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Tropical Tectonic Collisions May Have Unleashed Ancient Ice Ages I looked but I didn't see where they mapped specific geological features with the ice ages.

Scientists 'Clear' Alzheimer's Plaque From Mice Using Only Light And Sound Interesting result, even if it doesn't work out for humans.

The game was the tale of Hawke being retold from Varric's perspective; a rogue and a storyteller. So yeah, the enemies just seemed to keep falling from the sky.

Perhaps. Didn’t play it after playing Deadfire. It was certainly way better than PoE1. In many respects, my sense was that White March was intended as a nostalgia trip down Icewind Dale lane, which had a quite a bit of filler combat. I didn't have an issue with that, even though the XP system is (mostly) no longer oriented toward rewarding battle.

On the Panspermian Hypothesis of the Midichlorian Diaspora paper for the Journal of Force Studies.

Hmm...

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I think I might have enjoyed PoE2 more if it was a fresh starting adventure with a focus on exploration, battle, and politics. The deity squabble just didn't quite work for me as it seemed to upset the pacing.

I have to say that of the two I actually enjoyed PoE a lot more. PoE2 has the better character building system, but PoE was more engaging in terms of story and characters. Well, at least until the final chapter. Plus I enjoyed the party size and the magic system in PoE more; PoE 2 combat felt a lot more skirmishy and tactics didn't seem to matter as much.

One of the worse implementations ever, so not really a useful comparison.

Future titles: "Chasing the tail lights" "Embrace, extend, eliminate" "You have urgent updates" "Hey, it could be worse"

That's just too d*mn cute. Can he be a pet in PoE2?

Measles vaccine doesn't cause autism, even in high-risk kids A massive study that further refutes the retracted 1998 study. If anything, the immunized kids showed a decrease in autism incidence. In related news: Measles Vaccine Reduces Death From Other Infections Too -- By Preventing 'Immune Amnesia'

PoE bobblehead collectables.

The system as designed actually deters swapping grimoires. At level up with Aloth, one tends to pick spells that complement the spells in his book. Ergo, the book is a complement to his spell list, whereas another book is likely to have more overlap and be less optimal. The system needs to be designed so that there is a benefit to having a picked spell that is also in a grimoire. Like a +2 power bonus, for example. It then becomes a trade-off, and makes swapping grimoires more useful.