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Lost technologies happen all the time. Consider the best known, concrete. Roman concrete was a marvel. They used it primarily for extensive structure, which survived due to that use of concrete... and the art of making concrete was lost for over 15 centuries until it was reinvented in the 19th...

FTFY

No, I just write for the enjoyment of writing. If a publisher comes calling, I'll jump to Amazon, but it's a shitshow for independent writers, and I'd rather have professionals handle all of that. I'm not doing Patreon, because the way I write is, shall we say, not conductive to serial...

Since I outed myself as a writer in the Writing thread, if you're interested in some slightly exotic, amateur written LitRPG, you've got some mentioned here: The Writing Thread - Post Shit You've Written (And Criticize What's Posted)

At the risk of self-doxxing myself a bit (as I don't use a pseudonym when writing), I've been writing on RR for a while now, all in the LitRPG genre. The Infinite Labyrinth | Royal Road is the fiction that I have complete (four books, 1752 pages estimated by RR. Book 1 is draft 2, all the...

If you're reading book 4, you do have an answer to that. I think it comes mid-book.

I see what you did there.gif (For those who don't remember, Microsoft bought Nokia in 2013, before selling it back in 2016)

I saw bottles of plain water labeled as "fat free". Not sugar free (to prove that's water, not soda), but FAT free.

What's worse is that all of the content is locked behind those story sequences. Until you've done X, you are not allowed to step foot into zone B. Until you've done Y, you can't go into dungeon C. The base game was wide open and allowed you to do whatever, although the incentive for MSQ were...

LitRPG is the perfect popcorn litterature. It even has a... crunchy LitRPG concept!

I'm not paying attention. But this weekend, this was in my (e)mailbox: I can hope the actual book (rather than the ebook) will be there soon.

I also got D3 only because it was made free by getting a one-year of WoW, which I was definitively regularly playing at the time, so it was a free game. Finished the original campaign, shelved it, and never reinstalled in my Bnet install.

With just Elon streaming, they probably got more viewers on X than the entire D4 on Twitch...

And the rights would be trivial, since it's Hasbro.

3 hours later, the numbered edition is already at 4775/7000 maximum... Nice part (with of course a fee): you can get matching numbers!!!

In case you've missed the announce: book 4-5-6 of Cradle will open up on Kickstarter "today" at 12pm Eastern (according the Lesser Wight brother): In theory, you should be able to purchase the kickstarter-only versions of 1-3 if you missed them the last time, but these shouldn't be...

Is it me, or are all these people thinking themselves immortal and going into areas over their levels? One mistake, and you will die, dude. And you will make that one mistake at some point.

Yes. "We know we fucked up. Lessons learned." "So who got fired? Riti? Others?" "Uh.... no one?" "Okay, lessons not learned, brace yourself for a new retroactive change in 4 years." (2019 "We think you should rely on the EULA you agreed to if you do not upgrade" - 2023 "Pray I do not alter the...

Also, funny song:

I'm expecting of course both designated badass women (Lae'zel and Karlach) being played by black actresses, because it has to be done. Gale may stay white as a flaming homo, as is obviously Astarion. Wyll is of course perfect, so no change. Shadowheart will remain as the token white woman. And...

That. So many people think "it doesn't look hard" and start, and then realize that they have no idea what to write past chapter 3. There's also the perennial questions on the RR forums about setting up a patreon, then the person confesses to have just written a blurb (bland and generic, typically).

The important part: That's basically what happened, and like him, in 10 years, he almost sank the company. I also like that, instead of focusing on the business, his primary goal was to inflate the perceived value of it for the IPO. All these big CEOs are like that: the business does not...

That's essentially Unreal Engine's terms, except 4% instead of 5%.

You don't know. The devs don't know. And I'm not even sure Unity knows. All they've mentioned is "we have our ways". It's that insecurity level that will kill the use of Unity. People could live with a 0.2$ fee. But if they don't even know how "installs" are counted? No way.

And I wonder how this is counted. A bacteria has about 4000 genes. A human as about 25000 genes. So, humans have at most 15% genes IN COMMON with a bacteria (assuming that every bacterial gene is present and identical in humans).

Interesting: It looks like they want to force all F2P games into a B2P model, in order to get those fees.

That's a price I'm willing to pay.

Moore's Law is relentless (you get double transistors for the same price every 18 months). When the iPhone 7 was released in 2016, it had 10% more performance than an Xbox360 from 2005.

They're probably making a digital deluxe that includes multiple DLC in advance, so it's "almost mandatory".

Never a wrong thing.

Also, for those who aren't on full Patreon, spoiler warning: It goes to full-on Lovecraftian relatively soon. If that's not your thing, beware.

That's partially why I've pretty much stopped playing for now. The number of bug patches, the mentions of aborted questlines in Act 3, the missing upper city... I don't want to do something, then be told it's fixed and I'll see it in my next campaign (if any).

Also people have started noticing he's "problematic". He's an obvious right-winger who believes in conspiracy theories (like the fact that the most fair election of recent times might not have been fair, or stuff about COVID that falls under disinformation and so on). I patreon at least a month...

LOL, it's an official popular tour offer: https://holidaytours.one/package/paragliding-egypt-paragliding-over-pyramids-of-giza/

If this was an asian gacha game, I would think of this as believable. But this is ridiculous.

Looks like waaay more content!

Spotted this on MMOByte's news: https://evercraftonline.com/ You can even recognize the bits of Everquest zones in there. The only place this was ever posted appears to be in the middle of Pantheon's gif streams, so it probably deserves a real thread. Even if it remains quiet for most of its...

The only time I heard about him was back when he was shilling for that Pantheon game scam.