BGA is fantastic. Free game selection is always growing. Membership, if you want to pay for the premium games, is a fantastic deal. Only one person in your playgroup needs a membership for everyone to play. The interface for most games is WAY better than actually playing in person and games are so much faster too. It’s not as good as hanging out in person with friends, but it’s damn close.

From the article:

What’s almost more remarkable is that the scientists say a single new blank disc can be manufactured using conventional DVD mass production techniques within six minutes.

Now I can stay logged in while my idle games go brrrr…

Just finished this myself. Really glad I finally got around to reading it.

Does it seem like a lot of hard sci-fi is really about dealing with existential dread to everyone else? This definitely made it a theme, and I really appreciate the acceptance the characters showed, but it’s still a bit of a bummer. It’s almost like the more beautiful the mathematical concepts being explored, the darker the undertones. Or maybe the settings just make it all starkly bare.

Less “tree” more “pile”.

Bottom row looks way more diverse than I’d expect.

Looks amazing. I didn’t know it was possible to fully hide the layer lines like you’ve done. How difficult was it to sand?

Awesome, I didn’t know they had a kickstarter going. No such thing as bad press I guess.

I’m having the hardest time copying this for some reason.