The Gaming Den

Psychic Robot wrote:I'll be honest I'm bored now but I don't believe that anyone has a right to health care.

Meh. You need to put more venom into it. Try -

'Those pinko communazis who're too lazy to afford Real American Healthcare should die quickly, and decrease the surplus population!'

I picked up "Home Fires" by Gene Wolfe. I love how the man writes and his creativity. But the man's a raging god damn misogynist. This is true. It's the one aspect of the Book of the New Sun that really made me wince. In other news, I've been reading Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit re...

How would you say it compares to 2nd edition? I acquired a copy of 2E a bit ago, and it seems like it could be fun enough in a game that was explicitly not meant to be that serious. The rules are completely different. The tone is (imho) a lot lighter, with the odd hint of the 2E quirkyness here and...

If the cells are just going to be thrown out anyway, I'm not sure what the deal is.

Raygun-gothic?

Fuck yes.

C'tis is in the market for Water gems. We have Air, Death and Nature gems to trade, as well as items made from those gems.

I got four Lizard Kings into the Hall of Fame this turn. I love banishment spam so much.

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tenuki wrote:And Rabelais, sorry to hear about that. My best wishes to you and your family.

Seconded.

I consider only Frank and K to even have an argument for intellectual superiority over me here in TGD, with some other people having strong arguments for equality. What's the name of that cognitive bias where people who think they're awesome at something are actually crap at vice versa? http://en.w...

I am against common sense. "Common sense" just traps you into old behaviors in situations where you're over your head. I try to fly by the seat of my pants wherever I am. I occasionally do stupid things, but I do learn a little bit from everything I do. I'm sure there's a difference betwe...

I did not perform a major invasion of Caelum this turn, but Caelum did have a scout explode on my border army, giving Caelum's player a rather detailed look at my force disposition for the turn. I would be very much against a rollback. What I will do is promise not to send any sky fire or invasion ...

Well I've already looked at the turn, and it included an enormous and pivotal battle, so I'm against a rollback on those grounds.

Caelum will follow the same course of action.

Seeing Keith Olbermann put in the 'crazy left wing' category does not make sense. To me, 'crazy left wing' means Marxist-Leninist or SWP, not 'kind of centre-leftist and also sometimes overzealous'. As for news sources that both sides consider reputable, well, the BBC has a generally ok reputation f...

I was the person who made the comment in the other thread, and PoliteNewb's post more or less sums up my opinion on the SIFRPG. There's an interesting system in there, but it's trivially easy to break and a lot of the subsystems are pretty screwy. Also, typos and editing mistakes are fucking everywh...

Rollback's fine with me.

The setting is one of the most genuinely interesting and different fantasy settings out there. I can't speak to the rules.

I don't think D&D is the way to go with this one--characters gain power on a scale that doesn't jive with the general dark fantasy archetypes, doesn't have good rules for diplomacy-type stuff, has Hollywood healing, etc. Would a slightly changed aWoD be the best bet then? Edit: Alternatively, m...

Late Man has crazy bullshit ranged attacks and castles, plus they get 120% taxes with no unrest simply by using one guy. Plus, in the Den game they got a shitton of indies with badass magic, IIRC. I haven't really been following it. Also, Zine's been totally owning the diplomacy metagame in that ga...

jimbojones1971 wrote:
I'm pretty keen for a war of some kind, just to get the feeling of doing something. Maybe Caelum and I could duke it out, as we are probably roughly on a par? I mean, we've only got one border space in common, but hey I am game.

Sounds good to me!

Doom wrote:

Gnosticism Is A Hoot wrote: the US Libertarian Party, or anyone who waves the black-and-yellow flag.

Who/what has the black-and-yellow flag?

Anarcho-capitalists.

Yeah, libertarian policies would let corporations run the economy because politicians aren't trust-worthy. If that's not the definition of ironic... In fairness, the more sensible libertarians do recognise the little problem there, and tend to have various more or less silly ideas to deal with it. ...

We have proven time and time again that Corporations will poison the land, destroy the fish, and irradiate the air, for an extra 40 cents profit. Market self regulation is a joke, corporations do terrible things in the name of "share holder interests". If the cost of settling out of court...

Ah, so you're saying it's completely unworkable, 'fully fair' is a pipe dream, much as 'independent' and 'fully funded' and 'robust' could ever be...that I can agree with, my apologies. I think Stossil did a wonderful report on how great regulatory agencies are, maybe it's around on Hulu or somethi...

And Gnosticism, the idea that fairness can only exist with massive government intervention is...creepy. Then it's a good thing that I didn't say that. I said that a fully 'fair' market would require a regulatory body much stronger/larger/more informed than any regulatory body which has ever existed...

A 'fair' market - which I take to mean a market with no unresolved externalities, no information asymmetry and near-perfect competition - would require a larger and more intrusive government* than has ever existed on this earth. *Or at least, a regulatory power with limitless authority, manpower and...