Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0

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[Vol]

I'm reading Gantz for the first time since like....2004. I remember enjoying it for the violence and boobs, as an adult, still that, but also I'm getting a kick out of being able to analyze the structure.

Though a constant, eternally annoying bugaboo about manga; Characters standing around and talking, or reacting, for extended periods of time until forced to act for dramatic purposes. Or utterly forgetting about the situation they're in because of a split-second emotional intrusion.

Imagine a Napoleonic war comic, and the main character's line fires their first volley, then receive the incoming volley, and his best friend dies next to him. So he stands there in silence, monologuing about his feelings and how he totally can't move his hands and having flashbacks, while the rest of the line exchange multiple additional volleys, then affix bayonets and charge into melee, before a cannonball randomly lands near the MC and launches him 20 feet away, without injury of course, and then he remembers he has to fight.

It's silly.

[SciFlyBoy]

But OH! it is such a good read. Great imagery there.

[SciFlyBoy]

I shop groceries on Instacart and the app I use for that changes it's features now and then. Currently it notifies me about tips and prompts me to say "Thanks!" when a customer submits one. However, the app shows me the original tip amount and then the adjusted amount and sometimes the tip is adjusted down from it's original, however the app still prompts me to say 'Thanks!" It's hard to feel grateful for that.

[Vol]

Odd note. While I can do chinups for reps, just like you, I cannot do a dead hang for very long at all. No more than 10 seconds, at the top. You have massively superior muscle stamina than me, Sci.

I shop groceries on Instacart and the app I use for that changes it's features now and then. Currently it notifies me about tips and prompts me to say "Thanks!" when a customer submits one. However, the app shows me the original tip amount and then the adjusted amount and sometimes the tip is adjusted down from it's original, however the app still prompts me to say 'Thanks!" It's hard to feel grateful for that.

Oh, I get it. Seeing your potential loss is supposed to motivate you to do better, but also you're not allowed to communicate with the client, so you feel annoyed and without power. That's very clever.

But wow that sucks. Any idea why they do that?

[SciFlyBoy]

Oh, it's just an automatic notification. Really what's happening is that if I can't find an item or the store is out of it and I can't purchase it my total goes down, so therefore the tip does too. It's not a motivational thing, unless there really are shoppers who purposely don't fill out the entire order. Anyway, a computer wouldn't understand that I don't want to see a tip amount fall after a hard day's work and really the designers should only have that option when a client decides to tip an amount up. Speaking of which, I lucked out today and got an $80 tip on an order. Helped me make double what I usually been earning on a daily basis this year. That's an example of smashing that 'Thanks' button.

[SciFlyBoy]

Question on English definitions; what's the difference between grateful and thankful?

[Vol]

Gosh. Hope that was their intent, but all the same, well done on the bonus. Apparently gig work is highly profitable for people in general. Found out my brother, despite his financial troubles, was peaking in "well above average bachelor degree holder" from driving Uber in his best year. Future years haven't been so good.

Re - Grateful v Thankful: Grateful is a more powerful form of thankful, I would say. I'm thankful when a cashier hands me my cup or someone holds a door. I'm grateful for gifts, or donations for the yearly hosting, or things that otherwise require more than marginal effort/sacrifice from someone else.

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Hopefully they won't botch it up like they did with War of the Spark.

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https://www.warhammer-community.com/202 ... orcements/



"The walls have fallen. The defenders’ unity is broken. The Inner Palace lies in ruins. The Warmaster’s horde advances through the fire and ash of Terra’s dying breaths, forcing the loyalists back to the Delphic Battlement, the very walls of the Sanctum Imperialis. Angron has achieved immortality through annihilation – now he leads the armies of the damned in a wrathful tide, destroying all before them as the warp begins its poisonous corruption of Terra. With his brothers fallen or waylaid, Sanguinius waits on the final battlements, hoping to rally a desperate band of defenders and refugees for one last stand."

Sanguinius: I didn't hear no bell!

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https://www.wowhead.com/news/rare-insig ... ing-328441

"Steve Danuser has made it official - canonically, there is a three-year time skip between the end of Shadowlands and the start of Dragonflight, and the total time between the beginning of Shadowlands and the beginning of Dragonflight is five years.

