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Followed by "can we bone people with it".

Please close this thread, it makes me depressed: https://indianexpress.com/article/health-wellness/anxiety-depression-ultra-processed-frozen-food-mental-health-issues-8622615/

Technically, even The Captain happens in the same universe.

We do have the advantage of knowing simple tricks that don't require power, yet help immensely with civilizations. On the topic of cultural knowledge, the movable type printing press is pretty much there to stay. It's one of those inventions that, once explained, everybody facepalms and says...

Is my 88-year old mom who prints Sudoku counted as a gamer? Because I remember that the definition of gamer is stretched to include people who use those "gaming sites". Oh, it's in the US. So she doesn't count.

At that point in a book career, you don't get much revenue anymore. You get a small blip in the first book of a series when a new book comes out, but less and less with each successive book. People see book 3 of a series, they say "I should check the series". They see book 12, they say "well, if...

His son was a bit protective of his dad's work but not that much. Once he died, basically all of Tolkien's IP is now managed almost exclusively by lawyers, which should be enough to tell you what will happen.

Any link on that? I know of massive "towers" being seen on Mars, but they're gigantic cylindrical funnels of dust, not actual physical tower structures.

Thanks whoever botched the pre-release and forced them to release early. (now, if only I had time to start reading today...)

EQ had background, WoW had story.

"We couldn't get the money from the open license, so we had to find some, or Hasbro would have our heads"

Have we found Ossoi's ancestors in Algeria?

ARM is an entirely different beast from x86. Different assembly language, for one (ARM is a Reduced Instruction Set Computer processor, x86 is a Complex Instruction Set Computer processor). That means all the firmware HAS to be different. Then you have different memory access/cache technologies...

You make a game for mobile, then someone reminds you that it has to run on a PC three weeks before beta.

Haldeman was a good author in his early years. If you want good novels from him: - Mindbridge (1976), a sci-fi first-contact novel with massive twists (including the FTL travel mechanics) - Tools of the Trade (1987), a sci-fi spy novel (KGB mole finds out mind-control tech, shenanigans ensue) -...

Not that much. I know I've read them, but the fact that I can remember the plot of Forever War, and nearly nothing about the two should tell you something.

Stumbled on a sponsored demo, and picked up this nice mix of Fallout-like RPG and X-Com tactical combat:

Book lands on Amazon on July 2nd. I dropped a few series who were petering out/had lost their lustre. I'm probably going to drop All the Skills, as it losts its way (and the dragon isn't enough to save it). Right now, I'm following mainly...

/em hangs his head in shame to have missed it

If this kills social media, I count that as a win.

We just had a GIF from Rome in the time travel. How could they forget Rome! It's not even mentioned ONCE in the entire article!!!

There's a 7 or 8 book series by Peter Rhodan about a guy stranded in the Roman Empire who boostraps technology (with the goal of reversing the accident that threw him back in the past. Spoiler alert: he fails). It mixes war (which isn't interesting, because Arturo Sandus curbstomps every enemy...

Too small. How about using Time Travel to be ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Zombies (made into a kickass movie as well, which adds another layer to the paradoxes)

Depend if it's back-and-forth, or full no-return trip. Because dipping into time to do the tourist-slash-researcher is one thing, but going back to change things, and stay there because of course your original timeline is erased by your actions are two very different things. The former? Do the...

And they fire 33 of them (at full thrust) when launching.

So, Mortal Kombat 12, except we're calling it 1 (it's 12, since Raiden is still replaced by Liu Kang, which wouldn't be if it was a real reboot).

I think they should have an achievement about playing only with a controller. :trollface:

Micro, partial spoiler

DNA killed that canard in the 21st century. You can map every single chromosome in human DNA to one in Chimpanzees and Bonobos, with nearly every gene located at the same place on the same chromosome, etc. We still have the remains of the fusion of the two chromosomes that remain separate in the...

The current inventory in the warehouse is always displayed on top, in the various categories (where you have the red/green indicator telling you if that category grows or shrinks in quantity). You can also click on a warehouse, but I find it less useful, mostly because everything is clumped in...

Independent authors live (and die) by Kindle Unlimited these days. There was a big discussion recently (actually two, one starting with arguments "for" and one with arguments "against") on reddit's progression fantasy subreddit about that. When it comes to litrpg/progfan, the majority of the...

It's a scam. They quickly realized they were making money off producing shiny ship models, and doing "limited releases" to capitalize on FOMO, and that the game part wasn't important. I wouldn't be surprised if there were only two-three people doing some coding from home, and doing self Q&A, vs...

Ah, so separate account to distinguish shilling from normal shitposting. Got it.

The special draw of that one is that it's all about the first few hours. Then you win (or lose), and move to the next city (randomness will force you to adapt once you decide to go into harder difficulties).

Yeah, I'd say this fits the bill for r/HFY

Which is why good project managers are incredibly good (and expensive): it's because they can get at the heart of what's needed. Or why Agile methods were invented: you don't know what they want, so show them something, see if it fits, then iterate and hope you get the real requirements.

Another example is Mars Opportunity. The stated mission time for that rover was... three months. That's it. It worked for 14 years before before it the last big dust storm finally ended its battery and all of that was extra.

I'm going to wait for actual hardcover. Hopefully, it won't take as long Tress (which arrived mid-march).