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Ah, ah, ah! New grindable in 3... 2... 1...

And apparently, to be sure no hardcore gamer can gain "undue benefits", it's capped to 3 levels the first week. Because YOU WILL PLAY ACCORDING TO OUR CURATED METRICS, OR ELSE.

Basically, GEForce uses a specialized client for whatever store, with pre-installed games for the virtualized machine. So you open the GeForce Now, click on the desktop for Steam/GOG/Epic/Origin/etc, and launch the game from your normal library there. All it requires is that the store is...

Halflings without hairy feet? HERESY!

The big problem is that, at the time, the exploits and bugs were not well known or popular and some of them took a long time before they became problems. Today, they're documented, and the population is ready to exploit them on day one.

For a slightly similar take on the theme, you should have a look at "Risen Empire", from Scott Westerfeld (either The Risen Empire + The Killing of Worlds or the confusingly titled The Risen Empire omnibus edition that combines both books). You have the Undead Emperor and his Risen elites...

Agreed. Since the sub is shared, they are using Classic and Modern as a way to reinforce each other, not as separate products aimed at different people (which it probably is).

Worse. If you watch the SpaceX streams whenever they do those missions, it's no longer the SpaceX stream. It's down to 720p because NASA cannot stream higher than 720p. It's whatever NASA has, even for the pure SpaceX parts (like the launch itself). I'm pretty sure this is a contractual...

The incremental design of SNx reminds me of the scenes in The Right Stuff where they repeatedly push the button, with a fade to a rocket blowing up.

Also, forgot about the "America exports a lot of gun essences" remark on He Who Fights With Monsters. Because of course it would :)

Rofl at the movie reference. But apart from that, funding for that old and slightly misplaced radio-telescope was always iffy, so there is indeed a real risk that funding is cut and a new, more modern radio-telescope built somewhere else instead.

Which pretty much means you run it for your main, not your alts (unless you're a massive poopsocker or a multibo... oh sorry, multiboxing is now forbidden).

Well, at least they are starting to try to apologize for the mass DMCA wave. (by suggesting "check if there is somewhere in your game conditions a mention of streaming music. There must be one, right? Right?")

Balance the numbers (since the numbers are now all fake, since everything is scaled), and open up a shared server in which you can be playing EQ OR World of Warcraft characters. In the same place.

Well, it's not entirely in french. You see, the service "izi" is pronounced "easy" (with a french accent), because it's supposed to simplify your electricity installations.

Stadia is the shittiest streaming version possible, right? You need to purchase games. There's probably a few free ones included, but I did not check further upon discovering that the pro subscription gives you 2 free games of Google's choice per month. And that's it. You pick stadia, you spend...

For a long time, we had very simple models of history based on a handful of documents and archeological excavations. Then basic genetics. The original model of mankind's history was a basic narrative: 50k years ago, a handful of upright apes started to colonize all of Earth, and here we are...

That's mostly cultural/technogical advantage, yes. Farmers were already sedentary all over Europe by then. The era of the nomadic hunter-gatherer was ending 15k years ago. But primitive cities only started as soon as farmers had enough tools and practice (correctly interpreting climate, etc) to...

Voice is far too slow in terms of bandwidth compared to keyboard/mouse/controller.

Yea, it's 2020. What could possibly go wrong this year...

Bacterial resistance isn't a world-ending threat. Just like COVID. If we did exactly nothing regarding COVID, we'd quickly settle to a "new normal" where a tiny additional percentage of our population dies every year. Up until the 20th century, we had zero antibiotics, and civilization...

There's a good argument for fossil fuels end. The use of cheap, easily mined, plentiful fossil fuels propelled our economy to today's heights, and it is allowing us to transition slowly to the much harder, probably more durable, post-fossil use (if we're not prevented, for political reasons to...

It's also trivial to bypass. Just mail all of your currency to an alt safely tucked away, and you're headed to your warmode with coppers on you.

That's a lobby, except in 3D environment. The interactions there are barely above the level of lobby chat. That isn't a MMORPG. That's a MORPG.

The one problem with instancing is that it removes any form of spontaneous interaction with people in favor of curated ones. In an instance, you only interact with the very specific team you've brought in, no one else (well, except for the /1 for those who haven't disabled it). The only...

Rofl. Without scaling exploits, Rextroy is now relegated to brawls: https://www.wowhead.com/news=318937/rextroy-battlegrounds-40-death-knights-vs-40-hunters

It's mostly like all hardware. It will either fail fast, or fail late - rarely in the middle. Given that the idea is to make lotsa cheap satellites, if you have a failure rate of 1 or 2 per launch of 60, you're good. Most of the first batch has already been de-orbited, but I assume that's what...

The St. Etienne area was a hotbed of the Resistance during WW2 (the main underground newspaper for the Resistance in the southern France was printed there). Lotsa badasses there in the Maquis those days. Regarding names - that happens a lot. If you have throw-away characters, and pick a random...

Love how the article aged: ... and we all know how that turned out for those three :) But, as usual, Bartle's points stand out as mostly true.

What everyone wants to see NOW: 1) Farrah freed (probably going to happen Soon™) 2) Mini-Jason (Emi) getting magic (not going to happen for years) 3) Taika Iron ranked! (whenever Shirtaloon wants) and then, you can have Jason finding the secret operations of the Builder Cult (who might or...

Some data on the beta vs their competition: https://www.pcmag.com/news/tested-spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet-service-is-fast-but-itll-cost

Also, the Starlink satellite constellation acts as a kind of Internet itself. Classic satellite internet is Ground Station->Satellite->You, which requires a high altitude satellite which can see both the ground station and you, which gives you high latency (round trip to GEO at 36000 km...

Apparently... after a while only. Also, LOL at the "you can't use a mount in the Maw".

Thanks a lot for re-assuring me I am certainly never going to come back, as this was the only part that interested me, essentially, and it seems even that is fucked.

Investors are starting to pour out money whenever SpaceX does a funding round, because it is starting to look like they have a potential second major product (beyond, you know, cheap launches).

That warrants a double worf reaction. Because the James Webb is next to "Delays" and "Overbudget" at the same time in the dictionnary. I'll believe in the launch maybe a week or two before it happens...

Not that many. Shirtaloon is an outlier. But you still have a significant number doing in the 5k range, which is extremely good. Heck, even some of the best known serials draw 2k or less.

"Kunark is Norrath's Australia" :)

There's still a strong possibility they're what remains of a broken-up Builder cult, but as magical underdogs, they seem to work out.