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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...

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.