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Zod wrote:tl;dr who gives a shit about vs. anymore?

Djinnkitty83 wrote:I thought I liked it, but I found out I was more interested in story-potential rather than numbers, and apparently that's just unacceptable.

VF5SS wrote:painrack revived the mechwarrior thread in g&c

anyone want to play

starku wrote:
i saw

but he's not even following any threads of the discussion

he literally just posted 'in my fanfic everything is ok lalalalala'

starku wrote:oh man poor thanas

he makes a thread in gnc (always a mistake)

and he gets nothign but a bunch of people posting their personal agendas rather than engaging him on the stuff he was talking about

adr wrote:http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... 5#p3608385

dat post said this and more

Anyway, digression aside, I think there is some truth to the notion that the most recent cRPGs have been unduly dumbed down. The answer is, I think, not all that surprising: there's been a paradigm shift in the latest generation of gamers, spurred along by consoles and WoW, and it's one that won't necessarily entice the older generation. Previously, games demanded an investment in time.

starku wrote:well some of what people mean when they say 'dumbed down from 1998' is actually stuff that's really good

like me's combat vs buck rogers combat and shit

but frankly i put the blame squarely on whining forum nerds :V

man that post is gold

'all this stuff not related to stories beign weak-ass wish fulfillment for fatties'

seriously can you make a thread on sdn that people don't just dump their own personal agenda into

B-A-K-U-S-T-R-A wrote:look, i think part of why they became wish fulfillment is because of changes in the industry and the increasing amount of money at stake

kinda like how a lot of blockbusters have really nothing challenging in them at all

starku wrote: this is the guy who can post giant reams of made-up shit baout how btech ablative armour actually representst the huge level of accuracy needed to hit the tiny weakpoints on invincible battlemechs

Losonti Tokash wrote:So last week I got interviewed for an article, and part of that wound up here: http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/cjr_ho ... braska.php

I got misquoted a bit so one of my sentences seems nonsensical to me but meh.

Losonti Tokash wrote:So last week I got interviewed for an article, and part of that wound up here: http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/cjr_ho ... braska.php

I got misquoted a bit so one of my sentences seems nonsensical to me but meh.

open_sketchbook wrote:Kindly die in a fucking fire.

I seriously have no idea how people can believe that the the value of gold is any less arbitrary, well, anything else. Gold only had value because it was shiny and keeps for a long time; it always represented a purely imaginary and fluid value relative to local markets and the will of whatever warlord was having his face stamped on it this year.

We might as well do it the way they did in Feudal Japan and go by bundles of rice produced. At least a koku of rice has the rather inarguable value of, you know, keeping you alive for a year. That's a pretty real fucking value right there. But unless you're willing to go out to the rice paddies and pull yourself up by your bootstraps, how about you shut up about your stupid gold standard?