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Saturn's Children. The only Stross I've never read was Rule 34. The style of the series turned me slightly off, so I skipped on book 2. Since apparently, there was never a book 3, I think I may not have been the only one.

The only bad parts about the stream was that the quality was capped at 720p instead of the usual 1080. Was that because they were doing a simulcast with NASA?

Everything by Stross is an automatic pre-order purchase. It's the only author that can make a very serious space opera narrated by a loli sexbot.

Yea, they know the MCU crew (good jab at it, since that's the shoulder patch of the soldiers escorting the XMen to whatever facility) will kill the current version of the franchise, and insert their own. Expect Marvel announcement in 2-3 years.

Will be watching this tomorrow morning (EU time, yay!).

Bleh. I was thinking of restarting it after stopping WoW.

From what I heard at the time, the whole post-credit about the "original GotG" - that's what sly and the rest are, in fact: the first issue of GotG crew - is simply a throw-away scene for the fun of it. Unlike the Warlock Egg, which is supposed to be used for later plot. Alas. I mean, if you...

No date yet, I just saw an article saying that Netflix had just snagged the streaming distribution rights worldwide. We were talking about this (with a friend) during Alita, because it had overperformed that movie internationally... despite being distributed only in like 3 countries.

CGI is all about talented animators/artists, which Asia is full of (see all the asian RPG eye candy) and computer farms for the final renders. Cixin is the numero uno of chinese SF. Which is why we're discovering him today. Alas, it's not going to be distributed in theaters here, so Netflix it...

So she can devote all her energies into the scammy new age store she's built up (jade eggs for energy and vagina steam baths, yay).

If they got the entire movie (given the amount and breadth of the pictures), it's almost certain they have the plot. My guess is that the Chinese translation company leaked.

And the bathtub. It's the only way to be sure.

As I was pointing out a few weeks ago, there's more than 15 bars/currencies to fill/collect. Right now. Almost all of them time gated. That, alone, tells you where their inspiration comes from.

It's the starting point of Gravity.

That's debatable. Being behind dailies, I mean.

We had the same issue on all the other polarity-style fights. There was always someone "contaminating" people on Maiden and 7-8 people needing to jump before blowing instead of 3.

Meanwhile, in China Researchers Create 'Rat Cyborgs' That People Control With Their Minds - D-brief

And it's on the reasonable minimal size. Our civilization has advanced enough technologically that extreme specialization is useful and necessary for it to exist, and extreme specialists need a large number of other people to sustain their economic justification. A classic example is...

At the moment, you want the chinese to announce they're going to have a fixed base for landings in... say, 10 years. With expected permanently manned habitat 5 years later. And plop, Moonbase Alpha is scheduled "before the end of the decade".

Nobody felt this title was stupid either, at the time:

And the Great Mars Scam is gone: Mars One company goes bankrupt - SpaceNews.com Since no one bit the bait of "exclusive worldwide broadcasting rights" for umpteen billions, they had to throw in the towel and file for bankruptcy. At least they probably got enough application fees for their...

Well, they probably don't love me anymore since I unsubbed end of Jan. I had withdrawal for a couple days. Worrying when coming home what faction would be on display, if there were missions on the table I'd miss, and so on. And I realized that I had made the right call because all I was...

Ok, fess up, which of you uses that pseudonym to write? (I have to read it now) I think that anything by Bennett is good at this point.

It's probably very complicated, code-wise, to have two different body morphs for a single combo of race-gender. Basically, when you pick your race and gender, you have a fixed body and you can do a little variation of heads bolted on that. Having two body types is probably an impossibility. For...

It's like fusion. It will be a year or so from beta for all of eternity...

Remember that the Arianespace's CEO famously said that doing a reusable launcher would be bad, because he wouldn't have enough work for his employees. Before being ousted. Well, the french state auditors are also lamenting this poor view: French auditor says Ariane 6 rocket too conventional to...

Except Thanos still has it (the gauntlet might have burned, but he didn't leave all those gems littered around). Expectations are that they use Quantum Realm shenanigans from Ant-man's portals to do so (apparently, Quantum Realm has weird time aspects). Probably tweaked by Tony (when he and...

"You are supposed to kill it. Why you try not to kill it? Therefore, if you do not kill it, it will wipe your raid" (there is ONE legal strategy to kill a raid boss, any other strategy will be prevented)

I haven't looked, but my main beef with legendaries were that you needed to grind dungeons, and dungeons require unlocks (until you've done the "story mode", you can't do anything), for which I never managed to get a group. But back then, it was only weapons... Legendary armor is new to me...

Mythic race aside, now that I'm unsubscribed, I finally got my copy of World of Warcraft Diary, which is awesome. I thank the international shipping for its one month delay (shipped 1/2/2019) Hopefully, it's going to be on Amazon soon™.

A nerf in 4-5 weeks?

Yesterday was my last day. Subscription lapses this weekend (and autorenew is cancelled), so I'm not going to do a half raid. That's the second time I cancel WoW. I wouldn't say "never again", because who knows, but I'm not seeing myself resubbing in any foreseeable future. The only games...

Another symptom of the funny at Blizzard. So, they release season 2 with new azerite traits. Then, of course, with the opening of Mythic, they need to nerf those because that would be unbalancing: January 29th Class Tuning - Azerite Tuning and Mythic Balance Changes Oh, my. We need to tune...

The Garrison is the home of all my characters when there's nothing to do.

Heroic ones! Meaning the enemies have heroic Nazjatar levels of health and damage (but the warfront yields Mythic Nazjatar ilvl gear once per reset, vs LFR levels of gear for normal). See, I've made heroic warfronts in less than 5mn! The beancounters will love all that additional content for cheap!

And rather than make a new one in 8.2, they're making Heroic Warfronts (which require pre-made groups).

Worse, it's "log on or you'll be set back one day behind, do your chores, log off". Except that, since there's hardcores, there's more and more chores (currencies) piling up so that the hardcore still display "high engagement metrics" while semi-casual are slowly getting to the "why do I bother...

I got 1493 books tagged "read" on Goodreads and it still tends to suggest mostly useless books I'll never read. I still get most of my recommendations from amazon. I'm using three different stores (US, UK, FR) on which I could record what I read back when you could (before they limited the "I...

This encapsulate WoW's overall design for the last decade. You will progress at the same average speed all the time, rather than whenever you want to. They are absolutely terrified of people blowing thru content, so they've placed bars and catch-up treadmills everywhere.

No. Getting rid of them isn't the worst decision. REPLACING THEM with Azerite gear is the real culprit. If they simply scrapped the artefact system for normal gear and put something new to do with your legendary item (because everyone is legendary these days), that would have been ok. As it...