The Gaming Den

Legion on FX. It's X-Men meets Twin Peaks and I love the shit out of it.

So what exactly happens if I support someone on a council or move to a region? I just got a telegram from Nazis: ✠ Nazi Europa is a Fascist region dedicated to the destruction of Leftism within Nationstates and beyond. All Right-Wing Ideologies are welcome; including Third Positionist id...

This game is fun, I made a country emphasizing preservation of nature, spirituality, education, and compulsory military service. https://www.nationstates.net/nation=zebonia I got various telegrams to move my nation, I guess there's a PvP or cooperative aspect to this too depending on how wartorn th...

http://www.nationstates.net/ http://i.imgur.com/O9BCCgL.png See I feel like your mistake is trying to make a nation that actually works. I made a left-wing utopia and a corporate police state just to see who far I could stretch either idea. If I tried to make a place that actually worked I would pr...

erik wrote:I'm in awe at Abaddon for kill six billion demons.

The amount of detail and effort and designing that kind of drawing takes. Just wow.

Holy shit that art though...

NBC's Powerless. What a steaming pile of hobo sick.

Apparently there was a pilot for it that was pretty good...then NBC execs said: "We have some notes", after which they took turns squatting and deucing on the series bible in between high-fiving and snorting coke off of eachothers nipples.

My wife and I saw "I Am Not Your Negro". Holy shit. That movie needs to be shown to every classroom in the US at least. There's a question the film leaves the viewer with: A "[EDITED]" is not a thing that exists in the wild. The concept had to be invented by white people. So why ...

Prak wrote:Went and saw The Great Wall. It was actually quite enjoyable, and kind of comes off as being a more comprehensible Fantasy Asia than Rokugan. I totally want to play a soldier of the Nameless Order and fight alien monsters.

Do they ever explain why Matt Damon is white and there?

Washington Post, NY Times, NPR, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Vox.

And I like Charles Pierce's column from Esquire.

I actually agree that the simplification of 5E has its appeal, but it's bafflingly at odds with some of the other decisions (like having six fucking saving throw stats). Errr....yes and no. There are nominally six saving throws, but since most phb spells still target DEX, CON or WIS, in a practical...

Well, anyone who wants, there's the Annotated Pratchett File. It cuts off at about Going Postal -but-, it's good for citing references and all: https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html In other news, Tales of Berseria is now my favorite Tales game. My favorite JRPG. There is a scene that hits li...

Okay. That clears it up. Thanks.

How does the common cold work? I mean I know that it's caused by a virus, so once you have it you always have it. But I assumed that it lies dormant in your system until you become symptomatic again. But then people are always talking about a "cold going around", which implies that people ...

Neurosis wrote: I feel like almost literally any name for "The Space Mafia" is better than calling it "The Space Mafia".

La Cosmo Nostra?

Okay Setting... The setting comprises a galaxy, wherein the various star systems are connected by a network of gates that fold space between one point and another, which is how people get around from star to star. As you can no doubt tell, I played through the Mass Effect Trilogy last year. The Gala...

GMs who roll everything behind their screen are almost certainly cheating all the time. We have an "open roll policy" at our table, where everything always has to be visible to everyone else. It works out fine. Sure, after a few rolls players can determine how good the monster is at saves...

I've been watching some Harmonquest, and it's mostly meh and very occasionally actually funny, but my real problem is the overarching epic quest plot which just seems to get in the way of the funny without contributing. I think they really needed to accept that the show was never going to be more t...

Just saw a commercial for crunchyroll on cable television the other day. Imagine the most utterly preposterous premise for a crunchyroll advert. No, not quite Dos Equis "most interesting man in world" style, but you're not far off the mark. More like a disaronno ad from the 90's where the ...

This. This this this this this this. This is EXACTLY what I'm saying. I don't mind ads. I don't mind Cruncyroll having ads. It's the way they actually go about doing the ads that I don't like! Three blocks of three commercials totalling nine minutes per episode is just not how civilized men do thin...

MGRP is one of those shows I enjoyed because it is earnestly stupid, like a puppy. Can't really fuck with MadoMagi or Yuuki Yuuna in my eyes, but it gave the old college try. The LNs apparently get pretty in depth on the state of global magical girls and junk. Nothing can fuck with madomagi. Haven'...

Because this idiot doesn't like having his show abruptly interrupted by the same three commercials playing in a row, three times per episode. Kissanime does not interrupt my episodes with ads. I don't have to pay money on Kissanime to not have ads. Further, Kissanime has a wider selection of free a...

Just binged Magical Girl Raising Project. It's basically Sailor Moon meets Battle Royale, and it was a thoroughly satisfying series.

I was for awhile not entirely open about my specific tastes in anime, because I occasionally watch things with excessive amounts of plot, and my partner has some pretty significant self-esteem issues Excessive amounts of plot ? Your partner is insecure because of shows with lots of story and charac...

Ancient History wrote:

I'm pretty sure that at 38 years I am now older than Homer Simpson.

PCs can build strongholds, but the rules for doing so aren't terribly satisfying. You commit a bunch of gold and time to the project and at the end of it you have a stronghold. It is not at all clear what that stronghold might actually do for you or how you might interact with it, so it's basically...