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They appeared correctly on the old boards, at least on my browser of choice (Windows Firefox). The example thread on the old board: https://web.archive.org/web/20130825055833/http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=54524 You can see the images render correctly - or at least I can at least on my browser. I ...

I don't know how much you care about restoring the appearance of older threads - but if you do, there's three issue's I've noticed: - The syntax for centering lines doesn't seem to have been changed in at least some old threads - Embedded base64 image data formatting is broken (maybe not supported?)...

Cat Oven honestly could have been much less aggravating for Arena's online play if there was a default to 'always use most recently created food token automatically'. I mean, there are extremely rare corner cases where you care whether or not the food you eat is the one that was most recently summon...

Hey, you're missing out on some other "high" points about recent WOTC decisions - the company has fucked up in a lot more ways than just the financial and pricing models and story decisions... IMO, current Standard MTG is a dumpster fire of unfun repetitive garbage; a large part of this is...

Frank wrote: He failed to present a coherent story because he's shit at presenting coherent stories. See: everything he did on Star Trek.

See also: Lost. I really like qntm's discussion of Abram's "Mystery Box" writing style.

Is the premise of "Software is dead" based on any real world trends? There are a few things trending that way. For some particularly intense calculations, it's more efficient to use specific hardware solutions designed from the ground up for the specific problem. One example is Bitcoin - ...

when you spread the "Random" rule around. Oh I forgot about the rule spreading bullshit. That entire mechanic was tremendously stupid and annoying. Like kind of a lot of FF8, if you spent a long time reading documentation you could break the game in half with minimal effort (in this case ...

I enjoyed the card games that showed up in FF 9 and Witcher at least. The FF8 card game was a lot less painful for me than the FF9 one. It wasn't like, a riveting gaming experience or anything, but at least it was possible to learn and fully understand the rules in a couple minutes, making it infin...

It's going to be non-trivial distinguish that sort of thing. There are costs and benefits from trying to distinguish the ascetic wilderness flavour of monk (e.g. Yamabushi) from more monastary-centric groups on a mechanical level. Your eastern fantasy probably should be able to support Benkei (or ra...

Another thing to note with analysis of aggro decks, in addition to Tempo and Reach advantages you wrote about already: aggro decks usually go comparatively mana-light, and they get more cards that do non-mana-generating things per card drawn over the course of a game. The monoblue and monored aggro ...

Later on into the game there's eventually a computer that you can buy that is supposed to have a better chance of acquiring skills off of parts - COMG10

I don't know what the actual chances are by default or with the acquiring computer. A lot of the important game mechanics are super opaque.

It's been a while since FM3 for me, but back in the day I played through both campaigns twice each, for a total of an ungodly number of hours in the game. I am *pretty sure* that you don't need a matched pair of arms to learn moves. You can mix and match them. At least one gamefaqs writer seems to b...

This Wired Article states that [bolding mine]: The final wording of Article 13 sets out exactly which platforms will need upload filters and which ones won't. The only way a site that hosts user-generated content can avoid putting in place a upload filter is if it fulfils all three of the following ...

Announcement trailer Official website Steam page Coming Q1 2020. Written by the writer of the original VTMB, Brian Mitsoda, and Chris Avellone. Finally Paradox is visisbly doing something real with the IP. VTMB was a game with great story & aesthetics, and mediocre gameplay, and a huge list of ...

There's two different ways things can be imbalanced and they are important and distinctly different. The first is that a thing can be too weak. It sucks, and it's a problem, if an option is presented as valid by the game but is actually so weak that it's not a real valid option in high competence pl...

It's true that you do take some friendly damage. Marshmasters have 10 resist which is usually enough, and they'll probably be your entire battle mage corps. Losing a few troops is unfortunate but Foul Vapors being on the battlefield at all means that you're probably doing most of your melee fighting...

MA C'tis is one of my favourite suggestions for learning the game. Their magic is simple but strong. They can just drop a bunch of research into Enchantment and be mostly fine, maybe supplement a little with Evocation and other battle magic later on. Every major battle you get Marshmasters to spam o...

Hicks wrote:Does that mean Trump's 2020 presidential slogan is going to be, "Make America Cannibals Again?"

The (EXTREMELY NSFW video and audio!) prophecy is coming true

The Dominions series (latest entry - Dominions 5) does this as well. It's a turn-based strategy game where each turn orders are issued to commanders to lead troops in conquest, research magic schools, cast spells, etc; then after each players' orders for a turn are collected, all orders are executed...

I really enjoyed the Median XL mod for Diablo 2. It fully replaces all skills and items in the game, and adds in a ton of new content including dozens of endgame quests / dungeons / bosses that are often very challenging but are also extremely rewarding - think Diablo 2's Pandemonium events, but muc...

Has anyone here read UNSONG? I'm currently on my third re-read in like a month and a half. It's some unreal shit. I have read Unsong - I had a whale of a time. Link for the lazy . I read it when it came out in instalments, and the pacing / plot felt a bit slow at the time, but with a lot of web ser...

The pathfinder forums appear to be garbage for navigation; I don't know why. That said, I found the following via google: List of K's Posts on the Paizo forums List of Frank's Posts on the Paizo forums You can find from these posts, a number of threads that Frank and K made at the time, and others t...

A lot of people in this thread are throwing around ideas that remind me a lot of Cultist Simulator . You play as a person in a mythos universe who starts getting into more and more esoteric texts and occult lore, and you form a cult and start recruiting people to serve as acolytes and summoning horr...

Detect Pandemonium would be a super fucking lame power and you need to broaden that shit. Does the "Detect Evil" spell particularly do anything we want to be done? As far as I can recall, it's main use is ... so that it's tougher to write satisfying mysteries and whodunnits in D&D, an...

Every time people reference Isaac Asimov's three laws seriously in a discussion about the future, I wince. I mean, more than half of the stories Asimov wrote in his Robots continuity were about how the robots following the rules didn't lead to good results . Situations where the rules failed were wh...