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The road was straight before:

"You first."

That's another possible. Quern-stones were mostly for making primitive flour. But the traces of fire on it might be that too...

Looks like some form of Quern-stones. Those were stones used for grinding grain. But the multiple holes seem weird.

With M3GAN, dead simple seems correct.

And why Microsoft is already investing bajillions in it. Bing with AI = 5% market share for Google.

Don't worry, they'll play Tencent's copy of WoW: Tarisland *EDIT: Drat, sniped*

There's a scene in a novel like that. The main character is playing a full immersion VR Soccer game, and someone absolutely needs to talk to him, so they hack into his game and plop an avatar down in the middle of the field. All the AI bot players can't figure out what is the proper reaction to...

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Paraphrasers are AI tools too. I wouldn't bet against AI detectors (who are AI themselves, the traitors!) being unable to detect paraphrasers. The "humanness score" tool, notably, might be able to detect human written text, rather than specific AI text.

With the first 74 chapters now on Amazon after editing book 1, there are still 9714 pages, up to the last chapter 929 on RR. The pacing is still slow, but it's way better than what I remember being on RR.

Also, D&D is about 15-20% of WotC's earnings, if I remember right.

Different series. It's an AI who opens a portal to a world which runs under RPG rules, because of nostalgia as it was the constant companion of his owner's son in those VRMMO. Lands near Byzantium with a load of nanotech and a bioengineered body, proceeds to exploit the hell out of the System...

Recent top notch recommendations: Divine Apostasy series, by A. F. Kay (yes) The Great Core's Paradox I & II, by Zendran (snek litrpg) Second tier recommendations: Azarinth Healer, by Rhaegar (much edited/rewritten version from the RR one, which is actually finished) Wake of the Ravager, by...

That third book was when the author had IRL problems and decided he needed to wrap up the story because he knew he would never finish it.

So, Dungeon Crawler Carl, without the comedy.

Stable Diffusion at work: "Take those World of Warcraft screenshots, and do it in the style of a B-movie of the 80s": (and you know what? It looks way better than we got)

That was the Falcon 1 (only 1 engine) at the time, launching from Kwajalein where they had gotten a launchpad. The first three were failures, and the fourth (in Sep. 2008) finally managed to reach orbit and deliver its payload.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. SpaceX needed three launches before they finally mastered engineering of their rockets.

That seems to be a perennial topic on reddit. You can tell the devs know the reward/difficulty is not good for small glades because they did attempt to fix this with the camp2 upgrade, where every resource in a small glade is always harvestable (due to small camps), unlike dangerous glades...

You'd have to dial down Chalker's fetishes there, but hell yea. Use that $1B budget!

Ah. Well, since you get small camps (and those are small nodes), it only takes wood to build one, and you can recover the gears afterward if you recycle the camp. But yes, that's a bit weird. I wouldn't say annoying, but definitively on the weirder side of starts.

That's a good start. Farms/Plantations are relocatable, so you can move them to cover the entire field when you've cleared the two nodes, meanwhile you've got the other farm field (once its trees are cleared). And humans to farm and I see beavers to chop. Your early food is covered, provided you...

There is never a major patch while they're pumping out and "testing" the expansion. At best, you get a feb/march patch in 2024, and that's it.

In the 20th century, prior to antibiotics, you had 800 people per 100k dying of diseases every year, and nobody would shut the entire economy to fight epidemics.

I have no problems with making digital CCGs illegal (note that none of the CCG in existence are TCG - there is no trading whatsoever going on in those games, unlike real TCGs). I also strongly object to digital objects with real-world value. You can scamper back into NFT world for all I care...

Rule 34. If it exists, there's porn of it. And the slime is presumably... in the active position (tentacle porn is a thing, remember).

I remember one article where someone said "you need a x10 ratio - of energy produced to used - to get into the commercially viable range. Under that, it's nifty physics lab stuff."

The thing is, about every OS runs on ARM. You have Linux, you have Windows, you have (of course) OSX. And the intel emulation on ARM is competitive enough that you can run pretty much any intel-only app there.

"Laughs in Magic30" It's exactly like modern video games. They're not designing their sets for the average player, they're designing their sets to milk the whales that will splurge massive amounts to collect everything. Each variant, each set, each secret lair thing is to hook 'dem whale. So...

It is and it isn't. Hubbard had been working on Dianetics since before WW2. But he struggled to get it accepted as a new scientific discipline (unsurprisingly). It was Lester Del Rey (who published most of Hubbard's books I think) who bet him that it would gain more acceptance as a religion...

Full analysis? Aye aye sir! First, a little advertisement for the bakery: (fun bit: it's not too far from where a colleague of mine lives) about 35 km from Lyon, the second largest city of France...

A little reminder of how much Blizzard's staff has changed:

Of course. About everyone I knew who was "waiting for the 4080" simply purchased a 4090 instead when they saw the price/performance ratio. "If I'm going to overpay, I might as well get top perf for it"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/pci-standards-group-deflects-assigns-blame-for-melting-gpu-power-connectors/

Yep. Which one is number 1??? Ah, yeah, thought so.

The way I do some of them is use the Chrome WebToEpub extension. You can even pick which chapters you want to include (if you want to split a long series into books), and it generates an epub that you can send to your Kindle afterwards.

Another way is finding standard Jumpstart (not the expansion-based horrid versions of Jumpstart, the one that is based around core sets). The way it's designed is that you pick any two Jumpstart boosters, mix them, and you get a working bi-color deck with a semi-consistent pair of themes. For...

And that's the end of DSP for me, I think. The game worked wonderfully as a sandbox builder. One of those strategy games? There are dime a dozen of them. Goodbye.

It's kinda hard to end a series when that series brought you a five figure per month before even Amazon and Audible... (checked, looks like he still gets around 70k per month)