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Alston Sleet writes well. I still wish he'd make a sequel to Age of Victoria, but that book apparently tanked on Amazon and barely made back the money.

To be honest, it is really hard to make professions worthwhile in a MMO. The only way your products sell is if it is hard to make them: Either it is hard to raise the skill (at least to the "worth it" point) Or it is hard to get the proper recipes (the one that will interest people) Or it is...

Rank 12 legendary? (says the guy who stopped playing a year ago)

https://spacenews.com/nasa-sets-may-27-launch-date-for-spacex-commercial-crew-test-flight/

Oh, wait? You mean that this Vanstuff kernel thing is an optional install that people can pick or reject independently of the game itself???

The thing is, GPU drivers require kernel-level access to even function and provide the functionality you are looking for, which is: display stuff. And they are optimized for the service. The Vanthingy drivers decided to use kernel-level access because it made them immune to anything, and...

I've always loved that term. Well, I did not when Y2K rolled out, and my favorite restaurant's chef found out that there was more money to be made by polishing COBOL turds developed 20 years before when he was younger as opposed to making some of the best french cuisine around. But in the...

If you have ever worked in any large organization that uses "legacy software", you will find that you are never able to afford the redesign of your software. The only major redesigns are always in commodity software - that is, software that is used by multiple customers. For internally-developed...

In the case of SpaceX... it IS the lowest bidder...

That's the position of about 98% of all specialty software ever developed.

So you hope. And then you discover seven separate grinds, five of which are mandatory for any serious raiding, and only four for flying.

I was expecting more shenanigans with Snack and Shiny in their new "context", to be honest. But it does wrap up the main story. Wait, where's Minic?

Wait what? It actually ends? I have to see - ok, read - that!

Necrodancer. The only class whose pets stay in OR out of zones to soak appropriately.

...fall? It's a mountain pass, after all.

Can't think of anything else...

Not everyone can be a Star Citizen Online and roll in crowdfunding forever (although Pantheon makes a good run for it)...

Seriously? Kaijus?

Sounds like you're a potential customer for Elon's 80$ satellite 25ms latency miracle (he's just requested a FCC license for 1M terminals to deploy in the USA).

39.99€/Month for unlimited fiber is basically the standard around here.

What's a data cap? Something in 3rd world countries? No data caps in EU (unless you're using mobile 4G that is).

We're talking about the solar system, not a specific planet. Even the SUN itself moves around that point. Incidentally, that's how we detect some exoplanets: we measure the orbit of their star around the system's stable center, and deduce the presence of some of those (that only works for...

FTFY

Fun bit: it revolves around the barycenter of the system, which lies just outside of the Sun's surface (thanks to the pull of Jupiter's mass).

It speaks "volumes" for Denuvo that you need to go from 67MB to 369MB...

Runescape. /solidarity!

90% of these korean MMOs have a max shelf life of 2 years. They consolidate every server per region in one after 6-9 months, then they coast until there's not enough sales to pay for the one cluster running on AWS or similar.

I looked at a stream from MMOByte of the beta (creation + first mission). It's a very basic ARPG in 3rd person. Full of flashy animations with 2012 graphics (nice, but just), tiny-ass zones with a wormhole travel-style loading screen (because sci-fi). It's a lobby-based game with your instances...

Macron speaking nationwide today at 8pm. Spoiler alert: France moving to an Italy-style complete shutdown (no going outdoor except for essential services/purchases) by Wednesday morning. (most of my friends suddenly had to run to the stores this midday to get some supplies... raughinprepper.gif)

France just shutdown: no public assembly, no non-essential stores (restaurants, clothing stores, all non-food), etc.

Not strictly "books" per the thread title, but the idea of a shared sci-fi universe built from a... 4CHAN original story dragged me into a black hole of insanity. The subreddit is r/HFY, a shorthand for "Humanity, Fuck Yea!!!". No kidding. The Jenkinverse (Jverse) is a shared universe based on...

This appears to be the case in almost all of his series. Be aware of that if you want to check the rest of his books. He should have dropped the first half, removed 20% of the second half... and then put what I assume will be book 9 in there. The author will probably now work on more classic...

Nvidia hasn't put a game on their service. They've put Steam and a few other storefronts, and they let you play by logging in on those storefronts on your account and installing the game (or using a pre-installed version if there's one already). Nvidia is neither selling nor renting any game -...

Why? You are renting a high-end PC rig to play your own games, why would you need the permission of anyone to play anything? (except it's not your own games. We're in the era of tech feudalism, where you do not own anything, everything is a service rented from your tech lords who have the legal...

For a lot of people, moving in-VR while you are not actually moving IRL quickly causes motion sickness. Warping from place to place negates that. (and no, omni-treadmills like the ones in Ready Player One don't work - your inner ear still doesn't detect you moving)

Not possibly. Definitively. Although the storyline seem to hint at "abnormal" development of the tadpoles. My biggest hopes are that you can somehow turn your entire party into full-fledged Illithids that have retained their original minds (much to the dismay of our Githyanki heroine).

It's supposed to be a side part from the Descent to Avernus campaign.

It's been on the "to-read" folder of my ebook library for a few weeks. Last reads were the first two volumes of David Drake's Time of Heroes, The Spark and The Storm (goodreads still thinks they're separate books). 30 years after his take on the Norse Edda in Northworld (omnibus edition is free...

We all know it's game over once you get hold of Madagascar and Iceland. You can start mutating the deadliness at that point.

Crispy Bat Wings, sir. Page 37.