The Gaming Den

Looks like we're going with Australia! When I have three character sheets I'll set up a time and irc channel.

My internet connection has been fucked over this weekend due to the crazy weather, but I was planning on doing an in media res story, set in the mid 80s in small-town America(or Australia).

IRC suits me just fine. Get some players together and we'll work out a time.

I'd fucking love to mc a game of After sundown. How would we be playing?

Seems to me like a much better option would have been to tell the sex-denying girlfriend to fuck off. If a girl is willing to withhold sex as a bargaining tool then it is obvious she doesn't care about the guy. Plus that's a really bad sign for the rest of the relationship going forward anyway. The ...

n an interesting twist, about one-third of Prius drivers broke crosswalk laws, putting the hybrid among the highest "unethical driving" car brands. "This is a good demonstration of the 'moral licensing' phenomenon, in which hybrid-car drivers who believe they're saving the Earth may ...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ecb-has-opened-pandora%E2%80%99s-box This is actually pretty big news, and I can't even begin to think of what's going to happen as a result of this. I've been expecting the house of cards to fall over for a year or two now, but the people in power keep postponing(and w...

The USA is really not an oppressive police state. In Iran, you can be executed for making a website where people upload pictures. The US has a way to go before its' there yet, although it is making pretty good progress(say hello to your friendly TSA agents the next time you drive/catch the train/a b...

ishy wrote:Good thing I actually said in my post that I disliked the -2 penalty then, ey?
But I guess I should have said the idea behind the mechanics.

But that's all that anyone with a brain likes about 4e. Grand sounding ideas that were completely fucked by their incompetent implementation.

Hey, you're right. My mistake.

Its' actually Cthulhu who's living in the bizarro universe.

The "left wing" party in Australia is run by a bunch of faceless, unelected men who decide everything about the party and are complete morons. Thanks to wikileaks, we now know that a great PM of ours was backstabbed and torn down from the leadership position because he wasn't nice enough t...

Huh, why on earth did anyone buy SCII then? I mean didn't DSMatticus just state that good demos would cannibalize sales?

I mean, if what DSMatticus said is true, then SC II must have been an absolute dog, sales wise. I wonder which of us is living in the bizarro universe.

a success almost entirely on the back of "hardcore gamers". If you're here saying that casual gamers did not buy Starcraft II, fuck you you are retarded. If you are trying to use highly specific career fanatacism in South Korea in which less than a thousand players actually participate as...

Hardcore PC gamer does not mean what you think it means. When he said "hardcore PC gamer," he was not referring to anyone who ever owned any PC gaming product ever because that would be stupid. For fuck's sake, you mentioned alienware, a product line whose sole purpose is to trick gamers ...

A videocard is a much less risky purchase than a videogame. If it doesn't work you can return it, and there are tons of review sites out there that are actually worthwhile and tell you what the specs of a graphics card will be. The only real "risk" is buying one just before the next line i...

In a shareware model I am not going to buy the game until I've finished the Demo. If I never finish the demo, I will never buy the game. Cuts to sales will be vast (35% or so). That's a gigantic impact on the bottom line, indeed most games would become unprofitable. Except we can see how drastic of...

Steam is a really special case simply because a lot of people on it will buy games and then not play them. Portal came free with the orange box, so it is actually entirely understandable that only fifty percent of players finished it, considering twenty five percent of players didn't seem to play it...

I meant HR, DX2 doesnt have steam achievements, so I'm not talking aobut that one. You've completely forgotten about the recent sales, where HR was very cheap. Three of my friends picked the game up and only got it installed just recently. If you've got the same data for the period before the sales...

Edit: If it takes you 25 hours to complete bioshock you are a limbless retard. Incidently, check Steam Achievements for progress through a game. Most people haven't completed 'good games' like Deus Ex 2. If you give away the first half of the game as your 'demo' most people won't buy it. Only 55% o...

Sure, but there is absolutely nothing the developer can do about it. Bioshock has great graphics. Graphics require large amounts of data. large amounts of data requires heavy use of storage. Why do you think that Bioshock is a 6 GB game whereas Quake fit on one cd? Therefore AAA titles are going to...

. Also that apparently he only wants to pay for things after he's used them. Could you show me where he said that or is this another hallucination The other retarded thing is that he also complains that he cannot buy SS2 any more, but then complains that the steam release of XCOM is just a money gr...

That is totally his arguement though. He complains that, for example, the incremental cost of downloading the Bioshock warez version over the Bioshock demo is so low he may as well pirate it. That is actually in his essay - it is a direct statement he makes. Why do you think the Bioshock demo is so...

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"WHY ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE PIRATING GAMES IN AUSTRALIA, OBVIOUSLY WE NEED MORE DRM AND TO MAKE SURE THE AUSTRALIAN RELEASE DATE IS EVEN FURTHER BEHIND THE REST OF THE WORLD"

What the fuck am I reading? Are you seriously saying that "People pirate because they have no way of telling if a game is good or not due to the shit nature of demos and the ridiculously onerous policies regarding pc game returns" is equivalent to "Games have good graphics so people p...

http://insomnia.ac/commentary/pc_game_piracy/ Piracy is a solved question, pretty much. A significant part of that guy's arguement is that Piracy is caused by games having good graphics. I'm not even joking. He spends ages on this point. Number of words in article: 16336 Number of words talking abo...