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Thus Nintendo games require much less resources to produce. I wouldn't be surprised if a Wii game required less than 10% of the manpower of a PS3 game. And speaking for myself I vastly prefer a game with merely adequate graphics and a new core mechanic over a game with nothing new except a higher r...

How is that Enterprise computing, where everything is stored on a server? "enterprise computing" isn't a technical term; it just means computing as it relates to (generally large) businesses rather than individuals or public labs (like those found in schools and libraries). It's not uncom...

Come back when you read the fucking article. Okay! And in many ways, it is similar to current remote-access products that rely on "Wake-on-LAN" packets to power up a PC so it can then be controlled remotely. The difference here is of degree. Hey, look, it's just like WoL except that you d...

They aren't by definition stupid, they are stupid because they have stupid beliefs. Why are religious people stupid? Because they believe stupid things. Why are the things they believe stupid? Because they're religious. Seems pretty circular to me. Where the fuck aside from out your asshole did you...

That's going to disproportionately affect fighters, compared to everyone else. Well, I didn't say it was a good idea, but I couldn't think of anything that simple and thematically appropriate that would affect all classes equally. On top of it, they'll be less able to meet future challenges as a re...

So according to Kaelik, religious people are by definition either stupid or crazy, and therefore everything taught by any religion is either crazy or stupid. Gotcha.

Or in other words...

One thing I suggested was to have "Retreat" as an action that takes up your whole round (so you're not really kiting while you're doing it) but raises your defenses (as if you were taking a defense action) as well as moving you faster. And you can turn corners. That way, at least, taking ...

Do you believe Jesus Christ is your lord and Savoiur? Welcome to Heaven! No? Burn in hell. That's seriously it. You can be a crazy murderer, you still go to heaven. If you're down with Jesus then you won't be a crazy murderer, because Jesus is pretty explicitly not cool with that. If you used to be...

Crissa, this seriously isn't even a big deal. There's already stuff that lets you access someone else's computer without their knowledge or permission. The only difference is that this stuff doesn't actually have to turn the computers on to do it. Really. It's nothing earth shattering. What's this a...

It's pretty idiotic technology, really. You ought to hold your data in your hand, not on a remote PC that is subject to remote access. This is a great idea for individual consumers. For businesses, especially large corporations (for whom this whole thing is intended in the first place) it's laughab...

Not really. It's an IT tool, and a very useful one, from what it sounds like. The idea that people will use it to steal information from re-sold computers is really pretty paranoid, along the lines of someone stealing your credit card info when you hand it to them to pay for something. I guess it's ...

I was comparing Rhythm with NPF not with a condom. :bash: You were saying that rhythm and NFP were different things entirely, because NFP is SCIENCE!™ . He was saying that condoms are condoms whether they're made of latex or goat bladders. Making a technique more effective (as goat bladders -> late...

I know. That's what I was pointing out. The region being "the southeastern United States" and the trend being "Southern-ness".

Lago PARANOIA wrote:

Bright Green: 19-22% obese
Olive Green: 22-25% obese
Yellow: 25-28% obese
Orange: 28-31% obese
Red: 31-34% obese

Fuck yeah Florida, buckin' the regional trend.

It's an inherent problem with a wiki, and doubly so with one largely for the purpose of covering subjective opinion rather than verifiable fact.

I have heard people say "I'm not a Christian, I'm Catholic"... That's because, in the US at least, "Christian" without any descriptors refers almost exclusively to Protestant, which is obviously different enough from Catholicism to warrant explicit differentiation. Granted, they...

-I love this upgrade system so much more than FF12's. My only complaint about FFX was its upgrade system, which caused me to pull my hair out because there's no general sense of how powerful your characters are. There's no basis for comparison. FFX remains the only RPG I've ever cheated in order to...

If you have things which are CLAIMED to be at the same level of power, but are actually at widely disparate ones, in the same system without labelling, it puts so much requirement of rules knowledge, rules awareness and time on the DM that I frankly think it is insulting. Agreed 100%. It's complete...

Hicks wrote:I absolutly approve of [male] masturbation

But no masturbating for chicks?

There's a huge difference between a 40,000 lb airplane fueled for a trip from Massachusetts to New Jersey and a 400,000 lb airplane fueled for a trip from Boston to LA. The Boeing 767s that hit the Twin Towers were 10 times larger and carried fuel for a trip several times longer than the B-25 that h...

In other words, because a Gladius was primarily for stabbing fools in situations where you couldn't get a good swing in, D&D shortswords can't cut people. Yes, exactly. Seriously, that's how it works. D&D decided that swortswords are stabbing weapons, and accordingly they do piercing damage...

What RC was saying is that it's not enough for the DM to run the entire world - PCs and direct supporting cast (cohort, animal companion, etc), he should be making the entire world warp around the PCs The DM already does this . Unless you're running a module, the DM is already making up every situa...

I think what he's referring to is the the fact that, in 3.5 at least (I don't have 3.0 sources in front of me so I can't vouch for that), a short sword is a piercing weapon (ie you stab with it) while a longsword is a slashing weapon (ie you cut with it). It's perfectly fine if you want to run thing...

Well no, this particular problem is mostly because of class imbalance Also true, and as I said, in a well-designed system all classes would be equally powerful at the same level, but since we're dealing with 3.X instead of a well-designed system... The group I play with has an understanding that if...

Explain that with a spear. Go ahead, I fucking dare you. Granularity of the system. You can either say that incorrectly sized weapons all take penalties, none take penalties, or some take penalties but some don't. It's a small enough issue (ie, there are few enough weapons that are reasonably just ...