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  1. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    It's already on Netflix, but exclusivity clauses means no Netflix US/CA/NZ. PS: Book is on its way across the pond, have to wait now... :(
  2. Ukerric

    SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

    It's not Saurfang, it's Nighthuntress Syrene in Suramar who DOES say the fated sentence: "You have ruined your own lands, outsider. You will not ruin mine!"
  3. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yes it works.
  4. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You don't need the achieve, but you need to have finished the Shal'Aran quest line up to Change of Seasons. After that, it's a weekly quest line for 9 weeks until you get your class mount.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The largest difference in ease, unless you have a group that's going to gear you up, is finishing your class hall campaign and unlocking the 3rd relic slot. My 4th character just did that, and the ease of doing WQ shot up thru the roof. If you're hitting 110, doing that is your top priority...
  6. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Na'zak. Up for 4 days (it says 3 for now, but it's rounded down). Aaaand, of course, that's 4 times double gold. Just like Nithogg.
  7. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If we're talking about TOV, wowprogress lists 15 (fifteen) guilds worldwide that have killed mythic Helya.
  8. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    One of two things. Either patch 7.1.5 has hit, and you not only will have one additional branch with an Elite skill at the end, but every 3/3 skill will now be 3/4... Or not, and you will have to think about either stockpiling AP or spending it on stupid +% bonus.
  9. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Try doing that when you're 55, and call me back.
  10. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Another Kirin Tor day. With NEW WQ, "Barrels of Fun". Three of them. One barrel flashes yellow, then they scramble around, click the right one. Next turn, add one barrel, until you fail. Rinse, repeat, scream DIAF and then... ... discover that if you disconnect and reconnect, it validates the...
  11. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You do suicide runs on the first three-four sessions to get the upgrade chests (run into room with enough withered to carry chest, ignore elite, click on chest, "die", loot, upgrade, see you in 3 days). Once you start with 15 withered all upgraded to max, you can YOLO your way all to the end...
  12. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's if you don't want to ever fly in Legion. (hint: Pathfinder part 1 requires Legion Loremaster, which requires Good Suramaritan, which requires Change of Seasons, which require 20000/21000 in revered)
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Double gold on all 4 chars. Fun bit: I came on Nithogg, which was at 60% already and start hitting without joining a raid. Then the ToV LFR window popped up, so I accepted. And got loot popup during the trash clean toward Helheim since I was "still" in Stormheim. They weren't kidding when they...
  14. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The bosses are random. Which is why you need only 8 for the achievement. (and why we had the double Withered Jim)
  15. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Fixed point arithmetic overflow. It's not the first time such stuff did bite astronautics. Another well documented case of overflow was the first Ariane 5 booster launch. The original software had worked well for the Ariane 4, so it was kept. Unfortunately, the more powerful boosters gave...
  16. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Well, it's not 1/1, it's in fact 0/0:
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Hmmm, looks like we got a hotfix. There's been only 2 KT (3 if you count the Mythic Arcway) WQ these last 2 days, which was making it difficult to fill the emissary stuff. Today, I log on, there's 2 new... and my emissary expedition is complete with 1/1 done (it still says "complete 4", but the...
  18. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Same for a guildy; relatively casual (plays mostly late evenings) and his comment on Discord when it dropped was "Ok, wife will have to wait for her craft components, the bloods will go to HR now". (wife wasn't in the raid that night, or it might gone... differently) Getting a legendary is...
  19. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That, or they want something to be genuinely rare.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The "solution" to the legendary system is simple: remove caps, extend bad luck protection. You should have exactly the same chance of getting a legendary at a given point, regardless of how many you have. That's the only way you remove the syndrome of "shit, I got XXXX, now I'm fucked, I'll...
  21. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The biggest change between WoD and Legion for me was relearning the entire flow of Elemental Shaman. My fingers are still trying to use the old cast order.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    About every review of the paper I've seen says the same thing: - They appear not to do a thorough set of tests that check various aspects of the system - They don't provide critical details on how they account for measurement errors The reason they haven't a launch date or anything for their...
  23. Ukerric

