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- Incredible (Minor Spoilers)In Season 124 septembre 2021The first two episodes were incredible. Especially the first which really kept to the spirit of the books while expanding on things and giving us insights into each character. I especially liked what they did with Emperor Cleon. He is a legit threat.40
- Episode Three (Spoilers)In Season 1·2 octobre 2021I think despite the changes from the book, we are still going in a good direction with unanswered questions: Why did Hari’s son kill him? Did he stab him or was it a ruse or simply we have viewed something out of context and are not in full possession of the facts? Who put the artifact with the null field? I think We can reasonably assume that the first seldom crisis will soon be upon us and maybe will get some answers? But not without more questions.0955
- law-essayIn Foundation Discussions·4 octobre 2022Hi, to write a good legal paper you need to know a lot of signs . Even senior students sometimes find it difficult to do the job . But it is very good that there are these services: https://law-essay-profy.com/ . Experienced writers who are directly related to the law will write your work for you and save you a lot of time. It is highly recommended .0916
- I'm not moved by Episode 8In Foundation Discussions6 novembre 2021It looks like in the series Hari Seldon wasn't aware of the particular kind of psychic abilities that Gaal has till now. A good question is whether Salvor has the same kind of psychic abilities. I'm inclined to think not, just because it would make most sense to me if Gaal's abilities are tied to her math talent, and Salvor doesn't seem to be maths-inclined. As for the Second Foundation being in Helicon, and Helicon being a dark star, that's interesting, and from a certain point of view, not that surprising. The weird thing about psychohistory, it officially does not exist, but you can find lots of people believe in it. (How many conspiracy theories talk about the great globalist planners?) Stranger yet, every time somebody comes close to anything that looks a bit like the grand idea of psychohistory, it gets really weird. Malthus. Marx. The "Limits to Growth" book model associated with the Club of Rome. (I have personally looked into this particular model and experienced first-hand some of the inexplicable strangeness attached to it.) So, I sort of get it. Hari Seldon is sort of not allowed to ever come into existence. I agree with your point about the archetypes being as basic as they get, but then, that's how I gather that religion works (but then, my knowledge of religion is pretty basic, so take that into account). What I mean is that the easiest, most basic stuff is also the most powerful. Much like the most basic concepts in any discipline are also the most powerful. If you can introduce any change in a basic concept, and most people agree with you, then you've done something really impressive. Which is, again, why I guess people don't allow Hari Seldon into existence. It would make the guy too powerful to handle. As for the Emperor's lack of vision, well, he's the Emperor, so that makes things a little different, I think. A naked Emperor without any vision of the future is not the leader you'd wish on anyone.08
- artistic license or artistic slaughter ?In Foundation Discussions31 août 2022In 1953, Asimov was sick of writing Foundation stories and was about to finish them off, I think after the Seconders defeated the Mule. Campbell demanded more, so he wrote that next segment & called it quits with a little light genocide ("the Second Foundation has been wiped out! Yay!") I think he only wrote 'Edge' because fans demanded it. At which point he tried to close the door on Seldon with Gaia. So at this point, I don't think Asimov's ghost cares that much. I'm a writer; I wrote my last novel in 2015. I would care if fans wrote a whole bunch of sequels, as long as they didn't turn my protag into a villain.0
- how is there oil and coal on the planets (in the book)In Foundation Discussions·5 novembre 2021in the books, the alien life is practically non-existent. terminus has nuclear energy but the neighboring barbarous planets (anacreon etc) use chemical energy. but if there hadn't been alien life on those planets, then how are there fossil fuels in the first place? and is it possible to make interstellar travels, let alone wage wars with just oil and coal? this was the most baffling thing for me when I read the books years ago. now I started reading them again after the show's disappointment, and it still bothers me.08110
- Top 5 Beginner Tips For Diablo 2: ResurrectedIn Ideas & Contribution·20 mai 2022Diablo 2 Resurrected is an action RPG hack-and-slash computer game that is a remake and upgrade of the classic RPG Diablo II. This remake of the classic action RPG that took over the world of PC gaming over two decades ago has returned and is just as brutal and devilish as ever. If you step foot in the wrong area unprepared, the hoards of monsters, demons, and other nightmares won’t hesitate to rip your character apart. So here are plenty of great beginner tips and tricks that will get you acquainted with or reaccustomed to the remastered legendary game. Choosing Your Class The first thing you’ll need to do when you start the game is to decide which class you’ll be playing. If you are a newcomer, I strongly recommend that you pick a class based on your liking and not based