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  1. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I expect those timers to rotate and the area invaded at a given hour to rotate as well. The emissary rotation seemed very random until they finally explained that they had the 7 possible emissary placed once per week, with the emissary for a given day of week rotating over 7 weeks. They probably...
  2. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Sure. Everybody I tried to watch Game Of Thrones legally in France, Here is what happened It's an unfortunate turn of events that pirated stuff is usually a better product than the legal. As in "don't have to suffer shitty unskippable ads and legal warning about illegal downloading on my...
  3. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    It's a definitively a lot faster than the books. My guess is two-three months tops since the Canterbury incident to current time. That's a definitive departure from the book settings. In the show, they go straight from Eros crashing on Venus (end of book 1) to Ganymede incident (start of book...
  4. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Yea, I was going to say that this entire sequence was based on The Churn, the novella that deals with Amos' origins. That's where you see the seedy side of Earth.
  5. Ukerric

    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    No. Just no. This movie does not exists. Earth might be flat, but there never was an ID sequel.
  6. Ukerric

    Autonomous Systems

    You won't be laughing when Elon launches a Tesla to the moon on his demo Falcon Heavy, and it lands and get remote controlled there. (selling the right to remotely drive The Tesla On The Moon complete with dashcam view should be keeping Space X afloat until the founding of Mars One colony)
  7. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Region-wide; there's a different set of buildings for EU and NA. The random bonus for every building appear to be the same however; I wouldn't be surprised if there was a set rotation for the additional bonus.
  8. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Mage tower should be completed today on EU, I think. It's currently at 88%.
  9. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Fun bug: if you are a fresh 110, when you ding, you get told to go to Dalaran (to pick WQs). Then, when you enter Dalaran, you get prompted to go to The Council of Six because Khadgar has made an interesting discovery (the beacon from First Arcanist Thalysra, which opens up the Suramar access)...
  10. Ukerric

    The Secret World

    I probably know ONE player around that doesn't have the steam client installed.
  11. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    It's going to rewrite that as well. The current economics are like: it costs your 15M$ to build a satellite, and 60M$ to launch it. If it fails, you're in for 75M$. The SpaceX 2019 economics are like: it costs you 15M$ to build a satellite and 10M$ to launch it. You can afford ONE failed...
  12. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    They already had low costs, but this will drive their costs down further. SES-10 already had a 30% discount. They also recovered the satellite fairing (the protection cap for the launch), which costs 6M$ on its own, so they're going to shave a couple additional millions soon if they can...
  13. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There's rares popping in the Shore, but I have no idea what they drop, if any. Killed one, it had a lot of ressources+shards+legionfall stuff, but that was all. Maybe there's a random rare stuff there.
  14. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The real issue is the stealth stuff. As in, "we know everything is going to be discovered anyway, but we wanted people not to worry". The insta-gib was a real problem, however. If you have a non-elite around, there's a bunch of classes that are going to kill them within 2s. That was to the...
  15. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Barrels of unfun, then?
  16. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Comment by a friend who quit mid 7.1.5: "Looks like I left just in time"
  17. Ukerric

    Ashes of Creation

    It was supposed to be a lot more complex in EQN. The way Ashes work is more basic: - Each zone has an XP bar and level - Everything you do gives XP (with bonus based on zone?) to the zone - The zone level determines what you have at the center of the zone (flat empty @ 0, small camp @ 1, large...
  18. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Sounds logical since you need higher ilvl for dungeons now.
  19. Ukerric

    Ashes of Creation

    Some more stuff on nodes
  20. Ukerric

    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    That one is good flat ea... city?
  21. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    *** EDIT *** Saw the costs, NVM.
  22. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Given that KJ is the last boss of the tomb, I guess... it ends badly. Sargeras will probably need new, better underlings soon.
  23. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Interesting episode. I wasn't expecting the Somnambulist to be there, nor what they did with it by moving the Sutayaporns from Ganymede's surface to there (and the end of episode). As a book reader, I'm a bit thrown off because the timelines are a lot twisted and compacted compared to the books...
  24. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Quick Elon, snap those sats: Ariane 5 launch halted indefinitely as Kourou unrest continues - SpaceNews.com
  25. Ukerric

    Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

    I've had problems lately with the game. Game starts ok, displays everything fine, but pokestop don't show when selected; berries lock for 30s and display error, and so on. Some days it works, others it's shit. ** EDIT ** Looks like it's fucking up with google authentication. It's fine until it...
  26. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yea. The analysis was that the fueling technique used could cause some extra stress on the tanks, so they changed the way they load the fuel to avoid that.
  27. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yes. They've been shopping around for a first customer to provide a full demo, most of them wanted heavy discounts for being the first to reuse. The same thing is going for their Dragon capsule. Until recently, the contract with NASA for the ISS resupplies required a non-refurbished capsule for...
  28. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Yay! Time for big-scale SF! Hope they get the budget book 3 deserves. Book 4 can be done on the cheaper side, but book 3 requires the big stuff.
  29. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    From the same guild, not just same server. We run a casual raid, and have people from a friendly guild that has raided with us since LK, well before any cross-server stuff. When we have 3 of them, the master loot is cancelled (and I usually forget to reset it to group loot, so Skorp is almost...
  30. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    They do "Earth Sience", basically every form of observation of Earth from space. Archaeology, all kinds of survey... and climate stuff as well. The Earth Science was gutted because it's easy to convert credits from one line to another, and do some climate science using gravity measurement...
  31. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    The largest are due to moons clearing the paths, most of the others are from orbital resonance with said moons. That said, there's thousand of gaps, and we have very little idea of the mechanisms involved. The biggest oddity is of course the Phoebe ring, which is at a 27 degree angle to the...
  32. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Holden is the incarnation of stupid in the books too. The man who says "information wants to be free" and starts interplanetary warS because he think it's the right thing to do. If anything, he's been toned down in the show, but he's absolutely intended to be the guy you love to hate. The actor...
  33. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    She's still gung-ho. She's pissed about wearing that brace, she's obsessively checking her armor and gun. But she's also suffering from some PTSD about guilty about being unable to protect her squad. Both of which are normal. And she's horrified at the idea of being sent to earth as a political...
  34. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    From panel, I'd say classic Star Trek?
  35. Ukerric

    Autonomous Systems

    Forget about Tesla. The next car company is going to be... Airbus http://europe.newsweek.com/airbus-unveils-self-flying-car-concept-565107?rm=eu Take that, Uber!
  36. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    There's stuff that works well in book form, but does not translate well into the punctuated dynamic of a show. But I agree, this episode seem to be one of the most "off-book" ones. I do assume that they're going to use Dawes as the impetus for Holden and crew to chase to Ganymede and stumble...
  37. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    There's a couple of bits from all over book 2 that ended up early in S01/early S02. All the UN politics/Jules-Pierre Mao are from the entire first half of book 2. Finding that Mao is the bad guy in charge and the UN undersec is in cahoot with him is long after the Ganymede stuff. Plus it's a lot...
  38. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It factors at least into the "warforged"/"titanforged" label, anyway. Unless, of course, you want to drop that label, and just let ilvl. And what about the other boni. I mean, we're talking about how the token warforged status should reflect the final tier status. But the socket? I mean, unless...
  39. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Wrote industrial software for telcos ("Specification: customer billing must work. The rest is optional") for about 10 years, then MMO for 2 years, then security firewalls for 6. I have enough experience on complex software to know how you do code right and how you write steaming pieces of...
  40. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's not an apologist garbage, I'm just telling you how it works. At the moment, there is no link between the token you loot, and the item you get. All the token does, when clicked, is launch the loot generation function with a loot table that includes the 3 or 4 items that you can get...