The Gaming Den

name_here wrote:Basically, imagine an Abridged Series team got a license and a budget and were told to dub an entire series in the style of an abridged series.

This sounds amazing. Do want.

Yeah, the communication in hyperspace took my partner straight out of the movie for a good 15 minutes. She was just awestruck at how big a fuck up that was. Me, I was too irritated by the Falcon dropping out of hyperspace inside planetary atmosphere to notice that particular gaff. Seriously, the Int...

I seriously just looked up that last one (Ice Cauldron) on Gatherer, and I have NO IDEA what the hell the card is supposed to do.

yeah, Youtube just fiddled with their Subscriptions page. Again. Broke my Greasemonkey scripting something fierce.

My understanding (I am NOT a doctor) is that Seasonal Affective Disorder can manifest that way, yes. A couple of people I know on the net with SAD swear by sun lamps, so I'd at least look into one. Still, talk with a real doctor before you listen to me.

Can confirm, Creation Engine is Gamebryo with a new coat of paint. Modders figured this out some time ago - there are bugs and quirks that are still around in Skyrim that go back to Oblivion (at least, they may go back to Morrowind, but I know fuck all about that one). And the same workarounds work,...

IT professional mode: if you don't really care all that much, one of Dell's gaming desktops should do pretty much anything you want. Gamer mode: Newegg has some really nice pre-built gaming rigs, and reviews that are quite accessible (and generally gamer slanted) so you can make an informed decision...

To be quite clear: I am not pissing and moaning about the number of stat points because 'tradition'. I'm bitching because I can't build a starting character with access to all of the fairly simple perks I want, because Bethesda has fucked character progression sideways in FO4. If skills were still a...

AndreiChekov wrote:Also, vaccinations and check ups are a waste of time.

Unless you are specifically immunocompromised in such a way that you CANNOT be vaccinated, get vaccinated. Because if you don't, you're gambling with not only your life and health, but that of other people.

So glad that people have spoiled the perks - I spent an hour going through them and planning a character build. Going in blind would have had me agonizing forever at character selection. Now I just wanna know why the total available SPECIAL points are 28 instead of 40 like every previous game. It *s...

Suggestion: Shadows of Brimstone. It's a reasonably new light RPG/tactical minis dungeon crawler boardgame. Fully cooperative, comes with campaign rules, paintable minis. Setting is more or less Deadlands, minus some of the insanity. Might scratch multiple itches.

Curse you, Frank. This makes me want to go out and buy the current set. These deck ideas sound more fun than Magic has in quite a while.

That mop is an entertaining magic item, with theme AND actual utility. Did the DM steal it from somewhere, or come up with it from scratch?

FrankTrollman wrote:I don't think it's contentious to say that Return of the Jedi would have been a better movie if it had been written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan.

-Username17

If for no other reason than that they would have gone with Wookiees instead of Ewoks.

The Truce at Bakura sucks. The Truce at Bakura was built from a marketing plan that never went anywhere. Seriously, they wanted to turn the Ssi-Ruuvi Imperium into a major, galaxy-wide threat. No, it doesn't make any damn sense. Nope, doesn't jive at all with novels that have already been published...

Kaelik has done a pretty decent summation here, but I'll simplify. Michael Stackpole: Good. Aaron Allston: Good. Timothy Zhan: GOOD. Jude Watson (the young adult stuff): actually pretty decent. Karen Traviss: avoid. Kevin J. Anderson: read the plot on the wiki, set the books on fire. By series: X-Wi...

Really? Pretty much any time I hear action-RPG it's a Diablo-alike. I've never heard Skyrim or Dark Souls called an action-RPG.

Disclaimer: My knowledge of Star Wars begins and ends with knowing to walk away from someone attempting to discuss it in public. How ubiquitous is space travel for the average schmuck? Is a common laborer on an outer rim world unlikely to ever escape the gravity well of their birth? How much more l...

FFG's policies work fine...if you only want the one game. If you like the setting , however, and want all the games...yeah, they get you coming and going. Worse, each of the games is just slightly different from the others in the series - which means that you have the 3.0/3.5/PF problem of 'the rule...

If you jar a node that's in a block, the block does goes away. Should solve your problems.

Stahlseele: There's a reason Ender Zoo isn't in my modlist. Well, a couple reasons. But those evil things are definitely one of them.

Great, so there's a different planet that the midichlorians come from. This is ALSO dumb. I was happier not knowing that. Sigh.

Yeah, Mortis is among the dumbest things in Star Wars. It's really frustrating that it's canon even with the new stuff. We have to lose a bunch of well-written stuff, but Mortis stays in? Madness.

Oddly enough, in real life, Salvator is a man with a voice that's hypnotic. Seriously, he could talk about anything, and you listen to him. Dude talks much better than he writes, and he writes okay.
Boy, that panel I went to with him on it was weird, though.

Koumei: If that's your issue, I honestly don't know what to tell you. My understanding was that they didn't significantly upgrade the graphics for the enhanced editions. Pretty sure it's the same sprites as before. Also reasonably sure that the tab highlight is, yeah, in BG2 original - which means u...