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Can't fault him if he really gets dinged on Amazon by reviews based on the unedited RR stuff.

Just to be clear, they've also indicated how roguelike. If you have ever played Lost Dungeons of Norrath... then that's how roguelike it is. Basic floor sets with random "walls" closing some parts of it. I cannot wait until the players in beta scream at how the tower is randomly unplayable that...

He's been spending a long time (compared to the other books), so the common speculation is that he hit writer's block, and slapped something together in frustration. So you end up with a filler, and either you'll drop the series in disgust, or you STILL have to wait for a real book to come.

Read that one two years ago.

At the moment, bingeing on a few history books: Napoleon the Great, a general biography of said by Andrew Roberts, which is very great, follows the man with all of its genius and pettiness. Probably a more general (pun not intended) than above. India: A history on the topic of the second...

It's pretty much worthless without a book 9 along it.

And I regret a thousand times pre-ordering it. He pretty much lost his inspiration along the way, and went for filler. Shit. Horseshit. Donkeyshit, even.

That's the second iteration of... Withered Army Training. The infinite tower in Shadowlands is presumably the third, except that one is supposed - supposed being the operative word, because it's all statically design content still - to be endless progression. Until you hit the cap, I assume...

Given how much feedback from the previous beta was taken into account... do we really need quarter-long betas?

7.3.5 was bugfixes and level scaling below 100 (6 months after Argus). The last content patch was 7.3. Same reason I ignored 1.12, I only took the last actual content patch of the expansion.

Patch 7.3 -> 8.0 = 13 months. Patch 6.2 -> 7.0 = 13 months. Patch 5.4 -> 6.0 = 13 months. Patch 4.3 -> 5.0 = 10 months. Patch 3.3 -> 4.0 = 10 months. Patch 2.4 -> 3.0 = 7 months. Patch 1.11 -> 2.0 = 6 months (I'm ignoring 1.12 which had no new content). We haven't had anything that fast since LK.

The pill or the dick?

PvP servers are awesome. Always. Nothing better. (sarcasm tags missing)

That's mainly how it happened back then, I think. People right now are far more organized and aware of the thing.

Le sigh.

Never has been any genre so mislabeled.

Interesting that almost all big losers are Planeswalkers... (even excluding the stupid stained glass versions)

We're only waking up to this brand new Decade. Happy new lots!

It also lets him switch themes. Uncrowned is all about progression, getting ready to win the tournament.

Well, we've already had one, so it is more likely.

Given that voice coms weren't widely used back in 1999 when I picked my Dwarven Cleric's name (Ukerric = You Cleric?), I didn't pay much attention to how it could be voiced.

There's maybe two "dangerous" stars that could cause meaningful damage to the biosphere, but not on the order of an ELE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supernova_candidates

Why? At 600 LY, a supernova isn't dangerous. The estimated range at which a supernova could trigger a mass extinction is estimated between 100 and 50 LY. At 150 LY, you'd get the equivalent of a couple CT-scans per year, which might get an uptick in cancer rates. At 600LY, it's totally...

Crowfall?

It could be a post on Gizmodo instead...

It's the kind of extraordinary claim still requiring extraordinary evidence. Since it's the same team doing different experiments and getting results, it won't really gain traction until a couple of other labs find similar boson traces. But if it is confirmed... oh boy. Given the low energy, it...

Boeing... software... sounds legit. I liked the articles just before the launch, where Bridenstine was quoted saying "This is NASA's Christmas gift to America!" And no need of another test, of course.

Sounds interesting. At the moment, I'm pushing through China's history : China's Last Empire: The Great Qing, with the history of the last Chinese dynasty, which had to contend with the incursion of the Europeans (mostly the British, at least at first), the Opium Wars, and then the fall with the...

"You open the options windows to increase the gamma... You have fallen to your death! LOADING PLEASE WAIT! You have entered North Queynos!"

Wait, that pyromancer isn't supposed to be Chandra then?

First trade I ever did was swapping that ugly volcanic island for two lands. Two lands in my deck is better than just one! More mana!

Most misleading title. Pretty much the only way electronics work is due to quantum effects. If you're talking about qubits specifically, put qubits in the title.

It's their damn fault for picking a PvP server. It's not as if you didn't knew this would be a thing. But no. You can play the game the way you want or play the game the stupid bodycampers want, so of course you're going to pick the latter. I have zero sympathy for people who complain about...

Well, you could try to log in with another account. Then you download the games on that account so you can play them for free when you finally can log in with your normal account (yes, apparently this is/was a real thing)

NASA was trying to get a space MMO, but it was aimed for school teaching. I don't even know where that one ended - if there was anything beyond some tech demo to submit to the RFP. An Expanse-type space MMO would be great. Build up your outposts, find like-minded people to maintain it, exploit...

Yea, this is the RIP thread, not the Rise of the Fallen one...

Someone at Activision taught those Blizzard peons about FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) and how it triggers impulse buys.

RIP. 51 is always too early.

Well, of course, if you accelerate using a 10km ring instead of a 1000km one...

Which equates to 6.2 km/s. And that's where you made a "small" unit error. See above (you're calculating in km/h, not km/s). You need to accelerate to 6.2km/s plus 11.2km/s escape velocity (because you're losing said velocity as you move out of Earth's gravity well on your way to Mars) for...