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You make a game for mobile, then someone reminds you that it has to run on a PC three weeks before beta.

Haldeman was a good author in his early years. If you want good novels from him: - Mindbridge (1976), a sci-fi first-contact novel with massive twists (including the FTL travel mechanics) - Tools of the Trade (1987), a sci-fi spy novel (KGB mole finds out mind-control tech, shenanigans ensue) -...

Not that much. I know I've read them, but the fact that I can remember the plot of Forever War, and nearly nothing about the two should tell you something.

Stumbled on a sponsored demo, and picked up this nice mix of Fallout-like RPG and X-Com tactical combat:

Book lands on Amazon on July 2nd. I dropped a few series who were petering out/had lost their lustre. I'm probably going to drop All the Skills, as it losts its way (and the dragon isn't enough to save it). Right now, I'm following mainly...

/em hangs his head in shame to have missed it

If this kills social media, I count that as a win.

We just had a GIF from Rome in the time travel. How could they forget Rome! It's not even mentioned ONCE in the entire article!!!

There's a 7 or 8 book series by Peter Rhodan about a guy stranded in the Roman Empire who boostraps technology (with the goal of reversing the accident that threw him back in the past. Spoiler alert: he fails). It mixes war (which isn't interesting, because Arturo Sandus curbstomps every enemy...

Too small. How about using Time Travel to be ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Zombies (made into a kickass movie as well, which adds another layer to the paradoxes)

Depend if it's back-and-forth, or full no-return trip. Because dipping into time to do the tourist-slash-researcher is one thing, but going back to change things, and stay there because of course your original timeline is erased by your actions are two very different things. The former? Do the...

And they fire 33 of them (at full thrust) when launching.

So, Mortal Kombat 12, except we're calling it 1 (it's 12, since Raiden is still replaced by Liu Kang, which wouldn't be if it was a real reboot).

I think they should have an achievement about playing only with a controller. :trollface:

Micro, partial spoiler

DNA killed that canard in the 21st century. You can map every single chromosome in human DNA to one in Chimpanzees and Bonobos, with nearly every gene located at the same place on the same chromosome, etc. We still have the remains of the fusion of the two chromosomes that remain separate in the...

The current inventory in the warehouse is always displayed on top, in the various categories (where you have the red/green indicator telling you if that category grows or shrinks in quantity). You can also click on a warehouse, but I find it less useful, mostly because everything is clumped in...

Independent authors live (and die) by Kindle Unlimited these days. There was a big discussion recently (actually two, one starting with arguments "for" and one with arguments "against") on reddit's progression fantasy subreddit about that. When it comes to litrpg/progfan, the majority of the...

It's a scam. They quickly realized they were making money off producing shiny ship models, and doing "limited releases" to capitalize on FOMO, and that the game part wasn't important. I wouldn't be surprised if there were only two-three people doing some coding from home, and doing self Q&A, vs...

Ah, so separate account to distinguish shilling from normal shitposting. Got it.

The special draw of that one is that it's all about the first few hours. Then you win (or lose), and move to the next city (randomness will force you to adapt once you decide to go into harder difficulties).

Yeah, I'd say this fits the bill for r/HFY

Which is why good project managers are incredibly good (and expensive): it's because they can get at the heart of what's needed. Or why Agile methods were invented: you don't know what they want, so show them something, see if it fits, then iterate and hope you get the real requirements.

Another example is Mars Opportunity. The stated mission time for that rover was... three months. That's it. It worked for 14 years before before it the last big dust storm finally ended its battery and all of that was extra.

I'm going to wait for actual hardcover. Hopefully, it won't take as long Tress (which arrived mid-march).

FTFY. Only Waybound left in the series.

Quick reminder: when it comes to technologies, it's almost never exponential curves. It's always a S-curve: it's hard at the beginning, then things start falling together and progress is fast, then you slowly enter the refinement age, when progress becomes incremental again. Right now, we're...

At the same time, you have 1/3rd or 1/6th of the gravity, so you can get away with less thrust.

It shouldn't surprise you. The author is one of the founders-slash-moderators of reddit's r/progressionfantasy, which is now permanently flagged with the full Progressive Pride flag (the rainbow with the added race bits), to piss off "nazis", with a promise that, every time someone - anyone -...

Scott Manley was saying in his latest cast that you shouldn't expect the launch to work out without "a lot of delays".

One of the venerable ancients, A Tale in The Desert, had off-line chores. Once you'd gathered enough of a basic material, you could set it as "offline" and you'd log back in with some of it. It was basically the equivalent of 20 mins of work for a day, but that was something you did not need to...

Wendy is not in France, but they've indicated recently they're intending to get here (after starting in the UK).

I love the "Non-Fungible Tunic"...

Since it was April 1st yesterday, I skipped over the Internet and didn't open my mail. But I forgot that April 1st was also the day of the Secret Project 2 release!

By the way, Secret Book 1 (Tress) finally arrived here in France. Nice box (with book quotes on it), good packing. I'm almost afraid to open the book.

Dunno, but I checked my warranty. My fridge was purchased in 1996. (in general, I stay away from anything with a LG logo)

Sir, this is not the YGWYFD thread.