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  1. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    We had the same issue on all the other polarity-style fights. There was always someone "contaminating" people on Maiden and 7-8 people needing to jump before blowing instead of 3.
  2. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Meanwhile, in China Researchers Create 'Rat Cyborgs' That People Control With Their Minds - D-brief
  3. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    And it's on the reasonable minimal size. Our civilization has advanced enough technologically that extreme specialization is useful and necessary for it to exist, and extreme specialists need a large number of other people to sustain their economic justification. A classic example is...
  4. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    At the moment, you want the chinese to announce they're going to have a fixed base for landings in... say, 10 years. With expected permanently manned habitat 5 years later. And plop, Moonbase Alpha is scheduled "before the end of the decade".
  5. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Nobody felt this title was stupid either, at the time:
  6. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    And the Great Mars Scam is gone: Mars One company goes bankrupt - SpaceNews.com Since no one bit the bait of "exclusive worldwide broadcasting rights" for umpteen billions, they had to throw in the towel and file for bankruptcy. At least they probably got enough application fees for their...
  7. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Well, they probably don't love me anymore since I unsubbed end of Jan. I had withdrawal for a couple days. Worrying when coming home what faction would be on display, if there were missions on the table I'd miss, and so on. And I realized that I had made the right call because all I was...
  8. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Ok, fess up, which of you uses that pseudonym to write? (I have to read it now) I think that anything by Bennett is good at this point.
  9. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's probably very complicated, code-wise, to have two different body morphs for a single combo of race-gender. Basically, when you pick your race and gender, you have a fixed body and you can do a little variation of heads bolted on that. Having two body types is probably an impossibility. For...
  10. Ukerric

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

    It's like fusion. It will be a year or so from beta for all of eternity...
  11. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Remember that the Arianespace's CEO famously said that doing a reusable launcher would be bad, because he wouldn't have enough work for his employees. Before being ousted. Well, the french state auditors are also lamenting this poor view: French auditor says Ariane 6 rocket too conventional to...
  12. Ukerric

    Avengers: Endgame (2019)

    Except Thanos still has it (the gauntlet might have burned, but he didn't leave all those gems littered around). Expectations are that they use Quantum Realm shenanigans from Ant-man's portals to do so (apparently, Quantum Realm has weird time aspects). Probably tweaked by Tony (when he and...
  13. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    "You are supposed to kill it. Why you try not to kill it? Therefore, if you do not kill it, it will wipe your raid" (there is ONE legal strategy to kill a raid boss, any other strategy will be prevented)
  14. Ukerric

