quill18's channel. It's much more dynamic than a Civ game. You start with one of the ancient civilizations as the supreme ruler. You get to manage the dynasty (find the right marriage, see how your heirs...

At the moment, I think it's safe to consider that anyone returning before 9.0 a week or two before Shadowlands isn't going to enjoy the thing. The only thing I probably need would be the rep to finish BFA flying, since it will still be required in the next expansion... Whether or not I come...

There's two types of companies. The ones whose product is what they sell to customers (while making a living for their employees), and the ones whose product is the revenue to shareholders. The latter tend to adopt weird behaviors, because ultimately, how they make money doesn't matter - unlike...

It's a heavy MMORTS with relatively not-insignificant P2W. There's limiters in place to avoid instant P2W, but I managed to reinstall a Windows (so that I could play some MtG Arena and I said, why not check this). 1) You can't win on your own. You need to be part of a large and active alliance...

Of course they don't. There might be a couple senators or congressmen that are genuinely interested in the advancement of the United States in general, but the election process is an evolutionary process that breeds one basic kind of people. The one that can be elected in their State. Their...

They kept harping on how good that spell effect engineer was. Of course they went overboard with it.

That's a basic staple for WoW/D3/etc. Exploit fast, exploit early, for tomorrow you'll be sorry.

Yea, but what can you do when those people have the strings of the purse: https://spacenews.com/house-members-criticize-nasa-lunar-lander-awards/

They're also called Boeing.

Cuts down on support cost (which is a big metric in modern Blizzard). You can't spend time with support if support is told to not discuss with you. The handful of cases where RMT did not happen aren't worth the cost these days, as they no longer really care about reputation.

Well, given the insane costs of SLS, they better. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/nasa-will-pay-a-staggering-146-million-for-each-sls-rocket-engine/

Some of the systems in those books are awesome. They would need a minimum of two decades and a hundred people to balance, let alone design, but they're awesome.

No, but not every studio gets a Jason Schreier horror story in Kotaku about it (before he went away).

Happens all the time on long-lived series. *cough* Wheel of Time. What makes a long series worth it is the characters and their lives.

Dedication was already posted, but there's another reference in the blooper section: I think anything by Will is probably worth reading.

Threadbare makes me think about the recently posted recommendation list on Reddit: Having read a lot of those, I have to agree with the picks. There's still a lot to read in there, but if anyone is looking into a dive into LitRPG, this is it.

My very first trade ever, on the day of discovering that Magic game that everyone seemed to be excited about in Paris. Game store was out of starters, didn't had any rulebook or stuff, just a vague idea. And only a couple boosters ("no more than 5 per person, please"). So I traded this volcanic...

Quite a lot of the reactions seem to be less about who is going it, and more about what is being done. To paraphrase a reaction video: "With uncharted's amount of cutscenes, I thought the lead dev of ND wanted to do movies. Now, I think he wants to do snuff movies."

I wonder if HBO knew about the sequel when they greenlighted the show...

To be honest, being consistent when your story goes is extremely hard. As the ad on YouTube for Masterclass goes, Neil Gaiman explains it all: "The art of the second draft is to make it seem it was your plan all along." And when you realize the kickass story you want to write flies in the face...

Spoilage alert: you do not get all of this until, what, the third book? This is basically the story of a wager between a computer repairman-cum-MMORPG gamer that makes a deal with an Evil God's head minion. Evil minion says they need help, he fits the bill, and tells him that he'll be working...

Alston Sleet writes well. I still wish he'd make a sequel to Age of Victoria, but that book apparently tanked on Amazon and barely made back the money.

To be honest, it is really hard to make professions worthwhile in a MMO. The only way your products sell is if it is hard to make them: Either it is hard to raise the skill (at least to the "worth it" point) Or it is hard to get the proper recipes (the one that will interest people) Or it is...

Rank 12 legendary? (says the guy who stopped playing a year ago)

https://spacenews.com/nasa-sets-may-27-launch-date-for-spacex-commercial-crew-test-flight/

Oh, wait? You mean that this Vanstuff kernel thing is an optional install that people can pick or reject independently of the game itself???

The thing is, GPU drivers require kernel-level access to even function and provide the functionality you are looking for, which is: display stuff. And they are optimized for the service. The Vanthingy drivers decided to use kernel-level access because it made them immune to anything, and...

I've always loved that term. Well, I did not when Y2K rolled out, and my favorite restaurant's chef found out that there was more money to be made by polishing COBOL turds developed 20 years before when he was younger as opposed to making some of the best french cuisine around. But in the...

If you have ever worked in any large organization that uses "legacy software", you will find that you are never able to afford the redesign of your software. The only major redesigns are always in commodity software - that is, software that is used by multiple customers. For internally-developed...