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  1. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    So would I, although I would probably need to stay in zero-G forever, because there's no way my back would survive the Gees during launch.
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    Will Wight

    Be aware that the first book (and notably the first half) is considered to be relatively slow.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Yup. Leaks, leaks everywhere... https://spacenews.com/first-artemis-1-launch-attempt-scrubbed/
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    Guild Wars 2

    HoT is also what drove me off the game. They replaced level-based access to zones with unlocks piled on unlocks, curtailing the freedom of the original game. The Living Story bits were always meh, but the one that reminds fresh in my mind is the one when Lion's Arch got invaded, and you...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    They spin up the pumps with the fuel mix and everything, but don't ignite the engine.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Best I found: https://www.deviantart.com/jrdl30/art/Contact-the-Machine-Desktop-wallpaper-743205287
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Fixed the question for you.
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    Guild Wars 2

    It's either your account on ArenaNet or your account on Steam. Can't migrate from one to the other. (if you're already playing on ArenaNet, why do you need a Steam version? The patcher?)
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    VR Gaming - Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, HTC Vive

    I'm going to repeat, since you don't see it:
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    VR Gaming - Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, HTC Vive

    No. As I said, you need a Meta account, which is almost certainly hosted in the same infrastructure, and almost certainly automatically paired with your facebook account as soon as they spot you on a computer using both in a row or any indication that they're "the same". Sure. If you want to be...
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    VR Gaming - Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, HTC Vive

    Being tied to Meta is better?
  12. Ukerric

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    I don't even have the Battle.Net launcher installed anymore. Nor the auth token, which I'd probably need to access my account.
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    The D&D thread

    Sorry to parachute a bit, but that one was too good:
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    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    I don't even pretend to understand what's at stake here. And I like physics (well, at least I did until my scores in college dropped from 18/20 to like 5/20 when I reached my limits).
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    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    That picture is so meme worthy, it will probably equal the "offended girlfriend" one soon...
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    Room Temperature IQ Cuisine DIscussion

    BiBIMbap.
  17. Ukerric

    Epic Games Storefront - A Good Incentive for Piracy

    TL;DW: People use Epic Game Store for the free games, launcher, and nothing else.
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    Web Serials

    The Alchemist is something.
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    LitRPG

    Note that there's two trilogies in this one. The first 3 books wrap the story very well... and then Kuznits did a second trilogy that wasn't entirely needed. And there is now a spin-off (Biomancer).
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    How much real money have MMOs made you?

    And now, you know how Diablo Immortal makes millions while being the most absolute egregious piece of trash cash grab.
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    LitRPG

    Technically speaking, it's been out for a month - it was an exclusive on the Mountaindale site for July. Also looks like they've finally sorted the audiobook issues - it wasn't available for the last two days.
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    LitRPG

    Everybody was getting tired of the Earth Arc on RR too. People got excited for him getting back to Pallimustus and the obligatory team reunion as well, but, let's say, it petered out quickly. I ended up dropping the RR version around the end of what is intended to be the start of book 8. He...
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    Roguelike... City Builder (Against the Storm)

    Found an interesting upcoming game: Against the Storm The idea is that the early game is usually the fun part of city builders, then once your economy is stable, it turns into a slog. So they dropped the latter part, and turned it into a 1-2h mini game with lots of random (and strategy). Once...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    This is going to go well: https://www.pcgamer.com/unity-is-merging-with-a-company-who-made-a-malware-installer/ TL;DR: Unity's CEO John "I fucked EA really well" Ritticiello has announced that they're merging with ironSource, the company that has its own entry in Virustotal, whose main...
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    VR Gaming - Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, HTC Vive

    Yea. You don't need a Facebook account anymore, now you need... what we intend to be the successor to your Facebook account one day, but you have to jump early!
  26. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It appears to also be a move to establish "Blizzard East Coast", as they're apparently in the Boston area. Blizzard is having an increasingly harder time to recruit back in california, and that let them have a Blizzard location on the east coast to offer to potential hires.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Next BG is a Battle Royale mode?
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    Blizzard dies and Bobby rides

    It's not an excuse. It's an explanation.
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    Blizzard dies and Bobby rides

    yeasure.gif
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    Blizzard dies and Bobby rides

    Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The Last content patch was in Feb, right? Can't have an entire year with zero content given the state of the game...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Finally won the lottery. Not the best view, but next to all services (bell/trade board). If only those Manderville guys hadn't just decided to spam that plaza with their advertisement (and awful music)...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Spoiler alert: They live in a triple-star system.
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Nope. That was the old schemes, 10 years ago when the first "fiber" were sold. No, they pulled a fiber all the way from basement to my appartment. (it was funny at the time : salesman at the store opens interface, clicks a few things "okay, you now have fiber" "wut?" "yea, no install, it goes...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Ah. No, everyone here puts a theoretical upload cap because they do not want you to run servers at home. "Professional" bundles - expensive, even though it's literally the same hardware - are a still a thing. That said, I have never been able to saturate my upload; the only server on which I...
  36. Ukerric

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    That's the guaranteed speeds on the contract. I routinely download at 400 Kbytes (3.5 Gb). I actually thought initially it was capped... before I realized I had a Gb switch. Upgrading to a 10Gb switch changed my life :)
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    To be honest, the design is there to slowly train you into spending. You get bundles unlocked over time (each successively more expensive) before you start looking at the real packs of premium currency. So, whales start only later into the game... Also love the bundle that gives 48 of whatever...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    He's saying that it was done by asians (truth) but intended for the west (maybe technically true?). It launched mainly in the west, but it's a game design that is entirely for the asian market. The studio that did it made it as if they were for the chinese, not americans/euros. The number of...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    That's the general problem with F2P (which is always P2P in truth). The design of the game is always altered or straight out made so that you will be enticed to pay something. That's a core philosophy for F2P: They add problems/difficulties in the design, then they sell you a solution for cash.
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    And two expansion sets at $39.95 to add them.