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Microsoft decided to pull a WotC and tightens his EULA on Minecraft:

It is probably doable. Oceanic migration occured with far less technology. But there appear to be no trace of anything in the local population, notably gene-wise, so they didn't put down a colony, like they used to, or it suffered the same fate as the viking's northern ones.

He's apparently still 50 chapters ahead on Patreon (I checked, he just posted 180), with 1 chapter a day going on... except on the day of the week where he does 2.

That was yesterday (now two days ago). Some patch hitting. Today's graph is... very different (the little blip is what was on yesterday's screenshot):

ROFL, my ISP has crashed. Two friends (all on the same) got their internet not responding at all for 2mins when I had "no connections" either... (including my own servers)

Started download lightning fast, then 1min later, slowed to a crawl... had to reboot to restore my normal speed. It's oscillating between 200 and 700Mbps. About 18 min download expected.

You need reflection, not lensing. Lensing will not make you able to see things in your past light cone - you need the light to travel forth and then back to see X thousand of years. The Turyshev 2020 proposal uses the lensing from the sun to get a telescope with a 25km resolution on exoplanets...

Wait, finally their launches on SpaceX will be broadcast in 1080p instead of 720p?

That reminds me of an old discussion of racial advantages in AD&D. "So elves are long-lived, dwarves are strong and resilient, but humans?" "We fuck anything, and we make babies with them no matter what"

Yea, Chinese replication is "less than conclusive" (it's China, fake it until you make it is a way of life in academia), but at least we've got western institutions working on it. Of course, there's things like the Harvard Prez scandal, where they take the same picture, zoom it a little bit...

Apparently, they're shipping the physical hardcover early this time - I just got a notice that it's now on FedEx on its way to France. Yay!

Doubtful. The Zanclean Flood (which is the breakup of the Gibraltar dam and refilling of the Mediterranean you describe) occured around 6 million years ago. At the time, our ancestors were either still ancestors of the Chimpanzees or close cousins of those. Zero chance anyone remotely "human"...

Hell, there ARE people who will fuck their raid on a perma-death server just for the lulz.

The best things in the universe are the BWC megastructures ("Because We Can"). (Warning: 2h video)

I mean, they're not wrong. Mens Sana in Corpore Sano.

It's like all technologies. They start experimental and expensive, then get practical and affordable. The scale simply changes based on technology. In the 50s, "there is a market for maybe 6 computers in the world" (famous words by IBM). In the 60s, each university wanted its own. In the 70s...

Apparently, you can skip over the first (assuming you do not pick that character as "you"), but the second is a given. (I can't remember which human mage turned himself into a Lich based on an Illithid Brain)

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Nostalgia hits you for X damage!

Absolutely. But if it had formed into a really solid stable planet before being blown up, it would need something truly major (and thus highly unlikely). Big, and going very fast - probably at interstellar speeds - yet hitting perfectly a smallish planet. Earth got clobbered by a massive...

"You pay, we launch, no questions asked. It's your money." It's easier to measure, but way easier to scam though, as no one can check the actual satellite to see if there's no small ion "leak".

A possible recipe for that pizza: Beware garlic, yes.

Jupiter has demonstrable effects on the belt - there are clumps at some resonances (Trojan asteroids, notably) and empty zones of the belt where any asteroid orbiting there get tugged away (Kirkwood gaps). Shattering an already formed planet is a well-known model. For an earth-type planet, the...

By the way, one of the pizza recipes I saw from the 16th century involves... sugar and honey toppings. Yes, Pizza as a pastry dessert (to be fair, Italian renaissance involved putting sweet stuff on everything).

Too weak to break up a planet once it has formed. Those tidal forces aren't enough to break the moons of Jupiter, let alone a planet AU away (tidal effects work in the inverse cube rather than inverse square). They're strong enough to disrupt planetary formation, which is probably why the...

If the italians say it's a pizza, then it is a pizza. They invented the damn thing, they get to say what it is.

I don't remember which game it was, but the power-based matchmaking was specifically done so that whales wouldn't be matched too often against whales, so that they wouldn't be fucked over and over. They would face other power-buyers from time to time, so that they'd feel incentivized to buy...

You know if those things are available to buy, then the game is designed around that. Anyone playing a "reasonable time" will level at a crawl, get awesome loot once every quarter, and similar things. The usual argument of "but anything in the shop, you can get in-game" is a fallacy - the game...

That's the Kickstarter editions. Which, once I got them, made me realize that when you get 4-6, I'm going to get differently numbered books.

Nobody103, the author of Mother of Learning, has started a new serial: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/71045/zenith-of-sorcery

He basically fell off the writing scene with Covid. His editor exchanged words with him until he pretty much stopped talking. It think he got massive depression, as some people got during that time... I would also like to see him dealing with Earth, as it's obvious stuff is going on there...

Kaz is in the Rogue Dungeon series, I think? Guy from a fantasy world ends up Isekaied in a MMORPG as a mob, levels up by killing players only. He recruits a variety of Trolls, as they're the base mobs for the dungeon he spawned in. It's been some time. *EDIT* And yes, For the Salt is the...

If you want a series where the system was heavily inspired by EQ (6-man team cap, holy trinity, zone keying, dungeon-specific loot drops, boss raids with raid mechanics and legendary loot, etc), there is The Infinite Labyrinth (you can run webtoepub to get epubs for your kindle instead of...

Classic Krout. DK can't finish properly his stories.

That's about when you started to have anatomically modern humans appearing on the record. There were quite a few hominids around, and most of our cousins were already "smart".

Weirdly enough, I have 4 weeks of vacation scheduled to start on Jul 31st...

Yes. On a small planetoid, it's possible, but a large mass above the spheroid limit will absolutely collapse.

New one dropped today:

If you want the converse to "let's kill Hitler", that's basically what you do. Show him exactly how the history unfolds, and convince him that he needs to ally (at least on paper and temporarily) with the Soviet Union. They split Eastern Europe, while Hitler focuses on invading the UK and making...

Most of the dev team is based in the UK, with some more in Germany after they purchased the Crytek engine. Officially, Robert's company is american, but that's where the majority of the staff is.

Lots of arrowheads, lots of bones, what looks like a piece of another blade... That's an enormous find.