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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.

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...