    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    Amazon's Best of 2016 SF Books is up. And I've read... 1 out of 20 (plus the 3rd Cixin book, which is on the "to read, after finishing the 28 books still unread" pile). Well, I know what to look for. After those books. The one I've read is The Invisible Library, which is a 2015 book, but now...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    ROFL at the comments on the ban threads for the Nightfallen exploit. "But why can't you ban those people only 3-4h? They won't be able to come to the raid tomorrow night!!! I LOST my faith in Blizzard's fairness!!!"
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    They tend to go together because they strengthen similar goals. Let's say, your goal is that people should try to group up whenever they have the time (and don't feel too anti-social that day). You can't have a game where you can't solo anymore, but that does not mean you shouldn't have a...
  26. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    She's a bitch until you find out the correct strategy for your raid in P2. Once we switched from our original tentacle kill order (which wasn't working), she went down on first try.
  27. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you don't know what to offer for christmas, this is it. It even has a pandaren-style cooking quest at the beginning :)
  28. Ukerric

    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    At the moment, the evidence appear that most of the increase in reported autism cases comes from better and more inclusive diagnosis of it; a large number of children diagnosed with autism today would have been shelved in other categories or even completely ignored one or two generations ago...
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    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    That's good, because science is never 100%. Only true believers have 100% certainty on a claim, never scientists. Besides, I have a problem: what claim are you making here? From what you seem to say, you appear to imply that thimerosal is a toxic due "heavy metal poisoning" (false), and you...
  30. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you're familiar with Norse mythology, it's fairly obvious from the start. Huginn and Muninn always around...
  31. Ukerric

    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    Just read thru Weber's latest Honorverse, Shadow of Victory and it's kind of messy. It's chiefly far too many side stories from the "current" events, with relatively little meat adding to the main story. I wouldn't have been surprised if it was a collaboration, but no, it's all Weber. Half...
  32. Ukerric

    Doctor Strange (2016)

    The MCU "rule" is that the events are normally set in "alternative today", i.e. the events of Doctor Strange happen in 2016, a few months after the Sokovian Accords and all that. It would probably have worked better if it was set "a couple years ago", which would justify the easter egg of...
  33. Ukerric

    Crowfall

    Saw that. The biggest hangup, as far as I see, is the requirement for the macro recipes to use the exact product of a given run, and once that is exhausted, it's over. That makes any macro temporary, which increases the data management. I'm no longer a great fan of random boost to recipes. That...
  34. Ukerric

    Doctor Strange (2016)

    Well,
  35. Ukerric

    What's going on at Blizzard?

    7.1.5 is scheduled for PTR, usually you have 5-6 weeks of testing before live, so we're looking at mid-december for pandaria timewalking & stuff. Then 7.2 hits PTR, another 6 weeks, so we're somewhere in february for Broken Isle/Tomb of Sargeras/Cathedral of Night. Argus end of march... then...
  36. Ukerric

    Autonomous Systems

    Who needs a security guard? Just put another autonomous security system onboard
  37. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Achievement is ok. Depends if you want to change people's behavior, or simply replace our brain-limited social sense with a computerized augmented version. Otherwise, you can also use big social data and recommendations algorithms. Ultra simple version: You can friend (+100%), thumbs up...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There's no purely mechanical way of getting around that. Blizzard explained how any choice leads to exploits ("cancel run" => cancels when it looks like the timer is going to expire). At this point, the problem isn't the in-game mechanics, it's the unaccountability that stems from the fact that...
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    What's going on at Blizzard?

    They've got two outdoor areas that are underused. The non-instanced version of Eye of Azshara could be used to set up some storyline around Azshara/Old Gods stuff. The Broken Shores is going to be used for the final push of the Legion storyline. That's in addition for whatever stuff goes on...
  40. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    25 resources for one seal. Counts as one of the three.