One, it’s a very cute kitten from space. Who doesn’t love cute kittens?

Oh god please no, don’t give them ideas. I’d rather see an adaptation of The Eye of Argon than Gor, at least that might be funny-awful.

It’s not really an “overhaul”, it’s just that if you remove the per-area lighting settings then the game will go to some debug defaults. These defaults were probably set so developers could see what they were doing if they ran the game with some settings file missing, not to look good for you.

Well, yes. Tolkien’s Dwarves are based on his view of the Jewish people: they yearn for their lost homeland that is only remembered in verse, they’re famed as nomadic craftsmen and they’re all fiercely loyal to their family and tribe. He made the Dwarven language Semitic, which is rather telling when the half the…

I’m Swedish and so this is of course extremely biased, but damn I’m proud of our boys for making the best of what they’ve got. Sure, our forwards play in Abu Dhabi and warm a bench in Toulouse, no one on the team can shoot, our penalty taker is a centre-back, and our players’ passes connect only when the grass leans…

I appreciate that two minutes after I asked my empty living room “Why is an actual MD running a snake oil shop?”, the show had someone ask that same question. I’m not sure I much appreciate that the answer appears to be that in the MCU, snake oil works and doctors are idiots.

If video games are to truly reflect the full spectrum of the human experience then they must exclusively be about dispassionately murdering people with our guns. Some light quipping may be allowed, as long as it’s flippant and callous and betrays no thoughts deeper than surface level.

Less great that they’re still crooked, though.

England is split between the short and long scale, but million is the same (10⁶) in both. The difference is that billion is 1000 times more in short scale (10⁹), and a million times more (10¹²) in long scale. Then trillion is 10⁹ vs 10¹⁸ and so on. Long scale inserts “milliard” for a thousand million and “billiard”…

I believe they fixed the major memory leak as part of 1.0.2. Performance was mostly good for me after the patch, and after reloading before it, but there are a few zones that are problematic like the rainy docks on Neketaka. On the whole it is somewhat more demanding - and much, much prettier - than Pillars 1. Its…

The hotline would just be all Marvel esoterica.

Yeah, that cat isn’t buff or swole or whatever. It has hypothyroidism.

If you really want to you can play EverQuest on Project 99, which unlike most private old school servers has an official arrangement with the right’s holder. It’s a very faithful recreation of the actual 1999 experience. FF11 is also still around, although it’s very different than it once was.

See, this is why Panthera is the cooler genus.

Not sure I’m happy that Ben Goldacre hasn’t gone pop culture, or sad that Ben Goldacre hasn’t gone pop culture. Either way I was expecting a slightly different sort of Bad Science podcast.

It’s probably the best Infinity Engine-style game made to date and a big improvement on Pillars 1, so if you have any interest in the genre you should play it. It’s also got a fair share of bugs and balance issues so it wouldn’t hurt you to wait a month or so unless you really want to be a part of the conversation.

It was a fun enough way to get students used to the university format and how to prepare for and write an exam without having any major stakes. The first couple of weeks are something like 70% extracurricular welcome-to-uni activities so if spending time on things not related to their subject was a problem there’s a…

Re: swedish love for The Phantom, my old university (Chalmers) had comic book “patron saints” for each department, chosen in the 60s I think, and the physics department had the Phantom. This manifested as a pair of lectures on the history of the Phantom for new students and a Phantom exam which contributed very, very…

Well. Fuck.

If it’s like Mark Sandman’s Tritar then I’m glad to see someone keeping that instrument alive. Now if only he had a double sax player and a voice like collapsing gravel...