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Which is why he's at Baen for that. You want good mil-fi, you look at Baen. My amazon suggestions are littered with space mil-fi from independent authors, all of which are usually terrible. John G. Hemry ("Jack Campbell") is not that bad when you start peeking in the morass that the rest is...

All of the non-main series are co-authored; the Manticore Ascendant is one with Timothy Zahn (of Star Wars Extended Universe fame, but lots of other books; another author I mostly recommend on its own). This is probably a trilogy, so this should be the last book of that series as well. Show at...

No, we mean Robert's grandmother, Rhaelle Targaryen.

Yep, patch on 19th (20th for the EU).

Yep. Anderson writes mostly crap on his own, and Brian should have left his dad's opus alone. The sad part is that they probably sell enough, since the editor keep buying new books.

At the moment, VR has a big problem with movement. If your character moves, but you do not, you get nausea relatively quickly. That's why most games are "seated" games where you don't get the illusion of movement. MMORPG are going to be hard to do.

There was a time early this year when the Sagan voice over and credits at the end got dropped. They came back after two months, which I assume is due to some copyright madness stuff. Maybe that's why Facebook blocked it in the first place (and they forgot to unblock after the copyright issues...

Seconded. That's the last SF novel (and the penultimate novel) he wrote before cancer. The two drone ships by Space X are named after spaceships in the Culture novels and legions of fans wept when they found out that there wouldn't be any new works in that universe. Note that when he writes...

Do not diss Wildcards. I think that's probably the best superhero universe ever written. Croyd >> everyone. All awesome apart, you can have a guess at what he wants to make by the whole of his works. Of course, with millions speculating about the story, someone is bound to make good guesses...

The film was so well received, it got him hired to make theNew Horizonspromo video from NASA.

I'm sure we don't have GMO gut microbes that synthesize antidepressants directly in your intestine because Big Pharma does not want us to have free medicine!!!

There's two Drake factors in the above, and there are philosophical considerations that it might not be that difficult. Intelligence, per se, appears to be not too difficult. On Earth alone, at least two if not three genus seem to provide intelligence: primates, corvids, and potentially...

If you decided to clone it in labs. Most farmers dropped the practice of making seeds because their seeds were usually less productive (because they did reproduce in the wild rather than a lab) after a generation or two, compared to the seed manufacturer's products. Most productive varieties...

There was a paper a couple years ago that plotted the possible number of civilizations in the galaxy and the chances that we would haven't seen any signs of them nor heard any modulated radio wave. The curve drops below 50% at 7 technological advanced civilizations. And it might be Bad News...

Just in case people are still arguing about Jon (because apparently, some people out there can't figure it out), HBO put an official "important characters relationships" diagram on their GOT site:

Friend of mine said, "considering how popular she is, she'll probably die horribly on ep. 1 or 2 next season".

That would be fun. It's even in-lore, as the Legion destroys everything across the universe. Alas, the hordes of IP lawyers would be even more fearsome than the Legion. Featuring the zones: - The Empire (Warhammer Online) - Dereth (Asheron's Call 2) - Telon (Vanguard) - Brittania (Ultima...

He'd better be careful with his orbital mechanics if he wants to explain that. I still remember the epic nerdage over Ringworld and people pointing out to Larry Niven that his beautiful Ringworld was unstable...

Sam's going to find the marriage contract in that nerd library archives of the Maesters...

They showed it, they didn't SAY it. The fade-out between the baby's eye and adult Jon's eyes is their way of showing it's the same guy.

Which is usually the main or even the only thing you really need to know about a MMO. You don't even need screenshots after that.

Hydrogen is formed first, and oxygen is a relatively "light" atom made easily by 1st gen stars and is actually more common than carbon. So yea, it's the most common molecule out there. I was just re-readingFive Billion Years of Solitudewhich begins with the common speculation for solar system...

You have until Aug 30 to finish the quest. The Khadgar Servant will stop offering his visits to your followers in your garrison on 7.0, that's all.

Transmog stuff, of course. I'll grab as many appearances I can on the day before S3 ends.

Well, after 12 years, you're in your groove. The choices are stark: either keep doing what you have been, tweaking bits here and there and doing minor stuff, or do an NGE that is guaranteed to piss off a large amount of your current player base without guaranteeing to bring any new blood...

Most of the gameplay was stupid anyway, so you had to find your own goals. It is actually more boring now because almost all garrisons are on full autopilot and I don't even go once a week to see what the Inn has on offer.

Did that with most of my alts (mostly alliance side). A full dwarf one was ultra easy, I finally had my full Draenei two months ago, still lacking one night elf to wrap up the druid one. The one that is hard as fuck is the Worgen one, I'm at 18/25 (after recruiting for over a year when I finally...

Was kinda expecting that one. It would be slightly more time consuming, but your former treasure hunters being 3x GR instead, you'd rack in quite a few gold. Didn't see that one coming. There's not enough of them coming out to really provide more than maybe 100g per day even with a bunker and...

I've also stopped entirely logging in. I tried to play a bit, found the new map confusing, saw that IHADto play on those maps to do anything for the new progression systems, said "sod it", and left the game to rot on a corner of the hard disk.

Yup, that sounds right. Except for the "you need a gathering profession to support your crafting profession... hmmm, except for tailoring, but... ok and enchanting maybe, but they're not real profession, right? After all, they don't make full sets of gear to... oh, tailoring does? Fuck, how do...

Yea. Sounds like a plan... I know, that was like 2 pages ago. Even if they make the Blood BOA, I will probably drop Inscription this time. It's obvious they haven't figured out what to do with it. I remember an old interview during MoP where they basically said they regretted making it a...

So, I've been following the doubling down of Blizzard on the Blood of Sargeras ("you're going to get some in dungeons!") and starting to plan an eventual switch of professions. And I hadn't paid attention to Inscription. Really paid attention. OMG, what a gutted profession. There are no...

Nah, Musk will have his martian retirement city up first.

They've indicated that they're going the same way as Pandaria. So you have until 7.0 to start the questline, and until Aug 30 to complete it. The dev summit interview had them saying explicitly that they're going to nerf the ring if it is still more powerful than endgame rings for Legion.

Yup. It was only intended to be used in a single expansion, which is why it's located on Draenor, and not an instance in Stormwind or something. The Class Halls might be re-used in the expansion after Legion, but I'm doubtful. They've been careful about removing anything that might be...

Unless you have a ready garrison+shipyard setup for gold or want lots of free BOE green transmog, no there's none until 7.0 by mid/late july. You even have time in 7.0 to raise your gathering skill to 700 because they decided to make the main crafting reagent, Blood of Sargeras, BOP instead...

Currently, you can pick your level 19 req. bracers and put a Superior Stamina (+9 sta on it) and get a shitton (relatively speaking) of hit points. With legion, you will have exactly the same HP with enchanted or unenchanted bracers while in a BG.

Yes; your stats (all of them, including your secondaries) are based on level + a small bonus of 1% per 10 ilvl above "standard for your level". Since it's impossible to get much ilvl above until you're at an expansion cap, low-level twinking will give you like 0.75% higher stats than your...

The new UI will make it a bit easier to figure out what you're missing, but until you have a way of sorting items by their tints, making a non-set style is hard. Good example is this well-known russian dwarf frost mage from early transmog (works with any caster, actually): Staff is from...

In the books, the blidness brings out her warging skills (which were limited to her Nymeria link), as she starts using a cat as her eyes. Even Jaqen starts becoming a bit suspicious because she's too good while being blinded. But show Arya isn't a warg. From the preview chapters, I think it's...