The Gaming Den

Or you can put the gods outside of the play area, or make the gods non-anthropomorphic forces. Speaking of non-anthropomorphic, I think it would be interesting to see primeval Neil Gaiman-esque pantheons created for non-sapient creatures: the gods of jellyfish, the gods of badgers, the gods of dodo...

Prak_Anima wrote:fucking infringement of free speech.

The First Amendment only applies to the US government. In practice, private enterprise can pretty much do what it wants.

decent-looking 3D model Considering that video game designers spend a god-awful amount of time and money on 3-D human models, I'm less than hopeful that a penny-ante game company could do it. And Poser stuff looks like shit. A more reasonable and visually appealing option would be to code a solid 2...

RobbyPants wrote:BP caught using altered image of command center

Jesus, BP, use the Extract tool in Photoshop! It isn't that hard and it gets rid of telltale white fuzzies around layered images.

On behalf of designers everywhere I'm officially embarrassed for you.

Clutch9800 wrote:And Gaming is to blame.

Video gaming.

Be specific.

Warm summer evenings are the perfect setting for a bulbasaur.

The Copyright Office seems to agree with RNB, unless the writers' contracts specifically give them copyright until they're paid. The contracts do not do that. The IMR contracts I've signed specifically state that the work I generate is work made for hire and that title and ownership belong to IMR. ...

Interesting tidbits: 1. According to Bills, the high interest and demand in SR and BattleTech product and producing that product kept the company from focusing on the business side. 2. Bills blames CGL's issues on rapid-growth, a lack of paper trail, a lack of objective outside eyes like a CPA and a...

Why wouldn't they, Wesley? Catalyst SOP -- which didn't always get followed, but should have -- was to wait until they could confirm the in-store street date, and then announce it. Let me tweak my original statement: I wonder why Catalyst is announcing a product when the street date is still weeks ...

Yeah, I don't know what "Magic Background" and "Matrix Background" refers to either. Perhaps some sort of generalized formal study of Magic/Matrix concepts? Knowledge skills are meant to both flesh out a PC's personality (such as a Knowledge skill in Home-Made Children's Toys) an...

I wonder what finally made CGL announce product street dates.

My wife and I are attending but we were too slow to register to hit up any games, other than a d6 Star Wars and Shadowrun game. We're checking out the seminars.

The effectiveness of a Star Trek character is based on three points: 1. quality of writing 2. the performer's acting chops 3. how effectively the character fits one of the standard Trek Archetypes; as follows... The Leader: Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, Archer The Lady Killer: Kirk, Riker, Bashir, P...

It also shows that CGL simply isn't very professional either. Theft and nepotism aside that cuts to the heart of the issue. When a business is run in a virtual fashion, you have to work twice as hard to keep your contractors and employees in the loop. It's not like a freelancer in Lisbon can just w...

Wesley's Boy Genius quality was nerfed in the third season when he simply became the de facto helmsman. TNG didn't really kick into gear until the third season. The first two seasons involved weeding out Roddenberry's more painful ideas: unisex skirt uniforms , kids running around in the Engineering...

Stewart appeared to be very, very tired in Nemesis . I, a huge ST geek for 20+ years, actually skipped it in the theater. When I caught it on DVD my initial thought was, "Other than the actors, were there any actual Star Trek people involved in this production?" :confused: The problem with...

A fair number of Star-Trek fans (the AVGN, confusedmatthew, scifidebris, apparently RedLetterMedia from what I heard secondhand, firstTVdrama) claim that this mentality led to the downfall of the series. Opinions? I agree with their opinions. Star Trek doesn't do pure action well as the underlying ...

There are several game stores in my area and they all carry whatever is currently in print. The ones I frequent offer rewards programs that are comparable cost savings to shopping on Amazon. I'm at a point where I've become thoroughly unimpressed with CGL's Shadowrun output. And it's not due to a la...

This is the part that gets me: The task force recommends reducing the U.S. nuclear warhead total to 1,050. Oh no! If the first nuke fails, we will only have 1,049 left! Men and women who serve honorably are still waiting for compensation but we maintain the ability to turn the planet into a burned c...

Unfortunately, that was a short made by the director to try to sell a gritty reboot on the Mortal Kombat franchise. No guarantee if those will be the actors, the plot, or even that it will happen at all. As someone working in the visual arts I find this kind of high production fan film to be slight...

By the way, why didn't they just make Troi a commissar rather than a real officer? It'd make total sense given her role on the ship and the fact that she doesn't do any fucking thing. She doesn't have to be an insane WH40K commissar, but one based on a real Soviet officer where they're concerned ab...

Ballistic was two hours of my life I'll never get back. No amount of fancy martial-arts is going to save your Cool when you're taunting people in a silly british accent. I was able to hand-wave the accent with his role as a Canadian secret service agent though I can't hand-wave the FBI operating in...

Well, he has a few lines in X-Men. And a main character role in Echs vs. Sever. Speaking parts even. Oh, wait, that movie was tripe and his "acting" didn't help. Blaming a bad movie for wrecking your career is pretty pathetic. Try being more choosy about the parts you pick or just stick w...

Lago PARANOIA wrote:Wow, just watched TNG: Birthright and that was one of the most offensive things that I've ever seen on television.

If Birthright ruffled your feathers, avoid DS9: The Emperor's New Cloak and DS9: Profit and Lace at all costs.