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  1. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Legion is full of junk. At the moment, I have 4 max size bags, and my free inventory is usually 20-24 slots for looting. Between various consumables, harvestables, half a bag of alternate specs, situational Sephuz, etc... I need to unload every 20mn or rely on the postmaster and Vashreen to mail...
  2. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    As usual. I've loathed the Surrender to Madness which was almost 100% required to get a decent DPS at higher levels, so I've been mid/low DPS for most of the expansion. Thankfully, we play at heroic levels, not mythic so that works out.
  3. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    As usual, the main problem isn't NASA, it's Congress & Senate. As long as the appropriation committees will consider NASA as a pork barrel rather than an end, you'll get Senate Launch Systems redux. (there was a budget line a year or two ago that dictated that NASA should research small rocket...
  4. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    God, wowhead is dangerous... Their spotlight on ALL THE THINGS (uppercase intended) is deadly. I discovered the existence of the hidden toy in Dalaran (which spawns on saturday, midnight to 2am), which means I have to log on next saturday now. (the thing about which xmogs are still available...
  5. Ukerric

    Beetlejuice 2

    /sadness Hey, it was worth checking anyway...
  6. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Metzen is no longer with Blizzard, so I think Thrall is going to remain behind the scenes mostly for the foreseeable future...
  7. Ukerric

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I hope everybody remembers a year ago: (I assume they did not sit idle for a year...)
  8. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Another thing is that you don't really need to do pet battling to get your pets up: just do the pet charms missions at your class hall when one pops up, and you'll stock up upgrade and leveling stones. At least until 8.0 hit; when 8.0 hit, they're going to obsolete the current charms (will be...
  9. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I did a quick check on the various pet strategies used for the Broken Isles and Argus "family" strategies (defeat all trainers/pets with pets of a single type) to guess what kind of pets are "core" to battling. The 15 most used pets are (in order): Unborn Val'kyr - Undead (rare pet battle in...
  10. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The only pets that have different stats when upgraded to rare are caught pets, there's "breeds" with speed / power / health / balanced bonus (2 separate bonus). If you see fight strats that call for "PP breed", it means a pet with two power boni. Achievements/vendors/quests are almost always the...
  11. Ukerric

    Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

    But, but... I did!
  12. Ukerric

    Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

    I think the Han "story" was kind of ok. It led you to feel why it's a cynic character by Ep4. His mentor was a cheater, his love basically threw him away for power, Lando he had to throw down just to get the Millenium Falcon (because Lando loves to cheat anyway)... It's just that the rest is...
  13. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Need to get prepared for that sweet 1000 different pets achieve in BfA: Master of Minions (I added a couple of raid pets this weekend, it had been a long time)
  14. Ukerric

    Ayn Rand

    If anything else, it's that her rabid anti-communism and hatred of all things Soviet is what made her write that novel. If anything, it's because of that background that she couldn't keep it at reasonable and believable levels and went all full fantasy.
  15. Ukerric

    Ayn Rand

    Every time someone takes Rand's writing seriously, I bring back the standard quote
  16. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    I worked next door to Arianespace back in the 90s. And by next door, I mean, I just had to go thru a pair of doors and I would be in their main office. The VIP launch lounge was kickass (never got invited to see one). I saw first hand how the space agencies worked. I knew that day the french...
  17. Ukerric

    Autonomous Systems

    It's Uber. It's Agile. Nobody has to approve this kind of shit, just deploy man. Just deploy.
  18. Ukerric

    Lord of the Rings Online

    It's been a decade at least, but I think the back of my brain remembers the weirdness of the launcher. My conscious mind has certainly blotted all details about it. It wouldn't work for no discernible reason, then sometimes work, then stop, then work. No coherence from day to day.
  19. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    That imgur link is a spam repost of the original just to add the link. It's probably not going to live very long on imgur...
  20. Ukerric

    Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

    Saw it yesterday. It's an evening showing, first day... the theater was barely half full (friend and I were slightly agog at that). Non-spoilery review: it's meh. Well below Rogue One. Solo himself is ok, I think, but the rest is not that good. P3 notably is fairly stupid in "her" comic relief...
  21. Ukerric

    Deadpool 2 (2018)

    Don't. Just don't. Even a pirate version that yields zero rights to the studio. Let's say that the post-credit idea of blowing your own brains before you even read the script is... a very good idea.
  22. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    There's a lot of research and development for this, but mostly on the deorbiting stages. Every modern sat is required to provide a deorbit method so that it burn in the atmosphere instead of fragmenting and increasing orbital fragment space. It turns out that having a deorbit system using...
  23. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Finished the latest Neal Asher ("The Soldier"). If you like books with absolutely twisted plots, and barely glimpsed hints into sur-human AI, it's the man.
  24. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    News on the EM Drive front: NASA’s EM-drive is a magnetic WTF-thruster TL;DR: It's the interaction of the cone with Earth's magnetic field that generate the magic trust rather than Space Unicorns pulling it...
  25. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    If Amazon gets the international rights (since apparently Netflix wasn't interested, they might also be dropping for the rest), I might finally get Prime next year...
  26. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Love the next episode preview
  27. Ukerric

    Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

    The very first thing they're talking about is how Stark is still missing. So, why assume that Hill is working for Fury rather than with Fury?
  28. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Faction discount applies, so it's "only" 4M in fact...
  29. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Which is why you get dirigibles as martian transports in this (old but always good) video:
  30. Ukerric

    Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

    Now that's a meme I can get behind:
  31. Ukerric

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    Legacy code is a swear word in every computer industry field. Every. Single. One. Before my stint in MMOs in the 2000s (worked on Ryzom), I worked in telco. Now, for legacy code, imagine that you are going to deploy systems, and you will have a 20-year maintenance contract (which was the...
  32. Ukerric

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    It's going to be very, very hard to prove malicious intent. Unless someone litterally skimmed the money to purchase (non-pixels) boats and houses and whatnot.
  33. Ukerric

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Not surprised. They are now short on cash (they no longer reimburse anyone. ever), so they won't let people avoid paying real $. It's entering the end-game. I give them one, two years before the fake spaceship scheme finally collapses.
  34. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Well, ULA now has serious problems. But at least they launched InSight first.
  35. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Mars waits for no man ('s comfort viewings)...
  36. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    What's the nickname? Tomb of soakgeras?
  37. Ukerric

    Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

    My guess would be that half of the hints we get in the movie won't pan out. Because it is entertaining (for the Russo) to see how much fans can elaborately construct theories about what's coming from the hints placed. I mean, I could be wrong about the gauntlet mold on Nidavellir. It could be a...
  38. Ukerric

    Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

    This is Avengers 3. And then Avengers 4. If you noticed, every thread and every major action involves one or more of the original Avengers. The only exception is the small part where the GotG lose Gamora. So, since this is Avengers 4 and not Dr. Strange 2, all the theories by which Strange saves...
  39. Ukerric

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Even with Luclin. Back when we were heading into the SSRA mines, we (Tide @ Tunare) were acting on a bunch of possible hints about Emperor Bane weapons. Nobody knew about them (or at least nobody was talking, and we were moderately confident we might be the first guild on Tunare to figure it...
  40. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Don't forget that Andromeda is much bigger than our pitiful small Milky Way...