In a lengthy reply to a forum post discussing the time skip, Danuser gave some rare behind-the-scenes insight into World of Warcraft's timeline. Highlights include:
Blizzard maintains an internal timeline that includes what year each expansion begins.
There is usually 1-2 in-game years between the start of each expansion. While the events of older expansions take place over the course of a single year, more recent ones have been taking place over two years.
Burning Crusade took place in the year 26, or 26 years after the Dark Portal opened.
Mists of Pandaria took place in year 30.
The longer time skip after Shadowlands is to give Azeroth a bit of breathing space, as so many catastrophic events have happened in quick succession since the start of World of Warcraft.
Shadowlands began in year 35, and the events took place over the course of two years.
Dragonflight begins in year 40.
Very little - almost nothing important - has happened during the three years between the end of Shadowlands and the start of Dragonflight, it's a time of rest.
There will be a digital short story about "one particularly joyous occasion".
One motivation for the time skip is to allow younger characters to get older, allowing them to take a larger role in future storylines, while it's still a small enough skip to not have a major impact on older characters.
No major changes to the world have occurred during the time skip, they want players to experience those events ourselves.
The resettlement of Gilneas is specifically mentioned as something we will experience in-game ourselves at some point.
We already knew most expansion events take place over the course of a single year in Azeroth's timeline, but these more detailed dates are welcome information, as is the information that newer expansions usually take roughly two years."

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[Vol]

"The walls have fallen. The defenders’ unity is broken. The Inner Palace lies in ruins. The Warmaster’s horde advances through the fire and ash of Terra’s dying breaths, forcing the loyalists back to the Delphic Battlement, the very walls of the Sanctum Imperialis. Angron has achieved immortality through annihilation – now he leads the armies of the damned in a wrathful tide, destroying all before them as the warp begins its poisonous corruption of Terra. With his brothers fallen or waylaid, Sanguinius waits on the final battlements, hoping to rally a desperate band of defenders and refugees for one last stand."

Sanguinius: I didn't hear no bell!

F-I-N-A-L-L-Y

Heh. Mind you, I'm not a gajillionaire, so I don't buy the books. But I've kept abreast of the important stuff, and this has been, what, over a decade in the coming?

https://www.wowhead.com/news/rare-insights-into-azeroths-timeline-dragonflight-begins-40-years-after-opening-328441

That is quite interesting. You can also tell they in no way planned out the timeline to start. Or much at all. Given the "we are literally out of fighting men (and women) has occurred multiple times within the WoW timespan, a planned timeline would be have more decade jumps. And, uh, reproduction.

[Dragaros]

That is quite interesting. You can also tell they in no way planned out the timeline to start. Or much at all. Given the "we are literally out of fighting men (and women) has occurred multiple times within the WoW timespan, a planned timeline would be have more decade jumps. And, uh, reproduction.

Right? Between the casualties caused by the old Horde, the Iron Horde, the Scourge, the Burning Legion, the Old Gods, Deathwing, Sylvanas and countless more, you wouldn't be amiss in thinking the population would be down to extinction levels for all factions from all the constant wars and invasions; the folks of Azeroth must breed like horny rabbits on magical super crack.

F-I-N-A-L-L-Y

Heh. Mind you, I'm not a gajillionaire, so I don't buy the books. But I've kept abreast of the important stuff, and this has been, what, over a decade in the coming?

16 years and 64 books. A long, LOOOOOOOOOOONG fucking time. Well overdue. They've dragged this out forever.

And with one last novel to go to cover the long-awaited and much anticipated showdown between Horus and Big E. There's dozens of big fan theories and a multitude of long-reaching plot threads riding on how this fight goes down and its immediate aftermath, regarding how much is stays true to the old lore and how much it radically changes.

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"Troubled Star Wars Video Game Remake Shifts to New Studio; The high-profile remake of Knights of the Old Republic will go to Saber Interactive in Eastern Europe."

