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Soooo, that's why it was so unbalanced... I mean, even the post-credit scene was stilted...

Yea, the third book (The Children of the Sky) didn't work as well (Deepness is a prequel, but Children is a straight up sequel and... not that good). I had the annotated CDRom version of a Fire Upon the Deep; some of the notes made you wonder a bit (Twirlip of the Mists, where are you? who are...

Yea, I absolutely don't understand how they can have that problem, unless the tracker is generated server-side. I mean, you just send the pokemon coords to your game client, and it has your coords, the pokemon's. So what's the problem? If you want a tracker in-game, you can either display a...

Same here; I'm logging in to unlock S3 ep, but I haven't even finished S2 yet... Maybe one day...

Incense is basically XP; it pops one common pokemon (and rarely a random uncommon one) every 5mn or every 150-200m. Basically, that means 600 to 1500 xp. You won't find good pokemon with incense, what you'll get is more dust/candies for your xp needs. The servers were busy today, I just did a...

Follwing the nerf, I've been using some data sheets found on the web, and made my own "Top tiers" lists, based on CP/possible movesets. Note that if you've got ultra-high IV and perfect moveset, you'd be probably one tier above; if sub-90% and bad moveset, you're probably one tier below. Tier...

I've read everything except his last trilogy (for... reasons? Too many books around, maybe?) Everything Egan wrote before that one was good, except maybe Teranesia. Couldn't like that one. But things like Permutation City, Diaspora or Schild's Ladder should be considered classics of SF.

Probably caught from the same sources; don't remember seeing that one. (I tend not to follow John Oliver regularly. Most of the late news commenters have gone to shit these days...)

Yea, fixed widths mostly sucks.

Our "sustainability problems" are mostly tied to logistics, not production. Can't find the links, but there was a study a couple weeks ago that indicated that more than 40% of the food production of the US is thrown away before it even leaves the farm because it's not matching the presentation...

He write SF based on whatever science concept he found, and extrapolating from there. Pure hard SF, almost no fantasy-style cheats. Time's Tapestry is 4 books in 4 different eras where people try to figure out the meaning of some prophecies. I mean, the first book starts with a woman in Roman...

Yea, that site was wonderful to check out what parks to hit. Because there's parks with solid nest spawns, and parks with random shit. Just came back from the former Dratini spawn, caught half a dozen Evee and there was a solid mass of people. You almost had to elbow your way (an area with 5...

Even for Shadow Priests? Because half of their spec mechanic is absolutely useless outdoors.

Sounds possible; the spawns are linked to players in the area, while pokestop are linked to Ingress players. You should have lots more of the former around, even if there were few of the latter. Of course, if the local density is 1 person per square km, you might not find that many pokemons...

Magnets. Endlessly... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcqr2klx33s

Can leave a forum behind, can't leave traditions behind...

I see stars

Ahhh, yes, almost forgot the 5 post... Hope Royal made the jump...

Hmmm, what to recommend... It's been a long time, but if you've never read Stephen Baxter, you're missing on one of the hardest of hard SF writers. He's mostly known for his Xeelee series, which comprises a boatload of various novels and even more short stories collections, but he's written...

I think the spawns now depend on the density of players in the area. I was monitoring a park, and until 10pm, there was a ton of pokemon spawning on a 1h loop. At midnight, it was more sparsely populated, and that went until 10am... the spawn are starting to pick up now. Oh, and of course...

Aaand, of course, a guy at the park told me during lunch break: "Want dratinis? Go to La Vilette, get about 10-15 per hour". Plus Magikarps by the bushel and a few Evees... (there's also apparently a sweet Magmar spot on the way to work, need to check)

Mild derail: if you want an ebook reader, pick a Pocketbook Lux, and use Calibre (with the appropriate plugins) to strip DRM from your various ebooks and read them there. The advantage with that kind of setup is that basically you can read every ebook from every platform. Except Orbit. Half...

A friend of mine is trying to get the 3 pokestops and gym turned off inside a radioisotope manufacturing area; people have already started to show up at the entrance and ask where they can park "for a visit". They knew it was coming, those were the 4 local Ingress portals. When it was...

There used to be a Dratini spawn spot in the street next to home, at 3mn walk. One Dratini every 30mn. It stopped yesterday. Since then, no spawn at all there On related news, I got tired of the Pokemon Trainer login servers getting repeatedly fucked up and preventing the game from...

In addition, you must finish each and every zone (plus world quests, plus faction...) to eventually unlock flying.

And the official twitter is @PokemonGoApp, not PokemonGoEN.

Same thing. I used to walk to my job (25mn walk), but we moved two years ago and the new location is outside of subscription bike range (take any bike wherever whenever for 29?/year, as long as it's less than 30mn each trip; new job is about 45mn hike). I got 2kg during the last year, probably...

And that's what I'm hatching in the base incubator, unless I got saddled with a 2km one.

I'm not touching a less than 10km egg on an extra incubator. Even a 5km egg is wasted (unless you're a F2P whale. Which I might be. Maybe. In some games. Some).

Seconded. Even though the instance is nerfed beyond your wildest imagination (we basically ran heroic with more healers than ever, and killed everything within 1h40 instead of our usual 2h30), the rotations are probably hard to get if you're used to the old system. I mean, I reorganized my bar...

Additionalrelease on Hong-Kong. Apparently, the fans want to hunt Pokemon while waiting for the Olympics to begin.

That's why that robot (default tailoring follower) is still stuck in my garrison building. All the others followers are loafing around these days, but Mr Robot is still helping to make cloth...

Aaand,it's launched (the app store took immediately a shit, app shows up but says "this article is not currently available" if you try to install)

The latter. The game is still not released in France (due to Nice) for example, but there's a quite a few people who have switched App Store or downloaded the APK for droid. France is next, but no one knows truly when. There's about two rumors a day that "it's releasing today" "at 17:00!!!" but...

Just finishedWarrior King, the book 5 of theOdyssey Oneseries, and was disappointed. The book was short and felt like a quick transition volume to start the next arc of the series and not enough of a book that stands on its own. While he writes ok and his books are entertaining, he also has a...

If you've deleted it, it won't count. The only old items that are granted retroactively are those that had quests giving them. Anything purchased, crafted or looted and destroyed will have to be purchased/crafted/looted again. (the BMAH seems shut down. Anyone confirm?)

Toward the end, I was getting about 1 appearance every 1-2 stacks of crate on average. Random is random. It took me most of sunday and monday to pre-open those crates, save for my main who had only its backpack remaining as empty space. I had three caster alts unlocking appearances before...

Dihydrogen monoxyde is nasty stuff, I tell you.

In before we deployartificial Mindrot...

WITNESS!!!