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  1. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Seconded. Even though the instance is nerfed beyond your wildest imagination (we basically ran heroic with more healers than ever, and killed everything within 1h40 instead of our usual 2h30), the rotations are probably hard to get if you're used to the old system. I mean, I reorganized my bar...
  2. Ukerric

    Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

    Additionalrelease on Hong-Kong. Apparently, the fans want to hunt Pokemon while waiting for the Olympics to begin.
  3. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's why that robot (default tailoring follower) is still stuck in my garrison building. All the others followers are loafing around these days, but Mr Robot is still helping to make cloth...
  4. Ukerric

    Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

    Aaand,it's launched (the app store took immediately a shit, app shows up but says "this article is not currently available" if you try to install)
  5. Ukerric

    Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

    The latter. The game is still not released in France (due to Nice) for example, but there's a quite a few people who have switched App Store or downloaded the APK for droid. France is next, but no one knows truly when. There's about two rumors a day that "it's releasing today" "at 17:00!!!" but...
  6. Ukerric

    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    Just finishedWarrior King, the book 5 of theOdyssey Oneseries, and was disappointed. The book was short and felt like a quick transition volume to start the next arc of the series and not enough of a book that stands on its own. While he writes ok and his books are entertaining, he also has a...
  7. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you've deleted it, it won't count. The only old items that are granted retroactively are those that had quests giving them. Anything purchased, crafted or looted and destroyed will have to be purchased/crafted/looted again. (the BMAH seems shut down. Anyone confirm?)
  8. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Toward the end, I was getting about 1 appearance every 1-2 stacks of crate on average. Random is random. It took me most of sunday and monday to pre-open those crates, save for my main who had only its backpack remaining as empty space. I had three caster alts unlocking appearances before...
  9. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Dihydrogen monoxyde is nasty stuff, I tell you.
  10. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    In before we deployartificial Mindrot...
  11. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    WITNESS!!!
  12. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Unfortunately, about 75-80% of the time isn't spent opening crates, it's spent at the mailbox next to the recycling center (you did put the recycling next to that mailbox, right? Don't worry, you can move the small buildings around for free) to find out which items go to which alt. It helps if...
  13. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Some heads up for massive crate openers: I did measure how long it takes you to open 400 crates and dispatch the non-equipable gear to the alts that can (and dispatch the equipable to a similar alt, because I can't equip yet to unlock) and it's just over one hour. If you have loads of crates to...
  14. Ukerric

    Doctor Strange (2016)

    There's a new trailer supposedly, except I couldn't find any difference with the old. Meanwhile, in a cumbercrossover:
  15. Ukerric

    Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

    Insane? Youhaven't seen insane yet.
  16. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Well, people are against GMOs because they are against GMOs. They're not against GMOs for reasons. The arguments come after to justify being against GMOs. If an argument doesn't work, there's plenty where they came from.
  17. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    A distraction from pesticide and GMO... It's not often that I see a goodsummary of the current thoughts on human origins.
  18. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    RAF is different from the old scroll of resurrection. RAF is for new accounts; you can't use it to re-enable your old account. Your friend will not receive a bonus unless you buy the game on the second account and add 2 months of game time to it. The two accounts are separate (save for the BoA...
  19. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    If you really want BSG to be still good, the last scene you watch is the one where they stand on nuclear-devastated "Cylon Earth". That's it. End of show. Depressing, but not infuriating.
  20. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    The entire last season was bad. Once they started going offroad with "Earth was populated with Cylons and died in nuclear war! No, actually that wasn't Earth at all, the real Earth is still waiting for us" "Head Six isn't a mental problem, she's a real entity sent by God" "Starbuck is Moses...
  21. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    You forget (if it's Wakefield you're talking about) the bit about being the patent owner for a different vaccine substrate which, I presume, would have been "perfectly safe to use", and was seeking funds to create a company to exploit said substrate at the time of the Lancet study.
  22. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They've pretty much stopped caring about people rolling on stuff; that's what personal loot (which they're increasingly pushing on everything everywhere) is for.
  23. Ukerric

    EQ Never

    Depend on what client you use, I think. On standard clients, the main timeline has all messages that include your handle unless that specific person is on ignore.
  24. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yea. To be honest, I don't understand the limitation. I understand the retro-quest based limitation, because the retroactive design is based on "what would you have picked and enabled as xmog if it had been there at the time". But for modern? I already destroyed plate/mail/leather items in...
  25. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    5 coppers, not 1. That's a fivefold increase in profits!
  26. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    MyVOIDstorage is already full. I've stopped touching any old raid because I'm too tempted to keep any piece that drop for future xmog, and the only place that's still empty is the original backpack.
  27. Ukerric

    Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

    So, every MMO launch ever?
  28. Ukerric

    Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

    There's even Pokemonin the front lines against ISIS...
  29. Ukerric

    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    Which is why he's at Baen for that. You want good mil-fi, you look at Baen. My amazon suggestions are littered with space mil-fi from independent authors, all of which are usually terrible. John G. Hemry ("Jack Campbell") is not that bad when you start peeking in the morass that the rest is...
  30. Ukerric

    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    All of the non-main series are co-authored; the Manticore Ascendant is one with Timothy Zahn (of Star Wars Extended Universe fame, but lots of other books; another author I mostly recommend on its own). This is probably a trilogy, so this should be the last book of that series as well. Show at...
  31. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    No, we mean Robert's grandmother, Rhaelle Targaryen.
  32. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yep, patch on 19th (20th for the EU).
  33. Ukerric

    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    Yep. Anderson writes mostly crap on his own, and Brian should have left his dad's opus alone. The sad part is that they probably sell enough, since the editor keep buying new books.
  34. Ukerric

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

    At the moment, VR has a big problem with movement. If your character moves, but you do not, you get nausea relatively quickly. That's why most games are "seated" games where you don't get the illusion of movement. MMORPG are going to be hard to do.
  35. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    There was a time early this year when the Sagan voice over and credits at the end got dropped. They came back after two months, which I assume is due to some copyright madness stuff. Maybe that's why Facebook blocked it in the first place (and they forgot to unblock after the copyright issues...
  36. Ukerric

    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    Seconded. That's the last SF novel (and the penultimate novel) he wrote before cancer. The two drone ships by Space X are named after spaceships in the Culture novels and legions of fans wept when they found out that there wouldn't be any new works in that universe. Note that when he writes...
  37. Ukerric

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Do not diss Wildcards. I think that's probably the best superhero universe ever written. Croyd >> everyone. All awesome apart, you can have a guess at what he wants to make by the whole of his works. Of course, with millions speculating about the story, someone is bound to make good guesses...
  38. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    The film was so well received, it got him hired to make theNew Horizonspromo video from NASA.
  39. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    I'm sure we don't have GMO gut microbes that synthesize antidepressants directly in your intestine because Big Pharma does not want us to have free medicine!!!
  40. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    There's two Drake factors in the above, and there are philosophical considerations that it might not be that difficult. Intelligence, per se, appears to be not too difficult. On Earth alone, at least two if not three genus seem to provide intelligence: primates, corvids, and potentially...