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  1. Ukerric

    Guild Wars 2

    What? How? (by an odd coincidence, it looks like the game decided to launch and patch itself right now. On its own. I swear)
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    Guild Wars 2

    My biggest problem with legendaries is farming the dungeon currency. Never set foot in dungeon, never wanted to. So, no legendaries.
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    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

    Zimmer made an excellent work there. It's Zimmer channelling the modern spirit of Vangelis. I also second the motion. It's a terrific modern take on the theme. It's bleak, but not (always) dark. It's a slow action movie, where the handful of action scenes are fast and incredibly short for a...
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    Lost Ark Online

    Oh? The video above might have me fooled then...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It starts screaming at you if you're hit by non-targeted AOE of any type. Cleaves, ground fire, etc... Very efficient.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There's also the point that technology has left the "server" behind. A good example is rare killing. You're running around on Argus. You spot a rare, your addon brings a group looking tool... you join a group, rare dead, you disband... and you remain in that new instance. I did that 3 times in...
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    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    So, nobody found where you take that Tribulation quest yet?
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    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    Good, I'm not too much in a hurry...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There's guides for that. Most guides give you a rough equivalent on how much ilvl it adds to the relic. For me, tier0/3 traits go from +0ilvl (non throughput) to +15ilvl. Tier 2 traits give from +0 to +15ilvl as well. You have 4 combo paths possible, so you can pick the combo path that adds the...
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    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    Ahh, Meade. How many times has he found the exact date of the end of the world so far? He's been mostly silent since his 2012 prediction failed to deliver...
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    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    Too bad the nearest Bigfoot home is 2 miles away...
  12. Ukerric

    What IP would make a great MMO?

    Sci-fi: Stargate, as everyone else Historical Fantasy: Oath of Empire ( Oath of Empire Series by Thomas Harlan ) Heroic Fantasy: anything, who cares about which tolkien rip-off?
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    EVE Online

    How much is ISK in terms of $ these days?
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Illidan has more snark than anyone else so far. I was also waiting for him to tell Turalyon that even the Legion offered to change you rather than forcing it upon you...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They've announced that they dropped the rep gates for the Suramar questline, so you can finish it for flying without having to go beyond revered. Of course they did that because they just made flying impossible in the new zones...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I was trying for almost a year to get it on my main, who religiously did everything Suramar. My DK alt barely unlocked the zone, and got it from an emissary chest in July, of course.
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    What did you just read?

    All those zombie stuff recently made me re-read Black Tide Rising by John Ringo - Books by Series List - Categories And I'm probably going to wrap up my 2017 Goodreads Reading Challenge of 85 books by the end of the month. I'll have to up my count for next year.
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    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    And another great alien mystery exposed! The mysterious Voynich manuscript has finally been decoded TL;DR: It's a reference book for a medieval ob-gyn.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's what replaced the nethershard sink. You can't buy 880 gear with nethershard, instead, you can purchase a 6000xp book that adds 2 pixels to your follower xp bar, or a 880 gear token. Of course, I had the 7500 nethershards missions waiting for me on patch day, which meant that I had nothing...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The thing is, you still need to get out and grab some resources. The biggest difference between Class Halls and Garrisons is that you need to get out from time to time to grab resources, or you run dry.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    And that's pretty much why flying is "needed". I can understand why running thru Commonlands and Kithicor took time, but I was going to spend an hour or two at HHK. Now, you're making me run round and round, up and down, until my objective. Which I kill, then run back 30s later. Ok, 2mn later...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    AK42 came on monday, to the surprise of everyone...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Considering I got one the day I logged in after the patch... not really.
  24. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Well, she did look like that once:
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Quick check says it should be only 40% redshift, which isn't enough for a red visible spectrum signal to drop beyond near-infrared.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Did not really pay attention, but it's true (just checked. in case fake news). Nice fan tease
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    With monster babies.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Why not? Imperial Rome had a population of a million...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Not his best, but good enough.
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    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Hey. One of my physic teacher once went "well... 1/2 is totally negligible compared to 1, so here's the solution I wanted to show you..."
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Cousin, in this case.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Nobody has a plot armor thick enough to withstand GRRM. Alas, GRRM isn't around to chuck ice spears to "invulnerable" characters.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Friend of mine is betting on the VERY unexpected. Dany dies (poisoned by Qyburn under Cersei's orders, or somesuch). The reasoning is that we should be getting a major not-entirely-expected death: Jaime, Jon, Dany, Cersei, Sansa, or Tyrion (Arya would be unexpected but majorly stupidly wasted...
  34. Ukerric

    the ecological fallacy and identity politics

    And at the end, you get John Varley's Millenium world, in which the Eloi (lazy fucks) are cared about by the Computer, but the Morlocks (people who want to work) can indulge themselves, and one going on murder rampage across the Eloi is... considered merely bad taste. But only if it doesn't...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    So... no big announce at Gamescom. Bleh.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Well, that's after dumping the wight at the feet of his brother: "Hi, got a friend for you. Maybe you can exchange tips on zombie life..."
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    They got the job because they had figured the R+L=J thing, so they must have been good at some lore stuff.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    It's a ghost. No one seen it...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Special effects recap: some scenes look absolutely stupid when you see them for "real". Plenty of folks just standing around until they're called to swing or drop "dead". And yes, most of the scenes are sped up; the actors swing slowly (to avoid accidental injuries).