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They have background. Not stories. The difference between a WoW-type game and an EQ-type game is that WoW insists that you live in your story. You're the one who clears the Defias Mine and kill Van Cleef. You're the General of the Alliance/Horde in charge of the forward base in Draenor. Etc...

We need more classified launches to get that kind of spectacular views. Much better than the usual "well, here's an animation of the second stage going around earth".

We still dont' have the base of a general theory of protein expression. Heck, even with a protein formula, we still don't have a general way to figure out how it folds and potentially expresses its effects (which is why you still have those folding@home distributed stuff). Not going to happen...

Not a good idea. For 20 thousand years, we progressed agriculture by making hybrids and doing heavy selection afterward. In the last 20 years, genetic engineering allowed us to make more progress in term of seeds than the 20k previous years. Making neanderthal-human hybrids when you can simply...

There's been older migrations. The only migrations that fully matters is the recent waves of modern humans, starting 70-50ky ago from east Africa. At that point, Africa already had various populations all over; western Africans appear to have little to no contribution to Eurasian ancestry. But...

They drop off normal mobs. Farmed the 100 this morning with 2 others on imp portal + inquisitor/painmistress portal. Took about 20mn overall, and we only had 2 portals with elites over the time.

And that's why some people think a space "nation" will probably be a terrifying (to us) totalitarian state that not only monitors you 25/25 (because without days, you can probably switch to a more "natural" circadian cycle), but will take measures so that your behavior doesn't even fall out of...

The dude can possibly understand what you're doing, but he wouldn't be able to understand why you're doing it. Merely one century of cultural evolution completely changes what most of society's interested in. There's been a couple of "what if", and the most probable reaction: "you have access...

No idea (don't use the remote mission control). However, there's a fairly big problem now with the Hall missions, and that the missions offered are based exclusively on your highest ilvl champion. Because fuck trying to level the 6th/7th champion you just recruited and activated: they have no...

It's not a matter of "can it be done", it's more of a matter of "why would you even want that?" (on a regular basis, that is). Even without transhumanist stuff, consider how someone from 1917 would consider people on facebook. Heck, I have a hard time understanding how a teen today can spend so...

That's the point though. "So, as a human..." The endpoint of a potential Neuralink technology is NOT human. No more than humans are great apes. The brain (and mind) are extremely plastic, so you're going to integrate into your own consciousness a number of expanded capacities and social...

There was an interview in which they said the very end of each season is supposed to be a WTF game-changing moment. So, an active massive protomolecule blob swallowing a guy whole in S1, the Abroghast being dismantled "cleanly" in Venus in S2.

If you want the book solution to that problem

For the non-book readers interested in the difference, the same sequence happens mid-book 2, except that the Arboghast (the ship) is still in orbit so everyone dies quasi immediately (notably because their spacesuits, for those who were wearing one, are disassembled as well). But Jon-Michael de...

The OOT Cyclops was static spawn, so it was just a kill loop until it spawned. The SRo one had a set of 5 PH, all of which would be wandering. Daytime it would be "a wandering madman", nighttime the ancient cyclops. Respawn was 24mn (8h in-game).

Fun stuff: with the weekly reset (EU), Apocron on the Broken Shore got reset as well, could take him yesterday, and again today.

The only way you have a dark side of the moon is if you listen to Pink Floyd

The last of the "trilogy" feels like a "my editor threw a busload of money in front of me" novel. Most of Haldeman's work is very good. Check "Mindbridge" (a classic), "Tools of the Trade" (a spy novel with a SF gimmick) and more recently "Camouflage".

The only place where I see a difference is: - Suramar. A lot of WQ require you to have done parts of the original storyline for Suramar. - Crating. If you haven't done some of your crafting leveling quests, some stuff isn't unlocked. For example, my first jewelcrafter (alliance side) sees the...

Got the boss to set the guild motd to that one.

Double post/my network took a shit

Lunar telescope is currently the best "use case" for a Moon Base. The Moon is basically a best-of combo for the advantages of a space telescope (no atmospheric distortion, no infrared/ultraviolet frequencies attenuation) with a ground telescope (build from parts, maintenability, upgrades, no...

A bit slow, and Holden is (again) worse than the book-Holden. But we have uber-Bobbie to compensate, that's ok. My nitpick is that, unless they shuffle the various storylines, we may end up with a disappointing end to S2. So my hope is that, while everyone is focused on Ganymede, Venus happens...

I have just reached the 51% mark on the Goodread's 2017 Reading Challenge. 38 books out of 75 originally planned, less than 4 months in the year. I just finished Ancient Ruins by Benjamin Medrano, which is yet another "dungeon keeper" type book (I'm really a sucker for those). Enjoyed it a bit...

Uh oh: 7.2.5 PTR Development Notes for Build 23910

Thought he was stuck in his regeneration coffin from injuries in the battle ("Odin's Sleep" from comics). At one point, he probably wakes up, sees "Odin" repairing and restoring Asgard, thinks "ok, maybe I can let him finish the job, gotta go" and goes straight to Earth to find stuff (where we...

One of the advantages that you have when you start with 5 books of a series already out is that your characters are already well fleshed, and the showrunners have plenty of materials to use. Of course, then you have shows that keep going without new material, and shows where the writers not...

He's also biting his nails and looking very very worried. As in "shit, told you it wasn't a good idea. Told you. But did you listen to me? Nope. And now bro is going to tell big green to slam me again"

Thankfully, the achieve is no longer needed. But apparently, you need to have done at least one to open up the follow-up Hall Campaign.

I could have agreed but

We can barely have 2 up at the same time, and that's going to be with people trying to get flying and turning supplies for rep. Not going to happen ever. I wouldn't be surprised if there's no building up for most of the week in a month or two. (most guild members are going to stop once they...

My guess? People didn't knew what "challenges" meant. They assumed it was some scenario for phat lewts, instead of the insanity of ilvl 920+/40pt/optimal legendaries challenges for one artefact appearance (that requires you to have finished the Power questline).

Yea. From now on, it's going to be Disruptor > Cathedral > keep 1000 supplies stored > Command Center for me.

Last two episodes are "The Monster and the Rocket" and "Caliban's War", and they have to wrap up the following lines: 1) The escaped Protomolecule™ soldier (fun bit: he's played by Elias Toufexis, aka "Kenzo the spy" from S1) : team Holden+Alex 2) Prax's daughter Mei rescue : team Naomi+Amos 3)...

The guy behind it isn't happy with the scene as it is and promises one MUCH BETTER in season 3. (book readers probably anticipate that one, since slingshotting sport was introduced in season 1) I for one would have loved the idea of Alex having his beard progressively grow as trash cans...

Couple of interesting hints from further books. Only 2 episodes remaining, which makes me think they're not going to wrap book 2 yet.

Yea. Althought it could be done over time, the pressure to get flying "right now" (which they refuse to formally acknowledge, since they dislike the idea of players flying around) is probably going to cause more frustrations, on top of existing frustrations. You can afford to frustrate the 1%er...