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If you are leveling, and there's an invasion going on, you can do the WQ, despite not being 110. Those WQ yield something like 3 or 4 times the XP of a normal quest, and the ones who would give you gear give you +XP instead. With flying, you get a level per invasion in 15mn...

The "big hook" of this is supposed to be the island expeditions with their randomized setup and the "smart" NPCs you're against. That's the really new content. The Warfronts aren't very interactive, since they're Opening of AQ lite/Nether Disruptor redux (you trade in stuff to get additional...

Yep. Each invasion is about 1 level or better (depending on how many WQ have +XP rewards). The only reason I was trying to boost was to skip the whole class hall campaign stuff (I already did the intro, the DH has been sitting on its ass on Krasus Landing for a year and a half).

Just discovered that you can't use your 110 token on DH. Anybody else (including of course allied races), that's ok. But not DH. (the only reason I wanted to raise the DH to 110 is that I got a legendary token for DH...)

Naxx is 1.11, so it should be hovering above the plaguelands at launch...

... and bandage collection will be there!

Legion is full of junk. At the moment, I have 4 max size bags, and my free inventory is usually 20-24 slots for looting. Between various consumables, harvestables, half a bag of alternate specs, situational Sephuz, etc... I need to unload every 20mn or rely on the postmaster and Vashreen to mail...

As usual. I've loathed the Surrender to Madness which was almost 100% required to get a decent DPS at higher levels, so I've been mid/low DPS for most of the expansion. Thankfully, we play at heroic levels, not mythic so that works out.

As usual, the main problem isn't NASA, it's Congress & Senate. As long as the appropriation committees will consider NASA as a pork barrel rather than an end, you'll get Senate Launch Systems redux. (there was a budget line a year or two ago that dictated that NASA should research small rocket...

God, wowhead is dangerous... Their spotlight on ALL THE THINGS (uppercase intended) is deadly. I discovered the existence of the hidden toy in Dalaran (which spawns on saturday, midnight to 2am), which means I have to log on next saturday now. (the thing about which xmogs are still available...

/sadness Hey, it was worth checking anyway...

Metzen is no longer with Blizzard, so I think Thrall is going to remain behind the scenes mostly for the foreseeable future...

I hope everybody remembers a year ago: (I assume they did not sit idle for a year...)

Another thing is that you don't really need to do pet battling to get your pets up: just do the pet charms missions at your class hall when one pops up, and you'll stock up upgrade and leveling stones. At least until 8.0 hit; when 8.0 hit, they're going to obsolete the current charms (will be...

I did a quick check on the various pet strategies used for the Broken Isles and Argus "family" strategies (defeat all trainers/pets with pets of a single type) to guess what kind of pets are "core" to battling. The 15 most used pets are (in order): Unborn Val'kyr - Undead (rare pet battle in...

The only pets that have different stats when upgraded to rare are caught pets, there's "breeds" with speed / power / health / balanced bonus (2 separate bonus). If you see fight strats that call for "PP breed", it means a pet with two power boni. Achievements/vendors/quests are almost always the...

But, but... I did!

I think the Han "story" was kind of ok. It led you to feel why it's a cynic character by Ep4. His mentor was a cheater, his love basically threw him away for power, Lando he had to throw down just to get the Millenium Falcon (because Lando loves to cheat anyway)... It's just that the rest is...

Need to get prepared for that sweet 1000 different pets achieve in BfA: Master of Minions (I added a couple of raid pets this weekend, it had been a long time)

If anything else, it's that her rabid anti-communism and hatred of all things Soviet is what made her write that novel. If anything, it's because of that background that she couldn't keep it at reasonable and believable levels and went all full fantasy.

Every time someone takes Rand's writing seriously, I bring back the standard quote

I worked next door to Arianespace back in the 90s. And by next door, I mean, I just had to go thru a pair of doors and I would be in their main office. The VIP launch lounge was kickass (never got invited to see one). I saw first hand how the space agencies worked. I knew that day the french...

It's Uber. It's Agile. Nobody has to approve this kind of shit, just deploy man. Just deploy.

It's been a decade at least, but I think the back of my brain remembers the weirdness of the launcher. My conscious mind has certainly blotted all details about it. It wouldn't work for no discernible reason, then sometimes work, then stop, then work. No coherence from day to day.

That imgur link is a spam repost of the original just to add the link. It's probably not going to live very long on imgur...

Saw it yesterday. It's an evening showing, first day... the theater was barely half full (friend and I were slightly agog at that). Non-spoilery review: it's meh. Well below Rogue One. Solo himself is ok, I think, but the rest is not that good. P3 notably is fairly stupid in "her" comic relief...

Don't. Just don't. Even a pirate version that yields zero rights to the studio. Let's say that the post-credit idea of blowing your own brains before you even read the script is... a very good idea.

There's a lot of research and development for this, but mostly on the deorbiting stages. Every modern sat is required to provide a deorbit method so that it burn in the atmosphere instead of fragmenting and increasing orbital fragment space. It turns out that having a deorbit system using...

Finished the latest Neal Asher ("The Soldier"). If you like books with absolutely twisted plots, and barely glimpsed hints into sur-human AI, it's the man.

News on the EM Drive front: NASA’s EM-drive is a magnetic WTF-thruster TL;DR: It's the interaction of the cone with Earth's magnetic field that generate the magic trust rather than Space Unicorns pulling it...

If Amazon gets the international rights (since apparently Netflix wasn't interested, they might also be dropping for the rest), I might finally get Prime next year...

Love the next episode preview

The very first thing they're talking about is how Stark is still missing. So, why assume that Hill is working for Fury rather than with Fury?

Faction discount applies, so it's "only" 4M in fact...

Which is why you get dirigibles as martian transports in this (old but always good) video:

Now that's a meme I can get behind:

Legacy code is a swear word in every computer industry field. Every. Single. One. Before my stint in MMOs in the 2000s (worked on Ryzom), I worked in telco. Now, for legacy code, imagine that you are going to deploy systems, and you will have a 20-year maintenance contract (which was the...

It's going to be very, very hard to prove malicious intent. Unless someone litterally skimmed the money to purchase (non-pixels) boats and houses and whatnot.

Not surprised. They are now short on cash (they no longer reimburse anyone. ever), so they won't let people avoid paying real $. It's entering the end-game. I give them one, two years before the fake spaceship scheme finally collapses.

Well, ULA now has serious problems. But at least they launched InSight first.