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Once you hit Kindle Unlimited, no more than 10% of your book may be available in electronic form anywhere. (so once he publishes, he'll take down all the chapters save the beginning)

Saw that before heading to management training. Need to finish before the KU curse hits the book.

By the way, book 3 comes out Apr 16, 2020. That's... a loooooong time.

15 years later, everyone knows about that quest, and how expensive epic mounts are in general.

Told you. It was Blizzard China's decision (that is, Tencent). The HQ only discovered the fiasco after the fact.

Alastair Reynolds is good at "Hard SF".

"All it takes is one." One person per million is willing to do that? That's more than enough for your 1k colony.

Oh, and by the way, there's a brand new LitRPG store on Amazon, since Amazon doesn't have a litrpg/rpg adjacent category: https://amazon.com/litrpg Authors are only starting to get registered there (you need to ask for inclusion), but it's already covering a decent slice of the genre's books.

It's not litrpg at all, but people tend to associate it with it since it comes from the same russian writers. My biggest peeve is... There's less than HALF OF IT translated yet! That's when I think I should re-learn my russian to read all of it without waiting! Yep, The Land is an Isekai...

At one point they were going (are going) to introduce Fortnite in China. That's why they came into Epic. It ran into issues and is still banned, but from Sweeney's perspective, he has remotr potential but not actual revenue to lose and a guy who already gave him money, and will have to find...

Woops. Bah, it's physics. My physic teacher stopped once in the middle of some demonstration, then said, "ok, 1/2 is totally negligible compared to 1, so..."

If you have problems with dialogue, then don't. Have your characters do quick exchanges of three, four, half a dozen sentences, and move on to action instead. Everyone has problem writing at one point. Everyone except hack writers get writer's block at one point. But not everyone is a novel...

I've probably read 33% of my books this year in that genre. This one is ok. It had an horrible start, but got re-edited and re-published, which supposedly makes it better. If you like litrpg, there's three grand genres in it: - VRMMO, in which the main character plays a full-immersion MMO...

Internally, this manifests as time dilatation. Accelation = ∆position/time = Force / Mass You can either increase time (time dilation for the subject) or mass (for the observer). You can even reduce ∆position (that's when you get contraction, which is also a relativistic effect) instead.

They can't win. At this point, they are simply betting they will lose less business from the USA than they'd lose from China. Which is the correct and rational decision. All of those AAA companies are the ones that manipulate psychology to push full-price AAA games with more microtransactions...

175g. It's more of a hitlerjugend rather than a full-blown nazi.

The contract is basically boilerplate for "whatever we say, whenever we say, however we say, goes"

A closed spacelike path would probably net the guy the Nobel in physics instead of exoplanet discovery. (for some reason, "time travel" is called spacelike, because that means you can have two parts of the same event occurring at a spatial distance greater than C would normally allow. So...

It's Randi Darren/William D. Arand. He writes erotica with whatever additional stuff he thinks of at the moment. He used to keep different pen names based on the amount of sex scenes, but I think he's dropped the distinction these days. It's one of the best rated Web serials ever, but I...

We had consultants from the UO dev team come at Nevrax to tell us a number of tricks to MMO building. One of the things they told us was that everyone (including Raph) was making things on the go, and basically "designing by the seat of their pants". Most of his ideas got discarded along during...

The problem isn't the repeatable part. The problem is the daily part. Dailies aren't dailies to "pace you" so that you don't consume content faster. They are there to condition you to play every day, which makes the game a regular occurrence (instead of "whenever"), which makes the game a part...

Dailies were the start of the slippery slope. They're the first dose that lead you to having to spend years in rehab. They were the awakening of the Evil that Destroy the World. (fuck those manta-ray flying mounts and nether drakes)

It's still in debate, as the last "pre-biotic" chemical pathways rely on alternating wet/dry environments. You can create RNA bases from scratch using only simple compounds available in an early earth environment, but currently only if you have drying spells during the reactions. About everyone...

What? Get out. Get the hell out. I retract everything I could ever find good about you.

And it would be very, very obvious. (which means no one's doing it. Yet)

Which is why I said "you're always born at the wrong time". Except probably in the prehistoric times, where cultural and technological changes required dozens/hundreds of generations to occur. Then, you would be born at the wrong time, but never realize it.

You're always born at the wrong time. The Age of exploration would have been wonderful to live in (assuming you weren't a peasant because farming efficiency was sucking donkey dicks at the time and too many people had to be), but it's passed. And the Age of space is coming, but it will really...

I'm still salty that no less than two distilleries (Ardbeg and Nikka) sent whiskey to the ISS to see how it affected maturation, and none of them tried to send a full barrel for the mandatory 3 years and get it back to sell Space Whiskey. That would make me drink again. At least once.

To be accurate, the building blocks of life appear about everywhere in the universe, since relatively simple chemical processes generate them. (the one I was most interested at one time was the interstellar cloud that had about a Jupiter's mass worth of... alcohol).

And that's why you won't see this. Or anything else. First, no one at Blizzard is going to try anything with Classic. They're going to release TBC as it was and LK as it was, and that's it. Second, this is Activision "Where are my recurring microtransactions" Blizzard we're talking about. If...

That sounds familiar, but I also can't place it. Sounds right. But apparently, it's not on my read list on goodreads, so I do think I might have skipped it. Weird. Because it did feel familiar, but I definitively should have it somewhere if I did read (the wonders of your ebook library is that...

FTFY.

Yea, that's about the gist of it. You set up a kickass background, then... you end up doing pretty much nothing with it.

And between 8 and 13 days (from memory) to reach Mars depending on respective positions. Which is another of my peeves regarding that shit of movie (Ad Astra), where you can see the script writers made a serious effort of making the trip easy to film by having the Moon-Mars ship obviously go...

It was called War of the Spark Mythic edition.

That's an interesting choice of packaging. Let's see how many combos we have: standard borders/no borders alternate art/fancy border alternate art times foil/non-foil. 6 different cards to collect. For every rare/mythic. He's right in those opening videos "it feels like sports cards".

And that's why the "future filter" is still popular. We already have chinese doing embryo editing. Designing the Human Species is probably a matter of a couple centuries. Remember: "It only takes one". These species that don't kill their drive? They get the universe. And colonize us. (and...

The definition of life these days is any self-sustaining structure/ensemble that can repair itself using energy from its environment or produce a reasonable duplicate of itself. (the or is because you have organisms that are entirely sterile - like bee workers - that would not be classified as...

And then you have Negative Energy and the "Big Rip" (google that and despair).

Well, before Lucifer (whose name litterally means "bringer of light", in case you didn't notice... he's the christian equivalent of Prometheus), God was keeping them as domesticated pets. Then the pets dissented, and God had to expel them fast, or he'd get overwhelmed (the other apple... you...