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  1. Ukerric

    Ashes of Creation

    It's a RUSSIAN company.
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    MTG thread

    Your problem is that you started buying Secret Lair, the most blatant money grab by Wizards (with stiff competition with hundred dollar VIP boosters and the upcoming collector edition with special lands exclusive)
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I only saw the cat landing on the second viewing, the first was "what? did that guy have a stroke..."
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The thing is, it won't happen in Shadowlands. In Shadowlands, you will have a single-path quest progression, with specific zones to complete in a pre-determined order. Alts may go wherever, but your main character will not.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Woah: https://www.wowhead.com/news=317577/horde-ironforge-lockdown-to-delay-the-ten-hour-war-on-gandling
  6. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    I tend to think the movie goes even one better than Heinlein by completely closing the loop.
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    VR Gaming - Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, HTC Vive

    It's probably more streamline now, or they'd face massive problems with the EU GDPR (which could lead them to get fined of 4% of their worldwide income).
  8. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    There is one publication pipeline at Orbit that is bad - conversion of their ebooks gives me an epub where every paragraph is on its own page. It systematically happens for 2 specific authors, which makes me suspect that their authoring software suite interacts badly with Orbit's in-house tools...
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    What did you just read?

    And serious books as well. Anything relatively scientific is a pain in ebook form, as most of the time, the charts and illustrations end up cut to the side or, in one case, I only had the top of the illustration at the end of the page, and no illustration on the next - I needed to use calibre's...
  10. Ukerric

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    "There's a sucker born every minute" - P. T. Barnum
  11. Ukerric

    Epic Games Storefront - A Good Incentive for Piracy

    *EDIT: Complicated*
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    Epic Games Storefront - A Good Incentive for Piracy

    Apple already has an anti-trust lawsuit in Europe on this.
  13. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Pre-path is now on PTR, apparently. Also, Scourge Invasion Mark III. With more epicer loot. All the undead bosses of WOTLK have come out to play.
  14. Ukerric

    MTG thread

    If you regularly watch Rudy, he sometimes mention that for those old sets, the price of the sealed product is completely independent of the singles market.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    The man is the go-to for vulgarization about relativity. I still have his book from 25 years ago: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17362.Black_Holes_Time_Warps
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Zero-sum is synonymous with stagnation.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Hey, you got a free complimentary sat phone, you may as well use it while they try to vacuum thrusters' fumes.
  18. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    The number of ships visible on the plane view...
  19. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Waiting for
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yes. The idea is simple: level 1-10 in a new starter experience, then 10-50 in any single expansion or vanilla, then off to the shadowlands. Their problem with the scaled XP was that people were doing 20-30% of an expansion, then outleveling it and moving to the next, which felt odd. Even worse...
  21. Ukerric

    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    Yes, 11/22/63 was interesting, notably with the various twists.
  22. Ukerric

    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    He knew he'd never make it to NZ anyway, due to COVID. HE KNEW!
  23. Ukerric

    MTG thread

    The more you're pulling in tricks from collectible sports cards, the more you're going to think of your product as a kind of collectible sports card.
  24. Ukerric

    Magic: Legends

    Not unexpected. This looks like a mobile game, so it should be like a mobile game. P2W is expected at that point.
  25. Ukerric

    Ashes of Creation

    That sounds like an euphemism to me. The PVE crowd will simply say "fuck nodes, where my dungeon" "what do you mean, I need a tier four node for a dungeon? Okay, where did I put my BNet password..."
  26. Ukerric

    Will Wight

    That almost warrants a specific independent series.
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    Will Wight

    Yea, I consider that one of those "literary exercises" where you push your writing around a specific gimmick, no matter what. Almost every major author ends up doing it at one point, so it's a phase, like teenage rebellion or something. You say "okay", then move on.
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    Will Wight

    He's also taking out less in Wintersteel. Usually, he spends more time on draft 1 because he trims the action a lot while writing, then more on draft 2 because he's cut too much. This time, he simply wrote, which might have gotten us through draft 1 faster.
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Wasn't dual classing vs multi classing mostly a race-specific thing? As in some races do dual, some can multi? Or am I misremembering the - much - older editions.
  30. Ukerric

    Fractured - The Dynamic MMO

    /Soldarity
  31. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

  32. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    The latest chapter prepares the introduction for the next arc.
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    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-
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

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

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Don't worry, we may have removed the timers in Thorgast, but we've kept them outdoors!
  37. 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.
  38. Ukerric

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Much sadness.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    The TL;DW here is: "why, indeed?"
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    Twitch.tv

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