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Yep. They would just have to completely re-engineer their item generation. 1h for an intern, I guess. I mean, they just dropped their entire system for a 2nd relic trait because they could not make it work. But remaking the loot generation system? Peachy. (adding special cases everywhere, like...

The one I remember about that cold stuff was "Heads" by Greg Bear, in which they break reality, and it ends up with "Mars" in which the martian colonists use that technology to teleport and hide Mars somewhere safe in the galaxy because at that point we're fighting a war by converting pieces of...

I see that quite often. It's an artifact (haha) of their multi-zone system, I think. It's never more than 1-5, no matter what.

It's a technical limitation. When you use a token, it does a "loot generation" action, so the generated piece of loot runs thru the entire system of "do I get a forge? do I get a socket? do I get a third stat? which one?", which is completely separate from the token itself. The token is merely...

That's because most studies are NOT reproduced. Ever. We have a major reproducibility problem because of that. There's been a few studies on reproducibility. One biotech company decided to take 53 major studies in cancer. The kind of studies that will probably dictate how we treat cancer in the...

The title for this week's episode ( "The Seventh Man" ) is a clear indication that it will be about the battle. (as it's obviously referring to the 7th target on Bobbie's display, unlike the 6 UN Marines they encountered earlier)

That can be arranged, ... mr Reagan.

95% we're going to see the battle in bits and pieces thru flashbacks when she gets debriefed then has to testify. It's not too bad. You go from badass marines ready to rock to corpses scattered everywhere, which lets you imagine the worst. If you didn't read the books, you would probably not...

D-Wave has good quantum computers, but they're specialized systems for annealing (basically, exploration of multi-dimensional score function to find the maximum value). Immensely faster than any classical supercomputer for that specific problem, useless for every other. There's no general...

Fake science news or not? I was surprised to see Infowars there. Do they run science stuff? Huffpo, ok they do fake science, but Infowars?

Remember from episode 1, she's quite the iron lady. But yes, usually, she's more about the nice and reasonable lady you should listen to.

Augmented designs: I like the part where the drone chassis is basically a flying squirrel pelvis.

Nope. That kind of penalty for X minutes means basically "today's play session is over". Your group isn't going to wait until the tank recovers from death, probably not until the healer can manage to keep the tank alive, and possibly not until you have your CC/DPS fully operational. In a...

Corpse/Item recovery creates a potential crisis point. If your corpse is lost, you WILL ask yourself "do I want to play again?". That's what we call Crisis Points in gameplay, the moment where the player asks him/herself "do I still want to play", and the answer will - depending on other...

With relativity, it would... depend. On whose perspective. If you can accelerate "forever", then you'll do so. The acceleration drops to infinitesimal levels based on outside experience, while it remains constant based on your own perspective. It's just that the universe will end just before...

And that's why he gets into problems with Naomi. She's a known OPA operative, and she's very obviously trained against that form of interrogation.

That also gives you his acceleration, he did an average of 112 meter per second squared average (around 12G). His sensors in the show go offline when he goes above 10G. He should have been dead well before; the unprotected human body starts blacking out at 6G, and trained military pilots manage...

That's also the first time they call the Epstein Drive "Epstein" in the show, I think. It's straight out of first chapters of book, but there was really no reason to provide the name. Haven't read the short story yet, because I was waiting for it to show on amazon, but apparently, you can only...

A LEO platform still makes sense. In addition to the basic research objectives, it has the advantages of providing a technical base for maintenance and space assembly. Basically, a developping space infrastructure would follow the original Von Braun model. You have one (or more later) base in...

However, if you're really interested in the alien stuff and turned off by human politics then it wouldn't be too odd to wait until book 7 arrives later this year to resume the series.

On the other hand, it's an incentive to spend - serious - time playing alts.

The core and focus of the books is humans and mankind's adaptation to changing things. The alien stuff is mostly a large McGuffin at that point. You get some serious peek at the alien stuff in book 4 because it's on the first real alien colony world (where Holden is sent to negociate peace...

That's Buroker's series, right? It's been sitting in my recommended section on Amazon for some time, but I haven't gotten around to get it. I'm still ahead on my goodreads challenge for 2017 (80 books for the year, 17 done already) and have like 20 unread ones on my ereader, plus a dozen on...

Not that, but what EverQuest got right is that it let things go pearshaped at any time. Forgot a runner in a dungeon? You could expect anything from 2 to 20 mobs to drop unannounced. Forgot a runner outdoor? Nothing happens for 30mn, and then, suddenly, out of the blue here he comes back. As I...

Rough guestimates flying in KSP's IRC yesterday was that it will probably be below 150M $ per seat. Considering that the ISS/Mir holiday was around 80M$, it'll be a bargain. (the two tourists will have more room than the old Apollo, since Dragon 2 is for 7 crew members, and they'll be only 2 of...

People have tried to change that sacred name since 2004... and failed.

Which is why you had the concept of self-healing blocs (in Landmark, and scheduled for Next as well). The world was destructible, but permanent. Blow the wall to get in, but when the next group comes around next hour, it's gone.

Bonus points for a french-sounding first name.

which is why it's about "launching new shards", not "instancing" or "spawning". And of course, it does not address the inevitable problem: what do you do when your shard population goes down...

The "in our world" is very important. I mean, if you think about it, that's what you tell people. No one recounts his great moment of the quest line for the staff of whatever (that you replaced 3h later). Or even the awesome cutscene of the the Gates of Icecrown. I mean, you mention "that's...

Not very much in visible light. Because they're cool (no H2 fusion), they're mostly bright in infrared. (which is why all those artist concepts of TRAPPIST-1 are absolutely junk)

It's quite possible that the causation is reverse; he was gigantic because he had underlying development problems.

Your thoughts? Reuse launch, Falcon Heavy launch reschedule, crewed launch this autumn, or they are building an antigravity Dragon 3 spaceship?

It would be an enormous shame if it got canceled before at least season 4. There's going to be 9 books in the series, and I would hope we'd get S09 someday, but given the fickleness of viewership and network execs, that's not guaranteed...

Time to repost this awesome video: [ note: when it shows 1 light day... the 2 voyagers aren't there yet, as they remind us

I think that it's absolutely horrifying when you stumble upon these kind of video ... and you realize the only 3 MMO on these lists that are not asian combat grinders are... Pantheon, Crowfall and Elyria (all crowdfunded). (and also, wtf is that with all these MMO that look exactly the...

That's because it is the book ender rather than the season ender. Now we move into book 2 territory (minus the bits already injected in S1). There's an interview somewhere where the showrunners said that, if they had a 13-episode run for season 1, they would have tried to fit the full book 1 in...

One of the thing you see clearly on this are the two Lagrange clusters of Jupiter, where gravitational interaction creates "fake planets" that asteroids orbit. Called the Trojans and the Greeks clusters respectively, of course.

On the subject of infrastructure hacks... While most of you would have been unaffected because 2 years ago, OVH was only starting to get the NA market, OVH's old support forums were hacked. Apparently, they simply forgot to turn off the forum when they migrated their old vBulletin stuff to new...

Might be related to the SHA1 collision proof that google did this week?