"The highly anticipated remake of the video game Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic has a new developer after a bumpy ride. The project, formerly in development at Austin, Texas-based Aspyr Media, is now being led by one of Saber Interactive’s Eastern European studios, according to a person familiar with the change who asked not to be identified because the details are private. Both developers are owned by the Swedish company Embracer Group AB, which obliquely referenced the pivot in a public statement last week. A representative for Embracer didn’t immediately have a comment. The transition shuts down any lingering hope within Aspyr that it may be able to continue leading the project. Bosses at the studio, which had been developing the remake for more than two years, told staff last month that the game was “on pause” as the company tried to figure out what to do next, Bloomberg reported. The message left open the possibility that Aspyr could one day reclaim a leadership role, but rumors quickly swirled among employees that Saber was taking over.
Last Thursday, Embracer said in a financial report that one of its big titles, known within the industry as a triple-A game, had switched developers but did not identify the game. “One of the Group’s AAA projects has transitioned to another studio within the Group,” the company wrote. “This was done to ensure the quality bar is where we need it to be for the title.” Some analysts correctly guessed, based on Bloomberg’s previous reporting, that the statement referred to the Star Wars remake. Embracer intends to recreate the magic of the original Knights of the Old Republic, a role-playing game that came out in 2003 to great acclaim, and update it using modern technology. The game lets players create their own Jedi, wield light sabers and choose whether to follow the light or dark side of the Force, in a galaxy filled with complex characters and a rich story. Remakes have become common in recent years, but it’s rare for a game to switch companies in the middle of development. Doing so almost always leads to major delays. The new developer must learn how to adapt to unfamiliar code and in most cases will revamp or at least modify previous decisions made for the project. Embracer said it is not “expecting any material delays” due to the transition. But the game, announced during a PlayStation event last year, does not have a public release date and will likely take at least two more years to finish, people familiar with development said. Embracer’s stock tumbled on Monday after lukewarm reviews of an upcoming game, Saints Row, and is down 28% this year.
Still, some close to the project said they are optimistic this will lead to a better product. Decision makers at Embracer and at publishers Sony Group Corp. and Walt Disney Co., both of whom have financial interests in the game, were displeased with progress under Aspyr, which ultimately led to the transition."

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG9N3xvTQl0

"Update 2.0 arrives TOMORROW alongside the new Immortal Empires game mode. There's a massive changelog on the way, but we've pulled together a sneak peek of the key features coming soon to Total War: WARHAMMER III!"

SO IT BEGINS

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"The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!"

"The NASA Exoplanets social media team recently released an audio recording of a black hole, an ultra-dense cosmic body left over from a collapsed star. Conventional wisdom holds that sound waves can't travel through the vacuum of space, having no medium to move through, but NASA's post mentions that gas-dense galaxy clusters actually contain enough matter for the agency to record distant sounds. The result is incredibly unnerving, a sort of hollow chorus of ethereal moaning that feels perfectly at home in some kind of experimental horror project."



The hunger of a black hole has sound. Huh. Cool and spooky!

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[Vol]

Right? Between the casualties caused by the old Horde, the Iron Horde, the Scourge, the Burning Legion, the Old Gods, Deathwing, Sylvanas and countless more, you wouldn't be amiss in thinking the population would be down to extinction levels for all factions from all the constant wars and invasions; the folks of Azeroth must breed like horny rabbits on magical super crack.

Don't forget the Dark Horde, still holed up in Blackrock Mountain...somehow!

16 years and 64 books. A long, LOOOOOOOOOOONG fucking time. Well overdue. They've dragged this out forever.

And with one last novel to go to cover the long-awaited and much anticipated showdown between Horus and Big E. There's dozens of big fan theories and a multitude of long-reaching plot threads riding on how this fight goes down and its immediate aftermath, regarding how much is stays true to the old lore and how much it radically changes.

That's more than a little silly. Young men who started reading it would have grey hairs now.

This one is the finale? Not going to turn the fight on Horus' flagship into 5 novels?! I fully expect some new twist to be added, to tie into future lore, either the imminent failure of the Throne, Easy E becoming as much a god as anything else, or something that either moves towards end game, without getting there.

"You have chosen...Ultraviolence"

[Dragaros]

either the imminent failure of the Throne

Funny you should mention that...

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The Vaults of Terra trilogy which has been covering the Golden Throne's failing condition and the attempts to repair it being so desperate they've even tried smuggling in Dark Eldar scientists into the Imperial Palace to see if they can fix it--because the Golden Throne is partially based on pre-Fall Eldar technology and is very similar in many respects to the Drukhari's Power Engines--concluded thusly according to folks who've read it:

The Mechanicus and a few of the High Lords --including the Fabricator-General of Mars--enter into an exchange with the Dark Eldar. The Tech Priests will provide broken down, burnt-out parts of the Golden Throne to the Dark Eldar, who would try to recreate them for later integration. The cost of this help was the Imperium would hand over an entire star system with 21 billion people in it.

The Dark Eldar swallow their pride and vanity and admit that they need humanity to survive. We are their cattle, so if we die off, they suffer. And without the Emperor, the galaxy gets swallowed up in the Warp and turns into a hellish wasteland devoid of prey to feast on. If they want to survive, humanity needs to survive, and that means the Emperor cannot be allowed to die.

