The Gaming Den

Trent Reznor really really obviously needs to be on the Nine of Swords. On this I will brook no argument. You can consider replacing him with Pink Floyd on [The Dark Side of] The Moon. Taylor Swift's image of naivete is unarguably greater than whatever aspect of Temperance Dolly Parton has. Johnny C...

No, dude. Mana pools empty at the end of each step and phase.

Wayne England is dead. Wayne Reynolds does cards, but he's got the opposite problem where he's at his most recognizable when he's also at his greatest hackishness. Really good when they stick him on a faction that needs to look like that kinda thing, though. Rakdos was pretty much made for him. Tere...

For how much did you settle with the uninsured driver? If the answer is "zero dollars," then it could use some work. They are liable for damages to your property. If they didn't have insurance then they almost certainly aren't going to be making you whole on this but you should be giving t...

Oh yeah, and:

FrankTrollman wrote:Treasure Tokens do exactly the thing that Gold tokens did in Theros, and I don't know why they have a different name.

Gold tokens didn't need to tap to sacrifice, and Improvise is in standard.

The first thing is that if you play Hostage Taker on an empty board, the game ends in a draw because it cannot proceed to the next state as she is forced to take herself hostage whenever she enters play and forced to release herself whenever she leaves play. That self-interaction alone is probably ...

Nah, man. Linux actually does Just Work these days, particularly if you're running a version of it with zero configuration and a single-stream GUI-based package manager. But you can slap ordinary Debian on whatever hardware pile you have and get right to torrenting and shitposting with one stroke of...

Turbofog Mill is a ~thing~ right now, so people are going to have sideboard Commit//Memory, a hard-counter that plays out of the graveyard.

But you can still win the first game and make the next one run to time.

The execution and purpose of the knowledge is sound, it just suffers from a terrible name, like nearly every aspect of D&D does. While not specific to 3.5, a terminology rewrite would be one of the biggest things on my list for a 3.5 improvement--"caster level" should have a different...

I don't think you presented a solid perspective on the situation. They already softened expectations with two other rounds of standard banning; the additional dissatisfaction with their process that was going to result from going in for a third pass was extremely marginal. The community consensus wa...

Parts that fail intermittently are frequently at the mercy of tiny micofractures which can be bridged by the vagaries of thermal expansion or subtle flexing from getting smooshed around. It might start acting up again at some point. But it's also possible that your friend was simply not 100% rigorou...

You'll always have an excuse to be angry/moronic at work You'll always have a reason and maybe even an explanation but very rarely an excuse . If someone comes in on PCP and swings a bat at your head, that's an excuse . If you just stay up late, then that's just the second fuck-up of yours they've ...

Yeah but that's dumb. Nobody playing Imhotep or The Pain wants a certain special bug friend who they can talk to and take particularly good care of, they just want to be walking around with a terrible seething tide of horror skittering around under their skin, full-time. The animal companion style o...

I should also mention that the length of spearguy's weapon is pretty ideal for what he's doing, which is literally: http://www.schlachtschule.org/pictures/a-half.jpg I'm not getting smart, here; this skill is fungible between the weapons. With a willingness to discard the buckler and maybe a moderat...

Hi, I too am one of those assholes who puts HEMA into practice and I'm here to say: If you're busy parrying, it means you are not attacking. you are a fucking moron and this is the opposite of true and they will disabuse you of this stupid statement about five minutes into your first day of Swordfig...

Does your partner have cancer in the "scheduled for surgery" sense, or did it merely show up in her pap smear and now she needs to get more pap smears later? She has, as of a week ago, already had the growths electrosurgically excised. I do not think her doctor indicated special ramificat...

My understanding is that there is more than one version of the HPV vaccine, protecting against different numbers of HPV strains. I was administered the vaccine back in early 2014 but my practice's record indicates that this was just a "gardasil suspension" without further elaboration. If I...

"Make a preview video. Glam it up. I'm thinking something like the first World of Warcraft gameplay trailer. Except since we don't have any sweeping digital vistas, you can just portray a cursor clicking on some fucking spreadsheets."

An important point of interest: "Figments cannot make something seem to be something else." This is an imperfectly authored clause and I would have been happier if they had said, "Figments cannot invalidate sensations, they can only introduce new ones." This is my preferred inter...

"Polearm & Shield dude" should also fit in there somehow but I'm not 100% sure why you would use that formation instead of two handed pikemen so unsure of gameplay effect. Shields help unit moral a lot, and they are good to have if the formation dissolves into a melee. You use them wh...

John Wick III will end with John killing the President oF MALAYSIAAAAAAA!!!

I'm going to get one and keep it in a silk-lined cabinet with my condoms and the good booze.

That said, it seems a bit disingenuous to use "lances and spears are the same" as the base an argument on whether lances can be used to Power Attack. It's a good thing that literally nobody is doing that, then. In the imaginary instance that anybody at all was confused about whether you c...

(which is how lances are used when mounted). That's permissive, not mandatory. People on horseback still use lances two-handed if they want. That's just fucking bizarre. But then so is 'power attacking' with a lance, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Really, what happens, it gets held harder to ...

Voss wrote:(which is how lances are used when mounted).

That's permissive, not mandatory. People on horseback still use lances two-handed if they want.