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That kind of "forcing" requieres a series of repressive measures that not even the massive US cognitive dissonance would allow on its fellow countrymen, specially since the Civil War was a relatively clean war. And there's a big can of "so what?". Unless you are suggesting to tak...

The nuance is that for keeping the US together, you can't treat a bunch of states like Nazis. Duh.

Lago, neutrality is easy. You just have to write about any country except your own. And sit for the lesson: Wars aren't good guys vs. bad guys. They are bad guys vs. worse guys. Even the precious WWII. Neither the dictator-supporter Yanks, the colonialist British Empire or the fucking Soviets are &q...

For once, K says something intelligent. One absolute requisite for "Magic Items being optional cool stuff" is that they cannot just be +X items, because: a)We want to keep people on the RNG. b)We want a somewhat equal shared screentime between characters. c)+X items just aren't cool anymor...

I give you the worst YouTube video ever made on the history of mankind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0

@K

Selling people the college debt scam for an useless degree and then tell them that they are suckers for getting the only job that said useless degree can get, specially on this economy is a big pile of BS.

And that is one of the big reasons for the OWS movement.

Fatass Boomer scum. Yes, Boomer. In my experience, Boomers from the Dems camp believe what he says and Boomers from the Repubs camp act like tzor. Both of them are the biggest bunch of narcicistical, self-righeous bastards that have ever walked on this planet and both of them sold their children and...

@Radiant Phoenix "One or more characters benefits so much more from items that it is the objectively more effective choice to max out their items at the expense of others." The good old Fighter vs. Wizard dillema says that it happens very often. To Chamolille's "hurr durr scavenger&qu...

Nitpicks: @Chamomille "....four increasingly respectable Denners..." The trusty bullshit translator should have that ready....now: "Me and those who agree with me are awesome". Heh. Nice bit of self-righteousness there. Please continue. It amuses me to watch the train collision b...

The biggest shinys still aren't made by players, so you still look like a collection of scavenged stuff.

The difference is that is better and more shiny stuff.

Ok, here's how it really should work beyond "hurr random all the time". You get whatever loot the DM or the module says that the monsters have and use + whatever is buried at temples + whatever you get from long crafting quests. Don't like it? Then STFU. Which is the only sane way to make ...

....and this racism is both now accepted and gone all the way into making fun of reality; without the creators apparent knowledge. >notsureiftroll.jpg Nice to see that someone keeps the real Tolkien's spirit. :hehehe: Jokes aside, you really haven't seen racist stuff if Scottish Dwarves offend you....

PhoneLobster Hates Skyrim

A good question is: Does PhoneLobster likes something?

*ba-dum-tsss*

Couldn't resist.

Some punditry:

http://www.parapundit.com/archives/008388.html

Well, the Monte Cook hiring, the complete freezing of future 4e D&D supplements, and the Cook's articles that sound a lot like testing ideas for an Alpha version of a new D&D edition are really strong indicators that a new edition is on the works. Thought that "4e was out of ideas"...

@AMIB Decent point. Honestly, I'm fine with monsters having X, Y and Z items on them at all times, but I said that mostly to defuse the "if the monsters don't have loot explicitely tailored to the player's desires the DM is an asshole" vibe. So, each monster has a table that says: "He...

Half of the marketing phrases there won't last to the first serious design meeting or the first beta tests at most.

So yeah. Relax. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, the flamewars will be amusing. Win/win.

@Fuchs Thing is, is a stated WotC goal to make magic items cool again, so you are pissing at the wind. Yes, that means that they don't have to be requiered and that they can't be just statsticks, but is possible. Also, making TTRPGs to be less like MMOs is kinda of a must to sell the damn things. @A...

@K

Funny, haven't met a leftie that isn't a self-righteous asshole.

@DSMatticus

Economies need both production and consumption. That's, like, basic math. Are you sure that you should be posting on a forum instead of atending your NCLB classes?

People get punished by their lack of creativity and lack of understanding of the system ALL. THE. TIME. on games. And it works, and people play those games anyways.

Fuck, many of the sessions described here (speccially from K) sound like mutual masturbation.

Getting told that I "lost" by the ponyfag is rich.

Christ, can't forget anything on this shit: Norway is a mixed system, meanwhile Denmark: http://www.transform-network.net/en/journal/people/article/capitalism-and-crisis-in-denmark.html http://socialismdoesntwork.com/denmark-is-no-proof-that-socialism-is-good/ EDIT: @DSMatticus >Losing Customers >Go...

And here we go to the classical Communist failure: "If only the all-powerful and mighty Goverment were ruled by Angelic functionaries, everybody would hold hands and be happy". Fuck that noise. The Goverment isn't a holy agent on society is just another institution created and directed by ...

@hogarth

The fact that going Freemium was a huge sucess for Turbine says yes. I mean, come on, Anarchy Online (another game that went Freemium) is still around.

@Frank You can call a massive shortage of goods and widespread poverty an economic sucess if you want to. You are still wrong, but you don't seem to mind. When the Soviet Union collapsed, economic leftism was completely discredited. Poland, Cuba, Hungary, Cambodia, every place when it has been tried...