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Was hacked using unmaintained PHP (always keep up your system to date). The entire list of the user emails (yes, there are registered users) is now out there, including the mods. Notably those with @edu or @gov adresses. It's not going to look good if you dodged DOGE just to get caught being a...

Most people have made the comparison with Mother of Learning at first, but it is extremely different.

(by the way, the sequel "After 1177 BC" is horribly dry and boring for most people who enjoyed the first)

That is mostly because you're expected to be able to solo everything, except group-designed dungeons and raids (and some modern MMOs have dungeons that can be tackled solo as soon as you overlevel them just a little bit). If you need to be able to solo everything, you need to have a bit of...

There are. Pity 99% of them are mobile/PC ports of asian grind/P2W fests that die within 2 years.

The Pyramids being built by slaves is basically a Hollywood myth. The truth is that the peasants had nothing to do during the flood season, and idle peasants are dangerous, so they got mobilized into those projects (be it temples, palaces, or pyramids) for a couple months before being let go to...

That's because it was a phone game originally, before they decided it would go on PC/Consoles.

Extremely unlikely. Without a spoiler, it's fairly evident that the "hive" species that's the main aliens behind the Expanse universe is nothing like the one described here.

Doesn't sound like it from the blurb. And yes, the last book includes an epilogue a few centuries/thousand years in the future, so you have a guess about the shape of the human diaspora.

Guess what? You Americans named this after the mount (or rather, the island whose name is the same as its main feature).

Did read most of the series when it was on RR. Guy is a bit of weirdo (of course), which makes his actions always feel bizarre. But yes, sitting and meditating will go on par with the course. All those ultra-high-end LitRPG turn into cultivation-adjacent stuff at one point because the author...

Started playing, got distracted by something else, and never started it back.

Ben & Jerry's was always about marketing, not quality.

Is that sound from Slim Whitman? Ak Ak Ak!!!

Oh, it's better: You CANNOT purchase this unless you are a Legatus Navium, which means you've already spent 25k in the game.

Don't worry, Brandon Sanderson isn't that old yet.

That's "None of the above" (or rather, a japanese trying to say that). She's the most popular in Japan instead of Jill.

Because "consultants" insist that females must be like them, and don't care about the customers.

Rowe is the reason the Progression Fantasy subreddit has a pride flag icon. He started with the usual pride month flag, then said he'd extend it by a month anytime someone complained. Two years later...

In case you don't know, Shirtaloon is the pen name on web, Travis Deverell is the name on amazon. Same aussie. Among the suggestions already made: Dungeon Crawler Carl (DCC) is very good, I concur. Dark Humor at every corner (Matt Dinniman loves dark settings). Still ongoing, the series hasn't...

AHAHAHAH https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-misses-first-iss-docking-attempt

It's been a while. Why you make me itch...

And it looks like Starliner is still Stayliner...

It was the case; except this (the flooding of the Mediterranean) happened around 6 million years ago. Way too long to affect human civilization. Heck, at the time, the future human species was only splitting up with the future chimpanzee branch.

"Their" in there is referring to Epic's own bandwidth.

Not quite, but the Japanese see your perfumed water, and raise you the toilet with foam to prevent noise. (the video is in french, but you can still admire the invention in action)

I'm pretty sure the Japanese have that. Paging @Chysamere !

It's still theoretically illegal, meaning if some AI system notices, the account will be locked. Do not underestimate the capacity of modern AI/dataminers to notice stuff like that.

(includes also tweaks to remove all the trash and google trying to guess what you really meant instead searching what you typed) https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-searchs-udm14-trick-lets-you-kill-ai-search-for-good/

I have the regret to inform you gentlemen, but... Boeing.

FTFY.

Ranting about Gilgamesh is always good. I assume it's Utnapishtim shenanigans (if he's about the bible and the flood).

Rule 34 is all-inevitable.

And it is reflected in the time spent. Expansion hit MMORPG X, people do the quest lines in 10-15-20h, done, and then spend the next six months doing something else that is totally separate from that questing experience. That's true even for story-focused games like FF14. The MSQ is done by the...

Crystal Dynamics (formerly one-third of Embracer Group) needs money!

He did two years as a missionary for the Church of the Latter-Day Saints, so yes, he's very much into it.

Looks like Albion Online, I think?

Frank Dikötter's trilogy, certainly: The Tragedy of Liberation (the conquest of China by the PLC) Mao's Great Famine (the Great Leap Forward insanity) The Cultural Revolution (as it says) That's the most in-depth work I've found about the Mao era. Dikötter has also lots more about modern...