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Stirling said it was an homage to the original.

Welcome to historical Ireland.

Comes out on Kindle October 2nd. The new cover is absolutely... appropriate. A bit too much, at times.

For funsies, Sir Nigel Loring and Sam Aylward are major characters in the Emberverse series by S. M. Stirling. Pretty much the entire cast is there (John Hordle, Alleyne, ...)

Getting ready for next year's Adventures in Forgotten Realms AD&D pack?

The author did a bit of a fake-out earlier

I'm assuming "doesn't give a fuck about mounts, cosmetics or achievements"? Then no. Even the invasions will give you gear that will be replaced as soon as you've finished levelling or maybe even before 60, which I assume will take about 10 to 15 hours.

There's 2011 ES4 that's a bit larger and might pass closer than 2018VP1, but the error margin doesn't let him intersect Earth's position. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_ES4#2020

All those slightly unbalanced stuff is why most people remember vividly stuff from EQ, and very little from WoW. I do remember an Agnarr raid in BoT where we wiped down to two people, probably from some stupid shit. I managed to get combat rezed while our MT was kiting Agnarr around his circular...

Nobody wants Unreal blocked on Apple Store. The judge is also apparently deeply unsympathetic to the concept of exclusive stores - Apple might get shafted and allow alternative stores to be opened on iOS. The idea is that Apple can implement whatever rules it wants on his store, as long as...

First week of november, 1999. I'm minding my business, heading toward the usual HHP spot for the standard picklaw mine hunting pickup groups for the mid-20s. And then there's those red-con creatures that I'd never seen in the middle of Kithicor, and I'm "uh? wtf?". For an entire week, Kithicor...

Looks good.

And everyone know this. It was the most stupid idea in game design - penalize people for things outside of their control. Yet the end point is WoW, where death does not matter, and no one bats an eye to dying 100 times to a boss, which means the boss HAS to require you to die 100 times in order...

You should not fear dying, but you should absolutely hate dying.

The one part of EQ's death system that was really terrifying was the "seven days - you lose it all" risk. Your corpse decays, you lost all. This was even worse for planar raids - if you fell below the threshold, then you were truly fucked. A modern game with severe death penalties would...

Found out about EvE Echoes, the EVE Online adaptation for mobile: https://www.eveechoes.com/ (made by the guys who distribute the PC version for China - Netease) Looks like its a slightly simplified copy of the original, with the same type of F2P/P2P model.

"D'vinn to zone!"

It's a RUSSIAN company.

Your problem is that you started buying Secret Lair, the most blatant money grab by Wizards (with stiff competition with hundred dollar VIP boosters and the upcoming collector edition with special lands exclusive)

I only saw the cat landing on the second viewing, the first was "what? did that guy have a stroke..."

The thing is, it won't happen in Shadowlands. In Shadowlands, you will have a single-path quest progression, with specific zones to complete in a pre-determined order. Alts may go wherever, but your main character will not.

Woah: https://www.wowhead.com/news=317577/horde-ironforge-lockdown-to-delay-the-ten-hour-war-on-gandling

I tend to think the movie goes even one better than Heinlein by completely closing the loop.

It's probably more streamline now, or they'd face massive problems with the EU GDPR (which could lead them to get fined of 4% of their worldwide income).

There is one publication pipeline at Orbit that is bad - conversion of their ebooks gives me an epub where every paragraph is on its own page. It systematically happens for 2 specific authors, which makes me suspect that their authoring software suite interacts badly with Orbit's in-house tools...

And serious books as well. Anything relatively scientific is a pain in ebook form, as most of the time, the charts and illustrations end up cut to the side or, in one case, I only had the top of the illustration at the end of the page, and no illustration on the next - I needed to use calibre's...

"There's a sucker born every minute" - P. T. Barnum

*EDIT: Complicated*

Apple already has an anti-trust lawsuit in Europe on this.

Pre-path is now on PTR, apparently. Also, Scourge Invasion Mark III. With more epicer loot. All the undead bosses of WOTLK have come out to play.

If you regularly watch Rudy, he sometimes mention that for those old sets, the price of the sealed product is completely independent of the singles market.

The man is the go-to for vulgarization about relativity. I still have his book from 25 years ago: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17362.Black_Holes_Time_Warps

Zero-sum is synonymous with stagnation.

Hey, you got a free complimentary sat phone, you may as well use it while they try to vacuum thrusters' fumes.

The number of ships visible on the plane view...

Waiting for

Yes. The idea is simple: level 1-10 in a new starter experience, then 10-50 in any single expansion or vanilla, then off to the shadowlands. Their problem with the scaled XP was that people were doing 20-30% of an expansion, then outleveling it and moving to the next, which felt odd. Even worse...

Yes, 11/22/63 was interesting, notably with the various twists.