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Let me guess? The name is "Vogon Boss"?

Specially the Hero That Saves The World Multiple Times Every Two Years. You're telling me he doesn't have access to high-end restorative magic? (the same argument as the stupid D&D Dungeon Wheelchair - dude, as an adventurer, you earn the equivalent of a Lord's yearly taxes, and you can fork...

Isn't that a common thing in mobile RPGs, though? TL was initially designed as mobile gacha, if I remember right, and that's a common theme there: collect characters, switch between your "team" as needs must.

That's his real (and only) job. He's a lecturer for lay audiences, and that's it. Not an expert, not a scientist (except in the technical sense), just a popularizer.

Not, but it's almost certain that it was at least some factor in failure. We all know what DEI means: "Didn't Earn It". DEI means you voluntarily dropped your workplace efficiency and capacity in the pursuit of quotas to satisfy your investors, but meant zero thing for your consumers, and...

Ghost has Whoopi Goldberg in it. That should tell you all you need to know about the movie.

Digital Signage displays are categorized as "professional equipment", so they overcharge you since you're supposed to write that off as a business expense. Expect four-digit costs for a mere 30" 4K.

The Founders trilogy is truly an epic work, but what struck me is the last one, which is one of the handful of novels that attempt to depict the slow slide of human society into a post-human society. You do get a sense of how a society that works on a completely different paradigm than the ones...

This is essentially why I am never, ever, buying a smart TV. If I have to click "yes" on an EULA on my TV, back in the packing and the store it goes.

They've improved significantly the automation while you're "not there", so this may impact the multiplayer aspect. My main concern remains the breeding ranch, which is usually dropping pals to zero after a time - they don't go to the sleeping beds, they don't seem to go eat, they just fuck...

Well, it that means we get TWO lunar bases, I say it's worth it.

Well, considering the lunar day is 4 weeks-long, they might have problems figuring out how to stay in synch.

He who fight with monsters. FTFY. Three of them, actually.

Nevermind. It's back there.

Well, my ability to post is back, but not to add reactions (it's missing in every forum, not just the Bully Pol Pit). And yes, I cleared the cache of all old data. (I was expecting a rickrolling redirect or some other silly shenanigans, not a role change, tbh)

A Fire Upon the Deep is the paperback I had to buy twice (because the previous fell apart). I also had the CD-Rom version with the author's notes (which include all the bits of worldbuilding you barely see, like the fact that Twirlip of the Mists seem to know exactly what's with the Blight, but...

We all know that DEI stands actually for "Didn't Earn It".

Azarinth Healer is reasonably good after the rocky start, but I found myself slowly slipping away, and then simply stopped after a while (I have no idea how edited the AMZ version is vs the original Royal Road one). Ritualist has been declining steadily from what I heard about the series (I...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/vernor-vinge-father-of-the-tech-singularity-has-died-at-age-79

Gacha-loaded games aren't what I'm looking for in a MMO, but you do what you do. That aside, you're partially right. 1) Take an open world - which they already have, developped and full of lore ready to implement. 2) Make a shit-ton of dungeons, raids and open-world bosses 3) Put classes that...

They didn't make those games. They wrecked those games.

Got that level of service back in the old days with British Airways with normal business class. Transport in Paris running late, I arrive late. The flight attendant took me down on the tarmac, we drove across two different tracks up to where the plane had parked, just in time for a stairs to...

What? You... hate Dragon Ball Z? The one anime that succesfully redid the one and only Monkey King? Heaten!

Starch, green tea... soybean flour... I can't even imagine... (also, it was never seen on my - real - japanese restaurants in Paris. Not the chinese-run sushi shops, the real, hole in the wall ones)

I stopped DotF after the fridging of the - finally - girlfriend. You spend an enormous amount of time teasing us with the obvious "she's going to be the one", and you do a small timeskip where it finally happens, only for evil mom to show up and kill her in the next chapter because she's...

They explain the Radiant pack after the end of the tiers. Basically a pack of all kind of merchs: All themed based on which book you purchased.

/em looks BPEL on the Internet /em sees XML /em starts laughing hysterically and requires help to breathe...

Although the wind can be extremely fast, the atmosphere itself is 1% of Earth's. A "tempest" on Mars is basically a strong breeze here. Enough to blow dust around (since zero humidity), but not much more.

And they will absolutely not up the "normal" price before, no sir!

I still haven't started Captain. I had it on auto-purchase, because Will Wight, but after hearing about it, I kept pushing it deeper and deeper into Mt. Tsundoku...

That's the original method by Archimedes.

Pi is irrational. There are multiple formulas that have Pi in them and are used to derive the approximate value of Pi. The "classical" is Pi/4 = 1/1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 - 1/11 + ... but it is very inefficient to calculate Pi. Most of the formulae are based on (surprise!) geometry...

They admitted it, no? The internal XP was originally for total XP, and you had formula for total XP needed to get to level N, since you could go up or down in levels at any time. They did want to slow down level gain starting at 35, so they added a 1.1 multiplier for XP starting at 35, with 1.2...

As a reminder, Einstein got a Nobel prize for... the photoelectric effect. Not relativity.

Palworld is: - Pokemon with guns (the official pics have Lamballs garding their base with machine guns) - Pokemon with slaves (your base run on slave labor, although you need to be careful with their health, or your efficiency suffers) - A game where you can capture people and put them on your...

*EDIT* Google is borked, I am way off...

The mass of the black holes always felt odd compared to the galaxy around them. A lot of people tried to model the accretion of such black holes in a galaxy and it never came out good. This looks more like the formation of solar system, where the sun forms first while the lighter planets form...

Weird. I could have sworn the guy showed probability dropping. Or maybe he swapped the pictures? Anyway, good to know.

There's a video I've seen with a guy who did a speedrun for flying mounts and tested on starting pals, no combat (apparently, you can hold your pal sphere on a target to see your current chance, something I never did). Once he consumed his lifmunk statues, the capture chance displayed dropped by...

Six (or is it seven?) ore nodes. Plus an extremely defensive position. The author also uses it to cheese the lvl 12 mini boss by aggroing and running into the base so that all his pals pile up on him, and get an easy kill/capture.