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They are Europeans in the trenches killing men who they don't know and who never personally did anything to each other because generals demand it. That last bit in particular. It should be remembered that it's Sauron and Sauruman the ones organizing the orcs armies and assorted foreign humans force...

The game took 20 years and 5 editions to figure out they were basically simulating the tactics of the first world war and another 3 editions before they actually made dynamic fire and movement a part of the game. When did they do that? 8th edition, each model in a squad can fire at whatever they wa...

New Nintendo direct packed with goodies besides new Smash stuff:

Tokyo Mirage sessions Switch version! SNES games coming to Nintendo online! Teapot pokemon! The first Xenoblade Chronicles remake!

Banzjo Kazooie is out! Terry from Fatal Fury will be the next DLC character! SANS FROM UNDERTALE PLAYABLE! (as a mii fighter skin) And Nintendo/Sakurai going "ah yes we'll keep adding even more characters to Smash Ultimate beyond the initial five planned." Finally we'll have an axe Fire Em...

I'm not familiar with every Fire Emblem game, haven't beaten one and played it at friend's houses. So how does the game encourage interesting tactical movement? What I recall is standing at the very edge of their movement to try to double team the enemy standing furthest out. I don't remember if th...

Radiant Dawn fucking rules, outside the obnoxious "lol ballista crit" bullshit. But really, what would FE be without randomly getting fucked by a ballista crit? Fixed that for you. The FE RNG loves to kill your units with surprise crits just as much it loves to make your unit crits when y...

https://i.imgsafe.org/5d/5d315b206d.png The lightsabers are reaching whole new levels of goofy. Anyone else here flat-out insulted by the fake-reveal of Rey going to the Dark Side? A) It's just a fake-out. This shit is just stupid. Aside from being completely unoriginal, it's also not believable. B...

The videogames subboard here is usually a lot more positive (just look at the SSB thread), plus even in the main tt rpg section when a new iteration of something comes out people will pause bitching about 16+year old games to take their time to complain about the new entry, even if it's not selling ...

A new Fire Emblem came out and it's turning out pretty good and selling like hotcakes and you're still complaining about the old games? Really, let it go man. So speaking of 3 Houses, am I the only one amused that the faction that boasts all the time about having no kings still is led by a specific ...

One of the most baffling things about 4E D&D was that they constructed the game from the ground-up to be a shovelware engine for mechanical content, yet when it came time to deliver the goods they didn't produce appreciably more content than 3E D&D. This is especially conspicuous in the cas...

To be fair, there were specialized temples and priests. And then there were cities like Athen s that considered Athen a their main patrony deity, so people clearly favored some gods over others. In particular Athenians kinda hating Sparta probably wouldn't pray to Ares much. I guess Ares always get...

People, stop trying to shove monotheism down my ancestors' throats. The Greeks (and pretty much everybody in those days) were polytheistic. Ah, the old times when the monotheistics were the crazy cult. Seriously, different people pray to different gods at different times and that's not only OK, it'...

One stab won't kill a giant rat, let alone anything tougher. To be fair, giant rats are supposed to be pretty tough . "The local militia's weapons will break when hitting the giant rat " tough. That's pretty irrelevant when giant rat is RPG shorthand for "entry level jobber". If...

Orca wrote: One stab won't kill a giant rat, let alone anything tougher.

To be fair, giant rats are supposed to be pretty tough. "The local militia's weapons will break when hitting the giant rat" tough.

The presence of guns makes suicide attempts more likely to "succeed" and thus increases the death rate from suicide without necessarily increasing the number of suicide attempts. Overall, the United States is a medium suicide rate country. But the US's suicide attempt rate is actually low...

Tidies mods of course. They're so popular there's even an hentai artist who is writing/drawing a series that's literally about playing Skyrim with a bunch of tides mods, including the protagonist actually using console commands, tweaking settings and checking for new mods now and then. I would like...

Some people comaplining about random crits in Smash, but:



They had already been there for some time.

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So if there's a dozens of vampires clans but they all get along together so that any party combination is possible... Why can't vampires get along humans as well? Or just take over the world openly? Why bother to keep hiding in the shadows? What if that's the game's objective? Maybe the Masquerade i...

Speaking of Epic store, they went from one free game every couple weeks to one free game every week to two free games each week.

Essentially instant communication is the default of modern existence. You've never lived in a time when a verbal command would have to be relayed by runner or rider, and thus you've never experienced a time when it was reasonable for "real time" orders to have transit times measured in mi...

This isn't an example of a proxy war, it's just England testing her strength and finding that she has none. Or you know, it's just they doing what they've been doing for centuries. British stealing shit from other countries at sea is quite old news. Someone claimed that the escalation pattern would...

Koumei wrote: I don't think the hand counts, as that's been a boss in I want to say every single Nintendo franchise since the games were carved into tablets by Zoroastrians.

Eyerok, Wallmaster... Oh gods you're right! Master and Crazy Hand have always been there under cunning disguises!

The other options would be to take the KoF approach, kill off a lot of the properties within it (so the ongoing Mario universe is just the Smash universe. Yeah go on, try selling that idea to anyone, and telling them there will be no more Mario platformers) There will be no more new Mr-Game and Wat...

Is the premise of "Software is dead" based on any real world trends? I really like the idea of nintendo cartridges for hacker stuff with the decker-deck aesthetic. Is 'sapient AI needs to be grown' also based on any real world theories? Either way they make for a cool aesthetic. Nihei's B...

Tidies mods of course.

They're so popular there's even an hentai artist who is writing/drawing a series that's literally about playing Skyrim with a bunch of tides mods, including the protagonist actually using console commands, tweaking settings and checking for new mods now and then.