The Gaming Den

Oh, Dark Sun's failure isn't all Baker. Don't forget this pile.

Put my vote down for Janeway as worst captain (although that last one with the weepy intro music is awfully close, I blame overall horrid writing for that, and not the actor in any way).

Credit/loan people don't really pay much attention to laws (which are basically written by credit/loan people, anyway). I remember when my restaurant went under, I'd get calls repeatedly asking me to pay back loans on things I'd never purchased. It didn't matter that they could never produce my sign...

I'm trying to figure out why every setting must have orcs be as good at wizarding as everyone else.

I'm just pointing out that even the heaviest gold coins from actual antiquity came 40 to a pound. So, his 'reality' argument can suck it. That's my entire dog in this fight. Actually, ancient Egypt had a number of coins minted at roughly an ounce. Eg, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSXWvM5aa50 Most...

Yup, they're dice bags around here, too.

Been focusing on archery too much to really try destructo, though my next character will try being a full mage--I've always found magic lame in the Bethesda games, so put it off until last.

Dayumm, that's funny. You definitely have to hold your nose at some of the goofiness of the Skyrim world. What's missing in those ads is someone to complain about the terribly bad healing in the temples. Sure wish I could remember names, but the temple in the central city is ridiculous--there's guys...

I'm fairly unimpressed with shouts, too. I hardly ever use them (there are a few caches that are impossible without shouts). It is funny how 'real time melee combat' has yet to work in any game. Does anyone know a turn based game with good melee combat? I can think of a few flip books that were kind...

Yeah, horsies have been around a long time...unfortunately, they've uniformly sucked, and it's never made any sense when, if you're not exploring, you can 'fast travel' (and time doesn't matter anyway), and are useless when you're exploring.

I'm certainly playing the heck out of Skyrim...just finished the Unusually Large Dungeon of Annoyingly Heavy Loot. Yes, I'm playing basically the same game as Oblivion/Morrowind, but still tons o' mindless fun.

Har, stayed home, played Skyrim all freakin' day.

If the exceptions aren't specifically stated, does that mean the immunity carries over to both?

If a creature is immune to ability score damage, would it also be immune to ability score drain? Is this different between 3.0 and 3.5?

@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. You left off the massive starvation and that Moscow's phone system, installed pre-Revolution, was largely intact (and unchanged) when the USSR f...

Quesadillas are pretty easy...you can get the flatbread and pre-shredded cheese in the store easily enough (and instructions for quesadillas are on the back of the bread packaging). Get some deli meat or wahtever if you want more than cheese. Takes a few minutes with a skillet, and you can eat one w...

You must be reading a different comments section. You must not have clicked on the right link. Basically nobody seems to buy that events happening years after Hitler came to power can be legitimately associated with the rise of Nazism. Allow me to assist you in the process by clicking on the link f...

Also, vegetarianism leads to Hitler!

You can read the comments section to get a hint at how loud people are laughing at this piece.

Yeah, as much as Fly is cool, it would force the designers to warp everything in the game around it in order for this one spell not to break the game, above and beyond any programming issues.

That they post rambling power fantasies on message boards? Yes, I have 100% proof that they do. I in no way trust those people with anything I would classify as a weapon. -Username17 But what makes you so certain they really are mall cops? Everything else is all-but-certainly rubbish, so I'm rather...

FrankTrollman wrote: And frankly, I don't trust mall cops with anything deadlier than a walkie-talkie, because they do shit like this.

-Username17

You...seriously believe those guys?

Ah, I misremembered. But yes, it'd be funnier if it weren't so heavy handed on the republi-hate, and more even across the board. Obama's flaws basically boil down to "might kill innocents" and "can't please them nasty, evil republicans." It's hard not to be heavy on the republi-...

Yeah, test prep is big money--you don't have nearly the competition (nobody takes a class on the SAT in school), and 100% demand (all students take it), and you have Mommy and Daddy paying for it. It was $25 an hour a few decades ago, and I didn't see all that money either (only did it for a little ...

Just for fun, I decided to tutor advanced math courses this semester, at what I thought was the ridiculously high rate of $35 an hour. Ok, not all for fun, between the new roof ($6000), and a bunch of upcoming expenses (including a new AC at $7k or so), I figure a few extra bucks would be a good ide...

Are you taking aspirin as well? If so, don't combine aspirin and beer, and I imagine there are a few other common drugs that generate a similar effect.