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  1. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    This episode 5 has him going in and out of his own (when the Night King marks him). The "might be stuck in here" could be a good explanation for the Three-Eyed Raven, who might be a warged Bran, who has possessed someone in the past, and lived all those years. Which is one of the way of...
  2. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Initially, they said "we're going to do at least 8 seasons, maybe more" since they weren't bound by 7 books anymore. Then later, they backpedaled, and said that 7+8 would be about one and a half season.
  3. Ukerric

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Yea, they finally realized they cannot make that property work. They've tried, and tried, and failed. But the X-Men (as meh as it is) is probably going to make them loads of money, and as long as that train chugs, they're not letting go. Heck, letting X-Men go would probably mean letting...
  4. Ukerric

    X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

    Hmmm, I totally missed the part
  5. Ukerric

    The Free Will Thread

    If you prefer a simple analogy consider the consciousness as an expression of brain processes, and decision making as an expression of brain processes. The brain process is a wave, the decision making a through, the consciousness a crest. Is the crest making the through? No, they're both part of...
  6. Ukerric

    X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

    You're not supposed to see this in the US until next week, right? Time to use some spoilage to cover actual content rather than just public info, then. Quick summary: It's not an awful or bad movie, it's just... not a good one either. X-Me? is a good way to express the result. Most of...
  7. Ukerric

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Does this mean a new Infinity Stone? The Grandmaster was one of the original owners of one (although it was the Mind Stone, which is currently on Vision's forehead). They only have 4 movies left to add the 6th since Feige spoiled Time: Thor 3, GotG2, Black Panther or Spiderman, and neither...
  8. Ukerric

    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    Kevin Feige has acknowledged it's close to impossible to use the shows to advance/affect the movies. That's why the Civil War doesn't even acknowledge the mass of Inhumans running around. I mean, if you want to introduce the Sokovian Accords to manage dangerous super-powered beings, you could...
  9. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    To be honest, it's also obvious enough. Three dragons, three riders. Unless Martin kills one before the big final showdown. The dragons might be smart (even if Tyrion is trying to convince himself when he says that in front of them), but if you want them used in warfare, better have a handler...
  10. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Side note, the Frozen Arms are a much better deal than the 745 gear that you get on your level 3 garrison general vendor. He/She (He on horde, she on alliance) will happily sell you at 500g each a 745 armor or a 745 weapon.
  11. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    It's a Song of Ice and Fire. Maybe they're already budgeting for the S08 final episode CGI...
  12. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Notably since the book and show canons are diverging at an increasing rate...
  13. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That reminds me, people from the guild are starting to drift back (because release date announced), I should give them before they get to find one.
  14. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    It's not a spoiler. It's one of the most popular fan theories around (and one that is yet to be confirmed... or infirmed as soon as the showrunners let Bran come back to that tower in EP3). I mean, since season 1, people have wondered about the "lapse in taste" from Ned, which was very out of...
  15. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Magic. The book 1 event had her doing blood magic by sacrificing her own husband and a relatively powerful sorceress, which led to magic, which led to survival+egg hatching. That's GRRM saying this. That's a point where the series and books explicitly differ.
  16. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    No (not yet, at least). But the faceless are a mystically-inclined assassins guild, and they've been working on stripping her from her identity. So the potential plot twist is obvious. I mean, at one point, she's going to be back in the game...
  17. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Well,Jon Snow tought so.
  18. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Welcome to the world of "R + L = J". (they're really going to drag this on for the whole season. No flashback this ep? really?)
  19. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    Let's see: Vanilla: normal max drops ilvl 60, dungeons ilvl 68, first raid ilvl 66, last raid ilvl 90. TBC: first drop ilvl 81, normal max drops ilvl 114, dungeons ilvl 115, first raid ilvl 128, last raid ilvl 154. LK: first drop ilvl 138, normal max drops ilvl 183, dungeons ilvl 200, first...
  20. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Well, it was, then I saw that Mad Merchant vendor, and now I'm hoarding the gold.
  21. Ukerric

