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3 23 First Night in Ulduar

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3 23 First Night in Ulduar Divineseal recommends talents to Laire during The Burning Crusade, Desolace Moving Out of the Fire Lightning cracked across the dark violet sky of Netherstorm. I swung around one of the gigantic manaforges buried in the rock below, scanning for a particular mob. This area of Outland had suffered gravely when Draenor was destroyed. A gigantic ocean of nether filled the void where water once existed. Remnants of piers, boats shattered along the former coastlines were a testament to how much damage the destruction of the Dark Portal impacted the Orc homeworld. I paid little attention to the waste below me, as I continued to circle an area in the southwestern portion of the map, looking for a rare spawn that would let me strike another name off the list of the Bloody Rare achievement. "Id like back in, if I could," the Paladin whispered to me. "I havent seen you since The Burning Crusade" I replied, "Things are different now. You know thi...

4 19 Letter of Transit A first look

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4 19 Letter of Transit A first look They came from the future. At first, they only watched. Arriving at key moments in human history. We called them OBSERVERS. But in 2015 they stopped watching... and seized control. Citizen uprising probed bloody and futile. Those who survives became knows as "Natives." In an attempt to show their allegiance, some Natives faction became "Loyalists" and were marked by the OBSERVERS. The original FRINGE TEAM fought the invasion, but was quickly defeated. FRINGE DIVISION was allowed to continue at a reduced capacity, but only to police the Natives. The resistance was quickly overcome... ...or so they thought. Henrietta, d�j� vu, Casablanca letters of transit, Peter, a bullet, William Bell ambered... I need to rewatch it. Again and again...

3 69 Blizzards First Mistake Revisited

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3 69 Blizzards First Mistake Revisited Visualization of The Public Goods Game (Source: FieldOfScience.com) The Public Goods Game When I said Blizzard never repeated their first mistake... I lied . An economics experiment that teaches about human nature and cooperation was all the proof Blizzard needed to cast doubt on their latest revelation. Whether their designers knew of the experiments existence or not was moot, as the announcement of 10-Man and 25-Man being joined to a single lock in Cataclysm, producing the same rewards, was peppered with the colorful language of "good intentions". Sadly, good intentions are not enough to divert years of evolutionary adaptation away from the hard wired ways we fool ourselves. Spending only a few moments reviewing this simple textbook experiment should have convinced Blizzard that what they were about to embark on was going to have lasting, powerful repercussions, and 25-Man guilds would never be the same. Imagine for a moment, that you ...

3 14 The First Elites

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3 14 The First Elites Newcomer Abrinis joins a handful of his guildmates in ZulGurub (20-Man) during Vanilla Homogenization Theres not much you can get wrong in a glass of milk. As a kid, you poured it on your cereal; perhaps later on in life, you drank it for the reported calcium benefits. Wherever you went in life, if they didnt have your drink of choice, at least you knew what you were getting if you asked for milk. The various brands of milk differ more in label than they do in flavor. Grab a gallon off the shelf at the grocery store -- any brand and all -- and you�re pretty much guaranteed the same taste and texture. Milk is milk, what else can you say about it? So when it comes time to reach for the jug, the only thing that really separates one from another is brand loyalty . You stick with the brand you know because youve always bought it ; second-guessing your decisions only adds anxiety to a normal, consistent life. But milk is only consistent because of homogenizatio...

4 16 Nothing As It Seems A first look

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4 16 Nothing As It Seems A first look Episodio incredibile! Fringe � tornato ad essere lo show della prima stagione con tanti elementi in pi�. E la mitologia cresce. Ed Markham, Marshall Bowman, il porcospino alato, David Robert Jones, la (odiata) psichiatra e Moreau con i suoi ibridi alla H.G.Wells. E quanta felicit� nel lab di Walter, Lincoln a parte... ma "ITS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE". F U T U R E

4 20 Worlds Apart A first look

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4 20 Worlds Apart A first look "Preparate i fazzoletti" - laveva detto Ari. Vedere Walter piangere per i sensi di colpa e la paura di perdere ancora una volta Peter, spezza il cuore. E alla fine Lincoln ha fatto la sua scelta, del resto: "Home is where the heart is..." Ciao Linc, Walternate, FauxOlivia e AltAstrid... I hope to see you again... Peter is still here... ... and so Belly. A L I V E

4 18 The Consultant A first look

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4 18 The Consultant A first look Episodio splendido, degna controparte di 3.07 The Abducted. Le scene migliori FauxOlivia e Nina (Meana) AltAstrid che urla alla vista del caff� portatole da Astrid Walter e AltBroyles che si confrontano sullessere padre FauxOlivia ubriaca e Walter che cucina I due Broyles Ma chi diamine � Simon? Amazing ep, similar to  3.07 The Abducted. Best moments FauxOlivia & Meana AltAstrid screaming for coffee Walter and AltBroyles talking about their sons FauxOlivia drunk and Walter in the kitchen The two Broyles But, who the hell is Simon?

4 38 Server First

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4 38 Server First As the level cap is removed, Syrophenikan surveys the guild XP  and those available to begin the grind to 25, Tol Barad Priorities 10:51pm. Early . Upstairs, the kids slept. I heard Juls footsteps as she passed by the computer room, leading the dogs out into the backyard. A few minutes later, she rapped on the heavy oak door. "Heading to bed. Good luck!" "Night, hon. See you the morning." Behind me, lights flicked off. The steps creaked as my wife headed upstairs. Shuffling. Water rushing through the plumbing in the hundred year old walls. And then, the house was still. April 4th was an hour away, but in the World of Warcraft, the new day wouldnt truly begin until the clock read 3:00am. Within hours of Cataclysms launch, a limiter had been installed. It was an 11th hour band-aid to prevent expansive rosters from stomping over smaller guilds as we ground towards level 25. Nearly any guild related activity earned XP, so guilds of DoDs size and motiva...