The Gaming Den

Not exactly; I know for sure it disagrees with the New Testament. Though it should be pointed out that a lot of Islamic tradition comes from "Shit Muhammad Said", or rather stuff that people reported him as saying. Islamic scholarship is very clear that only the Koran is the inviolate wor...

A hacker doesn't need to do legwork to shoot someone dead with a gun, so why should making someone's arm kill them be more difficult? (From a game balance reference frame) Because its a bit easier than shooting them. Hack, insta kill, compared to aim, shoot, dodge, armor, hp drain, ect. From a game...

Notorious, can you shut the fuck up about your love of the legwork. Your position has gradually changed over time: [*]It's not bad that hackers are too complicated to use in combat because they are useful at legwork [*]Hackers should be worse at combat because they are good at legwork [*]Hackers sh...

Okay, look. Timothy 2:12 is one of the most fucking controversial lines in the bible so before you trot it out, here's a good summary of all the thinking that's gone into it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Timothy_2:12 . No one fucking knows what Paul was thinking when he wrote it, considering it go...

For more specific hacks, like hacking a cyberarm to strangle the guy, either you'd have to know the arm was there or you'd have to do a little digging. But chances are in combat you'll resort to one of the base options if you're actually being shot at. The specific hacks in my view should be part o...

If you don't know that the word 'the' is used as a specifier for a specific thing, you will continue to embarrass yourself in public as you have just now. Indeed, the very next sentence says Christians , but honestly the context of Christian fundamentalists defending marriage on the basis that its ...

The civil war's weirdnesses were largely driven by everyone at the time studying Jomini. Jomini had some interesting ideas and taxonomy, but provided absolutely no useful information. It's exactly like GNS theory, and his (lack of) substance is exactly as herp-derp as soon as anyone tries to act on...

It's not "only brain hacking" it's that you can't check the target's equipment before determining what hacks are available. "You can't check if the target is undead or a construct before casting Finger of Death." :bored: There are dozens of immunities and other conditions that a...

Okay, you know what, fuck it. Time to go full on dennizen. I've tried being polite, I've tried being visible. But you have proven to be so goddamn stupid that maybe a dose of trollman medicine is what's needed. Marriage is older than the religion. Religion is at least 30,000 years old, in prototypic...

The societal question is whether or not tax breaks which are intended for the procreation of children (which is what the legal benefits of marriage are intended to encourage) should be given to people who aren't able to do so. Why does nobody who makes this argument also advocate prenuptial fertili...

Class Warfare and murder. I'm not saying bad acts are balanced out by good acts. I'm not saying real life works on a magical video game morality system. What I am saying is that there is a grade to bad acts and everybody is on that grade. So, for example, lets go back to Chick Fil-A. Donating money...

Protip: Do not conflate "deliberately and knowingly funds causes which support the disenfranchisement of African Americans because he is a racist and wants to disenfranchise African Americans" with "being a douche." I really shouldn't even have to explain this. I really shouldn'...

I can understand that you are hesitant to turn to your friends/family/coworkers/acquaintances and call them vile, disgusting shitbags. Because they are your friends/family/coworkers/acquaintances, and that would be awkward. And you know what? That's fine. I don't rock the boat at my extended family...

Well, obviously the correct answer in terms of D&D is to become personally powerful and take over the country for yourself. True dat. But it does make it an interesting challenge where everyone who would fill your powerbase either hates you or you hate them. It would make for some interesting r...

Yanukovych and immigrants stuff. First- was thinking you were talking about the current regime not that fuckwad Yanu. Anywhoo, on the matter of conservatives, this is exactly the sort of ideology you don't want in your game. I'm personally pretty fucking strong on the social justice side and a happ...

There's another thing to consider, which is that accuracy decreases wildly once the opponent enters into 15 meter range. Adrenaline, fear and the like fucks up your to think when someone's charging you. It's why charging was still an effective tactic, even into the Franco-Prussian war (the Civil War...

I don't actually play with anyone who voted Coalition - or if I do, they hid it well and have always been okay with me badmouthing their PM. So I'm pretty safe there. Indeed, online I don't actually play with other Australians at all and I'm pretty sure non-Australians don't give a shit. I don't pa...

Of course, this doesn't change the fact that, to make sense, such technique should only allow to affect targets that are either drones or vehicles, have cyberware, or are currently using an imaging or audio device. Considering that cyberware is incredibly common, this isn't really that big of a wea...

Your options to hack a dude simply can't be dependent on what cyberware and gear he has, because that's obviously insane. But the end result of that line of reasoning is that if hackers can create their diversions regardless of what gear their targets have, then by necessity hackers can also create...

One: that's demonstrably false. "Anti-" as a prefix not only can not only denote opposition to (the definition you cherry-picked), but opposite to (the definition you deny). Heck, if you look it up in MW , the second sense is actually listed first . I did not deny the opposite to either. ...

Prak_Anima wrote:huh. Meh, if I were a kid and someone offered me $20 to shovel a (reasonable) walk, I would.

Hell, 20 bucks is two hours of moving furniture for me, so I'd take it with pleasure.

Reading a Conan anthology that kindle was selling for 2 bucks (close to a 1000 pages of conan goodness!). Its damn good, but you'd it is annoying at times that every woman is white, heavy breasted and only wears a loincloth. Its sort of repetitive.

Lokathor wrote:Mage / Samurai / Decker is even the basis of the goofy 1990s promo vid they did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GPGQoR6f6w

Dear God that couldn't be more 80's if Nancy Reagan suddenly appeared and hushed up the existence of AIDS.

Never said he was at the core of Shadowrun . Actually said, the choice between man, magic or machine was at the core of Shadowrun . Oh really? RLY brah. Choice between man and machine is at the core of the cyberpunk genre, Shadowrun just adds magic. The choice to embrace magic (if you have the pote...

Ah yes. Because making changes to one archetype destroys the setting when Frank does it, but making changes to all the archetypes...and inventing some that haven't existed for 25 years...totally preserves the setting when you do it. Frank was suggesting much more than changing one archetype, he was...