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But it launches, lands, and relaunches, which is going to drive down the costs of its business (space tourists). Which is the point. Reducing the cost of your space business is good.

We need those competitors to take the test and post their results.

Two things you'll have to watch in the next expansion are: - The upscaling problem, in which the stuff you fight in any given zone is scaled UP to your level... if you don't have the appropriate gear for that level, you might be in trouble... - The artefact power problem, in which you might...

Most people agree that the polarization Rep-Dem is (unfortunately) masking a lot of political nuance. That's what you get with a two-party system. You get better result if you split the politics into liberal/conservative social and economical traits. The 3rd axis might be...

Well,it's actually a sabotage by time-traveling physicistswho wanted to prevent the end of the mankind at the pincers of an extra-dimensional hive intellect. (the author is a physicists who absolutely lamented that unfortunate cancellation)

At the moment, it's mostly a math construct. Even if it makes some prediction about Kuyper dynamics that appear to be borne out by observations, you still need to be careful about having different models that give you those stable and weird orbits. The paper also stresses that the parameters...

Yea, they put Pirates of the Carribean XXIX or something in that slot to feel the trail exhaust of GotG2, which shows utter confidence.

Yea. I've been reading the series for 5 years (since the first came out in 2010), so it's not too fresh. But did re-read the first three volumes when the first eps landed, to refresh my memories, which might have been a mistake. Side note for reference: We're currently at page 223 out of 560...

No idea, but both are producers on the show, and they're apparently quite often on site for the shootings and all that, so they are extremely involved.

Well, in this case (per Ty Frank and Daniel Abraham's own twitters), the authors themselves decided to add that stuff so that the book readers have new stories they didn't knew to watch.

Last episode was a bit disappointing, because it was hugely padded. If you're not a book reader, know that the entire stowaway spy+martian donkey balls sub-plot is a complete addition. It didn't happen at all. In the books, you have Holden and crew undocking from Tycho, end of chapter, Miller...

Carbon 14 is produced at the top of the atmosphere from cosmic activity, which is why you use carbon 14 for dating fossils of living stuff: plants constantly absorb CO2 which includes that fresh C14, animals eat those plants, and so living creatures tend to have the same C14 balance as the...

And he was wiped from existence when his earth-1 ancestor got killed. Which is the best proof you need that he was from this version of Earth.

I did a rewatch of the first 6 ep this saturday, and I agree. It does feel a lot better if you chain the episodes. I'm still going to watch every ep as they come, but I'll probably rewatch the entire series when ep 10 comes out.

Side note: your weekly kill of Kazzak gives you 1000 apexis as well.

I think that's why they finally split PvP/PvE in Legion. At one point, it ceases to be a guiding principle and becomes a stupid idea that should have died long ago.

Iron Fist as 4th series, not the Defenders. Although it was an implicit possibility.

It's only useful while you're starting out. Once you've filled your garrison with your treasure hunter/scavengers, you don't need it anymore. There's nothing really important to replace it however. You may add a disenchant cabinet; disenchanting baleful to make enchanter mats yields more gold...

I usually queue my followers twice a day. Takes me 6-7mn for 10 characters, but that's because I'm only sending them on money making missions, that is: gold, GR, and tokens. You convert GR into gold (I don't both with mats, I straight out buy bag of golds) at the trading post, and sell back...

In the books, he's the joke cop. The cop the boss gives stuff that she doesn't want to get solved, like, I don't know, the case of the father wanting Julie Mao, OPA operative currently on assignment on the Scopuli. After Havelock scrams out of Ceres, his new partner finally break the news to him...

MTV. That's what explains all of the above. Yup.

Side note: that's exactly one of the major plot points of 11.22.63 (the time travel novel from Stephen King, soon on your small screen).

My guess is that you have a single artifact power pool. Meaning you'll be able to earn artifact power as a healer, and spend it on whatever protection artifact there is. I don't think there's going to be a catch-up that gives you "free" artifact power if you've already invested it in another...

Only 4 episodes left. Plot points dangling

It's complicated.

Ok, you have two repeats about some "bioweapon" in this episode, just before Miller gets his ass fired for being too competent for once. (he's supposed to be a joke of a cop, if you haven't guessed. Dawes stresses the point, although you may not understand the context) My own speculation is...

Depends on the nature of the "intervention". A state must regulate markets; fully unregulated markets lead to inefficients/dysfunctional markets due to various effects, including monopolies, cartels, monopsonies, and all kind of funky and unexpected stuff and so on. However, deciding what the...

Side note: it's not as if there's not precedent enough for this in SF: That's basically the On-Off star used inA Deepness in the Skywhere Transcendent technology is used to temporarily modify local space-time and enable advanced computing systems that are otherwise impossible, and they use the...

And, presumably, that's why they did it, straight out of the box, in the very first scenes. "This is not just a Lord of the Rings copy" is a necessity in a world where The Hobbit trilogy just finished last year and having played Gollum(!!!) is a major career move for an actor.

QFT. You had half a second early in the first episode to tell you that real shit is coming, and that's all until probably "Windmills" (ep 7).

More of the same, roughly. I'm not even sure I picked the 4th book.

You could argue that it's more gory, since instead of blowing the station, he leads an assault with a company of space marines. He has orders to retake the station for the corp. that owns it, not to blow an expensive piece of infrastructure to bits. His marines kill every defender they encounter...

They are much closer than they started with at the end of ep 1. when the Canterbury was blown up. They started with fighting against each other, and they're now at the point where they agree to disagree. It's just a slower process than need to. The episode felt less of a filler episode than I...

Note that The Laundry Files is completely separate universe from A Colder War; the only common point is basically that Lovecraft was right. The Laundry Files is not a cold war series, it's started as "computer geek is made an offer he can't refuse to work controlling magic for her Majesty's...

If you are capped on your upgrades already, yea. Otherwise, you need to sacrifice 5 +5 ilvl upgrades for one +3 ilvl upgrade.

Both Mad Max and The Martian arenominated to the Producer Guild Awards for Best Movie, which are supposedly good predictor for Oscars. Both are also at the top of the weighted list of Rerolled. We're also good predictors for Oscar nominations, right?

Want fake fantasy? Grab the Merchant Princes series, which was reissued in omnibus form:The Bloodline Feudis the first volume, see the 3 books combo in "frequently purchased". It's interesting because it was officially marketed as fantasy because Stross contracts were preventing him from...

Got relatively lucky with mine; I simply put all the spawn points on Tomtom, and flew across all. Spotted one visiting a bit over a dozen of them, grabbed, done.

Here's a pic of Billie Lourd in the movie; she might indeed be the one you saw in a later scene. You're not the only one who think they saw Sutherland there, although he's not mentioned anywhere on the mainstream movie sites so it might be a lookalike.

At one point, you should bite it and start collaborations. A lot of authors that find themselves bogged into popular series get an additional author in to revive their own motivation. Clarke was bugged all the time about making yet another sequel to 2001, so he picked Baxter and went at it...