The Gaming Den

Juton wrote: ...beneath the standard of rhetoric of the den.

Heh.

Weird...I have multiple cable providers. It's neat, it seems like I pay less than my friends in monopoly areas. Past that, would only create a pointless argument.

Durability never seems to work right...it's a holdover from Diablo. It only matters if weapons can reasonably break during combat; the only game that's come close to doing it right is Mount and Blade. Amalur also copies the idiotic "set item" idea from Diablo. By the time you find a whole ...

The other flaw in MMO logic is the monsters keep spawning infinitely.

In any sane world, monsters vulnerable to such tactics would get wiped out quickly once humans with superior tactics show up (cf Ridley's Sea Cow), never to be seen again.

Well, the author of Freakonomics argued the reason for the dropping crime rates was the increasing rates of abortion...he couldn't exactly prove it, of course, but it's an interesting theory. Funny thing is, I've heard it argued that crime rates are also exaggerated at times; there's only a finite a...

I find myself wondering if Lago is posting "Why are white people superior?" at Stormfront, and totally accepting all answers at face value.

Yes, of course, an ability given to one race is a kind of penalty given to all other races.

Next up, a discussion of why water is wet....

And if everyone on the planet can make light whenever you need it, not so good, eh?

Of course, one thing missed in all this is a paradigm from 4e that I never much liked: no race has any penalties (except, inexplicably, the halfling, assuming it was never errata'd). K's inability to understand how any advantage can become a defacto 'only choice' aside, if advantages also come with ...

If you're going to have more than one race, you may as well have elves. In fantasy games where there are no elves, there's inevitably one that that's presented, at least informally as "These are warglblasters. They're elves."

Still a little steep, but at least a reasonable cost, when you consider she needs to pay off the doctor regularly to keep getting the pills.

Heh, being very nearly in rural La (I'm in the empty spot between B.R. and N.O.), I don't know if I'd exactly call it nuts....but, hell, it's nuts. We had a small alligator in our retention pond (happens nigh every spring); some students took it upon themselves to roll up their blue jeans and start ...

Kewlio, thanks.

I just finished that Amalur sidequest where you go find the ten books from that monk's collection, that begins in the very first town you're in. More or less just started Amalur. Do you ever get a 'stash'? I rented a room, but there's nothing there for storage, as near as I can tell. I'm not having...

how does it compare to the new D&D boardgames (I mean the actual boardgames they made based on 4e, not 4e) The D&D licence boardgames really aren't dungeon crawls by design, except for the Ravenloft one. They're just boardgames meant to take advantage of WoTC IP. The Ravenloft game is very ...

If you include computer games, then no. But with friends around the table? Yeah, more times on forum.

Including computer gaming, I spend more time gaming than sleeping.

No, I don't hate anyone, you liar. Nor was 'every post' including atheist bashing...not even sure there was one, but I'm sure you can continue to lie and twist things around. Liar. Again. As for the rest of your screed: more lies. Liar. Again. In short: bad liar. Stop lying! every post he made, incl...

Well, read that thread again more carefully. It was K that said "The fact that they created some propaganda that passes the various legal definitions of a religion is just gaming the system, " I guess I should have emphasized that it's SOME atheists, instead of K's sweeping generalization,...

Really, Doom? So what was with all the anti-athiest shit here? Certainly, there are atheists so bitterly defensive about their beliefs that they'll misremember imagined affronts and attack people for daring to say things that might be interpreted as heresy (whether such things are said or not) long...

Between going to Catholic School, Baptist School, and a couple of other non-government schools, I knew too much about each of them to think any of them could be right.

So I start out watching, and thinking "how could these guys be so hated? It's just a pointless reality show knockoff."

Ninety seconds in, I had my thoroughly complete answer.

A great number of conditions isn't a big deal but one thing that 4e messed up on was having a great number of conditions affecting a character at one time. A cap of '3' seems as good a place to start; I often had higher level 4e battles where a half dozen effects/conditions/whatevers were affecting ...

It is a family history, but it's small enough not to care about. You're much better off improving your chances through diet and exercise than by hoping you aren't genetically predisposed (note: not all diseases work this way, there are several where family history dominates anything you can do after...

It's worth noting that the same chart where you could randomly meet a harlot had a good chance of also rolling up a seriously powerful demon or devil.

Chocolate covered bacon. I love both of those things, but I can't picture them good together. ' Whole Foods (or as I like to call it, "Whole Paycheck") has chocolate bars with bacon in them. I actually sprang for the $5 for a tiny, tiny, bar....and was totally unimpressed. But, if some mo...