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The balance between book 1 & 2 is odd. There's a lot of the same general storyline, with different corps and different mad scientists. This is why they added Mao and most of the additional characters from book 2 (save Bobbie which came on S2 and Prax, which doesn't seem to be there) appear in...

I cheated, I looked him on IMDB and he's still there for a few episodes. I do expect him to be a replacement character for Manéo Jung-Espinoza

Blues also said that the math was temporary, and the numbers, both for AK and AP, were going to wiggle a lot for the next builds.

I even built a mage tower just to get shortcuts to raid entrances :)

They've already said that the Tomb will not unlock along with 7.2. They're including it and doing basic testing because it's probably before 7.2.5, but they're going to tweak the numbers on PTR during early 7.2...

Side note for those who follow it casually: new Season 3 chapter is now unlocked; log-in to make sure you get it enabled for your account.

Since 7.1.5, yea. Takes forever, addons or no.

She appears originally in book #2. The season 1 is 3/5th of book 1, plus a couple of additions from book 2 they felt were necessary. Because otherwise, there would be nothing about earth or mars at all, it would be all belt, and earth "too much in the background". So they pulled Avasarala early...

It's dead. I keep them "mostly" running because, believe it or not, there's a couple of missing xmog items, so every 2 or 3 weeks, I have an expedition to catch a loot chest and roll for xmog. That and the archeology every 2 weeks. Otherwise, if I check the garrison, I send ships and followers...

This is probably why S1 & S2 are a mashup of book 1 & book 2, with bits of book 2 ending up in season 1 (Jules Mao, the UN bits) and the resolution of book 1 being the first 5-6 episodes of S2. Which is also a problem, because they introduce Bobbie Draper as the very first scene of S2, but her...

That way, you make sure you don't let vampires sneak in.

Don't worry, you're going to go to GMO wheat soon Rothamsted Research submits application to Defra for permission to carry out field trial with GM wheat plants There is no escaping frankenbread now!

That is, until your number is disconnected by the automatic account management for "failing to settle outstanding bills" because no one has access to the Iridium offices anymore.

South Asia is pretty much MMO central for awesome graphics along with poor gameplay.

COINCIDENCE??!? Just at the annual meeting of Inserm (French NIH), and there's a presentation by the head of Ethic council here that just laments the abysmal rates of vaccination against Hep-B and HPV in France, "possibly due to lack of trust in scientific integrity".

It was released on Nov 2004, so you'll have to wait until nov 2017 for that 13th year anniversary.

Secret mind-enhancing drugs from KGB experimental programs. Anything for Russia First!

Strictly speaking, it's not LitRPG; no virtual game/VR world or even portal fantasy. But yea, once I picked that, my suggestion list doubled in size with all sort of virtual world stuff. Noticed your Way of the Shaman, might get a look later. Another set of novels that came from the suggestion...

Homo Sapiens already went thru a genetic bottleneck. Prior to our expansion out of Africa, the estimates are that at one point there was less than 10K humans around. Save for a handful of % DNA from neanderthal or denisovans that were out before, every single one of the 7+ billion people on...

Yea but TMDB has slightly more spoiling one-line description. I guess everyone will have a major shock on ep 5... (and I didn't expect them to move stuff so fast)

My main beef is that they start a bit too slowly with Sgt. Draper. We all see she's a badass and all, but unless you're a book reader, there's absolutely nothing to tell you she's important to the series. She ships to Phoebe, they all go rah-rah-rah, and then... nothing happens (Phoebe gets...

Wakefield hoped to peddle the new adjuvant he had invested into. If he could get the industry to switch to his product for their vaccines, he'd make millions from royalties.

When you're my age, you watch TV with what's in front of your couch, like everyone else did in the days! If it's not 44", it's not TV!

Bleh, SyFy won't be showing it in France (at least for a while)

And the FDA will not. Trump just issued an executive order instructing every agency to "remove 2 regulations for every new regulation". Trump is extremely anti-regulation and wants every industry to have free hands to do whatever it takes to MTGA (Make Themselves Great Again). Don't expect the...

Mostly, if you want to recreate an EQ feeling, there are the core things you would need: - Complex travel (while one unlockable flight-path per zone is ok, the 5 flight-paths per zone that modern WoW has, and EQ2 had, are overkill) - Loot that requires groups to get (whether outdoor or in...

It's basically the Sims.

There's a throwback to this in recent WoW. Highmountain has an area with harpies and bears that's used for quest and WQ, but has an elite boss-like Ettin walking around. If you're squishy, and full health, you get 2 shot. If you're half-health or undergeared, you get one-shot. It's always funny...

Downtime is ok in a group situation, where you might take time to chat a bit. But it absolutely sucks in solo play. And if your game doesn't offer solo play in one form or another, you've probably lost.

There's a shitton of catch-up mechanics. You're not going to catch-up in 2-3 weeks, but you're not 6 months behind. Mythic is the new Challenge mode. Basically, you start at heroic-style difficulty (but without an automatic LFG matchup), finish the dungeon, get a Keystone for Mythic+2. It's for...

This is mostly a limitation of the boss tank and spank model of raids. WoW has the same problem in its modern design: every raid is designed for exactly 2 tanks, no matter how many players come. If you have a 5-group raid of 25, then you bring 2 tanks, not 5. Which fucks the dynamics because...

We've learned, like 10 years ago, that "dps" is not a good role to make. No, you need many. What you don't need is classes that will only tank, or only CC, etc. If your group need "role X" to perform well, then a large number of classes should be able to do it. How many depends on the size of...

Given the thermal variation between night and day, the poles are almost certainly among the best locations for any permanent base. Take a lunar telescope, for instance. It's the easiest "use case" for lunar bases: you get the advantages of a ground-built telescope (large base, maintenance) and...

Stop thinking about classes, think about roles. There are about 5 core roles in a group setting, which are: - Tank - Heal - Group buff (long term/auras and short term boosts) - Enemy debuffs - CC with the optional scout/pull "6th" role (which would require a 6th slot in a group). That's what...

If you haven't finished the Suramar Uprising quest line (now that all of it is available), it has tons of AP, assuming you're at AK25. If you're not, I'd suggest delaying doing that and doing the repeatable content (every AP WQ, bags, mythic+ runs, whatever you can get your hands on) until...

Trump + Musk (twice now) = Mars 2024? If he gets reelected, that'd be the crowning moment of his presidency.

Can't remember exactly, but wasn't this last launch the first time we saw the landing live from the 1st stage's camera? Usually the uplink breaks completely, but this time it still managed to update a couple frames here and there...

That's what we did at Nevrax as part of the pre-prod/production work for Ryzom. But it was structured; the producers and lead devs never actually played the competition. There was a dedicated team (of... 1) that would be playing about everything (that was in 2000, so we had mostly UO, EQ, AC...

Oh, no. You can use solar panels. At least 15 days out of around 29. No need of undeveloped technologies. The same applies for spaceships propelled with LOX_H. You carry the water/ice, and start your electrolysis operation as you approach the moment where you're going to brake; you only need...

Yep, except for the part where you have to ship the ice back to earth/mars/wherever for use. That's where the economics of the thing become complicated. You need to factor the cost of bringing the fuel from wherever, plus the anticipation cost (your fuel has to be extracted months/years in...