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I'm visiting France for the first time and I'm struck (in an unambiguously positive way) by the reaction of French people in Marseille and Lyon to what happened. It's basically "well, that happened." No psychotic Muslim hate-babble (I assume Le Pen is at it but I mean normal people). No Th...

That it didn't happen four years ago saddens me much more.

I don't know that I could recommend Bright because I learned after seeing it that noted shithead Max Landis was involved, but if you can divorce art from artist, it's a decent popcorn flick.

Koumei wrote:Drink more until you think you can play it drunk with no prep. You'd be amazed what sufficient alcohol can convince you is within your reach.

How big is a five foot step, really?

Yeah - as far as canon goes (the Legends stuff, I stopped paying attention to the new stuff), the margins on small scale shipping is ass. That's why the Falcon is a "light freighter" instead of a "freighter", which mostly throws around big containers. Light freighters are smuggle...

Fleet throw-downs are cumbersome and somewhat difficult to portray, something I learned when I wrote one in a fanfic . You need to lay out the order of battle, understand the capabilities of the vessels and the commanders, and provide interesting tactical options that allow the battle to have inter...

It's been a while, but in my experience, unless you're dealing with outlandish sorts of opposition, Wired Reflexes II should give you more than enough initiative to throw at people to kill 'em before they can kill you. I've been tempted to try a MBW character before but always avoided it--MBW seems ...

Just remember guys, if you aren't willing to run an organization, and pay dues, you aren't allowed to advocate for anything, because theoretically some person might say they are related to you, and then be a dick. Wales isn't saying you can't advocate for what you believe without an organization. B...

Being condescended to by Frank is only one small step on your journey to becoming a man. You still need to be sent to the burn ward by Kaelik and become locked in an argument so obtuse that you're frankly amazed these people even exist. And no, this thread doesn't qualifies for that last one yet. O...

This is some interesting revisionism. There was, full-stop, no serious good-faith attempt to "go after the journalists"--"censorship" and "ethics in game journalism" are both retrofits onto that tasty, tasty misogynistic core. The conversation started with Quinn and the...

It's not in my Github (when I say "somewhere" I mean "on a backup drive in my closet), but if you know C, the NetHack generator source is pretty easy.

Semi-related: I have a fork of NetHack's map generator somewhere around here that I use to create map bases for dungeon crawls. I once GMed a D&D campaign with a bunch of folks who all played NetHack on my server, so I pulled their bones files and made maps out of them. Somebody realized on the ...

mean_liar wrote:I know for a fact that I'm living a life juiced with glorious white privilege.

It is wonderful and I recommend it to everyone.

It really is wonderful. Let's be friends. We can look down on so many people! And ride bikes!

I couple every privilege checkmark with an amazing job living in one of the greatest places in North America (yes, Frank, I'm still jealous) and I am so handsome that people occasionally stop and gawk. That has nothing to do with the topic, I'm just bragging. But no, seriously, DSMatticus (obviously...

I'm very interested by the concept of multiple main quests. Could you tell more about how Avernum dies this ? The Avernum games are pretty great, but he's overselling it. There are usually a number of quest lines that get you the gem-encrusted plot-coupons that you need to unlock the door for the f...

You can see places where they rebuilt after the molasses flood in the North End. It's pretty wild.

WH40K has pauldrons. Spiked pauldrons.

Shadowrun has shoulderpads and mohawks.

Rawbeard wrote:Wait, there was a concept?

"Shoulderpads upon shoulderpads."

Oddly enough, all of the reports I heard from the PAX area where Next was being played was pretty positive. I don't know how representative that is, though. I did not get to ask Mearls if he had a new job lined up post-release. Which playtest they use? That one where Sorcerers are interesting and W...

Oddly enough, all of the reports I heard from the PAX area where Next was being played was pretty positive. I don't know how representative that is, though.

I did not get to ask Mearls if he had a new job lined up post-release.

It's the same way how silencers/suppressors are illegal while an Ingram Smartgun (with an integral suppressor) is only Restricted. You can always explain away those oddities via some kind of backroom lobbyist deals with corporations. Ingram makes a sizeable donation to lawmaker's campaign funds and...

Her criticals start ramping up quickly at that point, though. I was regularly doing 18-24 damage per hit and hitting five times a round. She killed that asshole at the end of the game in two rounds.

Stahlseele wrote:but at least SHE was combat effective . . .
The Glory Hole was mostly useless aside from carrying a but load of healing stuff . .

I found it to be pretty much the exact opposite. Adrenaline pump and hand razors, for some unknowable reason, trump shotgun and sniper rifle.

I'm unclear what Catalyst's rights actually are - if they'd had a notion to do something smart, would they be able to legally use that stuff from SR2?

Nightmare Harvest is very good--it's mostly well-balanced for a number of different character types and the writing is good. Basically everything else is laughably short, unfinished, or A Stitch In Time , which is broken in almost every way I can conceive of it being broken. I love this game, but I...