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  1. Ukerric

    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    And then you get Phase Space where the first high-resolution radar scan of Proxima Centauri breaks the simulation software...
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    Ashes of Creation

    The game ideas still look interesting, but the whole pvp/siege stuff means it's a pass for me.
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    Ready Player One (2018)

    Neckbeard confirmed; the guy is scared to lose "more than 10 years of items in there"... (with the comic drop of a massively gigantic pile of stuff, including round shields and whatnot, when he's blown up) The book i-R0k is not very good (and basically there for 1 chapter - the only role that...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    What they seem to mean is a return to previous legendary model (one legendary, long quest to unlock).
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    Ready Player One (2018)

    Was going to see it in 3D, but friend checked and it's the usual computer conversion to 3D (maybe except for the all-CGI sequences which might have been rendered in 3D. Maybe). So we noped.
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    Ready Player One (2018)

    Yea. The thing is, it immediately felt absolutely and totally familiar, but I couldn't place it. Once I saw "from Excalibur", I could even picture the main scenes with Merlin again...
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    Ready Player One (2018)

    You've almost guessed correctly. The whole synching thing (which occurs TWICE in the book) is something that sounds cool on paper, and absolutely stupid and horrible on screen. So, how do you preserve the idea of having to run thru a movie as one of the trials? Well, you put them in a movie. And...
  8. Ukerric

    Autonomous Systems

    It's Über. They'll probably resume, then install an app to avoid driving anywhere where an official might spot them.
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    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Friend of mine who was an early backer, with a "moderate" contribution got finally fed up, and has been trying to get out for 5 weeks now. The amount of delaying action is insane though. If you want your pledges back, don't expect to see them for months, if not ever... (pesky european law: for...
  10. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    NASA chief explains why agency won’t buy a bunch of Falcon Heavy rockets So, they've got SLS, which means they're going to use it, dammit!
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    Autonomous Systems

    It's Uber. "This might interfere with our systems, so we'll disable it; it's cheaper than trying to integrate it".
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    But why? It was nice, peaceful, and I think I farmed lots of bixie drops. ... then Halloween happened.
  13. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Well, NASA got back a budget for education... maybe they should...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Anyone coming from the east has to remember the first time they came upon The Bridge in the Karanas...
  15. Ukerric

    A Song of Ice and Fire - Book Spoilers Within

    ?? indeed.
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    The Sad, sad, state of MMORPG in this brave new era...

    You still find that in the Discord for secret hunting in WoW. But they'll never hide game-important info ever again, I think.
  17. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    He does it twice (the other is a distinct character). Oh, and just watch his new series where there IS a character named Dakota Krout. Just after a character named Elon Musk, founder of Space Y... (and no, it's not supposed to be the real Elon). I pretty much stopped at page 2 of the preview...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Obligatory DLC reference: Legendary News
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    There's more than a few screenshots in there that I would have attributed to EQ without a doubt.
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    Autonomous Systems

    That's mostly what I see here: "if it had been just a human driver, it wouldn't even have rated a notice in local news". But we're already holding machines to a higher standard than humans. Otherwise, what's the point of replacing the humans :)
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    The Sad, sad, state of MMORPG in this brave new era...

    That would be TL;DW you mean :) At the end, they're talking about AAA rumors: CCP is supposedly making a new MMO (hopefully better than Dust), there's the mystery MMO from Amazon & Smed, and the elephant in the china room: Magic The Gathering MMORPG... But those aren't for 3+ years, probably.
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    The Sad, sad, state of MMORPG in this brave new era...

    They've recruited a brand new team over the last year for an unannounced game. But zero info about what new game they're making. And yes, like you, after Titan, I'm 98% certain it won't be a MMO. Hopefully, they don't do a BR game.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Fuck! GET HIM BETA! STAT!
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    The Sad, sad, state of MMORPG in this brave new era...

    I watched this stream about the upcoming MMO and it's... depressing. #1: Ashes of Creation, Kickstarted AND microtransaction-fueled #2: Saga of Lucimia, kickstarted #3: Legends of Aria, crowdfunded #4: Life is Feudal, the MMO, failed on indiegogo, indie funded with a heaping of early access...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Given the amount of models, animations and stuff, it's either a playable race or a race you "disguise" yourself during questing, and the work done seems a bit too much for 15-30mn of quests.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    What? The Monkey King with his "freeze everything except a couple boss" ray and his aoe dance makes every WQ easier...
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    RIP Mr Hawking

    In one interview, he credited his illness for his achievements; he said that if he had been able bodied and normal, he would have probably been a lazy fuck student.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Usually, if you don't make a profit from something, you shut it down. Earth & Beyond was shut down 2 years after launch because it was not profitable. I'm pretty sure Vanguard was profitable enough that it could be sustained for a long time. They simply cut costs enough to keep it viable at his...
  29. Ukerric

    What does your ideal modern MMO be like?

    That more describes a MMO strategy game than a RPG.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    750 pets, most of them rare (700), most of them 25. Because why not. But I've been slacking and I'm missing a lot of them. I just wish there were more Dragonkin. Got more stacks of dragonkin stones than I can use in the foreseeable future...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Now... that would be a good idea. It would have to be still slower than actually playing your alts, but still...
  32. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Completely. I usually do archeology in every expansion (I'm still trying to finish the Ogre Pristine collection from Draenor, for example), but that's the first time I entirely skipped it except for the basic achieve (do any 8 quests). The idea that I have a deadline for archeology is... bad.
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    What does your ideal modern MMO be like?

    The problem is that it also has a cost in playability. Either you can do story mode once, in which case when you want to do it, you're screwed because everybody already ran it, and you have a massively hard time finding a group (unless you go the mega-server route). Or you can, but if you have...
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    What does your ideal modern MMO be like?

    I think the Artefact system hinted at in "The City and the Dungeon" (which is where I picked the class-build system idea) was absolutely insane and awesome. It's very simple. Take "Oscar Washington's Staff of Battle". It's very simple, it used to be a Staff of Battle (epic-quality staff)...
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    What does your ideal modern MMO be like?

    But what if all of it is Titanforged?
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    What does your ideal modern MMO be like?

    Something different than every MMO made post-WoW. A few things I'd like to see: - A larger world than the usual tiny/I'll cross the entire planet in 30mn world. Possibly, large enough to cram 200k simultaneous players in the same world instance. Which means a strong procedural generation, which...
  37. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Well SJW don't forget that Musk was willing to sit on the technology advisory committee from Donald. At least until he saw it was going to go nowhere and amount to nothing.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Hopefully. Because that's one program that's also horribly overbudget, to the point where it is probably the cause of cancellation or rejection of a few smaller programs that would have been good and worthwhile science. But not to the same point as the SLS, I agree.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Given that it's the SLS, about 7-8 FH launches.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Your first argunites purchases as an alt should be 3 relics for your weapon.