on a Build Guide. You start playing a Class that is appealing to you and learn about the game as you progress through the different Acts and Difficulties. This will give you a better grasp of the mechanics, allowing you to define your playstyle, at which point you’ll be better suited to search for a Build and devote to it. No class is bad, so don’t think you can pick wrong here, but each does cater to a different player style. Leveling Up And Assigning Attributes & Skills Even if you haven’t played the original, you know how leveling up works here. Kill enemies, complete quests, earn XP, and level up. Each time you level up, you will get five Attribute points and one Skill Point to spend. Your Attribute Points will go into increasing your stats. Skill Points will go into one of the three branches of your class’s skill tree. Each branch has a total of 10 skills you can unlock inside, meaning there’s a grand total of 30 skills per character class. However, this isn’t the kind of RPG where you will eventually get and use everything. Instead, you will want to invest points into the skills you will rely on to make them stronger until they’re at max level. Collect Runes Runes changed Diablo 2 greatly when they were introduced. They can be used to create some of the most powerful items in the game — rewards — but they’re also widely used as in-game currency. Unless you somehow have an enormous surplus of runeword, you should hold onto as many as possible. Even low runes can be combined together in the Horadric Cube to “cube up,” giving you a higher rune. Players need to spend a lot of time killing monsters and bosses every day to get these rarer D2R items. Of course, buying them from a third-party seller is also a better choice. That will save you a lot of time to do other things. Don’t Sell Valuable Loot Early The final tip is quick and easy. If you have, say, a great weapon you no longer need in act 1, don’t just sell it straight away. Dedicate some space to keeping the most valuable items you find and hold them until you cross over into the next act of the game. The prices those items will sell for can double if you just hold out until the next chapter. Also, remember to make sure any item you’re selling is fully repaired. That will also drive prices way up in your favor. Always Have Scrolls and Potions Potions probably don’t need any justification. However, they will heal you, and Scrolls have much more specific and important uses. The Town Portal scroll, in particular, will be one you use most often in Diablo II: Resurrected. But having a ton of scrolls will easily fill up your inventory before you even set off on your mission, so consolidate them with Tomes. One Tome can hold 20 scrolls, vastly cutting down on inventory clutter. Get at least one for Town Portal scrolls and ideally a second for Identify scrolls. Those are all the beginner tips you need to get started in Diablo 2 Resurrected. Have any ideas for this information? Let us know within the remark part under.0823
- artistic license or artistic slaughter ?In Foundation Discussions31 août 2022Well, my view on Foundation has changed a bit since my last post. Part of it, I think, because Russia invaded Ukraine in the meantime, and that appeared to unleash an episode of high weirdness in my life. And after that, Foundation started to look a bit different to me. Basically, it dawned on me that what some people might call "Divine Providence", other people might be thinking of as "Second Foundation", and some people might be thinking of both as pretty much the same thing. Not the way I personally see things, but maybe others do. (To me, "Divine Providence", if anything, looks like an absence of a real Second Foundation). And maybe Asimov was considering that possibility. So to the question of whether he would have liked the series, my answer now is still "I think probably yes", and I'm guessing his intent in his repeated attempts to kill off the series was to cover for pretty much all sorts of possible imagined scenarios. Problem is, social sciences were never his strong point. Or pure maths, for that matter. So he may have missed any number of things. I guess the series is, once again, attempting to cover for all sorts of possible imagined scenarios, and in being so wide, it just looks pretty empty and generic at many points.0
- I'm not moved by Episode 8In Foundation Discussions6 novembre 2021BTW, I did speak to a practicing Mahayana Buddhist about this topic and her response was that the best meditation was not that of visionquests or even unconscious memories/dreams playing out but that of quietude and a still mind. Interesting to note, Cleon's lack of vision in that pond was actually to closer to what she was looking for than the 3 petaled flower.07
- DoneIn Foundation Discussions·20 novembre 2021Done. Just watched season finale. Done. This isn’t Foundation. Not by a long shot.07107
- Ultra lightspeed without jumpingIn Foundation Discussions·30 septembre 2021Any idea about how do you cover 50.000 lightyears in exactly 878 days without jumping somehow? At least, in any of Asimov's worlds...07156
- Won’t Say I’m Disappointed…In Foundation Discussions26 septembre 2021It's not really deviation from the story yet. It's too early. Think of it like this: There was a 50 year gap in Asimov's book, from chapter 1 to chapter 2. What happened in those 50 years? The show is just filling that in.30
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