The Gaming Den

Re: Racial sensitivity aside from the above discourse the game gets sort of weird about "Gaijins" in general. It's like they want Rokugan to be awesome but they feel the need to keep going "But western countries are pretty cool to you guys!" The two most egregious examples are &q...

Mm I would argue that while the mainstream giants are definitely flagging, the indie market is booming. Sure it's still in its rough and unpolished infancy but there are still some gems out there. And the bad stuff tends more towards "hilariously bad" rather than boring bad (though there i...

You get the sense in more of her dialogue that Vivienne is actually a mage who's terrified of magic. Demons in particular, you see that most in her interactions with Cole and it's a trait she shares with Iron bull, with whom she gets along. She tempers her fear with iron clad control, but she makes ...

If you're trying to draw comparisons between the two editions in terms of "what martials (and others) can do in battle" then it might just be helpful to outline 4e powers in 3.5 terms since they probably like specifically what 4e lets fighters do in combat as opposed to just lacking option...

I do wish you had the opportunity to just avoid that stupid-ass escape plot altogether, but hey. Apostate mages seem to have a more interesting life, as the Chantry is just the standin for Grimdark! Catholic Church. Well yes and no, Chantry are a bunch of oppressive douchebags (with one or two nota...

The severity only matters if you make it part of your analogy. But you did make it part of your analogy in that you used the DM allowing rape as an analogous example to the DM allowing dragon jumping in that "These are both things not sufficiently outlined in the rules that require a blanket y...

Analogies are not equivalencies but the degree of severity still matters. Saying "getting teabagged in a FPS is like having someone rub salt in a papercut" gets across your intent clearly in that getting teabagged and having salt in a wound are painful but ultimately brief and harmless exp...

Given the potential size of dragons it's not hard to imagine it would be possible for a human to cling somewhere the dragon could not easily reach. Humans are on average smarter, stronger, and have more tools at our disposal than the common house fly but if it decides to run laps up and down your sp...

So I found the review here of PTA, and I was wondering if anyone knew if PTU was actually any better or just more streamlined? I mean giving it a cursory once over it looks like some things got tightened up but until I actually try and play it I have a poor idea of how it actually translates into ga...

*Parents on the Den- do you find it true that children cannot understand why they must suffer the pain of a shot? Have any of you tried to explain to your children why they need the shot? Not a parent, older sibling, but not only do little kids not understand even when it's explained. They will hol...

Yeah, I must admit that strikes me as pretty crazy. It should be noted that in many strains of Christianity, there's no particular contradiction because they don't have a utilitarian ethical system and happiness for everyone is not neccessarily defined as good. Another answer is that an omniscient ...

Ah yes I'm familiar with that particular strain of theology. I'd forgotten about it largely because like you said they don't advertise a whole lot. It does make sense but it's also hardly mainline christian theology (if you can call anything about modern Christianity mainline these days). I tend to ...

Well I can understand it because they clearly still believe in a heaven and a hell and that God sends people he doesn't like to hell. And sure it's cool to say "yeah endless eternal torture I could so handle that" when you're sitting in relative comfort having a theology discussions on a f...

Once in 9th grade Japanese class for an assignment someone drew a dog tentacle raping a chicken.

Soo God is basically Cthulu only unlike Cthulu he's willing to spare the people that glorify him like he wants to be? That's.... certainly a bleak view of the subject I have to admit.

So a question on the telekinisis power in After Sundown. So assuming you can pick up a number of objects less than or equal to the weight you would be able to carry if your willpower was your strength score, two things: - What is the effective range on this. If you can see it you can lift it? Only i...

I got Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. Any advice/traps to watch out for? And how long is this game? Doing quests for npcs raises their affinity for you (as does giving them gifts, talking to them, and buying their items). Near the end of the main quest the npc who likes you most is kidnapped and autom...

See, I don't get why Nintendo is so opposed to the AR. Were they this against the Game Genie/Codeshark? I get them not wanting cheated 'mons in competitions, but... I don't give a shit about competitions, I just don't want to spend hours training up a single pokemon. It still requires some grinding...

Ah, the smug bastard. Whatever the actual name given was, everyone on the Internet named it Smugleaf. Yes I chose that one too. B2W2 are some of the best games. It has a lot of non-battling stuff to do if you like running shopping centres and being a movie star. You can basically ignore that stuff ...

Yeah gonna echo that being aquired by EA really soured the relationship for some stupid reasons. I loved Origins, I avoided DA2 because the sheer volume of backlash I was reading really made me think it wasn't worth investing time into. I only just recently picked it up because knowing the story was...

I enjoy fairy types partly because I actually am a fan of the cuter designs and partly because they do allow for early dragon access. So many dragon types are on my "want to play with eventually" list but by the time they appear in game my main team is more or less set and my mood is "...