I have family in the industry, and they tell me that this is not uncommon anytime a company is using a proprietary and new engine for level design. The broad brush strokes are great, but the tools for making small adjustments after things have been imported to the engine from other dev programs are sometimes a mess.

Here we are in October. I wish I could say I was surprised, but I guess after twenty years that I got used to broken promises on this one.

I am disappointed to see that 9 1/2 Ninjas rates no mention. Admittedly, it is intended as parody and features a protagonist dressed in a spotted “Wonder Ninja” white-bread outfit...

I recommend hopping on meetup and finding or creating a board game group. It really helps in all sorts of ways for your social life and meeting new people all while playing a bunch of different games.

The triffids are genetically modified orchids that produce a biofuel that is easily refined into a biodiesel. The stingers and venom were an annoying byproduct of the process, but one corporations could live with because you could hire a guy to cut the stingers off for less than the research plan to breed the singers…

Haven’t read any of the “new EU” yet. I’m waiting for a solid recommendation and quality writing. I have so many other good things to read these days that I only like to read the very best of the franchise fiction. I remember the bad old days shortly after the (amazing) Zahn novels were written. I plowed through too…

I’m with you on Luke being a mythical figure to even members of the Alliance, but I can see Han as a “rags to riches” story that every aspiring young punk looks up to. Just eat your vegetables, learn to repair that ancient freighter, and some day you too can marry a princess. Maybe he has become the patron saint of…

Man, I remember when “Holy Blood, Holy Grail” was a rare fringe Conspiracy that only nutjobs, historic scholars of the Catholic church, and people who love insane conspiracy theories had heard of. Then Dan Brown had to go and ruin it by making it mainstream for everyone.

I have heard that the cats or dogs usually come as cast-offs from animal shelter euthanasia, but that could just be a rumor.

Chinese traders would eventually have brought colonists for the Empire to both Australia and North America.

Most mammals are easy to skin. Once you hit the links between the basal layer and the integument, it just peels off.

I’d look at that as an opportunity. Sure, the warden runs out (and perhaps becomes a recurring villain) - but as he runs out the door he calls his bruiser of an enforcer (who just coincidentally has the combat stats you wanted to use) to “deal with these intruders”.

Why is it that so many people misunderstand that “lawful good” and paladins are not “lawful stupid”? There are plenty of role-models who stay within the lines:

Ms. Newitz, I’d like to applaud you for your willingness to say, “I was wrong!” That is incredibly important in any form of analysis. I know that you prefaced and concluded your last story with the all-important caveats about the quality of your data possibly leading to mistaken conclusions, but it is really great to…

As I recall, this is one of the first planned simultaneous raids to occur on a continent-wide scale. Philip had to coordinate assaults on the Templars across Europe so as to occur on a single date. If all of the arrests went down on a single night, even escapees would have no one to warn and none of the Templars…

Aww, nuts. You will be missed. Your writing was interesting, and you provided a spotlight for topics of further interest. I wish you well going forward in your career as a writer, and hope to see your work featured in a proper heroic return when you become the subject of an article on the latest and greatest sensation…

They apparently “add value” to the team’s activities. As the article describes, there is a $500/ticket bonus where you get a meet-n-greet with the cheerleaders. If but one person chooses to purchase this additional adventure from the team, they have paid for about fifty-five hours of dance team salary at minimum wage.…

I am glad to see how many people here totally remember her as the first and only Captain Marvel of our childhood. I distinctly remember her first popping up in that Spider Man annual, and loving her because she was at least as snarky as Spidey. Years later, she ended up the badass team lead for the Avengers - and I’d…

I desperately want to see her enter the MCU.

I’m right there with you. I remember first bumping into her waaaay back in the aforementioned Spider Man annual, and thinking that she was awesome because she was at least as snarky as Spider Man himself. I was glad to see her rise to head up the Avengers, but she kind of fell out of comics in the 90’s, and I did by…