The Gaming Den

Many good paid games, especially puzzles, have the Unity splash screen. Indie creators don't see the problem with crediting tools they use, AND the revenue cap on the free version is $200k / year, so paying feels like a waste of money. Free games, however, splash screen or no splash screen, cost tim...

But what about Dexterity? How is it not incredibly stupid for there to be negative Dexterity modifiers when getting caught flat footed negates your Dexterity? Like, how is it even possible for there to be 5 levels of slower movement than people who are attacked while not moving? Why is that even a ...

Two employees in a Russian nuclear research facility put a supercomputer online and tried to mine crypto with it.

So are you arguing that elves don't feature in Dragonlance or that elves don't feature in Tolkien? No, I'm arguing elves in Dragonlance are not somehow a more objectionable borrowing from Tolkien than elves in other D&D settings, so calling out specifically DL for daring to have elves from the ...

I don't really see how. Dragonlance ended up with something much closer to Tolkien as interpreted by the 1980s than the Forgotten Realms did, and the fact that they were adhering to what was by then a long and storied tradition of ripping of Tolkien doesn't make a difference to what actually ended ...

DSMatticus wrote:I have to object, though. Dragonlance being a shitshow is perhaps the greatest truth, the singular truth from which all else follows.

Way less of a shitshow than Forgotten Realms. At least the authors didn't sexually harass anyone. And the customizable adventures were cool.

My understanding is that this was an early/rejected version of the Dragonlance characters. Red robe is Raistlin, the big guy is Cameron, the guy with the warhammer is Tannis Half-Elven. I don't know where I heard that. Not likely. The Dragonlance party was designed by committee, and a bunch of stuf...

Judging__Eagle wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City

Great book, that one.

I liked TLJ. Leia living: she's Luke's twin. "Gurls can't Force" was terrible and you know it. That said, she IS massively shat on, in that she blows as the leader of the Resistance. Her HR and outreach work is a war crime. Hux and Kylo Ren as joke villains - they're basically the alt-righ...

Update on the ritual murder situation: one of the prominent Russian newspapers published an opinion piece in which the Jewish author, a celebrated journo and Putin propagandist, quotes some historical Jewish-ritual-murder propaganda, describes what happened to its authors (got hanged at the Hague) a...

So the government is reviewing the known history of the deaths based on the bodies having been recently recovered, and is pointedly not looking into the "jews did it" theory while doing so. The Investigative Committee is . Putin may be a run of the mill kleptocrat, but there are plenty of...

The Russian Orthodox Church and the Investigative Committee (the top prosecution office) have launched an investigation into whether the execution of the royal family in 1918 was a Jewish ritual blood sacrifice sealing the Bolsheviks' deal with Satan. (They're convinced it was.)

Kind of jarring to see these religious symbols among so much cutting-edge 70s' technology, but the Russians probably figured that a +1 morale bonus to Attack Rolls and Will Saves vs Fear could't hurt. The church is marking territory, like a dog. The Russian Orthodox Church = evangelical hate and ch...

Gamebooks.org says I have #3. I'll see if I can fish it out of storage.

Krusk wrote:Vegan - this response is why people make fun of how annoying your group is.

Fine, *I'm* not a vegan, and I too fail to see the fun in murdering cute fluffy creatures for the lulz (not safe for normal people).

Bump for Stranger Things 2, because it neither rocked (unlike the first season) nor lost me. Here's what I disliked: - too short, doesn't even pretend to try to tell a complete story - too much time is spent crying, shouting, or both - Will is benched for a season; I couldn't tell him apart from Mik...

Ah I see. It's weird, then, that only 13% default. Also, since individual unsupervised humans are making decisions, bad study is bad - no control for if people who appealed to emotions defaulted more because more lenders were willing to lend to risky borrowers if the appeal was emotional enough out ...

#2 here
Dear Americans,
do you actually have freeform loan applications?

whyyyyyy

I started playing D&D at school when I was 12. It was exactly like in the show.

Mechs need facing and hit locations like they were an RPG made in the early eighties. -Username17 I think it really depends on the style of the game. MechWarrior style mechs definitiely need that, but do you really want to bog down your Evangelion anime mech combat with facing rules? Facing, maybe ...

I'm with Obsidian on this one. Romances in vidya are creepy shit if they're taken at face value; they're essentially porn. I'm very much pro-porn and pro-wish fulfillment in general, but if a game is pretentious enough to claim sincerity, the porn has to go. It doesn't even have to be successful; on...

A game has more activities in areas where it has more players. This is racist because I need to write an article to keep my job and it's a slow news week. She seriously compared pokeballs to police shootings and water . Get some perspective. No, a game has more activities in areas where another gam...

Maj wrote:I can't tell if that's all in fun, or if there's a website out there that might be foisting that off on people expecting them to believe it?

It's a parody of real foisting drug-sex-rock'n'roll-themed clickbait.

SGamerz wrote:EDIT: You didn't post Yelov's file. Can we read that too before proceeding?

Yelov is not a Lord, he's a Section Chief.

While the Civil Rights movement may have had a 'violent wing', I think that LGBTQ have seen a significant increase in their rights without violence at all. I don't recall any 'threat of violence' if the supreme court didn't overturn anti-sodomy laws, for instance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ston...