    Guild Wars 2

    I haven't looked, but my main beef with legendaries were that you needed to grind dungeons, and dungeons require unlocks (until you've done the "story mode", you can't do anything), for which I never managed to get a group. But back then, it was only weapons... Legendary armor is new to me...
  15. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Mythic race aside, now that I'm unsubscribed, I finally got my copy of World of Warcraft Diary, which is awesome. I thank the international shipping for its one month delay (shipped 1/2/2019) Hopefully, it's going to be on Amazon soon™.
  16. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    A nerf in 4-5 weeks?
  17. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yesterday was my last day. Subscription lapses this weekend (and autorenew is cancelled), so I'm not going to do a half raid. That's the second time I cancel WoW. I wouldn't say "never again", because who knows, but I'm not seeing myself resubbing in any foreseeable future. The only games...
  18. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Another symptom of the funny at Blizzard. So, they release season 2 with new azerite traits. Then, of course, with the opening of Mythic, they need to nerf those because that would be unbalancing: January 29th Class Tuning - Azerite Tuning and Mythic Balance Changes Oh, my. We need to tune...
  19. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The Garrison is the home of all my characters when there's nothing to do.
  20. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Heroic ones! Meaning the enemies have heroic Nazjatar levels of health and damage (but the warfront yields Mythic Nazjatar ilvl gear once per reset, vs LFR levels of gear for normal). See, I've made heroic warfronts in less than 5mn! The beancounters will love all that additional content for cheap!
  21. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    And rather than make a new one in 8.2, they're making Heroic Warfronts (which require pre-made groups).
  22. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Worse, it's "log on or you'll be set back one day behind, do your chores, log off". Except that, since there's hardcores, there's more and more chores (currencies) piling up so that the hardcore still display "high engagement metrics" while semi-casual are slowly getting to the "why do I bother...
  23. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    I got 1493 books tagged "read" on Goodreads and it still tends to suggest mostly useless books I'll never read. I still get most of my recommendations from amazon. I'm using three different stores (US, UK, FR) on which I could record what I read back when you could (before they limited the "I...
  24. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    This encapsulate WoW's overall design for the last decade. You will progress at the same average speed all the time, rather than whenever you want to. They are absolutely terrified of people blowing thru content, so they've placed bars and catch-up treadmills everywhere.
  25. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    No. Getting rid of them isn't the worst decision. REPLACING THEM with Azerite gear is the real culprit. If they simply scrapped the artefact system for normal gear and put something new to do with your legendary item (because everyone is legendary these days), that would have been ok. As it...
  26. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Oooooh, that might be it. I think I had all my azerite from HM since november... Thanks. I was going to think weird bug, but they did not want people farming to get residuum early, so... (well it's only three 370 pieces)
  27. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's what bothers me, because I did scrap 2 Uldir 375 pieces. They did not give me residuum (my total hasn't moved at all so it's not a missing message or something).
  28. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Speaking of which, looks like most Azerite pieces no longer yield any residuum. Scrapped a few 355 WQ drops, nothing, scrapped two of my old Uldir HM pieces after I got upgrades, nothing.
  29. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I haven't filled my bar last week, and I might be doing that this weekend. Or maybe not. There's a slight uptick in motivation since I finally have a couple pieces of NM azerite where the +5ilvl isn't unlocked yet.
  30. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Nothing is going to happen about follower missions. They've stripped those to the most barebones they can, and I supposed they're going to scrap those at one expansion or another. Same for island expeditions. They were supposed to be the greatest thing since AlphaGo or something (haven't...
  31. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I want a Black Empire EXPANSION. I want a full-on campaign against resurgent Old Gods minions with Burning Legion-logistics and encompassing stuff. BFA, but without all that stupid Zandalar Forever or Kul Tiran detours (even if the Vulpera are ok for Horde, and the Kul Tiran witch stuff could...
  32. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's still relatively good. But it's around 20 hours of storyline if you play both sides (which are very different this time), and then you hit the grind of World quests, Invasions, Island expeditions, dungeon running, etc. Add 10-15 hours to do a couple islands, all of the dungeons and then you...
  33. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Just finished Weber's latest Safehold Through Fiery Trials. It's a transitional volume; it covers 20 years (earth time) and shuffles the board for the next arc. After the World War (two, complete with concentration camps), it has a focus on two specific equivalent-periods (USA pre-WW2, China's...
  34. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yea, the main "problem" was that I needed to add a normal after the 4 heroics almost all the times to wrap the weekly. Anyway, great, thanks! I would still finish the weekly anyway, but I was bothered by the loss and potential loss of stuff. Given my rotten luck (I get one quest item...
  35. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I was more worried about the loss of collectibles from the "lost" island... you do seem to get stuff, but I wouldn't be surprised if you got a penalty for losing. Or maybe not. It's blizzard, so maybe you get a straight % of your final azerite count...
  36. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    One of my beefs with the new islands is that you regularly get into: 1) You have that necromancer pack that wrecks your 385 geared asses (and you can't escape; you die and swallow the respawn timer and lost close to a minute) 2) the opposing team has started his azerite exploit... sorry...
  37. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    This. It's essentially the "Ariane argument" (that probably cost the CEO his seat). Now that the F9 gets mostly refurbished all the time, multiple times, they don't need the full manufacturing teams. I'm pretty sure nobody in the R&D got fired, and most of the launch teams are unaffected.
  38. Ukerric

    The Sad, sad, state of MMORPG in this brave new era...

    Won't matter if datamining is dead. A dungeon will remain "unspoiled" for 3-4 days. Then you have video guides, wikis filled, and people can refer to it. So there's maybe 0,1% of the people who enjoy an unspoiled dungeon, and the rest have the full guide to follow. Save for the contested part...
  39. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    What the??? I killed Illidan, but never completed the quest?
  40. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yea. I currently have as direct TP: - Basic heartstone (currently in Boralus main Inn) - Legion Dalaran heartstone - WoD Garrison heartstone - WoD Shipyard compass - LK Dalaran TP ring - Stormwind TP cloak - LK Argent Tournament TP cloak Going to add the Boralus ring at some point (after...