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  1. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Apparently, you can switch nearly immediately to any other covenant you want, but you're locked out of the old covenant until its 10-day cool-down is over. https://www.wowhead.com/news=316825/paul-kubit-on-covenant-swapping-changing-should-be-easy-changing-back-should-be-
  2. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Get ready to pirate every AAA game starting next year.
  3. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Game price barrier is being broken this year. Games used to cap at 69.95 for almost a decade, because "psychological barrier". First games (some 2K shit yearly sport? NBA? FIFA? Somethingsomething) have started to get to 79.95 this year, and there's already pre-orders for "get it on current...
  4. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Don't worry, we may have removed the timers in Thorgast, but we've kept them outdoors!
  5. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    I'm not sure you are supposed to hate the MC. He's made into a kind of anti-hero, not a villain. He's got his personal morality, and doesn't give a shit. In a way, he's "Han Shot First" to the thousandth power.
  6. Ukerric

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Much sadness.
  7. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    The TL;DW here is: "why, indeed?"
  8. Ukerric

    Twitch.tv

    1 death is a tragedy, 150k deaths is a statistic.
  9. Ukerric

    Twitch.tv

    Inquiring minds want to know.
  10. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Well, there it is. The rest of the trilogy isn't any better.
  11. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Second arc is weaker because, well, "good guy" is less interesting than "bad guy".
  12. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    At these levels, the qualification is mainly being able to attend six meetings in a row without falling asleep, and making a snap decision based on half-baked guesses. Then, if you are right more than 50% of the time, you get promoted up. (just kidding)
  13. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Industrial Engineering degree and a BA one as well. Nearly 30 years of NASA climbing the various levels. And she was doing the same job, but just for the non-NASA crew sector before. So, she was probably one of the top candidates in the agency. Being a woman may have clinched the nom, who knows...
  14. Ukerric

    Twitch.tv

    I think almost nobody around here is going to understand that one.
  15. Ukerric

    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    He's good, but he's waaaaay toooo looooong wiiiiinded. So yes, his 15 min videos could be done in less than 5, usually.
  16. Ukerric

    Legend of Keepers

    Nope. Nope, nope, nope. Doesn't matter what kind it is, not looking until it's done.
  17. Ukerric

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Any that hasn't realized that it will never release by now will probably never figure it out.
  18. Ukerric

    The Last of Us

    Except most people think Druckmann hated the Joel/Ellie story stuff, and would like nothing more than relegating Ellie to oblivion. Which is probably something...
  19. Ukerric

    The Last of Us

    In Media Res is a well respected storytelling introduction device. Harder to pull off than most, but a classic. Of course, Neil D. couldn't be expected to pull anything like that off, but don't write it out because "it's bad". Like everything, it's bad 90%. Exposition intro are bad 90% of the...
  20. Ukerric

    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    You mean... entering season 8. Right?
  21. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    I was going "what what?" before I found out what it was referring to. Although I hadn't seen it referred to as a "black neutron star" until BBC. The current theorists are all about it being a light black hole, by the way. Explaining a neutron star of that mass is far more difficult than a...
  22. Ukerric

    Twitch.tv

    I'm still waiting for my mod API... (not the shitty beta scripting thing)
  23. Ukerric

    Twitch.tv

    For a company that paid 2 billions for Minecraft?
  24. Ukerric

    Twitch.tv

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  25. Ukerric

    Twitch.tv

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  26. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    That's why he resigned to everyone's surprise a week away from SpaceX's launch.
  27. Ukerric

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Comet promises double whammy. Kinetic energy wrecking the ecosystem, and if that fails, you get potential toxic volatiles as an additive to the devastation.
  28. Ukerric

    The Last of Us

    French gaming magazine around here is the one with the most "trustworthy" reviews. They might get you a 9/10 or 10/10 every two issue, but anything at 8/10 is good. Half of the reviews end up with 5/10 or sometimes lower - and they get a single page review. And you even get "worthless/10"...
  29. Ukerric

    The Last of Us

    Amen. And if you doubted it, the trading card will dispel that.
  30. Ukerric

    The Last of Us

    REMOVED: *badly executed joke*
  31. Ukerric

    The Last of Us

    In the abstract sense, yes. The story, in principle, could be good - if it was written and delivered differently. But it is not. It's a hack job. It's tone deaf at best for a major part of it, and the "moral lesson" that the writer insisted was as its core is completely inverted from what you...
  32. Ukerric

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    It's okay. One of my teacher said "it's okay to smash into a lamppost, if that's what you need to learn about those. It's only if you keep smashing into them..."
  33. Ukerric

    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    That's my favorite Great Filter candidate, by the way.
  34. Ukerric

    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    Back when the Drake equation was proposed, everyone was excited about it. Scientists threw all the assumptions they made and got large numbers. You can find Carl Sagan gushing about thousands or even million of civilizations. And then Fermi took a bucket of ice-cold water and drenched...
  35. Ukerric

    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    That's one of the best stories from David Brin: The Crystal Spheres (in which we're sixth, and the fifth came out dozens of million years ago and left the universe because they were bored waiting for us to arise)
  36. Ukerric

    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    That or the filter is ahead... and no civilization survives beyond a few centuries of the existence of Internet.
  37. Ukerric

    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    It's more of the Drake Inequation at this point (this total product must be lower than X...) based on observable non-civilizations.
  38. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    /solidarity! The study I'm referring to was a monte-carlo simulation based on amount of technological civilizations (either detectable by radio for low-Kardashev numbers or infrared for median... at the time, they didn't account for tabby star-like behaviour for high kardashev, I think).
  39. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    I haven't kept the link around because it's fucking old by now, but there was an older study that made a curve between number of civilizations and probability of being able to see at least one, and there cut-off was 8 at 50%. Basically, if you had 8 or more civilizations in the galaxy, there...