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  1. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's how you do the aiming for the achievement (kill 12 orcs on top of the wall). Your healers are all bunched below the orcs so the Reaver shoots them.
  2. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    You obviously didn't click on the link. I pretty much know most of those URL by heart now, and can recognize them from a mile. And using that one in 2016... feels fine when you deal with nostalgic fucks like us.
  3. Ukerric

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

    There was an interview where that question was asked to the movie script writers. Their answer: "Agents of Shield? What's that?"
  4. Ukerric

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    It depends. If you refer to "monthly content changes" ala Asheron's Call, then it requires people to make, but not to run. People liked that, just having snow extending from the mountains and winter beasts coming down the plains in winter was a breath of fresh air that is still remembered 16...
  5. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    You are probably over-estimating our capacity to pinpoint the impact. Quick math: an impactor at 20km/s, 1 day away is somewhat 1 million miles away, 5 times the earth-moon distance. You're probably going to determine in which country/state it's going to hit, but which city is not going to be...
  6. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I've been making full counter fleets (from the MMOchamp thread that has a fleet that can counter every single mission at 90%). It takes a few weeks to setup (due to the massive amount of rerolling you need), and leveling 3 different carriers including 2 pandaren ones is a pain in the ass. But...
  7. Ukerric

    Gods of Egypt (2016)

    That's mostly the consensus about Proyas; he does good shit, he does bad shit. You can't bet on any of his movies being one or the other.
  8. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Same for the level 100 which you get for buying Legion. If you want additional boosts, you have to buy them at the store for $$ (no AH tokens for that).
  9. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    Well, considering that any time a game tagged "Early Access" pops in my Steam view, I click "not interested" and never see it again, even after it's released, their loss.
  10. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    All of NYC, or just Manhattan? (people underestimate the real size of NYC) Manhattan is survivable. I mean, assuming it impacts Manhattan itself, you only have most of the east coast wiped out by Richter 9+ earthquake, a 40 mile-wide crater making sure the Atlantic level drops a feet...
  11. Ukerric

    The Shannara Chronicles

    Shows that we're probably not the right demographic if we're so critical of it...
  12. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Actually, it's a very sound reasoning. You are not allowed to fly over it until you've done at least once all/almost all of the outdoor content there is. That's basically the only problem with it, and I still don't understand why they used a rep grind as a metric of "having done Tanaan" instead...
  13. Ukerric

    Master of Orion

    It's "somewhat" RTS. Besides my general principle of never ever getting into an early access again, it's probably what cooled me a bit in my enthusiasm. I'll see what that means before tagging the game "Not interested" in steam.
  14. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You don't need one. Handynotes + Handynotes_DraenorTreasures gives you the same thing, without paying 100g. I'm jealous. Still no pet.
  15. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    In honor of Umberto Eco, I just finishedMr Penumbra's 24h Bookstore, which is a novel that Eco could have written. Or maybe Neal Stephenson. Of course, they would have made it a 800+ page monster with actual historical characters, not the reasonable book there. It's basically a book about a...
  16. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Most of my alts leveled using the garrison XP missions + harvesting. They only set foot outside to unlock the 2nd level of garrison (which requires questing) and to unlock the salvage building before 100.
  17. Ukerric

    Deadpool (2016)

    Which is funny, given that it has now outperformed every X-Men movies domestically, and all save one internationally...
  18. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's Facebook, and they could just well do it.
  19. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    That's basically the ending of the game. Tyrion on the Iron Throne, Jon (after he wargs into the dragons following Daenerys' vaguely unheroic death) King in the North and Warden of the Ice, and Tyrion's wife (Sansa) as the link between both. Well, it should be the ending. Since no one besides...
  20. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Given that neutron stars exist, and basically use immense gravitic fields to confine a bunch of neutrons together, I'm not too surprised that a tetraneutron is possible, if horribly unstable. So what is surprising is that "ordinary" reactions can form one...
  21. Ukerric

    The Flash

    The actor is quoted as saying that Ronnie-1 had been killed enough times, and bringing him back once again would be stupid. Any of his appearances on the show will be some alt-Ronnie.
  22. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    So basically, it's a slightly smaller version of Uranus with the small traces of H2O that we found in Uranus boiled off by its proximity to the star.
  23. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    So, you're a bit too critical, I'd say. Not that there's no stupid, there's some bad decisions made, but they're not plot-stupid, they're just bad guesses from the character.
  24. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Not exactly, but LIGO was in a regime of sensitivity where something should be detected at some point. Detecting nothing would mean technical problems OR some subtleties in the theory that might open a new avenue of inquiry (i.e. some new flavor of quantum gravity). But alas, relativity still...
  25. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    The waves this makes are waaaay bigger than gravity waves.
  26. Ukerric

    The Economics Thread, Bootstrappin' Since 1776.

    Naive economists used to draw their diagrams without checking the numbers on the scales. These days, a fairly large number of economists have realized that different stuff occurs at a 0 border (like wages being more inelastic in downward fashion that upward, negative effective interest rates...
  27. Ukerric

    Deadpool (2016)

    At this point, there are two main reasons it's not going to be a cult movie: 1) It's going to make too much money 2) It's going to have a Deadpool 2.
  28. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Yea. 10 episodes only, dammit.
  29. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    They do believe in SLS, though. So much it's nicknamed Senate Launch System, because even NASA doesn't believe in it (but they have to make it because they get told to).
  30. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    He's also speaking as a former military (his background came up during the interrogation in ep3, got dishonorably discharged for assaulting a superior officer who ordered him to fire on belters) to another military.
  31. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yesterday, I thought I had a bug. Opened mailbox, ran postal, nothing. Click on mail from AH, money doesn't get out. 2nd mail, no problem. Ok, log/relog, nope. No addons? Nope. Ok, I'll see later. I get to the table, click finish... all missions finish except that 400gold one who shows...
  32. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    I did notice the switching of the priest in the Ceres-Eros shuttle for a mormon emigration candidate. Indirect spoilage for later on season 2.
  33. Ukerric

    MacGyver: The Movie

    The best way would be a son/daughter/niece/whatever family, keeping up with the traditions. Which allows you to slip a cameo, if you really, really want (given his looks, make him on his death's bed).
  34. Ukerric

    DC's Legends of Tomorrow

    You could assemble a floppy drive from parts for the model I as well, which is what I did. Radio Shack added a "real one" in its catalog, but it was buggy as hell. Apple II had a floppy drive as well in late 70s. In 1975, you didn't had recognizable office computers. You only had terminals...
  35. Ukerric

    DC's Legends of Tomorrow

    Better, drop the bits in random locations AND eras.
  36. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Well, he's slightly different in the show. (finale spoilage)So, yea, Holden is a more nuanced good guy.
  37. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Book 6, not 7. Nemesis Games was book 5 only, and Babylon's Ashes (the one this year) is only book 6. Unless you count The Vital Abysss novella as book 6, maybe? They have a contract for 3 trilogies, 9 books total (not 10, but I guess if you count 6 already, that makes 10). They're getting one...
  38. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Disappointed since, basically, they put in half of the first books, and they're incorporating book 2 along so that season 2 will probably collapse the Leviathan Wakes and Caliban's War together. The ending of S01 is basically a mid-season cliffhanger, not a proper season end. Spoilage on the...
  39. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    Well, actually, on original EQ, it did. Every entity update in the zone was broadcast to everyone in the zone. Which is why you had utilities that snooped on the protocol stream and would display the zone along with the list and loc of all mobs in it when you entered. Rare not spawned? No...