The Gaming Den

Protip for multi-monitor: if you aren't using HDMI exclusively, you are GOING to have some difficulty. A lot of it. Single-link DVI can't output that resolution, which is why it's whining at you. Don't mix standards, and you'll have less trouble. Good luck.

Hot bath. Adding some epsom salt would help even more (to the bath, I mean. Don't eat the stuff). But relaxing in a tub (which supports your weight so you don't have to) that is very warm (which helps relax tense muscles) will make you feel much better.

DSM: yes, sounds like a PSU death kind of problem.

With a budget of a grand, you have roughly 3 options: 1) buy a prebuilt. As a computer enthusiast, I don't ever do this personally, but if you aren't interested in/capable of building a PC from a pile of parts, this can save you a lot of frustration. I understand Cyberpower makes pretty decent prebu...

I've contemplated it. The basic problem isn't, generally, the setting. The setting is pretty fine, so long as you buy into 40k to start with (and if you don't, why the fuck would you play DH or any of the others anyway?). No, the problems are primarily in the system. - d100 roll under - with assumpt...

Brass definitely works best in a concert hall or the open air. Cramped conditions are VERY BAD for brass instrument acoustics.

What an idea. That could never work! A Warcraft strategy game? Madness, I say!

*goes and cries in a corner because he misses old school Warcraft and has no interest in MMO's*

If nothing else, this opens the way for a possible new 40k RPG that doesn't have terrible mechanics. I'm not saying it's likely, mind you; just noting the possibility.

Resolving a turn with the Green Tide was actually fairly fast because the player knew his shit. The biggest hold up in that game was the Eldar player who wasn't good at it and then wanted to take his shit and leave after the second turn (which yeah, took about an hour and a half each). That kinda en...

Rhetorical answer: 40k Apocalypse. I have actually done this. Note: rolling more or less ANYTHING for the Green Tide formation (100+ ork boyz) kinda NEEDS 3 pounds of dice. It only gets sillier when they manage to get into close combat with 5 different enemy squads SIMULTANEOUSLY. Shit gets stupid. ...

There's a reason I slapped in a new hard drive, did a clean install of Win7, did the upgrade to Win10, and then promptly booted back into my other hard drive with the working copy of Win7. I know that I will eventually be forced to use Win10. I appreciate receiving it for free. I am emphatically NOT...

I am VERY pleased I backed this one, and very much looking forward to receiving it. Let me tell you, after some of the Kickstarters I've backed, the weekly updates, the constant feedback? It's the best.

Neither can I. This sounds seriously neat.

In the WH40K Universe. Why, of all factions, does the Adeptus Mechanicus NOT make any use of Dreadnoughts? Because Dreadnaughts are Spehss Meringue tech. Only SMs can use them. Because reasons. Besides, the AdMech got two different reasonably cool mechs in their new books within the last year. Plus...

Somebody did an analysis of Trump's tweets, and realized that there's a pretty clear pattern. The tweets posted from the Android phone? Actual, unfiltered Trump. The tweets from an iPhone? Clearly created by someone else in his campaign. The shit from the Android is the bizarre, frequently incompreh...

'We need a new kind of Orc for this Spelljammer thing. A Space Orc.' 'Why?' 'Because we do! Look, just help me come up with a name.' 'Just call them Orcs backwards or something, making up a new race of space orcs is stupid.' 'That's a great idea!' EDIT: bah, ninja'd. This is what happens when you op...

I managed to make it through 4 of the books before I just couldn't care any more. This was during my teenage years. Looking back now, holy shit is Goodkind TERRIBLE. The series is terrible, the plot is terrible, the main character is terrible, the love interest is terrible, the prose is...decent (th...

Prak: Have a general rundown on how we could make voting better, explained by a man who is good at explaining things:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... ACE93A5638

Watch the whole list.

Does Martin Sheen even want anything to do with Republicans? I ask because he played a pretty seriously Democrat pres during West Wing, and I figure if he had strong right-wing inclinations, he wouldn't have played that part. But I could be totally wrong.

So if Britain, the only country in Europe with a Supercarrier and one of the only two with nukes, decides to amend the treaty, who the fuck is going to stop them? What aircraft carrier? The Brits don't actually have one right now. Couple of piddly helicopter carriers (an AAS and 2 LPDs, specificall...

As a backer for Planetary Annihilation (because I was a HUGE fan of Total Annihilation back in the day)...I pretty much have to agree with PhoneLobster. The singleplayer was boring and incredibly repetitive (straight skirmish, over and over and over and over forever, with tiny upgrades every once in...

That Star Trek VR game is Artemis with a Star Trek coat of paint. And VR. I don't know how to feel about that.

I can say without any equivocation that the X-Wing series (Michael Stackpole and Aaron Allston) is excellent for the first 6 books. After that the quality becomes debatable, but the first 6 are great reads.
Other than that, it is *remarkably* hard to find good Star Wars novels.

Marvel has flat out lost the fucking plot. Making Captain America be a Hydra member *all along* is the epitome of bullshit.

Found this quote about the upcoming rules-lite version of SR: JMH: That sounds about right. One difference that comes to my mind is that in SR5, the rules and resulting dice rolls very much determine the direction of the story; in Anarchy, the story as a collaborative effort carries the game forwar...