But the Imperium is not being told the full truth. The Haemonculi who broke into the Throne Room in the first book didn't do so because he was crazy drunk on the Emperor's suffering, he did it so he could witness the full scope of the machine in full and memorize it. He knew he would get killed by the Cutsodes or whoever found him first, but he knew he would just be resurrected into a clone of himself by his fellow Haemonculi, now with all the memories of the experience.

What the Imperium is unaware of, is that the recent warp Dysjunction threatening Commorragh is too much for them to handle. They are are fighting a losing struggle against the daemonic invaders. In their panic and haste, they construct a replica Golden Throne made of Dark Steel, which is now all but completed, to close the rift. But it lacks an occupant to power it, and moreover, the Golden Throne's designs were so specifically made that the interface works on a genetic level. Only the Emperor's biology would be recognized and accepted by the device. To get around this, the Dark Eldar are planning on using scraps of Big E's DNA on the burnt-out parts they will revive during the deal to clone him and place the clone on their Throne to power it. Its mentioned that the clone doesn't even need to be fully grown, just a mind and sufficient biological foundation to trick the bio-security measures.

The Custodes and some Inquisitors uncover this conspiracy and stop the exchange going down in the Webway, but everyone on all sides dies in the battle. Even the Fabricator-General dies. No one survives to let the Imperium know of what they've uncovered. The secret of the Dark Steel Throne goes untold to the Imperium.

Final big reveal: the Golden Throne's failure is imminent. For realz this time. At best estimate, it has only one more century of function left, and worst just 10 more years. And the Eldar components in it are now so damaged they are totally beyond repair or replication, even if there was a human mind who could understand the tech.

If GW actually let the Golden Throne die, then we're going into an End Times scenario, because once that happens, a few things happen simultaneously:

1. The Chaos flooded Webway gate opens back up, unleashing hell itself on Terra, turning it into a daemon world, and creating another Eye of Terror.
2. What's left of the Emperor's body finally dies. (What happens after that is unknown. Does Big E resurrect/reincarnate thanks to his Perpetual nature, or was his soul so badly damaged during his fight with Horus and 10,000 year imprisonment that he can't do that anymore? Does the God-Emperor entity he's become finally "awake" and more free to act, or is he greatly weakened or killed without a physical anchor in the materium anymore? Or one of a dozen other theories? Who knows. We're in uncharted waters.)
3. Right before the Throne dies, Vulkan's Talisman of Seven Hammers device installed on the Throne could be activated as a final "Fuck You!" to Chaos, (which might be the Terminus Decree the Gray Knights have) which would cause the Golden Throne to overload and become an anti-Chaos bomb that would not only destroy Terra utterly, it could potentially kill most life in the galaxy, and even further, potentially damage the Warp itself, if it has enough juice. Giving the Chaos Gods a black eye as humanity goes out the door to oblivion.

Also, the recent novel Throne of Light just brought back the Star Child storyline and Chaos is super worried about it. The old Star Child lore with Jaq Draco, the Sensei, and the Illuminati were revealed to be a scheme of a Tzeentch cult spreading lies, but this one is legit. The race for the Star Child is on!

[Vol]

Well, lovely day. My grandma's foot went out. This has happened before, a few weeks ago, but was related to some unknown back pain, and it healed itself after a few days. Was after, running around (as much as an 88 year old can). Went with one of her daughters for 3 days to Atlantic City to gamble, lose function in that same foot. Fell over her stool, but thankfully was okay. Can still walk, but has to lift her entire leg, which is difficult and scary to watch when they're that old. The most worrying part is there's no pain, the foot simple stops responding sometimes. Aunt took her to the doctor, got a CAT scan, waiting on results, but that sounds like "stroke/brain bleed," which is no uncommon in the elderly, and hopefully very minor if so. But always scary.

Hope you guys fared better.

[Vol]

Funny you should mention that...

► Show Spoiler

The Vaults of Terra trilogy which has been covering the Golden Throne's failing condition and the attempts to repair it being so desperate they've even tried smuggling in Dark Eldar scientists into the Imperial Palace to see if they can fix it--because the Golden Throne is partially based on pre-Fall Eldar technology and is very similar in many respects to the Drukhari's Power Engines--concluded thusly according to folks who've read it:

The Mechanicus and a few of the High Lords --including the Fabricator-General of Mars--enter into an exchange with the Dark Eldar. The Tech Priests will provide broken down, burnt-out parts of the Golden Throne to the Dark Eldar, who would try to recreate them for later integration. The cost of this help was the Imperium would hand over an entire star system with 21 billion people in it.

