Looks like Neverwinter Nights 2 has been freed from rights hell and is due an imminent enhanced edition release, bringing the 2006 RPG from 5GB to 36GB

There’s probably a few holdouts somewhere, but for the most part, it seems like we’ve all come to accept Beamdog’s “enhanced” versions of D&D classics like Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, and Neverwinter Nights 1 as those games’ go-to editions. But there are a couple of classics still missing from the…

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Give your Wikipedia rabbit hole deep dives a dollop of dopamine by reading them in an ‘anti-algorithm’ TikTok-style feed

Are you familiar with the concept of ‘architectural forgery’? Before today, neither was I. In Japan, proposed construction exceeding a certain number of floors must prove it is structurally safe (and, importantly, earthquake resistant) by submitting architectural drawings and calculations to the authorities. In late 2005, it came to light that a number of earthquake…

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