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  1. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    If you decided to clone it in labs. Most farmers dropped the practice of making seeds because their seeds were usually less productive (because they did reproduce in the wild rather than a lab) after a generation or two, compared to the seed manufacturer's products. Most productive varieties...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    There was a paper a couple years ago that plotted the possible number of civilizations in the galaxy and the chances that we would haven't seen any signs of them nor heard any modulated radio wave. The curve drops below 50% at 7 technological advanced civilizations. And it might be Bad News...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Just in case people are still arguing about Jon (because apparently, some people out there can't figure it out), HBO put an official "important characters relationships" diagram on their GOT site:
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Friend of mine said, "considering how popular she is, she'll probably die horribly on ep. 1 or 2 next season".
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That would be fun. It's even in-lore, as the Legion destroys everything across the universe. Alas, the hordes of IP lawyers would be even more fearsome than the Legion. Featuring the zones: - The Empire (Warhammer Online) - Dereth (Asheron's Call 2) - Telon (Vanguard) - Brittania (Ultima...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    He'd better be careful with his orbital mechanics if he wants to explain that. I still remember the epic nerdage over Ringworld and people pointing out to Larry Niven that his beautiful Ringworld was unstable...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Sam's going to find the marriage contract in that nerd library archives of the Maesters...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    They showed it, they didn't SAY it. The fade-out between the baby's eye and adult Jon's eyes is their way of showing it's the same guy.
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    Revelation Online

    Which is usually the main or even the only thing you really need to know about a MMO. You don't even need screenshots after that.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Hydrogen is formed first, and oxygen is a relatively "light" atom made easily by 1st gen stars and is actually more common than carbon. So yea, it's the most common molecule out there. I was just re-readingFive Billion Years of Solitudewhich begins with the common speculation for solar system...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You have until Aug 30 to finish the quest. The Khadgar Servant will stop offering his visits to your followers in your garrison on 7.0, that's all.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Transmog stuff, of course. I'll grab as many appearances I can on the day before S3 ends.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Well, after 12 years, you're in your groove. The choices are stark: either keep doing what you have been, tweaking bits here and there and doing minor stuff, or do an NGE that is guaranteed to piss off a large amount of your current player base without guaranteeing to bring any new blood...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Most of the gameplay was stupid anyway, so you had to find your own goals. It is actually more boring now because almost all garrisons are on full autopilot and I don't even go once a week to see what the Inn has on offer.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Did that with most of my alts (mostly alliance side). A full dwarf one was ultra easy, I finally had my full Draenei two months ago, still lacking one night elf to wrap up the druid one. The one that is hard as fuck is the Worgen one, I'm at 18/25 (after recruiting for over a year when I finally...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Was kinda expecting that one. It would be slightly more time consuming, but your former treasure hunters being 3x GR instead, you'd rack in quite a few gold. Didn't see that one coming. There's not enough of them coming out to really provide more than maybe 100g per day even with a bunker and...
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    Guild Wars 2

