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  1. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    The two inner worlds, depending on atmosphere and ground surface will be from above boiling point to over tropical. The outer one has so much unknown that it could be barely habitable to frozen ball. But the main point is that red dwarf stars are the most abundant in the galaxy, long lived...
  2. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Given the last things we've seen, suddenly a lot of people are starting to re-read Tywin's last words about Tyrion being "no true son of mine".
  3. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Oups, I stand corrected. It's been a while since I've read the books, so I'm not 100% familiar with the family tree.
  4. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    You can't. He's been mathematically demonstrated as The Main Character of the series. (that probably wouldn't stop GRRM, but it probably can stop the showrunners)
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    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    As Hodj said, the former. Incidentally, skin lightening occurred completely independently in Europe and Asia. Like everything in biology, it's complicated but the current consensus is that about a dozen genes control your skin tone, and those genes mutated independently in Europe and Asia...
  6. Ukerric

    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    It started good, but I dropped out of the series around book 8 or 9. I can't really pinpoint it, but at one point, I simply stopped caring about "The princess", and simply started to click "not interested" whenever the yearly book would pop on Amazon. It's still well-rated atGoodreadsso...
  7. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    I witnessed an interesting (for various degrees of "interesting") discussion on a panel on CRISPR/CAS9 in Feb. It was at the annual meeting of biology research directors for the french NIH, and the entire gist of the argument was "we don't need genetic engineering when we have embryo selection"...
  8. Ukerric

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    Did you read the question? Ok let's be explicit. Landed = USSR, China, USA (India is excluded if you count "non-destructive landing", otherwise, add) Walked = USA. If your meme picture says Landed... guess what's wrong?
  9. Ukerric

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

    As it should be, because the entire Fitz-Simmons interesting perspective in the show is they're "normal" (for various definitions of normal) people. If you start making everyone in your show "special", then you're grasping at straws because your show is going nowhere, and I'd rather avoid that.
  10. Ukerric

    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    See the post a bit above:The Sci-Fi Book Thread - Page 11 Baen usually has the first volume of any of its large series as a free ebook to hook people:On Basilisk Station by David Weber - WebScription Ebook
  11. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Remember, each expansion is designed so that characters can enter the expansion after just completing a handful of quests at the end of the previous. Since your weapon is what affects most your capacity to kill the expansion enemies, they can't delay much when you get a suitable one to replace...
  12. Ukerric

    Captain America: Civil War (2016)

    Basically, they've got a bunch of "side" films (Doctor Strange, GotG2, Spiderman, Thor 3), and then we get back on track with Black Panther (feb 2018) as the intro to Infinity Wars (may 2018).
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    As usual, you start with a crazed idea, then you try to build every possible hint, no matter how ambiguous or maybe inapplicable, as a confirmation of your story. What I'd be interested would be the hints AGAINST that story. But I'm not going to obsess over every single page in the series (too...
  14. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Legion seems to change all that. Basically, in Legion, you have one PvP stat. ilvl. That's it. All of your stats, including secondaries are calculated from ilvl. And what I saw on web sites is that pvp gear would have: ilvl, sta, int/str/agi. That's it. Nothing else, including any secondary...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Basically, you can have a CRZ with any server of the same type (PvE/RP/PvP/RPvP) in the same datacenter. The only realms with the smallest CRZ would probably by the oceanian RP realms.
  16. Ukerric

    Story of Overwatch and Fall of Titan - Blizzard semi documentary

    Considering the level of interest from the first episode (who might have been shortened to about 2mn out of 20 and lost essentially nothing of value)... Well, they don't want to cannibalize their own games, so they're making totally different game lines. I mean, look at their current games: RTS...
  17. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I happen to be an old school dwarf (i.e. I had detect treasure active when the patch hit), so I have almost all of them pinned on Gathermate. Outside of that, don't think you can track them.
  18. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They probably still work. The real interest in timewalking gear, from what I see, is that the downleveling of your gear doesn't affect socketed gems, enchants or procs; just the ilvl of the item itself.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Seems still completely random to me. The problem of shipyard vs garrison is that the number of missions is a lot lower and their respawn times are so long that you get hugely magnified random clumping of missions.
  20. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    It's almost at the end of page 2 now (which means someone is going to necro it soon). It dies when the hope really dies, and in EQ, you always have a cleric with a sprinkler around to rez you.
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    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Even with science. A few years ago, I came across the story ofthis guywho can simultaneously be a PhD in paleontology, with a dissertation on fossil dinosaurs extinct for 66 million years and be a Young Earth Creationist who thinks the Earth is 6 thousand years old.
  22. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yes it does. Since they added the tech (I think during MoP? That's where warforged appeared, right?), every item can be ilvl-adjusted to whatever. That's how every timewalking dungeon drops items adjusted to your current level while downleveling you. However, they've gone the reverse for...
  23. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    At Inserm (the french NIH), you cannot qualify as a scientific researcher unless you hold a PhD or equivalent. If you don't, you get shuffled onto the "technician and engineer" designation (even if you sometimes do the same kind of work and publish more papers). Main difference: career...
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    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    The minimum qualification for the name of "scientist" would be a non-honorary PhD in a science-based discipline. Which, yea, Bill Nye doesn't have. He's a science speaker, not a scientist. Doesn't stop him from being more knowledgeable than Sarah, since they both hold Bachelor's, but her is...
  25. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's because, in a WoW-type game, you need a clear objective that progresses something (your craft skill bar, your ilvl, your level, your faction, your gold pile, whatever). I think that what people hated in early WoD isn't the lack of dailies. There were dailies, they were just disguised...
  26. Ukerric

    Where are the Euro style MMORPGs lately?

    So basically, you're looking for: - A Dungeons&Dragons classical interpretation (or their remote descendants) - With a focus on strategical/tactical combat rather than action combat - And, what? Solo? (you seemed to imply solo camping and harvesting) Then there's nothing. Probably not...
  27. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    And immediately,MMORPG.com tells you why it's not going to happen
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Oh god. Time to stuff my banks with crates then. Ref:WarcraftDevs on Twitter:
  29. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Say goodbye to your favorite basic transmog source in 7.0. If your bank isn't full of wanted minor looks, you'll lose out.
  30. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    So, they're not confident they can drag each season for a full 10 episodes, yet they can't wrap everything in S7 because GRMM won't have even the outline of book 7 at all in time...
  31. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Now Alex can properly lust after her...
  32. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's dailies without the "!" quest hub. And the map tells you where to go to auto-pick since you don't have the quest giver. I saw an interesting comment on MMOchamp about the difference between us old fucks and the youngsters, and how it relates to this new model. We old fucks expect someone...
  33. Ukerric

    Doctor Strange (2016)

    Hmmm? We did see Dormammu, he's the guy with the trippy room:
  34. Ukerric

    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

    Well, you DO know he's going to be Black Adam, right?
  35. Ukerric

    The Magicians

    From this thread, I take it I should watch it... the premise read as Harry Potter as a college student screwup, which didn't sound very interesting, but all I'm seeing is people saying good things about the show.
  36. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Rule 34 always applies.
  37. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There's ablue postthat explicitly says that the 12h rotation is for beta testing, and the real rotation is weekly. Basically, every week, you are going to have a combo of specific affixes; everyone is going to have the same combo for that week, and the combos rotate on a fixed basis. You...
  38. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Laser-illuminated solar sails.
  39. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I take offense at this snide insinuation. A proper shadowpriest dies in the middle of the fight, not before 3rd phase (or whatever).