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  1. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    With your feet?
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    Ashes of Creation

    Pre-order? Never pre-order anything. I know they are all trying to scam you into pre-ordering based on exclusive cosmetic rewards and whatnot, but resist. The only time you should pre-order something is the day before launch, after the final reviews are coming out. Unless it's Cyberpunk 2077...
  3. Ukerric

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    That's basically the promise of 3D immersive gaming. Which will not be Star Citizen. ... Probably?
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    Web Serials

    I'm soooo behind on Wandering Inn, I'm not even sure I'll figure this one out. I think I did the technocrat starship hijack "while in the Eternity Tower" months ago? Unless he does it again? (I'm only splurging the updates every now and then) We get a proper Apocalypse coming. With Jason as...
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    Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis

    It's an old game as well...
  6. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Thorgast was the only redeeming feature of Shadowlands - everything was pretty much "more of the same". I could already see the writing on the wall when they introduced all those control-freak features like Torments and stuff. There was no way they were ever going to let Thorgast go into truly...
  7. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Wait, it's not this guy??? Shame
  8. Ukerric

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Strictly speaking, it wouldn't work. As we've seen, people create their own mythologies if your culture fails to provide and enforce one. As said, if you could teach three thing 6000 years ago: - Writing (we're in the era of proto-elamite and similar pre-written era), the importance of...
  9. Ukerric

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    That's one of the things I always love when I show someone "that's a cherub" "WTFFFF?" "Why? It has the required four heads... Why, you thought those were little babies with dove wings?"
  10. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Hey, don't diss Star Wars fantasies, will you? :)
  11. Ukerric

    EQ TLP ramblings

    TLP = Time-Locked Progression (aka the servers Daybreak start with expansion locked every year to get the nostalgia going and the krono flowing)
  12. Ukerric

    Tenet (2020)

    You mean, it's being unmade right now?
  13. Ukerric

    Game Streaming Services - Stadia, Geforce Now, xCloud, PS Now

    Who knows. Given how asinine their business model, and how weird their technical system is (the reason why there are so few Stadia games? Each game has to be ported over to Linux, since that's what Stadia runs onto)... they might simply haven't even factored this into their financials risks yet...
  14. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Hadn't realized that it's Elon on the front of the picture... (needed to see the tweet)
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    Game Streaming Services - Stadia, Geforce Now, xCloud, PS Now

    Who is going to purchase a game (at full price, I'm assuming) on a Google service that has a 50% chance of being cancelled within 3 years of its launch?
  16. Ukerric

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

    The five green selection circles, well-ordered party, and top-down perspective suggest some classical RPG instead?
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Only two did relight. You see it more clearly on slow-mo, but engine 42 (rofl) didn't light up for the landing and gimballed to the side to let the other two work.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Scott Manley (who made a quick appearance on LabPadre permanent cam at Boca Chica) dissected the entire flight, if you're interested: TL;DW: The rockets shutting one after the other are because the SN8 was reaching maximum intended speed (first), then maximum altitude (second). And Scott nailed...
  19. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    and that's after some dumbass brough his cessna in the middle of the exclusion zone, causing everything to freeze. (source: LabPadre cam)
  20. Ukerric

    Cyberpunk 2077

    A Tessaract, since that's 4 dimensions!
  21. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Aaaaand one more "their/they": https://www.wowhead.com/news=319718/classic-quest-giver-heralath-fallowbrook-found-in-ardenweald *EDIT* Apparently a possible error due to a default voice being used. But the immediate neutering from Wowhead remains funny.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Define "indie studio". Because there is a difference between a 8-man, kickstartered band of nerds trying to make a game, and some of those small studios that have 40 people working with serious funding. Both are indie devs, but the qualitative difference will be day and night. Can the latter...
  23. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Also, as said before, they do have TBC code and data, unlike vanilla which had to be reconstructed. I am assuming they are going to need to adapt server code for the more modern framework they're using (including layering). But that's much, much easier than rebuilding old-school WoW 1.x from...
  24. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The mechanic rewarding for not killing stuff cracks me up...
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Yes. It's too early to announce WoW 10.x, there's no SC4 or anything else visible on the horizon. Some D3 schedule news, but nothing else. Classic BC is the only strong possibility I see for an announce. There might be a surprise announce on something out of the left field, like "Warcraft 4!!!"...
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Except that genetics don't match that. While the amerindian's closest genetic relatives today may look to be european ones - or more specifically, some finnic populations - those populations did not exist at the time speculated for that migration. The siberian ancestral population that admixed...
  27. Ukerric

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Genetically speaking, almost all Amerindians are closely related to archaic Siberian populations, meaning their ancestors definitively came from there... ... except for a very small handful of south central America that have some significant southern Asian affinity, indicating that there's a...
  28. Ukerric

    Immortals Fenyx Rising

    Game has the worst advert ever (at least in French). Basically, goes "Typhon has risen. If she fails, the world will fall..." And you're wait? I thought this was about someone named Fenyx or something? That's Typhon now??? (because as it's worded, it looks that it's if Typhon that fails...)
  29. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Because basically, each expansion is a new game, designed independently from each other. It's not World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, it's actually World of Warcraft 9: Into the Shadowlands. It probably begins with a general session "okay, what do we include in this sequel?" (even if the word sequel...
  30. Ukerric

    Interesting, Non Political News

    Need to figure out which BA flights feature this service...
  31. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    I was watching for that one when he announced it in his previous video. That one delivers. But you should also absolutely see the previous one about various views (including "achievement unlocked", lol):
  32. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Apparently the tutorial about how you can "reuse troops" doesn't refer to the fact that they don't die... but that you can use copies of non-named troops. Unlike all the previous tables.
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    2 years later... the almost sad state of MMOs in the new era

    And almost all of them are not MMO, not because they have X or Y players, but because of what I explained before. Bartle may have wanted to use a different type of naming, but in the end, it all boils down to a qualitative difference, not a business/size one. In a MMO, I can end up in, say...
  34. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    At the moment, it's a pure no-frills, test one thing at a time series of models. But let's be honest. The end result will BE a Buck Rogers rocket. One that works.
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    Web Serials

    Yes. Which is why I sometimes drop on Patreon for a couple months, to provide the equivalent of a book's worth, then I unsub until I feel like I got a good book of content. That's why I was subscribed for september and october, and stopped after (so I no longer have any spoiler on you guys -...
  36. Ukerric

    Web Serials

    The face Dawn makes when she realizes "this is the one my boss wants to use to save this world?" That would probably be enough to make you quit your Phoenix cult... I think the main problem is that Shirtaloon needs to keep the machine going, which means he either has big flashes of...
  37. Ukerric

    MTG thread

    Even Rudy wants some.
  38. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    It's still a bit saturating in term of camera on the droneship, but almost all the recent landings were seen live without a cut due to lost transmission when the ship moves too much and the satellite alignment is lost (or whatever).
  39. Ukerric

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Of course it is. The whole point is almost certain summed by those eternal three letters: A-R-T.
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    2 years later... the almost sad state of MMOs in the new era

    I'm going to try to give you a simple definition in qualitative terms rather than quantitative ones: - A multiplayer game is a game that multiple people are in the same game alongside YOU - A massively multiplayer game is a game where you find people not playing in YOUR game alongside you That...