The Dark Eldar swallow their pride and vanity and admit that they need humanity to survive. We are their cattle, so if we die off, they suffer. And without the Emperor, the galaxy gets swallowed up in the Warp and turns into a hellish wasteland devoid of prey to feast on. If they want to survive, humanity needs to survive, and that means the Emperor cannot be allowed to die.

But the Imperium is not being told the full truth. The Haemonculi who broke into the Throne Room in the first book didn't do so because he was crazy drunk on the Emperor's suffering, he did it so he could witness the full scope of the machine in full and memorize it. He knew he would get killed by the Cutsodes or whoever found him first, but he knew he would just be resurrected into a clone of himself by his fellow Haemonculi, now with all the memories of the experience.

What the Imperium is unaware of, is that the recent warp Dysjunction threatening Commorragh is too much for them to handle. They are are fighting a losing struggle against the daemonic invaders. In their panic and haste, they construct a replica Golden Throne made of Dark Steel, which is now all but completed, to close the rift. But it lacks an occupant to power it, and moreover, the Golden Throne's designs were so specifically made that the interface works on a genetic level. Only the Emperor's biology would be recognized and accepted by the device. To get around this, the Dark Eldar are planning on using scraps of Big E's DNA on the burnt-out parts they will revive during the deal to clone him and place the clone on their Throne to power it. Its mentioned that the clone doesn't even need to be fully grown, just a mind and sufficient biological foundation to trick the bio-security measures.

The Custodes and some Inquisitors uncover this conspiracy and stop the exchange going down in the Webway, but everyone on all sides dies in the battle. Even the Fabricator-General dies. No one survives to let the Imperium know of what they've uncovered. The secret of the Dark Steel Throne goes untold to the Imperium.

Final big reveal: the Golden Throne's failure is imminent. For realz this time. At best estimate, it has only one more century of function left, and worst just 10 more years. And the Eldar components in it are now so damaged they are totally beyond repair or replication, even if there was a human mind who could understand the tech.

If GW actually let the Golden Throne die, then we're going into an End Times scenario, because once that happens, a few things happen simultaneously:

1. The Chaos flooded Webway gate opens back up, unleashing hell itself on Terra, turning it into a daemon world, and creating another Eye of Terror.
2. What's left of the Emperor's body finally dies. (What happens after that is unknown. Does Big E resurrect/reincarnate thanks to his Perpetual nature, or was his soul so badly damaged during his fight with Horus and 10,000 year imprisonment that he can't do that anymore? Does the God-Emperor entity he's become finally "awake" and more free to act, or is he greatly weakened or killed without a physical anchor in the materium anymore? Or one of a dozen other theories? Who knows. We're in uncharted waters.)
3. Right before the Throne dies, Vulkan's Talisman of Seven Hammers device installed on the Throne could be activated as a final "Fuck You!" to Chaos, (which might be the Terminus Decree the Gray Knights have) which would cause the Golden Throne to overload and become an anti-Chaos bomb that would not only destroy Terra utterly, it could potentially kill most life in the galaxy, and even further, potentially damage the Warp itself, if it has enough juice. Giving the Chaos Gods a black eye as humanity goes out the door to oblivion.

Also, the recent novel Throne of Light just brought back the Star Child storyline and Chaos is super worried about it. The old Star Child lore with Jaq Draco, the Sensei, and the Illuminati were revealed to be a scheme of a Tzeentch cult spreading lies, but this one is legit. The race for the Star Child is on!

Oh, that's new. 40k stuff:

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So the setting is pretty hard-locked at Current Time, because the Throne needs to be dead or fixed on any notable movement forward. Given they got decades out of the original setting, not entirely impossible either.

Neat that the Dark Eldar actually followed through on a deal. Albeit with strings, but not being maniacally retarded (for the moment) is cool. Did they deliver a functional repair part? How did it get broken?

I would wager if they do pull the plug, and Big E gets up, it's going to be my long speculated "All the end games at once, create new stalemate." The main hive fleet arrives. The Yannari get the MacGuffin. Chaos is somehow super-duper powerful and launches the Uber Black Crusader. Tomb worlds wake up everywhere. Tau hide. C'tan reform. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.