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There's an article on Kotaku about the destruction of that wormhole Keepstar that most of everyone thought couldn't be destroyed (never give a challenge to a bunch of EvE players). https://kotaku.com/the-year-long-undercover-plot-to-blow-up-eve-onlines-m-1831574442 Executive summary: They...

And at the end of the gantry, this important notice:

Fixed that. I'd like BFA more if I could manage my time there. But I can't. There's a shitton of stuff that's timegated, and the gating is balanced against your doing it daily. Case in point: Service medals (Honorbound/7th legions). You need around 1650 to get all the rewards. But you have a...

Started my new goodreads challenge of 140 books (did 150 last year). Finished Nuttall's latest (after he had to take a break due to cancer/chemo), The Alchemist's Apprentice which is a stand-alone in his Zero universe. The basic premise is a classic: everyone does magic with varying levels of...

QFT. The last innovative game was Minecraft. I don't think there's been a new game type or new take on a game type since. Most RPGs are still refined versions of baldur/diablo/etc that compete on new classes & settings. Adventures are still point-n-clicks and push puzzlers. Strategy has barely...

Or grinding 15 different currency bars almost all on timed gates. - 6 reputations at 10k per chest for a chance of toy/pet - Azerite power to increase your neck ilvl/unlock set abilities - Seafarer dubloons to purchase mounts/pets/toys - Titan Residuum to purchase armor - War Supplies to fuel...

Let's hope it doesn't get stuck like the previous rabbit (Yutu is "Jade Rabbit")

Radiation on ice tends to make it go reddish.

You can't. If both modes yield the same reward, the solo mode wins because the group progression carries an intrinsic cost that requires it to be "better" than solo unless it dwindles to nothing. The only thing you can is have both yielding different types of reward. Typically, you'd make group...

Hmm Sooo, that's why so many pet sales end up for that nonprofit? Do they use that to remove taxes (since you won't be able to make your "donation" tax exempt)?

Because it apparently had glue covering it. Which worked for a couple weeks, until vacuum&cold made that brittle enough that the seal broke.

Drilling in micro-g is surprisingly hard (trying to find a way to wedge you against the reaction to the drill torque). That's why everyone says it can't have been done while on the ISS.

The first books of the series were ok/good, but the series dragged on, and I didn't even finish book 6. Novik pretty much stopped the series after that anyway.

He said that, given the temperatures for re-entry, there won't be any paint on that. Otherwise, it's a view from the testbed they have in Texas. Trying a 500m launch/landing, then a 5000m one, before going on full testing.

Obvious fix for you...

Nope. Minecraft was a guy goofing about voxels in java and showing youtubes about his code, then asking for money for his codebase because it was becoming a full-time job.

The only thing surprising is that it took Activision so long to do that. My guess is Morhaime fought all along until he said "fuck this, I'm out"

Note that you still need to have purchased the outpost unlocks for KT (if Horde) and presumably Zandalar (if Alliance). I dinged 120 on my first horde, and the map unlocked only the last zone I hadn't explored; all the KT outposts remain invisible.

So, topological cylinder rather than torus?

So, a torus then. (square maps that wrap around at the edges become a torus in 3D, not a sphere. L2Math)

More Mars, but seen from orbit. The Korolev Crater (50 miles wide, 1.1 mile deep ice in the middle).

That one didn't work. People very quickly converged on a loot hall: straight, crammed with AOE targets, and so on. There's no real reward to designing "real" dungeons, so there were few of them. And the players liked the loot halls more. Which is why the loot was limited to low currency...

It's kind of hard to find that place. Death penalties are hard. We can agree that WoW's death penalty is probably a bit too light. You lose very little. An emissary cache and you've stocked enough for 50 deaths. And at most 2mn lost every time. But it's the only thing that makes the Mythic...

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Bleh. Is there a way around the bug where the thread will not show if the OP is someone I have on ignore... The only way to access the thread is to hope it is #1 on the subforum...

Modern trailers spoil almost everything in their movies. This is perfect.

Chrome does "trust our cloud with your passwords". Password managers don't; even if you use cloud-based syncs, you're syncing encrypted files. As long as your key/password is not on the cloud service, you can't have your password safe stolen. If you have: 1) Your passwords synced on the cloud...

Loved how it deployed the landing struts, even if there was only water under the "landing" zone...

And she even goes total Super Saiyan

Told ya that deepfakes were going to be good one day.

Now, that's how you do clickbait!

Aaaand... he's out. ArianeGroup names new CEO - SpaceNews.com Doesn't believe in the future? Well, the EU govts who DO pay for your rockets do believe in it...

More like an old memory of Everquest, where there were two alternating teams (making an expansion, then fixing it live while the other team was making the next expansion). If I remember right.

At this point, there is not a single reason why STR, AGI and INT are still separate stats. Every item that has one has all the others needed for its intended classes. The only ones still having separate "strength" stats are weapons.

It would have gotten a few bonus points if it had used toasters rather than dishwashers. (this is non spoilery unless you've read the book)

Get ready for the next Pet Battles: The Future of the Warcraft Franchise on Mobile - Is Warcraft: GO Happening? (Speculation)

You underestimate tracking and datamining. You don't even need anything but a simple "A talked with B", "A grouped with C", "C gave loot to A" type of logs: 1) You can absolutely detect the spambots. They are horribly blatant. The alternative is not to advertise in game, which severely...

If you're selling the run for gold, there WILL be a trace of the gold changing hands. It's when there's no trace of gold being traded between accounts that you can safely conclude RMT was involved.

The thing is, banning people buying the run has little effect. Nobody notices (because Blizzard does not advertise bans), notably not the ones selling it.

It's self-selected. Those who tend to read those tend to like those, and those who like those tend to review them. I've taken to review and rate every book I read, no matter how bad or good, to avoid the second bias. But I do it on goodreads rather than amazon (since my reviews on amazon.fr...