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A cautionary tale about implants: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

They're probably looking to sell themselves as a NFT...

Yea. Starting a series is easy, managing to finish one is hard. Specially in the case of the Expanse, since it was originally planned for the trilogy only. And usually, your publisher isn't that helpful on that point - they always like when you keep churning a popular series.

I think I mixed that with the stylist (or whatever) that you need to unlock so you can get a personal haircut in your sleeping room. Here's a list of fashions, and one you have one, you can apply its effect using the menu: https://ffxivcollect.com/fashions

Fashion Accessories are unlocked by a blue (and do what it says) Collections, if I remember right, comes later (4.0?). You get a few items used regularly, and rather than being in your inventory, they go into a separate tab. I have mainly my compass for Aether Currents there. Raid Finder unlocks...

Amos absolutely owns that emissary scene (specially the ambassador asking himself "who the fuck is that guy?").

As I said earlier in the thread, at one point, one the twins compliments you for being such a good nodder. Builds neck muscle.

The thing is, if the game is F2P, then it has been designed around getting people to fork money in micro-transactions. There's no going around it. A game that is designed to be F2P has to include those hooks, and hobble "normal fun" to make it potentially profitable enough. So yea. It's free...

It was Larry Niven's "ARM" universe (used in multiple stories) where you had Wireheads, who had a brain stimulator device like it. And yes, the "legal" versions had limiters in the amount it could deliver.

Nope. Nopity nope. Those... things... are not dwarves. No way, no how. (yes, I know how all the First keep "normal" names vs the ones used in the Source) I watched Qwazii's video on the hilarious thread on the origins of the Lalafels, and I agree with reddit for this one: they are giant...

Well, when I made my character, my first chat remark in the FC was "OMG, I look like a weeb now". Meaning I'd made a male hyur, which is the furthest anyone can be from being a weeb. (okay, that was a reaction from the fact that I couldn't make a dwarf, like any proper game, dammit)

And there's even little details to push that emotional thing, like the "Duty Completed" cutscene. Up to Shadowbringers, when you do, you see yourself cheering along with all your team. And then, in those dungeons, your character is now looking forlorn and all "fuck for having to do that. Why so...

2 decades? Not possible, it's 5. I remember those billboards touting "now in beta" in Cyberpunk 2077.

Then you aren't going to like the game, period. As Chris tends to repeat, it is primarily a story-driven game, not a game of chasing gear, dungeon speedrunning, or doing DDR in raids - even though those aspects are there. This is truly a game where the game is the journey, not the endgame...

Graphics sell, gameplay retains.

And they'll call it a season pass?

That would be Mike Morhaime, so he's already fled.

You probably missed the part where Amazon's Lord of the Rings series will feature black hobbits. Yes. BIPOC Hobbits.

Wasn't there one cinematics where one of the characters point out that the Warrior of Light always nods? Something about huge "nodder" or something?

They usually have one side system per expansion. 2.X has the hunting logs, 3.X had the Grand Companies squad (which I expected to be extended to 70, given that Grand Companies are still heavily involved at least in the Ala Mhigo story, so your squad should have been mobilized there as well, but...

Fan of Penrose, I surmise? We don't even know what consciousness actually is. It's seemingly an emergent phenomenon of all kind of repurported structures in the brain. Take the recent hullaboo about "internal monologues". And the question "are those without one really conscious?". The thing...

Had a look at the Patreon after he released an extra chapter. $13,947 per month. Now we're talking money. (the next ten chapters are also good, but won't spoil. Except maybe... who needs Gravity Mages? It's just warped space, right?)

Insecurities?

I finally dropped my last RSS feeds from mmochamp and wowhead. I think I was somehow hopeful that the game would turn around but the latest "let's move from 1 of every talent to complete talent tree" for flying made me finally realize that there was no hope for WoW.

It's also a staffing/experience problem. You have built over a decade or more a kick-ass team that design graphic chipsets. This is a very narrow, very complex expertise, which requires a significant investment. Will you simply tell your team "okay, take a year of two of breather, we don't...

Elon vs Chris? I bet on Elon getting first...

Chapter 78 has shown up on RR.

I think he just locked the blessing. You acquire the various shards one by one during ARR, it's visible when you get one, and they aren't there in the soulspace until you get them. After he locks you, they're still there, but greyed out/depleted, until you force them open again.

Fun stuff I've stumbled upon: A WH40K fanfic (russian girl get isekaied into the WH40K universe): https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/48358/kryp

The other (Igor) died just after New Year. Both COVID deaths.

You're right. So probably Alan Dean Foster then, specialist in novelization of movies and TV.

The usual joke is that the last two volumes will have Brandon Sanderson on the cover name along with GRRM (cough, Wheel of Time, cough).

I am reminded of that old game, Anarchy Online, where one race was entirely clones and thus, while technically "neutral", was exclusively over-steroided males. I wonder if they changed that. It would seem a perfect target to massive outrage. Probably too small these days to even attract attention.

Zuckerborg and his Metaverse VR team beg to disagree...

When it comes to women, there are advantages to having a little... depth.

Lunar telescopes are... problematic. First of all, day-night does not matter much for the observation - shield it from the reflections of the ground, and the sky remains dark anyway, since there is no atmosphere to scatter solar light. But it matters a lot for engineering. The difference in...

Phantasy Star is a game franchise that tried to copy Final Fantasy, stayed mediocre, and led to PSO, which - like the PSO2 - was a game with about as much content releases as a B-tier game. PSO2 was emptying quickly in its Japan incarnation, so they tried a "ARR" with New Genesis, but they...

Gamigo is the graveyard where games go to die. They have a zombie powder to keep them shambling around with zero updates, no support, and harvest as much as they can from the decaying corpse, before they finally shutter the server (because they rarely maintain more than one).

They've increased that to 21k last Wednesday. But otherwise, it's essentially correct - once the total in the queues get too high, then you need to babysit your queue by having a second (and third) client ready to fire up and recover, since the 2002 error kills your client instead of sending you...

I got D3 because it was "free" with that one-year sub to WoW.