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Don't forget how the IG is theoretically supposed to take in women, but a good chunk of the novels where the IG does show up has the regiments literally going "we don't take girls in our ranks, they have cooties" (not to mention the art where is all dicksdicksdicks). The explanation I've ...

The 40k setting is hilariously dumb in a bunch of ways. Here's a few I really like. The Necrons and the Old Ones waged war on one another for a million years. The story says that the Necrons big weakness is that the Old Ones had the webway so could teleport all around them and there was nothing the...

Okay, then I guess I'll have to realign my expectations. I just have more fun playing good guys than bad/neutral guys. Not sure why. I'll just find where to draw my lines when they come up. That's a plan. CAN I murder everyone on both sides? Sadly no, most key characters are tagged as essential and...

You kinda picked up the wrong game if you want to play "unambiguously good guys". Elder scrolls always was a lot more in the neutral and evil side. Crafting magic bling demands capturing and sacrificing the souls of other beings and a bunch of artifacts are locked behind doing quests for d...

Though, 40k fluff is all over the place. Like you say, 100 marines are a division. In Helsreach, it's mentioned that 900 marines is more than enough to conquer entire star systems, and the same author goes on to repeat Dorn's quote of "Give me a hundred Space Marines. Or failing that, give me ...

Don't forget hydras have a swim speed and thus easily cross rivers/seas. Plus being magical beasts rather than animals makes the hydras somewhat less vulnerable to magic since there's quite a few nasty anti-animal effects out there. A low level druid could easily turn an elephant into its new pet wi...

Tippy's proposed setting is predicated on the notion that 17th level arcane spellcasters don't inherently consider such petty concerns as conquering the entire Prime Material to be beneath their notice, much less expertise. (More precisely, he states in the thread "Remove permanent Teleportati...

New trailer, gigantamax revealed, pokémon goes even bigger than dynamax and also gets an actual new model plus a special g-move. Pokéemon that can get gigantamax can be gained from max raids.

Also delicious fighting-specialist gym leader and cute ghost specialist gym leader.

I like how Oda’s One Piece does it, humans are diverse, giants are giant, fish men breath underwater and training can surpass almond those genetic traits Nah, you first need to get lucky at One Piece genetics lottery. Like the protagonist was already born from a long lineage of super badasses, and ...

Even the 1990s developers, as focused on their pseudo-narrative bullshit as they were, tried to put more thought into rules than the guys from the 2010s. 2010s are all GM wankery and "oh it's not badly designed or non-existent, you're SUPPOSED to ask your GM about that, not the book". 199...

This stuff takes less time, and close to zero space. The main thing eating their resources appears to be the new engine (which is just "modifying the new Unreal Engine", sure). Testing graphics is fast, testing stats and combat not so much. It doesn't make the core thing good. It just mea...

So you could raise Gendo Ikari? As a matter of fact, yes, Gendo Ikari route is a playable option. "PILOT THE EVA, GENDO." "Gladly. She's my wife." More like "GET OFF THE EVA, GENDO. " "Nah, gotta make third impact happen." Heh, give it a few more years. That ...

I don't collect all of them (exception: the amazing quality romhack, Extreme Red, which didn't have every pokemon but I collected every one in that game). But I always collected my personal favourites which did grow as the series expanded (Abra, Rhydon, Dratini, Sneasel, Mawile, Buizel, Drifloon, P...

So you could raise Gendo Ikari? As a matter of fact, yes, Gendo Ikari route is a playable option. https://i.imgsafe.org/e9/e9cd9def4f.png Getting him to care about anybody besides his dead wife may not be easy though. maglag: those are more stand-out examples. Basically every fighting game, tactica...

Way to miss the forest for the trees. Collecting all the Pokemon (including ones from earlier games) was still something done in Gens III-VII. The fact that Game Freak sneakily removed a motto still associated with the series doesn't actually stop that. But just how many people actually bothered to...

You know, Intelligent Systems (aka the dudes behind Waifu Fire Emblem) outright said that the reason they haven't made a new Advance Wars for so long it's because Nintendo gave them an ultimatum that any new title from them would need to have waifu mechanics. Personally speaking, it would be quite i...

That was also a choice back in Gen III. They could 've developed tech to transfer data from Game Boy to Game Boy Advance, it's just data at the end of the day, 0s and 1s, there was even an official universal link cable released that allowed to connect a GBC and GBA, but they just decided it wouldn't...

Pokémon masters looks sexy https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/508/096/9a2.png I mean, the series motto is "gotta catch 'em all," so not being to have them all in one game is kinda self defeating. Like that's fine for spinoffs but it's kind of expected at this point...and I s...

What's the down side to cribbing from every RPG video game in the last 10 years and having 'spending more on lifestyle costs' give you noncombat bonuses? Stay at the Squalor Hotel and you're sheltered and fed. Stay at the House of Platinum Pleasures and you get, say, a bardic Inspiration die that l...

People love having a spot in their game they can make their own. The house in Waterdeep: Dragon Heist is easily one of the most popular parts of the module. At least that's my impression from reddit, review articles, session recap blogs and my own group. People like the idea of a headquarters, a pl...

Whales are <2% of players spending >50% of the money spent on the game, where most people spend basically nothing after net connection fees. Because the world you live in is <2% of people having >50% of the money that is spent, with most people having basically nothing to spend after food and shelt...

Hey souron. There's people have studied what players like, and modern PC games are heavily based on the psychology of it all to maximise profits. Most people will spend real money, like actual "this is four hours of my life I took to earn this" kind of money, and buy things like a purple ...

Shrapnel wrote:FUCK. ALL. MINIGAMES. EVER.

In particular infinitely fuck the Zelda Oracle of Ages Goron Dance Dance Revolution minigame.

For all the damage caused by using the Infinity Gauntlet (or even just putting it on), why didn't Banner or Stark just enhance their bodies to the point where it wouldn't be such a struggle to handle its use? Even Thanos suffers heavy feedback from using the gauntlet. And Thanos can outpunch Banner...

Other things relatively reduced besides Tifa's boobs: -Hands. -Eyes. -Cloud's banana hair. It's just a result of going for grittier more "realistic" looks. "Part 1 is just Midgar and 2 discs" is ridiculous and stupid, and the fact that they've already designed content only to car...