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- Tue Dec 01, 2015 9:23 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What do folks want out of an "Oriental Adventure"?
- Replies: 137
- Views: 37466
And, of course, all this shit doesn't matter to what people want out of an East Asian themed game, because what they care about are the stories, not historical accuracy. As hilarious as watching FatR get repeatedly schooled is, history is just one story, and while it's an alright story, what people ...
- Mon Nov 23, 2015 8:10 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What do folks want out of an "Oriental Adventure"?
- Replies: 137
- Views: 37466
- Tue Nov 17, 2015 4:33 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Christians created Freedom of Speech; Atheists caused WW1
- Replies: 61
- Views: 16889
- Tue Nov 17, 2015 10:40 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Christians created Freedom of Speech; Atheists caused WW1
- Replies: 61
- Views: 16889
I'm struggling to imagine what kind of excuses Andrei would offer for the Holy Roman Empire, given that Andrei seems to consider politics and religion immiscible. How would they respond to a king who was awarded a crown by the Pope? Mostly, for, y'know, killing a lot of people and taking their stuff...
- Tue Nov 03, 2015 11:24 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Identity Politics and Representation in Comics
- Replies: 197
- Views: 28709
Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, and Captain America were all released before Miles Morales' debut issue. Oh... fucking fuck. Am I that daft on time? I am. Fuck! I'm sorry, I must confess, I am a time traveler and sometimes forget which year came first . I stand by the rest of my st...
- Tue Nov 03, 2015 6:50 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Table Top Industry Defeatism
- Replies: 153
- Views: 34651
- Tue Nov 03, 2015 5:19 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Identity Politics and Representation in Comics
- Replies: 197
- Views: 28709
- Mon Nov 02, 2015 7:33 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Table Top Industry Defeatism
- Replies: 153
- Views: 34651
Inflation has gone up sure, but the cost of producing books I suspect hasn't stayed the same. At the very least it's become easier to actually layout the content (not necessarily *well* mind you) due to advancing computer software options. That, plus the explosion of *dirt cheap* printing in China ...
- Mon Nov 02, 2015 11:26 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Table Top Industry Defeatism
- Replies: 153
- Views: 34651
- Sun Nov 01, 2015 9:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Table Top Industry Defeatism
- Replies: 153
- Views: 34651
- Sun Nov 01, 2015 7:08 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Table Top Industry Defeatism
- Replies: 153
- Views: 34651
- Fri Oct 30, 2015 5:16 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Paradox Buys White Wolf from CCP
- Replies: 316
- Views: 69036
- Sat Oct 24, 2015 4:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Give me the low-down on Fate Core
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6678
Eh? If Fred Hicks was using it as part of his rubric for why he should do a thing, I think it's worth talking about, mostly because utilitarian calculus is pretty much all we've got. Was his assessment based on false information? Load the likelihood of it being false into the calculation, because pe...
- Sat Oct 24, 2015 3:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Give me the low-down on Fate Core
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6678
Dogbert is making the bold 1st Amendment stand for the #Gamergate card game, released by James Desborough. True to a game about ethics in videogame journalism, it was about making fun of brown people, women, and queers, and also not very good as a game. Fred Hicks objected to this thing's existence ...
- Sat Oct 24, 2015 7:46 am
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Shilling for people to gamble on KickStarter games
- Replies: 110
- Views: 84482
As I understand it, Indiegogo lets you keep what you gathered at the end, even if you didn't reach your goal. Could be wrong. Only if you chose Flexible Funding (they didn't). There are various small rules that differentiate Kickstarter and Indiegogo, however... any of them could have been the deci...
- Fri Oct 23, 2015 6:37 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2016
- Replies: 3238
- Views: 350040
Ultimately you'll get the candidates the Powers That Be want you to be offered, and you'll vote for one of them, and things will continue as before. This is baffling. I mean, yes, Obama has demonstrated nothing but a tired old centrist position, gradually grinding leftwards, but he was our tired ol...
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 6:59 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Social Systems: What are they supposed to do?
- Replies: 119
- Views: 16556
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 6:17 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Social Systems: What are they supposed to do?
- Replies: 119
- Views: 16556
It's simply that if the consequence of your decision is in fact your goal, then you are making a correct decision. And honestly you've done nothing other than back up Prak's decision by citing years of policy history and entire genres where the idea appears and is used heavily. I mean, fuck, have yo...
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 5:40 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Social Systems: What are they supposed to do?
- Replies: 119
- Views: 16556
The entire question of social mechanics goals is What do you want to motivate ? Followed up with Wait, why the hell would you want to motivate that ? The purple example is supposed to demonstrate to you the existence of other modifiers is not an argument in defense of the stupid outcomes caused by ...
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 5:07 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Advice Helping Someone into Warhammer
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4414
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 5:04 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Social Systems: What are they supposed to do?
- Replies: 119
- Views: 16556
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 4:45 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Social Systems: What are they supposed to do?
- Replies: 119
- Views: 16556
- Sun Oct 18, 2015 5:06 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2016
- Replies: 3238
- Views: 350040
That is, if you ask a random democrat who won, 62% say Hillary; while if you put up a sign asking democrats to come to you to tell you who they think won then three quarters of the people who put in the effort say Bernie. I think this is an excellent example of why Sanders is a stronger candidate t...
- Sun Oct 18, 2015 5:01 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Orpheus v. Geist
- Replies: 71
- Views: 48395
- Sun Oct 18, 2015 4:40 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Warmachine MK II: Steampowered Boogaloo
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5873