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Diablo Immortal is made (by and) for the asian market, with squeezing some money from the west as an aftertought. Diablo IV is made for the western audiences primarily. They know if it fails here, it fails, period.

Just search for Bethesda on Youtube, and it fills the search query to point to 12 different live streams.

As a regular reminder. In "commie Europe land", where you have the choice between a minimum of 4 major ISP in ANY location, and half a dozen of local providers... You get €49.95 (52.5$) per month, ALL taxes included, for fiber, 1Gb down/100Mb up. The cheap version is €34.95 (although it might...

She somewhat does. But then, she was with Shia LaBeouf for a while, so you might excuse her for using.

He's done a hardcover release through kickstarter of the first volumes of Cradle (with a shout-out by Brandon Sanderson during his own kickstarter promo, no less). Let's hope this leads to non-kickstarted ones.

The second book is still entertaining, but less so. The real good stuff is

If I remember right, they're attracted by red. Make sure you have red flowers/painted feeders.

That's the usual problem with litrpg, and notably with webseries: too many authors don't have a specific story arc to tell, and so they fill it with stuff. There's a good summary on reddit (I know, I know) of completed LitRPG series, and unsurprisingly, complete RR series (like from where...

Although he probably could, it would instantly mean the end of the military contracts. He gets those launches (like the NROL last week) because SpaceX is owned by Americans and headquartered in the States. Presumably the NASA ones too, at least beyond the current contracts.

That's the problem with modern raid design, notably at the high end. If you allow for your mechanics to be resisted, it becomes very, very hard to tune the higher difficulty levels. Imagine every recent Mythic raid, where any of the raiders would have a chance of resisting one of the mechanics...

The first five books are already released, book 6 audio is coming next week (4/26).

I wouldn't doubt they have some kind of Void Lord expansion, but I severely doubt it's intended to be an endgame of any kind. At best, it's an endgame the way Legion was an endgame. There must always be a Lich K... Big Bad.

Sounds legit.

Having the MC get a girlfriend, only for her to be killed (almost immediately) by a bad guy to provide some revenge plot. The original movie that gave the name to the trope was the hero finding her stuffed into his fridge.

It took its time on RR finding the right style. Brink did switch from a pure litrpg to a cultivation/litrpg hybrid after a few chapters. I dropped the series when he did a fridging. That's a mostly unforgivable sin in narration nowadays.

The lottery system is: 5 days to bid on plots Roll occurs 4 days to come back to the plot to check if you won, and claim it (or recover your money) Loops back So, in theory, you'd have 4 days until the next batch (including the unclaimed ones) goes back on sale... except they're extending that...

Yea, pisses me off, since I was the last bidder on my plot, which means I had almost certainly 0% chance of getting it.

Remember, we live in a high inflation era, so spending is typically better than hoarding your money (unless you've got insane returns there). Anytime prices are going down, it's an opportunity that is sure to vanish sooner rather than later.

There's only one appropriate rating for this one...

InadvisablyCompelled (the author of Blue Core and more recently Paranoid Mage) said that LitRPG is a trap for inexperienced authors, because most focus on the system discovery and initial progress, and once the system is known and "mastered", then they find themselves lacking a narrative to...

Just a reminder: the more active account types are usually perceived as more numerous than they really are. The guy who plays 12h/week, mostly with a few friends, is the guy you never notice.

Buying on April 1st is a joke...

Now that you say it...

Even worse are "gaming NFTs". Because they are completely undistinguishable from centralized proofs of ownership. I mean, I know. If you want players of your game to sell their gear to each other, just say so, and put a trading platform on your site. I mean, it didn't end badly for D3...

So, just in case you didn't think Sylas was even capable of the slightest empathy... here you have.

Ahh, Kunark levelling. People starting shouting "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm okay" across the zone to indicate a drop of that hat...

The second one in the series just came out, and it's, of course, called "Anything". Can you guess the last title of the trilogy?

Hard to justify? To whom? None of these committee members are ever called to account for how they spend money. I mean, they can always claim that they're spending it on their own states, which mollifies their own voter base, no matter how much they swindle the other states for it.

I'm French. Alas. We get Aldi instead (which was owned by the same guys until they split, apparently).

Wait a minute! There is no better chocolate than 99% cacao. Just like people who pretend to like coffee and dump a ton of sugar in it - no, you don't like coffee, you like coffee-flavored sugar. 99% cacao FTW. All of the goodies of chocolate, none of the fat and sugar shit that's added to make...

That's a commercial price. NASA adds enough red tape, meetings and custom requirements to its launches that you can probably add 20-40% to the price. Still a bargain, though.

As I've shelled for the Patreon, so that I could get a peek into the end of book 1 before it arrived on Amazon (it's now on Kindle, but not KU, if you want the last 3 chapters in advance) and early book 2... There might be disinformation going on, but as privileged observers, we - readers -...

For the Fate of all Creation. Good reward.

And then, a chapter pops. You should ask more often!!! :)

The newest chip production issue is, of course, Ukraine. Apparently, it was a major source (60%) of noble gases which are used a lot in chip making. So you now have a new shortage (not a long term one, but chip makers are reorganizing yet another supply chain).

Unfortunately, the commitee overseeing NASA (and proposing the budget) is entirely bipartisan on the matter of pork. They all love it, and care for nothing else. Unless there is a significant pressure (like the cold war space race), expecting them - and thus, NASA's higher-ups - to care about...

The end of Abaddon's Gate isn't really a cliffhanger, though. You've opened the Gatespace, it's there for the taking, and it's a new era for mankind. The End. That works. Sure, there's lots of stories remaining, and that's what they wrote afterward, but the first trilogy is self-contained, it...

The point is, you will not get the same game experience. The game will be designed around extrinsic rewards - rewards that you have get from out of game, in the store - rather than intrinsic, in-game, experience. Those extrinsic experiences are always lesser than in-game ones. You get the bling...

The difference is that the first one offers you all the entertainment you paid for, while the other has to be designed to offer you as little as it can while pushing you toward the expensive stuff locked behind the cash shop. By design, it will slow your levelling, so you want to purchase that...

That's slightly different. What we were discussing seems mostly about using brain implants to augment stuff. Things like artificial retinas, anti-epilepsy systems, or memory enhancers against Alzheimer/dementia are an entirely different category. And usually pretty much a "hell yeah" thing...