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  1. Ukerric

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

    It's not for her arms. It's for her legs. The arm straps are the small ones (you see behind). Proper use:
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    And yet it was half-empty 80% of the time. All the popular locations were easily accessible by everyone. If you needed a third party to get there, only a handful of premade went there, on a scheduled run planned long in advance.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You have to realize that modern WoW design is "every expansion is a standalone game. New systems, new balance, new everything. Ain't nobody need to understand what happened before"
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Charasis. Considered by many to be awesome, but hogtied by keying requirements. City of Mist. Extremely good dungeon, too remote to be popular. If you want to maximize your content use - the cost of designing said content vs the number of players who will use it, yes. Those zones are anathema.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Oh, believe me. If it were me, there would be the open-world version AND NOTHING ELSE. But I'm also keenly aware that, based on how players have played in literally every game since, if you put an instanced version where it's loot guaranteed, no competition, the same items, etc... 95% of the...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    If I can get the same items in a non-contested instanced version, why should I even bother doing the non-instanced one and find my targets gone? The only reason would be "I want the item to twink", which will not be the primary motivation of players, or "I want the item to sell at the AH", which...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    In other words, you have everyone in the instanced dungeon, and the Chinese farmers competing for the outdoor version. Neat.
  8. Ukerric

    Everquest Mysteries

    I remember only a handful of bad decisions. Besides the shitty optimization of the client. Hard factions (on that, I agree wholeheartedly) The stupid "I'll wave to you to show you I have a quest for you" The pick shit on the ground collection system An uninspired, overly complicated class...
  9. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Pfff, call me back when they start getting near Plank Time. (EDIT: Preserving my mistake for posterity. Should walk that plank)
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    Everquest Mysteries

    Seeds of Destruction. When you start going back in time because Zebruxoruk is going to destroy the universe. Or something.
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    Web Serials

    The previous series from the author (The Outer Sphere) was in the same vein. Unfortunately, he had problems keeping the series alive, so it ended abruptly. You can see comparing the two he got significantly better.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Just don't tell him you're there for that, and you can let him do it while you go set up what's important. https://www.wowhead.com/news=318569/new-way-to-skip-warlords-of-draenor-introductory-quests-in-shadowlands-pre-patch
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    Will Wight

    As I said before. When Lindon says "Gratitude" (2 lines above), the strongest must pale.
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    Epic Games Storefront - A Good Incentive for Piracy

    While the judgement isn't going to come for a long time, things are happening. TL;DR Apple: "The exclusive store and 30% fees we do is nothing special, everyone does it." Epic: "Yes, but the console market sells at cost, while you already made lots of profit on your iphones!" Judge, looking at...
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    First EverQuest, 3 screenshots

    Yes. Ahhh, old memories.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Speak for yourself. This is the first expansion I'm only barely vaguely interested in maybe, someday in the future, checking. By then, I'll probably have problems finding my authenticator and stuff, so who knows.
  17. Ukerric

    Never Lost Again (The story of google maps)

    Dunno about that software, but anything about the history of mass GPS use always remind me of a few things: 1) That small village in Wales that had to SUE Garmin because their maps led all the local trucks through their village, and notably though a street that was too narrow to turn if you...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Not only that, but they finally nerfed Rextroy: No ilvl scaling in PVP anymore... Every Blizzard game was fucked yesterday. Friend's daughter was complaining about how it was impossible to log-in for Overwatch's Halloween skin farming.
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    First EverQuest, 3 screenshots

    I remember the massive raids down in the basement tunnels to pull and aoe to get nameds for the Shissarbane metal components. Tide-Tunare was among the first guilds to guess how that stuff worked, I think, so none of the competing Asian and US guild had a clue about what we were doing there.
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    What did you just read?

    Finished The War Throughout the Dungeon, the sequel to The City and the Dungeon. And it was mildly disappointing. Mind you, it remains heads above 90% of litrpg on Amazon. But it's still a case of "why did we wait 3 years for this?" The author keeps the setting and works out the setting in a...
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    Web Serials

    Zach has always been the least interesting of the two rankers from Iteration 7. This continues to be the case.
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    Web Serials

    The Wandering Inn is also insane compared to any webserials. There's times where you think the entire family of Pirateaba must be writing the series.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Given how tuned stuff is (like Nzoth damage being 3 times higher, relative to health pool, than it was before), they know they should...
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    Web Serials

    Guess who isn't going to get Essences and Awakening Stones while the rest of the family gets full sets?
  25. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    When your own former cosmonauts tweet this:
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    Will Wight

    I just realized that we're at book 8. Out of TWELVE.
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Yea, but the Pyramids were built later, when the area was no longer much in use. The entire Sahara zone is oscillating between wet and dry climates on very long scales. Most of recent history, including that of what we'd call Egypt is in the dry period. There were, of course, people in the area...
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Ah no. The whole area was basically necropolis land - the Pharaoh built their pyramids there because the terrain wasn't good for anything. Egypt has always been pretty much: near-Nile = floods = extremely fertile cropland / not-Nile = arid shit. The mere presence of the Nile meant you could...
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    Will Wight

    Uh
  30. Ukerric

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

    The reason why it's dated 300BC-30BC is because it's a sarcophagus from the very last Egyptian Dynasty. Then, they got conquered by the Romans, and most of the old culture started sliding back. Hieroglyphics vanished, the realm was turned into a food exporter, etc. By the time of Jesus, it was...
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    Will Wight

    I think Lindon does not have a Goldsign - if I remember right, the ascension to Gold was done through his link to Orthos? I may misremember, but I think that this is it. But otherwise... I think Yerin will be on top :)
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    Will Wight

    Fuck this, when is Bloodlines coming out?
  33. Ukerric

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Any investor would require specific milestones by now.
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    Will Wight

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    Web Serials

    It can't be resolved. That kind of shit never is. You can let it go, try to ignore it, but it's an albatross that is going to hang on your shoulders for the rest of your life. (which can be pretty long if you keep ranking up) If he writes it well, it is going to remain a kind of shimmering...
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    Web Serials

    Relatively slice of life, not much action yet, I agree. It's going to end with Taika perverting Gordon with old movies and series, mini-Jason (Emi) wrapping Shade around her finger, and Jason left alone forlornly looking at Colin "You're never going to abandon me, old buddy?" (/em waves its...
  37. Ukerric

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Wearing my CISO hat: if you are still on Windows 7, you have your dick hanging out in the open for all malware to use. If you are on Windows 8.1, you're a masochist.
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    Godfall

    Means that when the game servers are hammered, you can't play even single player.
  39. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    I've been recently on a roll on the "I waaaaaant to go to space, dammit" wagon. Because SpaceX, of course. So, a few recent re-reads. Can't find my old copy of that old Heinlein classic https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20417.Have_Space_Suit_Will_Travel so instead, I did a re-read of two...