The Gaming Den

It's actually a common thing a worm would trigger; because a bot is no use if it does not connect back to a controller.

-Crissa.

Not really. Sloganeering in Japan really is as grating as it sounds in English. They have slogans and incantations for everything from greeting to eating to whatever. Sure, they're in the complex language of the kings and not the common tongue, but that's more a fault of English not having distinct ...

I'm not sure why we care about that. We have an endless supply of humans here - there's no reason to grow and train them offworld as of yet. Well, lots of reasons, but none of them essential. The first several sets in the expedition are going to suffer severe damage from radiation over time in space...

Well, Bull, even you would have to admit that move didn't achieve the softening effect you were looking for and in hindsight probably does look skeevy.

Your social position and familiarity doesn't translate to others in public on the internet.

-Crissa

I was totally imagining how the recent Prince of Persia movie could be modeled with this system...

-Crissa

It would take a huge investment to match the amount of marketing outreach that is behind Warhammer. An investment that would likely never be made back.

-Crissa

Yeah, what, maybe a season after that, but... The stories after that start getting stupid, even if the character development is okay for awhile more.

-Crissa

Well, it's probably happening because it's broken. But I know that's not helpful ^-^

Whether you can nix it by turning off the option, I don't know. It exists, even if your software doesn't mention it.

-Crissa

But, but... In the comic he says it far more often.

Actually, when the believe its stop, so does the show, for me.

-Crissa

That's a good point Count, but of course, Maj and Kaelik are using the strawfeminist argument, asserting that all are these horrible people from their tiny sample. It's more likely people are pissed off because they're pissy, not because they're feminists or whatever. Kaelik and Maj are just making ...

As long as we don't complain about /why/ the governator did what he did and just deal with how he did it, it's not really politics. He's gotta operate the state on a seriously limited budget. And it's tough on those who want to live there.

-Crissa

We know enough about the human body. We can manage on a pure chemical level. The problem comes if we want to do more than that - standard of living above chemically scrubbed air and water. It's when anything that involves bacteria or ecosystems that we are screwed. And we totally don't need to take ...

So, I'm not talking about colonization... because I'm talking about bringing workers with no plans or means to return them, to support a science industry?

-Crissa

A colony should have those means, yes. And yet an expedition would have trouble without those means.

Ooo, this means that chase scenes continue as long as minions or hazards pop up and contest your retreat zone, and you escape when those are exhausted.

-Crissa

I've been in Frank's game group a several times - like for the L5R d20 game mentioned - but I don't really know if any of the writing here had much to do with actual games.

-Crissa

How am I supposed to prove or disprove 'lots of feminists'? You'll just argue some straw-group about what is and isn't a feminist.

Fuck off, Kaelik. Really. Stop making the board inhospitable to anyone who isn't you.

-Crissa

Feminists will get pissy when you do things via gender. If someone misinterprets your actions, why are you getting pissy back? You lose the high ground and make it sound like you're being disingenuous.

-Crissa

Prak_Anima wrote:to the end of the block? huh. Didn't know that.

That's why they have that dashed area. Of course, markings on the road can't keep up with the change in traffic density.

-Crissa

You can fix that by being chivalrous to everyone.

-Crissa

Cars are supposed to use the bike lane as an extension of the turn lane. Bikes that aren't turning should merge to the left of such cars and bikes that aren't should merge with traffic. What annoys me - on bike or when driving - are the people who slide to the right in such lanes, and then don't tur...

The two billion ping times would require some alteration at web sites to support web browsing, though.

-Crissa

That's true; but he isn't saying the number of words equals good. Just that it's a mark to compare by that doesn't change by switching printers.

-Crissa

The simplest answer is: Humans can do things probes can't. They can improvise. There's this great picture of some cracks on the surface of mars. The rover drove over them. It looked at its tracks, and it drove on, because that's all it could do to what looked like mud. A human could literally just t...

Did he get AH's name wrong again?

-Crissa

The questions I always wonder is... ...Why do wands have a specific benefit? It's a wand. It should do something pretty much only for its owner. Steal someone's wand and you have just an expensive sticks. We want wizards to upgrade their wands as long as fighters are upgrading their swords, but... T...