    I've also stopped entirely logging in. I tried to play a bit, found the new map confusing, saw that IHADto play on those maps to do anything for the new progression systems, said "sod it", and left the game to rot on a corner of the hard disk.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yup, that sounds right. Except for the "you need a gathering profession to support your crafting profession... hmmm, except for tailoring, but... ok and enchanting maybe, but they're not real profession, right? After all, they don't make full sets of gear to... oh, tailoring does? Fuck, how do...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yea. Sounds like a plan... I know, that was like 2 pages ago. Even if they make the Blood BOA, I will probably drop Inscription this time. It's obvious they haven't figured out what to do with it. I remember an old interview during MoP where they basically said they regretted making it a...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    So, I've been following the doubling down of Blizzard on the Blood of Sargeras ("you're going to get some in dungeons!") and starting to plan an eventual switch of professions. And I hadn't paid attention to Inscription. Really paid attention. OMG, what a gutted profession. There are no...
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    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Nah, Musk will have his martian retirement city up first.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They've indicated that they're going the same way as Pandaria. So you have until 7.0 to start the questline, and until Aug 30 to complete it. The dev summit interview had them saying explicitly that they're going to nerf the ring if it is still more powerful than endgame rings for Legion.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yup. It was only intended to be used in a single expansion, which is why it's located on Draenor, and not an instance in Stormwind or something. The Class Halls might be re-used in the expansion after Legion, but I'm doubtful. They've been careful about removing anything that might be...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Unless you have a ready garrison+shipyard setup for gold or want lots of free BOE green transmog, no there's none until 7.0 by mid/late july. You even have time in 7.0 to raise your gathering skill to 700 because they decided to make the main crafting reagent, Blood of Sargeras, BOP instead...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Currently, you can pick your level 19 req. bracers and put a Superior Stamina (+9 sta on it) and get a shitton (relatively speaking) of hit points. With legion, you will have exactly the same HP with enchanted or unenchanted bracers while in a BG.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yes; your stats (all of them, including your secondaries) are based on level + a small bonus of 1% per 10 ilvl above "standard for your level". Since it's impossible to get much ilvl above until you're at an expansion cap, low-level twinking will give you like 0.75% higher stats than your...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The new UI will make it a bit easier to figure out what you're missing, but until you have a way of sorting items by their tints, making a non-set style is hard. Good example is this well-known russian dwarf frost mage from early transmog (works with any caster, actually): Staff is from...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    In the books, the blidness brings out her warging skills (which were limited to her Nymeria link), as she starts using a cat as her eyes. Even Jaqen starts becoming a bit suspicious because she's too good while being blinded. But show Arya isn't a warg. From the preview chapters, I think it's...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    There's a shitton of weird stuff going on (and don't tell me the entire sequence didn't feel extremely "off"). So there's two hypothesis: either it's lazy showrunners and scriptwriting and Arya gets a free rez somehow, or it's a deliberate setup (by Arya and/or Jaqen) to trap/test the Waif. I...
  30. Ukerric

    I do not believe in equality

    You're arguing different opportunities. You're talking about "legal" opportunity, by which everyone is allowed to succeed. Draegan is talking about "practical" opportunity, by which not everyone will be capable of achieving success. If the only opportunity that counted was the legal one, then...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    She also immediately rolled over the bridge when stabbed, and it felt absolutely odd. Without the following sequence where she's absolutely paranoid about people around her, it would look very much like a setup ("when are they going to come for me?" "oh there she is" "ok, let's make sure they...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I still do, because that'll bring me tons of crates with basic transmog stuff. It's 30mn per day that saps my will to do anything else; I'm actually looking forward to the patch where those crates will stop dropping and I'll probably do something with my main character instead of just doing the...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Nope, specially since the campaign (if it's like the old garrison one) is going to take longer to finish anyway. Part 2 is supposed to be shorter (probably "complete 6th extra zone", "map 6th zone", "finish new campaign chapter").
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The main storyline quests for each zone; there's probably 10-15% of the quests you might be able to bypass. Pathfinder part 1 requires: - Loremaster (all 5 zones story completed; 4 leveling + Suramar at max level) - Explorer (all 5 zone maps explored) - Diplomat (all 6 PVE Legion factions...
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    Kings and Heroes

    Friend of mine who isn't turned off by any form of early access tested, its main problems were: 1) A parody of UI from the 90s... 2) The controls that reset all the time
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    Kings and Heroes

    It's steam, so you can (if I remember right) get a refund within 2 weeks if you played less than two hour. If you played more than 2, you're SOL.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Not a big problem, you need to complete all quests in all 5 zones to unlock flying ("part 1"). You'll waste far more XP on the last 3 zones than the intro
  38. Ukerric

    Gender and Race Equality

    Lots of people have tried to dismiss the pay gap, but the only times the pay gap disappear is when you're dealing with government "hardcoded" pay scales. Every time someone is allowed to decide on pay, females end up with lower rates, all other things considered. Including when it's a woman...
  39. Ukerric

    Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

    Probably better than
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Did the Waif get blind-drug training? Because if I was to guess, that's why Arya blew that candle.