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I am working on building a rail tunnel to a nearby village, should be able to make progress, and possibly finish it tonight. Someone should get some pigs corralled now that we have carrots.

How long till a monster factory in Elite?

I think its essentially socialist shock jocks. There is very little about it outside that one article on Chapo.

The final level of Unreal II is one of my favorite end stages of all time

I think there are ways to get vivecraft working on the server maybe? not sure what the minecraft VR situation is on the rift

Nice to see that my habit of building big things for no reason still exists. I am working on a castle/tower structure, no idea how expansive it will end up being

Really liking the second season of The Expanse. Excellent casting for Bobby

Wildlands is an open world 1-4 player third person shooter coop game set in Latin America where you are an American soldier man killing lots of drug dealers. The story line looks like hot military garbage, but the potential fun of a four player open world stealth/shooty game intrigues me. I was a huge fan of coop in Rainbow Six Vegas 1&2 and like the idea of Wildlands. Definitely going to wait for release though.

Some TV stations speed up movies and TV shows to cram more ads in https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150219/06580030068/cables-latest-great-idea-speed-up-programs-so-they-can-stuff-more-ads-into-every-hour.shtml

Wait, where? How? Gimme gimme gimme!

even with the adjustment knob on the front?

My scale is based on how much i would be willing to watch it again 0-35 is "Never again" 36-55 is "Ok sure I guess" "56-75" "Yes" 76-100 "Hell yes!"

New bonus episode, back to Sapienza! Also the bonus episodes will be available for purchase if you didn't buy the whole pack

Watched Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom last night after discovering them on Prime video. I have seen Raiders and Crusade before but never Doom. The difference in quality is stark. Raiders has racism for sure, but nothing even close to the scale of what Doom has. The whole plot, the rituals, the banquet scenes, short round, its all so horrible! I'm sad I ran out of time and couldn't end my night with Crusade which i remember being pretty good.

As someone who has read all the books I can say yeah pretty much.

I am excited that they decided to not try and cram one book into each season. S1 ends about 3/4 of the way through the first book. Also the Earth storyline is fabricated by the show, they wanted to bring Avasarala into the show earlier than she appears in the books and she doesn't even swear as much as she should

Some of that is probably them trying to cover as much of the book as possible in a film. Those characters are much more fleshed out in the books.

Xcom might work but my Surface 3 can't run it well enough, if you have a more tricked out one than me it could work

There are also games that while they don't directly support touch screen will work well. If you own any turn based games give them a shot, I can't remember which ones, but some video game versions of board games work quite well.

Civ 5 and Beyond Earth both have tablet modes, I assume Civ 6 does as well. I have put several controller supported games on my Surface, works really well.

You could play it in creative mode but its not a great game in that mode

It doesn't. If you want a diving game with VR: Subnautica has it although that game is decidedly less chill in deeper areas.

From what I understand Season 2 is supposed to cover 5 expansions. Since we don't have 2.3 and 2.4 is still unknown (Maybe related to ALIENS?!?!?!?!??!) I think its safe to say the season 3 announcement won't happen until later this year. If Horizions is a guide, announce in August, release in December. But it could take longer. 2.0 – Planetary Landings Available Now A whole new angle on the galaxy. Journey from the stars to the surfaces of strange worlds, and hit the ground running in the new Scarab Surface Recon Vehicle. 2.1 – The Engineers Available Now Introducing an expanded mission system and game-changing loot. Craft exotic weapons and modules for your spacecraft and build a ship unlike any other. 2.2 – Guardians Available Now New challenges. New Careers. New Mysteries. Discover new ways to fight, trade, explore and survive in Elite Dangerous: Horizons 2.2 The Guardians 2.3 – The Commanders Still to come Team up and stand together. Forge your own identity with the new Commander Creator, then share your bridge with Multi-Crew and fly with friends. 2.4 – TBA A secret revealed in Elite Dangerous: Horizons’ final expansion.

I tried getting into the books but really disliked A Murder of Quality. Is that book an aberration or par for the course?