The Gaming Den

Section.11: Street Gear It's a shame you didn't mention that Free Action Drop Out is a rule in this section: TURNING IT OFF Toggling an individual device’s wireless functionality off is a Free Action, as is toggling all of your wireless devices to “wireless off.” It's a drop in the bucket so far as...

I admit that I've never seen the Sorcerer's Apprentice or Negima, but a quick youtube search for Negima spells showed some blond girl named "Vampire Evangelion" (seriously?) spending 23 seconds casting something that seems to be called "cosmic catastrophe". I don't know if the w...

My younger sister wants to read Shadowrun TTRPG books because she's been following a Shadowrun Returns LP online. Which edition would be best to introduce a young woman to?

yeah, cyberware-scanners are a big problem in SR4 . . i don't have heard any mentioning of them and RFID-Tags in SR5 as of yet, now that you mention it O.o Son of Infinity Mirror uses RFIDs. Awesome. They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing. -Username17 This is the edition where Drop Out is e...

Stahlseele wrote:yeah, cyberware-scanners are a big problem in SR4 . .
i don't have heard any mentioning of them and RFID-Tags in SR5 as of yet, now that you mention it O.o

Son of Infinity Mirror uses RFIDs.

So is this more "Diablo without a computer" or "Choose Your Own Adventure with character customization"? It sounds interesting anyways. I have purchased and read some of it. It's the former rather than the latter. I like the idea of adapting it to generate missions for Shadowrun...

Could someone give me, like, a two paragraph explanation of what SQL is and what it's used for? I've only ever done substantial coding in Java, but apparently I'm gonna need to learn SQL for my new job. Sure, I'll do this. SQL stands for "Structured Query Language" and is the standard way...

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Is <word> no Naku Koro ni a common anime name? I've heard of Umineko no Naku Koro ni, too. I can give you two answers to this. The first is simple, and the second is way more complex than you'd ever need. 1: They're written by the same guy and use the same storytelling gim...

There have been approximately 10 doublings since 1980. Uh, source? A citation to a theoretical law (that doesn't even talk about computing speed) isn't exactly valid when we have actual historical data. I tried looking for the historical data. I didn't find any, so I had to use recourse to approxim...

There have been approximately 10 doublings since 1980. That means that computing speed has been multiplied by 1024. So 100 computers operating for 10 hours every night for 30 nights back then is still equivalent to about a day of continuous operation by equivalent machines today. I'm pretty sure tha...

Good old genetic algorithms. Cold, merciless, antisocial, ignorant, and stridently literal. Ridiculously inefficient compared to any sort of design process, thiough. Ten hours a night on a hundred machine cluster is a hilarious amount of processing power.

How small do breasts have to be before they count as pedophilia in Australia? I want to know if I count as a pedophile for dating a woman 7 years older than me. Apparently A-cups are illegal, but B-cups are okay. So presumably it's a "less than a handful" rule. Whose handful? It seems to ...

tzor wrote:ou idiots can rot in your own progressive hell forever.

I like the fact that Conservatives use the word "progressive" as a negative descriptor. It practically states a kind of hilarity that the name "Conservative" merely hints at.

Maybe it's because I'm British (yeah, let's go with that), but I look at Shadowrun Character Generation and bemoan the possibilities for additional distinction based on social background. Remember that I'm British, so when I say "social background" I mean "social class". Really, ...

I approve of any class that can whip up a mug of tea in 6 seconds. Sure, you're a level 10 badass by that point, but if I could make tea that quickly, I think I'd end in rehab.

Say what? Death Note did end when L died. It's a downer end for sure, but the story is completely over. I have no idea what you're talking about. So what happened to Light? The epilogue states that he continues to work in the Anti-Kira taskforce, pretending to be L whilst killing suspected criminal...

But the moment L died... that could have been the end of the series. I like L. He eats even more sugar than I do, and he was played really well against Light. And Misa for that matter. His death really took something away from the show, and basically marked the victory of Light. So instead of endin...

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Reality has a liberal-leaning bias.

cthulhu wrote:Why must you lie! IT'S A LIE MAN! YOU ARE LYING! WHY MUST YOU LIE!

Argh.

It seems that tzor values personal outrage more than integrity or truth.

Crissa wrote:I'm sure there is, I just don't know what.

-Crissa

I'm pretty sure they'd be against the creation of man-ape hybrids.

You like many others seem to think you have the right to define the game for others, and that is why you fail. You decide the right way to play, based on what you want; however you are wrong. Not everyone likes the boring ass shit you do. Wow. Can someone bill Shadzar for a new irony meter. Mine ju...

The earlier argument based off some fragment of a conversation taken utterly out of context is bullshit. It has been rebuked already . It's not even the fact that Scientists speak a different language. You can see the word "trick" being used on public TV (at least over here in England) whe...

En Passant is correct.

It seems many people are here just to bitch about other people. People here are getting really pathetic and pitiful. Are people really trying to define a game by the people that are fuck ups? Is that why nobody wants to see what an RPG really is anymore because they would rather bitch about other p...

IF you didn't have fun isn't it partially your fault? You are viewing as a competition against something or someone rather than the fact that you are not just reading a story, but are a part of it. Remember roleplaying games fo the current era evolved from historical re-enactment games. Those games...