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The series started as a contract dodge. Basically, Stross had an option (I think from Orbit) about his next SF books, and TOR wanted books from him. So his agent suggested making a fantasy book, and he replied "can't do fantasy, what about modern urban fantasy?". So the first 3 or 4 books were...

Eh. It's already out in Europe. (and thanks. Apparently, I had it purchased on both amazon.com and .co.uk, so I was going to get an extra. Cancelled just in time)

The title (vs the content of the article) is very facepalm-worthy

Hey, they're going Brexit. Of course they need their empire back!

Never too early to corner a new market...

Every time I see "loophole" and "limitless", my bullshit detector starts ringing loudly.

If you want a (theoretical, but perfectly consistent with physics) flat earth, look no further than an Alderson disk.

Don't even know if it shows on normal, but with mission addon, it shows for how long the mission is going to be available.

If you have competition for content, then you won't have (often) spoilers. Because if you can make the others fail, you can get the boss...

Lots of recent major astronomical discoveries get Hawaiian names. You find it, you name it. It could be worse; they could get Chilean names :)

Nibiru is on a close orbit to earth, since it passes us extremely often...

People tend to forget that 3D was rising already everywhere. Asheron's Call (released later that same year) was always going to be 3D; they just retooled their engine when EQ showed that you could sell with hardware accel rather than going software like they originally planned.

What??? How did I miss that! ** EDIT: I more than missed that; got it back in Feb... and promptly forgot about it ***

Collect and raise to rare lvl25 1000 different pets. Of course. What else is there? After all, you're capped at 1000. :)

It's the artifact xmog quest. Required to unlock the 4 appearances line, even if you have the others. I'm EU :)

Same problem here. I did not start the quest soon enough, and we stopped going to Nightmare basically as soon as the highborne raid was up. I'm missing about 2 runs, and by now, it's desert town trying to find a pickup going.

I don't. For one second, I was slightly enamored with heirloom armor, except the Dark Iron one is exclusive to Dark Irons, so fuck.

Got lucky then. There shouldn't be any non-player slots left at this time.

Don't give them ideas like that...

Apparently, Nov 28: Antorus the Burning Throne Raid Release Date - November 28th

It was all "those numbers are placeholder" this and "we're doing 6 races now, and we'll do the rest later" that, so they're far from having it done. Which is why we get some features in 7.3.5, not 8.0...

And Furor's there!

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Need that AOE b-rez

Been keeping a watch on the evolution, and it's quickly becoming apparent that the capacity to play often/a lot is far more important than everything else. Probably including store lootboxes.

The real clincher is that those races have a creation and a login screen associated, which all other non-playable "subraces" that can wear equipment lack. If they're going the sub-race route, I suspect only those are for current beta build, but we may yet see variants for all current races. And...

Snoogms just announced in discord that alliances are going to be locked (presumably to prevent alliance jumping).

There aren't any western MMO coming out anymore. The only MMO currently in dev are microtransaction-larded russian combat games and korean isometric grinders...

The building queue requires Analemma card to unlock the slots. The UI has 2 "fakes" to unlock your first 2 slots, you have to either find, get the domain (I think) full achieve, or craft one to unlock the 3rd building. I think the mobile versions will help if you can requeue buildings while at...

Also, since that animation in the tweet wasn't very clear, here's a better view:

Almost certainly not: it's 122° from the ecliptic, so it never even came close to any major body in the solar system.

Well, of course he is. He's the director himself after all. (under heavy CGI, of course)

Yep. The post-credit scene from Doctor Strange is lifted straight and put there (along with the rest of the context). You also need to remember your GotG well, or the first post-credit scene will not be as impactful. I also noticed that there's a lot of deleted scenes. Some of the scenes from...

More simply: habit. And alcohol will creep on you, so you slowly increase the amount over months/years until you're sitting in front of your MD with your latest blood test, trying to calculate how much alcohol you drank over the week, and realize exactly how deep you're digging your liver's...

Going to see that on thursday... (yes, we have a 9 day headstart, it's releasing tomorrow in France)

Stress is one of the major cause of ulcers.

Being an alcoholic doesn't mean being a drunk. I know, I was a functional alcoholic for years. Drank over 2 liters of pure alcohol equivalent every week, sometimes almost 3. Imagine drinking a bottle of Jack Daniels every day without fail. For years. The functional alcoholic wakes up without a...

While waiting for the next alpha round, I've been watching some Let's Plays, and oh, boy, it is painful to watch. Expecting people to watch 1h of Snoogms playing before starting is not good... Anyway, things are going to heat up tomorrow, when the first noob protections are going to drop (and...

I was talking with people in my TSO (The Settlers Online web MMO) guild, all of them heavy P99 players, and they're all looking forward to play the pre-alpha and expecting their P99 guild to die at that point. Looking forward for massive smirking... :P