The Gaming Den

This is important and true. For example, for the NYPD of 2011, we have this chart: http://i.imgur.com/hCjWUX5.jpg which illustrates how roughly half of the people fired upon by police were black, and another third or so hispanic, but this fraction is lower than the fraction of racially identified cr...

The technology on display looks sort of nice, I guess? The rules are sort of distressing - dicepools are all well and good but.... why would you go to all that trouble to make a electronic map to use, and then apparantly not have any positioning or movement rules that matter or use the map at all? (...

The cyan/rainbow is a problem that fixes itself if you kill explorer.exe before starting SC2 I have a batch file that looks like this for my Win7 x64 (may have to be modified if you are running 32-bit): taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe start /wait C:/"Program Files"/"StarCraft"/"...

It took me three readings to be willing to hazard a guess. My guess is: 1. You pay any amount you want, tap the cauldron and put a card (probably from your hand, but it doesn't specify) on the cauldron 2. Next turn, tap the cauldron again, and use the mana from the first time to help pay for the car...

FF8's plot and story and most of it's characters were even more risible than is standard for Final Fantasy games, and I won't try to defend any of them. The plot was more incomprehensible and bizzarely stupid than usual, and the characters less relatable. There was some cool settings and artwork, an...

Re: Illusions of Grandeur. There was some sort of combo deck for a while based on the (post-Ice Age) spell Donate, where you cast Illusions of Grandeur then gave it to your opponent to let them deal with it. I don't recall all the details, but I think it saw some tournament success? Used as 'intende...

I am sort of confused by your 'rules.' In constructed MTG, the official rules: In constructed play (a way of playing in which each player creates his or her own deck ahead of time), each deck must contain at least sixty cards. A constructed deck may contain any number of basic land cards and no more...

Like I said, it probably isn't a great deck, but the idea of a deck made of only one card is entertaining enough to pursue the question of the best single card deck. I feel like the strongest single card deck is Chancellor of the Dross It demands hyper-specific zero-mana stuff in the opponent's han...

It seems like a pure-mishra deck would swing too slowly to win, and would have way too many vulnerabilities. Turn 1 you do nothing, turn 2 you swing with a 2/2, turn 3 you swing with a 3/3, and turn 4 you swing with 2 2/2 or a 4/4, turn 5 you swing for 5... It takes a long time to ramp up. If your o...

The Void is an interesting and unique experience that is not actually really good as a enjoyable game. It's better to experience it directly (go in blind). It's not a family-friendly game (nudity, nightmarish creatures). If you want to experience a lot of the better parts of it without the aggravati...

Honestly I'm at the point with Bethesda where I'm just going to wait at least 6 months for fans to take their engine and base concept and patch all the egregious bugs, make the UI not blow, and fix the glaring balance issues. Bethesda's previous efforts in the RPG sphere have always had huge, glarin...

So, apparently White Wolf's IP has all been sold to makers of historical strategy games . Good? Bad? Thoughts? I think that it was pretty clear at this point that the Eve guys weren't doing much with the IP. This purchase could maybe lead to videogames in the future - VtM: Bloodlines was fairly well...

Congratulations, Canada and its Liberal Party for completely spanking the opposition. Anyone know why the NDP and the conservatives did so astoundingly poorly? For the NDP: - Mulcair was not particularly charismatic or impressive at all in any way - he performed poorly as a party leader. The previo...

Kaelik, can I ask where you got feeding 2k people out of a 7th level casting of minor creation? Because running the numbers I get like 320 at most. I mean, if you make 7 cubic feet dried rice and then supply ~14 cubic cubic feet water to make ~21 cubic feet rice as a finished product for human consu...

Question: Does anyone else here *really* like theorycrafting and deckbuilding way more than actually playing Magic? I love making combos, figuring strategies out, and otherwise making a powerful Magic deck... but then the formality of actually playing Magic with the deck, while enticing at first, se...

Check this thread: http://www.tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=51963 You totally said that about the snakes=books idea from 4 years ago. I didn't check all the quotes, but the couple I did seem to be accurately transcribed from that thread about that idea. They should clarify that people were just talking ...

Running multiboot for windows and ubuntu sounds really good in theory. However, when I actually tried it, my hard drives were eventually, after a few months, corrupted sufficiently badly to require complete reformatting of two different laptop computers. Your mileage may vary here, and it may have s...

There's a pretty decent description of Doctor Who timetravel over on qntm.org . It's really, really good for single author fiction, or sequential single author fiction, but as soon as you get multiple people all wanting to have different goals happen I feel like the thing would collapse and not be t...

I use VLC also - it is robust and will play almost any file you can even imagine. I usually use it by right clicking on a folder full of music and "Add to VLC Media Player's Playlist."

I have not played them in MP, only single player, so all advice below should be taken with enormous grains of salt. I am at best a low-mid level MP player. Nonetheless, my assessment of the nation: Pretender Design: I'd personally go for either a bless that matters to your troops and makes them bett...

I am mostly a DotA 2 guy. In that specific game, I personally find the laning stage of the game is very fun to play, interesting to execute, and leads to a lot of interesting moments and fun. It also contributes a lot to Dota's hero diversity (by allowing heros to be extremely strong at early laning...

So I started playing a bit of Heroes of the Storm and it is quite fun. But I don't really understand the terminology. Is there some noob guide to MOBAs, that explains things like 'botlane'? I don't know any specific for Heroes of the Storm. Mostly you can figure things out as you go and from contex...

So, DotA v. 6.84 is coming. They've released patch notes and also deployed to test servers; expect bug fixes on some crazy new shit (reflecting spells!) followed by eventually deployment to main servers. Big losers: Sniper, Troll. Crazy new shit. Dota is going to be a new game again. We LoL now, app...

They've mentioned that the pilot was apparently locked out of the cockpit, so it seems intentional, but thinking about it even a moment, it occurs to me that the cockpit door may not have a key so much as no release on the outside, and requires someone in the cockpit to open it, so if the pilot ste...

I am currently using Mod Organizer: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1334/? I found that the Mod Organizer makes downloading and installing from Nexus very easy; this made installing all desired mods fairly easy (at least compared to alternatives). It has good support for downloading, sorting, o...