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1:25 PM

@AndrasDeak I vaguely remember an old Scrooge Mc Duck story, something about decreasing the world temperature by a few degree with some huge atomic refrigerators placed at the north pole.

Andras Deak

1:47 PM

yeah, pretty much every kind of geoengineering is terrifying

we're advanced enough to do serious harm but not advanced enough to be reasonably sure that there's no complex interaction we forgot to account for

KorvinStarmast

2:27 PM

@NautArch Brilliant move. I need to do that more often: a no screens day. (And I am reading the Witcher novels, which are pretty absorbing)

NautArch

@KorvinStarmast They are! I got into them when witcher 3 came out. I"d already played 2 and got sucked into the lore. Spent a summer reading them.

Finding them all wasn't easy.

@KorvinStarmast Ping me on gmail if you 're having issues. i may still have them.

KorvinStarmast

2:42 PM

@NautArch Myh son ordered the novels: he got me the first one in hardback, we found the second one, then he ordered a boxed set of the novels in paperback. I just finished Blood of Elves. I got the game, W III, but that particular perspective (wasd) takes a lot of getting used to for me. I have to retrain my twitch muscles, and I occasionally get a headache ( a mild form of what we called simulator sickness in the Navy) It's why I quite playing WoW.

And on a 'non game' note, While he was writing those short stories and books, the war in Bosnia / Former Yugoslavia was going on. He's from Poland. The 'wall' had recently come down. I get the idea that he was making some allusions to real life conflicts (who was here first!!!) in the tension that he presents between dwarves, gnomes, halflings, elves, and humans. And the zealots from Nilfgaard.

The Balkan conflicts of mid to late 90's was when I was stationed in Europe, and dealing with the arms embargo on Former Yugoslavia (and other stuff) was part of what I did every day at work.

Derpy

3:20 PM

..... the genesis ship..... taking so long.......

must do it .... remember....

Jan 8 at 17:44, by Derpy