    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    I'd forgive him if he announced a Wildcards show or something. No Wildcards, no free pass.
  22. Ukerric

    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    Just to remind you: Book 1 was written in '92, book 2 was '93. Twenty years later, the author is a bit better (but a bit slower. Age and all that stuff)
  23. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I was about to say "I was in a beta once", then I realized it was that annual pass paid-for beta...
  24. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    It's also a mandatory bit if you're doing one expansion every two years, as opposed to the "one expansion every 9-10 months" of EQ.
  25. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    No. Camps were an answer to two very specific EQ features: contested spawn areas and hard risk penalties. The only reason you camped in EQ is because if your group moved away, there was a good chance that: 1) The place you would go to would have no mobs 2) If you decided to go back...
  26. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    WarcraftDevs on Twitter: You can apply a non-artifact look on an Artifact, but not the reverse.
  27. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It took me some time to get the right "spellcaster" look for my priest, thanks to that ridiculous wizard hat (which is a random BOE green of the whatever from level 38). However, without a wardrobe system, it was impossible to really play the dress-up game. GW2 is the best dress-up game (and...
  28. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    As usual, it's a matter of time. You can run with all 4 armor users if you want. Except that, every run, about 75% of the drops are going to be useless for transmog. Requiring you not only to be able to use the item, but to have that item as your "normal" gear expands the time required to...
  29. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    The book version has Tyrion having more elaborate strategic preparations and battle management; it's just that he doesn't have the resources to defend the city forever since the armies are out in campaign. He still forces Stannis to a standstill for hours, until the reinforcements show up. As...
  30. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They tweaked stuff because plate wearers would be able to unlock cloth, but clothies wouldn't be able to unlock plate. Which would be unfair. So, instead of allowing every classes to unlock every armor, they made it so that you can unlock your armor type and nothing else.
  31. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Basically, currently, you need to have the item whose appearance you want to copy somewhere: inventory, bank, void storage. Starting with 7.0, each of those appearance will be recorded on an account-wide wardrobe once you acquire it (i.e. it becomes bound and not tradable), and you'll be able to...
  32. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    What he means is that, before, say, 2006, almost all MMOs launched, and ramped up over a year or two, before plateauing and starting a slow slide to core fandom. Starting with stuff like Age of Conan, you started to see those one-months wonder: a massive spike at launch, then a massive drop...
  33. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    On 10 characters, I got an epic about every 1.5/2 weeks on average. But I wasn't fishing for crates, just doing useful missions and leaving the followers idle if nothing but XP remained. Blue is a lot more common. Thing is, there are relatively few pieces of BOE epic, so you tend to get them...
  34. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    I always thought that WoW took from DAoC more than anything.
  35. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    100% certain that Champion Honor and the honor missions (which unlock once you've got 4k valor from pvp) will no longer spawn, because that would make a content from previous expansion useful for the current one. The Medallion will probably still exist because it's only useful for its expansion...
  36. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    The top 7 "Everquest for modern times elements": 1) Majority of meaningful content is group-based (you can solo stuff, but that gives you 10% of what's useful and wanted in the game) 2) Combat is strategy-based (not tactic as in which key I use, but strategy as in what do I fight, in which...
  37. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    I was ready to swear it would be the Voyagers, because they've gone the furthest (at a whopping 0.005% of the speed of light, or 17km/s), but it turns out that it's a different probe set (Helios) who are the record holder with 70km/s, or a bit over 0.02% of the speed of light.
  38. Ukerric

    Hunters

    Haven't seen the series, but having read the books and seen the previews, I can smell aFlashforward-level of fubar a thousand miles away...
  39. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    You have to realize that they've killed Stannis in the show, but he's completely alive and kicking in the books; something GRRM has explicitly noted in some interviews. Once you've done that, you can figure out that Davos is basically playing the role that Stannis should normally have. It's...
  40. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    I looked at the first picture, and 3s later... "but, where are the specters????" (funnily enough, before missing even a single sand giant).