The Gaming Den

Even so, it's your ass if there's a classified information spillage and you don't follow correct procedure in the aftermath. Not your fault? Sure, okay. There's still a procedure that's involved and I will wager that it was not followed. Moreover we don't actually know about all the emails. If I rec...

You're severely oversimplifying the emails concern, which is more problematic for national security than simply being a foul person and a criminal who didn't put secrets at risk, which all of Trump's listed faults represent. Anyone who wasn't Clinton would be staring down a double-digit jail sentenc...

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To sum it up, she fucked a dude who was ludicrously intoxicated.

A woman president isn't exciting because I, and at least some nonzero percentage of Republicans I'm sure, don't care what gender, race, religion, etc. the president is. I definitely don't want a president who'll almost certainly be dogged by scandal for the entire length of her time in office. That ...

Well, you're not attracting much of anything with that brand of honey. Now, speaking to specific points, yes, the tax plan could be better, but I'm pretty sure we all know that it'll be unrecognizable by the time it actually gets through the house and senate. It's not as though Hillary was going to ...

I guess that's one way of interpreting what he said. Something of a misinterpretation, I think, but eh. And it's not so much 'making brown people miserable' as 'immigration reform'. I can understand the confusion on your part. A lot of people think the entire concepts of 'borders', 'nations' and 'na...

If your plan is to actually persuade people to vote for your candidate next time, "you and everyone like you will never, ever be welcome in the society we hope to build" is a pretty shitty opening gambit. QFT. You're not going to get anywhere calling the undereducated whites racist, sexis...

Mostly there's convincing moderate Republicans (a lot of people) Zero is not a lot of people. You do realize that attitude is pretty self-defeating, right? It's like racism and sexism charges. Opposing Obama was racist no matter why you opposed him, opposing Hillary was sexist no matter why you opp...

So I was talking with a friend about this the other day - that's not quite right. We were talking about comic books really, and the (actually not so) recent bitterness of X-Men fans towards Marvel. That discussion got us thinking about this sort of topic. What makes money for Marvel isn't the comic ...

I think that Elminster and Raistlin top the list, with Raistlin being a distant second. Everyone else is way below them. Everyone who's played FR can't *not* be aware of Elminster, and Raistlin has kids named after him. They're still very much the faces of their settings. Below those two, I'd think ...

Maybe this seems like a dumb question, but why not just have to-hit/bonus dmg/etc. as the base stats, assign points straight to those, and have players fluff them out however they like?

So, all that Ynnead speculation. What're your thoughts?

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So, just saw this little piece of cringy bullshit. I know I shouldn't care, given that it's by The Hack, but I still can't help but be annoyed. All the excuses in the world won't make his works worth a damn.

Dude I gotta be honest here. The animate dakimakura thing sounds like an awesome game. Seriously, putting together an entire party of waifu combat dakimakura. It's obviously not a 'SO SERIOUS' campaign but it's totally the thing I'd run as a short series. I imagine it'd play out kinda like MaidRPG. ...

For quite a few years, arguably the single most feared man in MMA was a pudgy Russian dude who also happened to be a multiple-time Sambo world champion, although it's worth asking which way the arrow of causation points in this particular case. Consider me edumacated. Thanks! I know I flitter in an...

Obviously the spinning clothesline is there to avoid the Sonic Boom. (Did it still do that after SF2?) And if the kicks don't just linger there in midair, well, how the hell else is Chun Li giong to show off her legs. Why would you deny her that JE, she worked hard for those legs. XD I can see your ...

Frank, that sounds a lot like pretty much what I hear from people who do have the misfortune of shit starting around them. One of the best things I keep hearing about 'soft' styles is not that they teach you to fight on the ground, but that you'll learn to fall right and, hopefully, not get stunned ...

Confession: I don't play Rifts. But it's always sounded interesting. Now it sounds less interesting to actually play. Dumpster-diving for skills that improve my stats or other benefits just so sounds as bad as dumpster-diving through pathfinder's mess to find exactly what I want for my cleric. I'd s...

Makes sense. Seems like every time something big's about to happen, like mankind colonizing the moon or public access to the other Earths, or Richter getting shit done, the Endbringers show up to fuck things up.

Wow, okay, that last part is saddening. So to recap, the only reasons you use these martial arts is to stunlock people or improve your glock-fu?

Cauldron. Now I don't recall whether it was an external author reveal, or actually stated, but if I recall right Brockton Bay was supposed to be an experiment in Parahuman-led feudalism. Cauldron was determining whether that, or the Protectorate, was a better model. Granted, saving the world from Sc...

Wait, so is that supposed to mean that doing something you're morally opposed to in the course of doing something else is fine because the action to which you're morally opposed is not your primary intent?

I'm kind of reminded of Worm a bit. Don't get me wrong, it sounds like Worm is rather more coherent and better-written, but some of the setting ideas are somewhat familiar, as is the tone.

Well, clearly either way it's still Masamune Shirow and we all still win.

As for the Taoism thing...well shit, that seems a bit thin. Kinda sad.

Under the Wui Wing Chun writeup, does 'Feminist Taoism' refer to female-practiced yin-yang oriented chi sorcery? Or is it something completely different?

Also, yay, Masamune Shirow! It's too bad that smut pays so much better than manga.