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The big problem is that every major government can track satellites. Despite all hollywood stories, there's no real stealth satellite. The US govt is deploying a new tracking system that will track every object down to 1/2 inch. While China and Russia probably don't have that resolution, I'm...

I think it unlocks once you unlock the 950 ilvl upgrades...

Oh, and sometimes, you stumble upon a powerful symbol:

What's interesting is that, apparently, USA280 (the Zuma payload) is still listed without the "decayed" mention, so the package looks to be still in orbit, despite the theories that it remained stuck to stage 2 and deorbited with it. That doesn't clear SpaceX; it might still be in a wrong orbit...

There's only 2 Krokun, plus one army of light, for a total of 3 new troops (which is where the confusion might come from).

Only static fire test this week. Launch at the end of the month.

It all boils to a main decision in your game: Do you want a crafting economy or not? There's a reason why the only professions that "survive" in modern WoW are the 4 professions that make consumables: Cooking, Alchemy, Enchanting, Jewelcrafting. They all make items that you need to repurchase...

That's kind of ok, but it also still means that you don't sell anything except the best, and you still have to grind stuff by the boatloads and throw it away (because no one will want to buy your newb armor). I think it's in EVE, but the more you've invested in crafting, the less your crafting...

I've compared the weight out of Simcraft for my Shadow Priest vs the standard Pawn version, and there's some items on which it tells me the item is 6% better where my own weight give me 3% worse... The weights are ok if you're really casual, and not that useful if you're not. If you look to...

I tend to frown on any crafting system that has a luck factor. Whether it's random stats, or a random quality, or whatever, if I craft based on a recipe I've crafted before, I expect to get the same item I've crafted before. Anything where you craft an item and the result are random simply...

That's the same guy who sold a 400$ machine to squeeze proprietary bags of fruits and vegetables for "healthy liquid meals".

Not sure about the graphics card, but the biggest investment you can have to stretch your mac's life is more memory. The 7-year old macs at work were sliding into borderline unusable for any serious work (Office got renamed as "The wheel of fortune") because we didn't upgrade the memory when...

The 2 side boosters are landing on ground, the central booster on the droneship. They haven't finished the 3rd landing pad yet.

Of course it has. It was one of the design objectives (make crafting useful/necessary), so they got the right solutions. Other games have "good" crafting as well. UO had. EVE has. WoW and and its derivatives... have not.

My ideal crafting system would start by making crafting useful. Until you make crafting useful, talking about dedicated harvesters or crafting "classes" is useless. Any MMO in which crafting is useful has three main components: 1) Item drop rarity. As long as you're showered with a full set of...

It is.

Not to mention grammar (sometimes, the fact that I'm not a native speaker comes around and bites my ass)

And a happy new year from Europe as well! (how does any respecting person from Louisiana can butcher ⚜ ? Do they accept any random immigrant there these days?)

It's the usual time, and I'm making the rounds on "predictions for 2018" blogs and articles... And I found a madman. Apparently, there are some that confident enough to predict that... George will publish Winds of Winter in 2018! Fools! All of them!

Yea, we'll have quantum diamond storage by then. Will be useful for full immersion VR since those things will need petabytes...

Sounds like you guys are still in the dark ages regarding that card shit. :D Europe (France at least, since we had one of the first patents on that stuff - now expired, that's how old chip on a card is) has much better chip systems. Insert, handshake occurs (2s), enter pin code, handshake (5s)...

Merry Christmas from Europe (now facing the "real" Christmas dinner...)

There was a very good PBS video in which they explain that we shouldn't talk about the speed of light, but the speed of causality. That is, the speed at which a cause somewhere can have an effect elsewhere. Most of physics is impossible is there is no maximum speed of causality. Most of the...

But... wait... where's the car???

Is there a fight that is melee friendly in a raid? (the asymmetry between range that can go melee and keep casting and melee that can't go at range means it will never happen)

I was talking in the Politics thread about being doubtful on Making Space Great Again noises from the White House. Great idea, and then the Congress never funds it... Turns out that the aerospace industry is pessimistic as well: Ominous signs for defense, aerospace industries as Congress...

I was going to say "can't be that if it's around 20 years old"... except that fuck, Reynolds has been putting books for that long!

Well, the series is 3 trilogies, but the line between first and second trilogy were blurred. This one has potential, but the difference between the 1st (were each book was mostly self-contained in terms of plot events), the 2nd (only 5th and 6th were technically the same plot) and the last...

At the time, I did enjoy those books. But I wouldn't recommend them today, except for the fact that cyberpunk seems to be a dead genre in SF...

Quoted for truth.

Shadowrun was cheesy; the series were ordered as a pump for the game. The original trilogy, then more and more moderately formulaic stuff. (I'm ashamed that I've got pretty much the entire run still at home)

Ah, wasn't aware it was two different games. They should make the difference clearer, I think.

Sometimes, xkcd has the right tone:

Space X still remembers its beginnings...

I have absolutely no idea why this very video popped up in my youtube suggestions. I think google has very, very wrong ideas about me... (or maybe they have the right ones, and I'm unaware of who I really am?)

I hesitated a bit before giving this only 3 stars. But it's mainly because I've been there with book 5 & 6 already. The following review doesn't spoil the actual content, but it spoils a bit how the book ends

Got slightly tempted; apparently my Mac client no longer works. Time to uninstall for ever...

Getting closer to abiogenesis (hi @Lumi): Metals promote sequences of the reverse Krebs cycle Background info: The Reverse Krebs Cycle is a biochemical cycle that generates 5 precusors for sugars, aminoacids and other essential components of biological activity. It was considered core for all...