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  1. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    One of the advantages that you have when you start with 5 books of a series already out is that your characters are already well fleshed, and the showrunners have plenty of materials to use. Of course, then you have shows that keep going without new material, and shows where the writers not...
  2. Ukerric

    Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

    He's also biting his nails and looking very very worried. As in "shit, told you it wasn't a good idea. Told you. But did you listen to me? Nope. And now bro is going to tell big green to slam me again"
  3. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Thankfully, the achieve is no longer needed. But apparently, you need to have done at least one to open up the follow-up Hall Campaign.
  4. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    I could have agreed but
  5. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    We can barely have 2 up at the same time, and that's going to be with people trying to get flying and turning supplies for rep. Not going to happen ever. I wouldn't be surprised if there's no building up for most of the week in a month or two. (most guild members are going to stop once they...
  6. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    My guess? People didn't knew what "challenges" meant. They assumed it was some scenario for phat lewts, instead of the insanity of ilvl 920+/40pt/optimal legendaries challenges for one artefact appearance (that requires you to have finished the Power questline).
  7. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yea. From now on, it's going to be Disruptor > Cathedral > keep 1000 supplies stored > Command Center for me.
  8. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Last two episodes are "The Monster and the Rocket" and "Caliban's War", and they have to wrap up the following lines: 1) The escaped Protomolecule™ soldier (fun bit: he's played by Elias Toufexis, aka "Kenzo the spy" from S1) : team Holden+Alex 2) Prax's daughter Mei rescue : team Naomi+Amos 3)...
  9. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    The guy behind it isn't happy with the scene as it is and promises one MUCH BETTER in season 3. (book readers probably anticipate that one, since slingshotting sport was introduced in season 1) I for one would have loved the idea of Alex having his beard progressively grow as trash cans...
  10. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Couple of interesting hints from further books. Only 2 episodes remaining, which makes me think they're not going to wrap book 2 yet.
  11. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yea. Althought it could be done over time, the pressure to get flying "right now" (which they refuse to formally acknowledge, since they dislike the idea of players flying around) is probably going to cause more frustrations, on top of existing frustrations. You can afford to frustrate the 1%er...
  12. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I expect those timers to rotate and the area invaded at a given hour to rotate as well. The emissary rotation seemed very random until they finally explained that they had the 7 possible emissary placed once per week, with the emissary for a given day of week rotating over 7 weeks. They probably...
  13. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Sure. Everybody I tried to watch Game Of Thrones legally in France, Here is what happened It's an unfortunate turn of events that pirated stuff is usually a better product than the legal. As in "don't have to suffer shitty unskippable ads and legal warning about illegal downloading on my...
  14. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    It's a definitively a lot faster than the books. My guess is two-three months tops since the Canterbury incident to current time. That's a definitive departure from the book settings. In the show, they go straight from Eros crashing on Venus (end of book 1) to Ganymede incident (start of book...
  15. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Yea, I was going to say that this entire sequence was based on The Churn, the novella that deals with Amos' origins. That's where you see the seedy side of Earth.
  16. Ukerric

    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    No. Just no. This movie does not exists. Earth might be flat, but there never was an ID sequel.
  17. Ukerric

    Autonomous Systems

    You won't be laughing when Elon launches a Tesla to the moon on his demo Falcon Heavy, and it lands and get remote controlled there. (selling the right to remotely drive The Tesla On The Moon complete with dashcam view should be keeping Space X afloat until the founding of Mars One colony)
  18. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Region-wide; there's a different set of buildings for EU and NA. The random bonus for every building appear to be the same however; I wouldn't be surprised if there was a set rotation for the additional bonus.
  19. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Mage tower should be completed today on EU, I think. It's currently at 88%.
  20. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Fun bug: if you are a fresh 110, when you ding, you get told to go to Dalaran (to pick WQs). Then, when you enter Dalaran, you get prompted to go to The Council of Six because Khadgar has made an interesting discovery (the beacon from First Arcanist Thalysra, which opens up the Suramar access)...
  21. Ukerric

    The Secret World

    I probably know ONE player around that doesn't have the steam client installed.
  22. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    It's going to rewrite that as well. The current economics are like: it costs your 15M$ to build a satellite, and 60M$ to launch it. If it fails, you're in for 75M$. The SpaceX 2019 economics are like: it costs you 15M$ to build a satellite and 10M$ to launch it. You can afford ONE failed...
  23. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    They already had low costs, but this will drive their costs down further. SES-10 already had a 30% discount. They also recovered the satellite fairing (the protection cap for the launch), which costs 6M$ on its own, so they're going to shave a couple additional millions soon if they can...
  24. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There's rares popping in the Shore, but I have no idea what they drop, if any. Killed one, it had a lot of ressources+shards+legionfall stuff, but that was all. Maybe there's a random rare stuff there.
  25. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The real issue is the stealth stuff. As in, "we know everything is going to be discovered anyway, but we wanted people not to worry". The insta-gib was a real problem, however. If you have a non-elite around, there's a bunch of classes that are going to kill them within 2s. That was to the...
  26. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Barrels of unfun, then?
  27. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Comment by a friend who quit mid 7.1.5: "Looks like I left just in time"
  28. Ukerric

    Ashes of Creation

    It was supposed to be a lot more complex in EQN. The way Ashes work is more basic: - Each zone has an XP bar and level - Everything you do gives XP (with bonus based on zone?) to the zone - The zone level determines what you have at the center of the zone (flat empty @ 0, small camp @ 1, large...
  29. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Sounds logical since you need higher ilvl for dungeons now.
  30. Ukerric

    Ashes of Creation

    Some more stuff on nodes
  31. Ukerric

    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    That one is good flat ea... city?
  32. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    *** EDIT *** Saw the costs, NVM.
  33. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Given that KJ is the last boss of the tomb, I guess... it ends badly. Sargeras will probably need new, better underlings soon.
  34. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Interesting episode. I wasn't expecting the Somnambulist to be there, nor what they did with it by moving the Sutayaporns from Ganymede's surface to there (and the end of episode). As a book reader, I'm a bit thrown off because the timelines are a lot twisted and compacted compared to the books...
  35. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Quick Elon, snap those sats: Ariane 5 launch halted indefinitely as Kourou unrest continues - SpaceNews.com
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    Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

    I've had problems lately with the game. Game starts ok, displays everything fine, but pokestop don't show when selected; berries lock for 30s and display error, and so on. Some days it works, others it's shit. ** EDIT ** Looks like it's fucking up with google authentication. It's fine until it...
  37. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yea. The analysis was that the fueling technique used could cause some extra stress on the tanks, so they changed the way they load the fuel to avoid that.
  38. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yes. They've been shopping around for a first customer to provide a full demo, most of them wanted heavy discounts for being the first to reuse. The same thing is going for their Dragon capsule. Until recently, the contract with NASA for the ISS resupplies required a non-refurbished capsule for...
  39. Ukerric

    The Expanse

    Yay! Time for big-scale SF! Hope they get the budget book 3 deserves. Book 4 can be done on the cheaper side, but book 3 requires the big stuff.
  40. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    From the same guild, not just same server. We run a casual raid, and have people from a friendly guild that has raided with us since LK, well before any cross-server stuff. When we have 3 of them, the master loot is cancelled (and I usually forget to reset it to group loot, so Skorp is almost...