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  1. Ukerric

    Which MMOs are your fall back games you play?

    I no longer have a MMO to fall back to. At this point, all of them lose me for pretty much forever once I stop playing. The rose-tinted glasses are broken, so I always remember why I left, and I've yet to see a game fixing their mistakes. WoW is still mostly the same recipe for all the last...
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    Web Serials

    Phil Tucker first novel, Bastion, was a pretty good progression fantasy. He also has a Viking-themed progression fantasy on RR which failed to get traction, but that LitRPG is a good apocalypse.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    That's a common thing. It happened to my first company. We were "purchased" by another company, yet somehow all the upper management from my old one ended up in charge of the merged company and the other's C-suite all left. It looked weird on paper, but once I got explained about debt...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    At that point, SpaceX will launch daily, and weekly for crewed launches. Mark my words. (okay, slightly exxagerating, but they're aiming for 100 launches in 2023)
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    The Astronomy Thread

    SLS. Scrubbing Launches Systematically...
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    Guild Wars 2

    Meh. The best part was the insanity of everyone going in their own direction, and trying to figure out the best way to grab points. A small-team version is not the same.
  7. Ukerric

    Interesting, Non Political News

    Dunno. I mean, I've listened to "a few" Taylor Swift stuff. But A. Grande? No idea. I might have listened, but I don't even know if it was hers.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Just tuned in to the live view, and the first panel I see is "Today's launch has been scrubbed".
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    LitRPG

    One of the odd stand-alone LitRPGs I've read, The Starfighter Invitation, contains slightly indirect references to... Fires of Heaven.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Yea. They do 1/2G max, and that's on deceleration, not on the ascent. Crew Dragon does 3.3G.
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    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
  17. Ukerric

    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?
  22. 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.
  27. 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...
  33. Ukerric

    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!
  36. 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.