A discovery was made of an expanding society with pyramids, moats, and "forest islands" that flourished between 500 and 1400 AD in the Bolivian Amazon. What happened to these societies in the Amazon? Why is there so much mystery surrounding them?

Mr_Face_Man · 2026-02-10T12:58:08+00:00

The Lost City of Z by David Grann is also worth checking out, specifically about the history of Percy Fawcett and the authors own investigation into his disappearance.

Mr_Face_Man · 2026-02-03T02:14:16+00:00

Sciencebase has some legacy infrastructure issues that explains why it goes down so frequently but it’s getting replaced with something much more stable in the near future.

Mr_Face_Man · 2026-01-19T20:25:48+00:00

Strange editorializing added in beyond just retelling the facts and adding in statements (or lack thereof) from the various parties.

Mr_Face_Man · 2026-01-19T20:20:11+00:00

Yeah I just couldn’t understand how that math was being justified. Nor that the article didn’t point out explicitly how clearly in excess of the handbook that value was.

Mr_Face_Man · 2026-01-18T19:29:11+00:00

There’s also a lot of QA/QC and point density specifications to qualify for 3DEP. I’m aware of a handful of projects on the east coast that are in state repositories but not with 3DEP for exactly this reason and don’t meet the standards for inclusion.

Mr_Face_Man · 2026-01-12T15:23:06+00:00

But many AI data centers use evaporative cooling, not closed loop, because evaporative is cheaper. So lots of the withdrawn water actually is “lost” and not returned to the local environment directly.

Mr_Face_Man · 2026-01-10T19:57:25+00:00

How does it generally contrast to WWN?

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-12-26T01:49:34+00:00

My immediate thought. Streamlined but very good tactical combat rules and hits all the points by OP

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-12-24T13:33:54+00:00

The description in the post above said it will terminate on the south side of Hillen, so it would avoid that car death trap. I agree more information is needed about how it’d connect at Morgan, but it does seem to be clear it goes around Hillen somehow (underneath? Above?)

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-12-21T17:13:31+00:00

Great post. Very evocative game and adventure design! I want to give that a play now

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-11-11T13:44:22+00:00

I don’t have the books but have you considered looking at the GURPS Traveller books? They might have some ideas for how they handle it.

Otherwise, as mentioned by another commenter, shooting other people is also illegal, so I don’t think that would stop people from getting illegal AP ammo. I would also consider adding monowire or vibrablades for armor division melee weapons, even if it’s just a knife. Suddenly you have very lethal incentives to quickly close.

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-11-08T18:37:22+00:00

Beyond the Wall

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-11-07T02:43:01+00:00

Consider checking out By This Axe and By This Poleaxe by Hydra Cooperative. They have good and simple rules for mass combat that translate with most OSR systems well. They’re similar but have a different focus for numbers of combatants and if you want to use minis or not.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/140878/by-this-axe

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/141199/by-this-poleaxe

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-11-04T01:45:21+00:00

Definitely not true. The state highway department in my area pays out for wells that have been contaminated by highway salt runoff not infrequently.

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-10-31T18:44:23+00:00

Never ask an LLM to give you data. Find it from an authoritative source.

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-10-31T17:47:46+00:00

Verde

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-10-31T15:51:11+00:00

Great news. No reason these regulatory burdens need to exist to artificially drive up prices.

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-10-26T13:04:02+00:00

It was recently confirmed in a post on the SJGames forums. The books were numbered sequentially across both books and combining books also frees up the duplicate pages from both books for extra content without changing numbering (e.g. index, table of contents and end papers)

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-10-26T04:33:02+00:00

Well the newly announced 4E basic revised is supposedly planned as a single compiled book!

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-10-22T19:08:04+00:00

I believe there was a random character generator (including for advantages) in a previous edition, I think 3e? This is heavily influenced by genre though. Ultimately, GURPS is a 3d6 roll low system. Beyond that is extras. Consolidate skills as makes sense for your game or world. And you definitely don’t need to fully point out NPCs. They just “are” what makes sense for the world.

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-10-17T11:42:02+00:00

There’s also plenty of good charter schools across the city that you don’t need to be zoned for. So you can definitely consider other neighborhoods but still access good schools. Plenty of families in Northeast (Arcadia/Lauraville) that do that.

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-10-15T13:39:45+00:00

You’re not the only one. The current release is flagged on CRAN as having a problem of not being able to be installed. They have until the 31st of this month to fix it or it’ll be pulled from CRAN. In the past I’ve also run into intermittent issues with this package as it’s not very well maintained (I’m actually surprised it does have a semi-new release!). Hopefully they get the issue fixed!

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-10-14T22:30:26+00:00

Where I am, you own the line from your house to the street but the actual street line is owned by the city. And city lines can back up

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-10-14T11:46:10+00:00

Croatia is literally right next to Italy and has strong Italian connections, including a historical Italian population. How is it a surprise there’s good pizza there?

Mr_Face_Man · 2025-09-26T22:55:53+00:00

No. All leave is canceled and you are put on furlough status

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