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  1. Ukerric

    Epic Games Storefront - A Good Incentive for Piracy

    https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-sale-dates/
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    MTG thread

    I was watching Rudy when he opened the box, and it was immediately "wait, is this an uncommon???" Which it was. I think everyone focused on "Death Corona", and in their mind, it was obviously going to be a mythic card or something.
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    The Old World - new civ-type game

    Yup. Forget to have enough military, get your ass handed to you. The common tech/econ development plans needs to make room for military or you suddenly lose in half a decade. The multi-order move each year makes shit drop on you brutally (and make having hidden scouts parked in places and not...
  4. Ukerric

    Do you know first hand anyone who has been proven to test positive for Covid-19?

    Dunbar disagrees. 150, maybe. 200, they're not people, they're abstract humans. (the way you have "bob from HR" vs "the HR guys")
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    "Some reason" meaning people don't do PvP.
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    Do you know first hand anyone who has been proven to test positive for Covid-19?

    Not going to happen, unfortunately. Oh, there will be some noises, then it will be back to business as usual, because the cost to society isn't incalculable, and companies will do it and revert back to the old ways.
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    Do you know first hand anyone who has been proven to test positive for Covid-19?

    Colleague of mine, 51. Dude still isn't out of the hospital (but got out of ICU and into a normal "covid" sector).
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    That was done literally the first day ZG opened on Classic. https://www.wowhead.com/news=312097/world-first-5-high-priest-impossible-hakkar-kill
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Well, if your design features a fast-track to re-gear every season, why not? At this point, you are no longer playing a character in a RPG, you're playing a roster of unlocked characters like a MOBA game...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I was watching the feedback thread for Thorgast new changes - the introduction of timer-like debuffs. Because Blizzard is deeply worried that groups might wait for cooldowns between pulls to "win", which would make the run longer and "not fun". So their solution: YOU WILL KEEP HAVING FUN THE...
  11. Ukerric

    2 years later... the almost sad state of MMOs in the new era

    Yea. I remember the time when we were pretty sure we were the only people to have figured out how to make Emperorbane weapons for SSRA. It broke out in the open weeks later, but we had already spent days of AOE raid farms down in the basement tunnels.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    One of the biggest problems is that almost every prediction of relativity based on the black-hole model seem to be vindicated. So, the "dark energy" model of black hole needs to basically provide exactly the same effect as the singularity models up to the event horizon... and then change gears...
  13. Ukerric

    Stellaris

    The tweaks and rebalancing are significant. Destroying nearly every +%pop effect is hard on your expansion.
  14. Ukerric

    The Old World - new civ-type game

    Same. It's been a while since we got a good civ-like, but Epic? Nope.
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    The Old World - new civ-type game

    Well, if the sea level doesn't rise, you can't get an immersion.
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    The Old World - new civ-type game

    Well, he's a heavily bearded Canadian. Also making jokes about Baylonia's Nebuchadnezzar ("I'm so going to trigger people").
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    MTG thread

    There's four sets per year. A "core" set in summer (basic cards), which is the one that your starting decks come from, two sets in winter/spring, one set in fall. Every fall, the sets before the last four are rotated "out" (you can only play those cards for very specific formats), so your card...
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    The Old World - new civ-type game

    An early look at the game:
  19. Ukerric

    The Old World - new civ-type game

    https://www.mohawkgames.com/oldworld/ A new turn-based strategy game that I discovered on Quill18's channel. It's much more dynamic than a Civ game. You start with one of the ancient civilizations as the supreme ruler. You get to manage the dynasty (find the right marriage, see how your heirs...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    At the moment, I think it's safe to consider that anyone returning before 9.0 a week or two before Shadowlands isn't going to enjoy the thing. The only thing I probably need would be the rep to finish BFA flying, since it will still be required in the next expansion... Whether or not I come...
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    There's two types of companies. The ones whose product is what they sell to customers (while making a living for their employees), and the ones whose product is the revenue to shareholders. The latter tend to adopt weird behaviors, because ultimately, how they make money doesn't matter - unlike...
  22. Ukerric

    Starborne - MMO4X

    It's a heavy MMORTS with relatively not-insignificant P2W. There's limiters in place to avoid instant P2W, but I managed to reinstall a Windows (so that I could play some MtG Arena and I said, why not check this). 1) You can't win on your own. You need to be part of a large and active alliance...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Of course they don't. There might be a couple senators or congressmen that are genuinely interested in the advancement of the United States in general, but the election process is an evolutionary process that breeds one basic kind of people. The one that can be elected in their State. Their...
  24. Ukerric

    Ashes of Creation

    They kept harping on how good that spell effect engineer was. Of course they went overboard with it.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's a basic staple for WoW/D3/etc. Exploit fast, exploit early, for tomorrow you'll be sorry.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Yea, but what can you do when those people have the strings of the purse: https://spacenews.com/house-members-criticize-nasa-lunar-lander-awards/
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    The Astronomy Thread

    They're also called Boeing.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Cuts down on support cost (which is a big metric in modern Blizzard). You can't spend time with support if support is told to not discuss with you. The handful of cases where RMT did not happen aren't worth the cost these days, as they no longer really care about reputation.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Well, given the insane costs of SLS, they better. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/nasa-will-pay-a-staggering-146-million-for-each-sls-rocket-engine/
  30. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Some of the systems in those books are awesome. They would need a minimum of two decades and a hundred people to balance, let alone design, but they're awesome.
  31. Ukerric

    The Last of Us

    No, but not every studio gets a Jason Schreier horror story in Kotaku about it (before he went away).
  32. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Happens all the time on long-lived series. *cough* Wheel of Time. What makes a long series worth it is the characters and their lives.
  33. Ukerric

    Will Wight

    Dedication was already posted, but there's another reference in the blooper section: I think anything by Will is probably worth reading.
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    What did you just read?

    Threadbare makes me think about the recently posted recommendation list on Reddit: Having read a lot of those, I have to agree with the picks. There's still a lot to read in there, but if anyone is looking into a dive into LitRPG, this is it.
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    MTG thread

    My very first trade ever, on the day of discovering that Magic game that everyone seemed to be excited about in Paris. Game store was out of starters, didn't had any rulebook or stuff, just a vague idea. And only a couple boosters ("no more than 5 per person, please"). So I traded this volcanic...
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    The Last of Us

    Quite a lot of the reactions seem to be less about who is going it, and more about what is being done. To paraphrase a reaction video: "With uncharted's amount of cutscenes, I thought the lead dev of ND wanted to do movies. Now, I think he wants to do snuff movies."
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    The Last of Us

    I wonder if HBO knew about the sequel when they greenlighted the show...
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    What did you just read?

    To be honest, being consistent when your story goes is extremely hard. As the ad on YouTube for Masterclass goes, Neil Gaiman explains it all: "The art of the second draft is to make it seem it was your plan all along." And when you realize the kickass story you want to write flies in the face...
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    What did you just read?

    Spoilage alert: you do not get all of this until, what, the third book? This is basically the story of a wager between a computer repairman-cum-MMORPG gamer that makes a deal with an Evil God's head minion. Evil minion says they need help, he fits the bill, and tells him that he'll be working...