What the hell is Slashdot coming to when a post including "jk", ";)", "rofl", and "P.S.... you're dumb" gets modded up? Grammar Nazis, you guys are slacking off!
I prefer to punish people who actually do harm. There's nothing wrong with charging a drunk driver who kills someone with manslaughter or 2nd degree murder and throwing his ass in jail and permanently revoking his license for when he gets out.
Indeed. That someone was drunk should be a damning bit of evidence at a murder trial, not an extenuating circumstance that makes them some how less responsible for their actions.
I usually get mod points about once a week or two and haven't seen any come my way in about the past three weeks. It's kind of weird, but it didn't occur to me that the same might be happening to other people until you mentioned the relatively low level of moderation lately.
Its been my experience that combat is the most memorable part of the game. People I know recall fun and funny moments of DND combat from nearly 20 years ago, not plot points.
I don't mind having a combat-heavy game. Those can be a hell of a lot of fun. What I was trying to get at was that previously, you basically had no choice; you had to spend more time in combat than you did role-playing. With 4th edition, you can make your own choice; you can knock out a big fight in a half hour or less and have time for loads of round-table party talking, or you can throw on more combats. It's all up to how you want to play it. Which is how I think the game should be.
While I was never a fan of Drizzit (sorry emo/angsty/goth kids)
I fail to see what being a fan of Drizzt has to do with being a moody kid. Considering that about half of them have made the NYT bestseller list, R.A. Salvatore's fan base is likely considerably larger than you think it is.
I also find it amusing that you point out stereotypically whiny kids groups and then spend the next five paragraphs complaining about how everything used to be better "back in the day". Fourth edition D&D is all about stripping out rules that shouldn't matter, because it gets in the way of telling a good story. After playing a few of the public play tests, I have to say that I haven't been this excited about D&D since my uncle described my first dungeon, back in '85. Combat is tactically interesting and flows quickly. In all of the earlier editions of D&D encounters ate up most of the play time, because it took so damn long to get through big fights. In fourth edition, instead of spending 10 minutes on plot and 2 hours on combat, most games will be able to split their time more or less evenly between the two.
Also, the reason why Eberron got so much more love than Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance in the past few years is because Eberron's new. There's an entire universe of things that people don't know about it. On the other hand, between the 100+ novels and sourcebooks, Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance are pretty well defined. It's really hard to fill a sourcebook with new information. They could retread the old material, but that's boring for everyone except new players and people that are really rabid about their campaign setting.
"In a recent CBR interview about his new continuation of the Marvel comic-book series 'Invincible Iron Man,' Matt Faction provides information about the the new series (debut will be May 7).
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He's pointing out that users are not typically found between the monitor and the keyboard. Now, if the poster had said "monitor and chair" or "keyboard and chair", it'd make a lot more sense.
Switch streetlights to a 33% duty cycle with pseudo-random (or really random) timing
Oh no. I'm not doing that. Last thing I need is for all the lights in front of me to randomly shut down sequentially until I'm left alone in the dark with a Skaarj.
They don't have to be functional in space; they're sight-seeing passengers. They're not going to be conducting scientific experiments under funky conditions. They're going to be sitting in their seats, snapping pictures and drooling about how awesome it is. The more enterprising of them will be collecting and selling said "space drool" for thousands of dollars an ounce.
There are actually some very high quality films coming out this year. Iron Man? The Dark Knight?
Yeah. Good job, Hollywood. Way to take a chance on a pair of unknown characters, with only 50 years of history and associated revenues far into the millions each.
I'm being facetious, of course; Iron Man's only been around for 45 years.
Metroid Prime was the only FPS I've EVER played on console which had that lame auto-lock mechanic.
Actually, it probably wasn't. It was probably just the only one where you noticed it. A lot of console FPS games will move your point of aim slightly from where your cursor actually is. It's present in all of the Halos and a fair amount of other games. If you'd like to check to what extent it is, you should load the game in question up in multiplayer and aim and a friend's head. Then strafe until your cursor is no longer in line with his head. In the Halo games, your reticle will usually still remain red and still give you a headshot if you pull the trigger with a one-shot kill weapon. Metroid Prime was just the first to make it painfully obvious that the game was aiming for you.
No, you can't. Using a javascript to do retarded things upon a right-click is old hat. Modern browsers let users disable that functionality.
you can't keep them from taking a simple screen cap and cropping it. Even if you could, it's always possible to point a good camera at a good monitor and get a near-perfect
Yeah, or someone could take 10 seconds to scan through the page's source code for images or use the handy "Media" tab in Firefox's "page info". Then, they have a direct link to all of the images in the document and can take whatever they want.
I don't know the racial modifiers for Tiefling under 4th edition, but assuming a +2 to Int and no other modifiers, it's a 31 point build. High-powered, certainly, but not insane. Most current games play somewhere between 25 and 32 points.
That would cause the Earth's year to grow longer. We should create holidays on the new days, in honor of the helpful robots. We could name them Robonukah and Robanza.
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Actually, Sikhs have specific underwear as part of their core beliefs. If all you want out of a religion is underpants, they can hook you up.
What the hell is Slashdot coming to when a post including "jk", ";)", "rofl", and "P.S. ... you're dumb" gets modded up? Grammar Nazis, you guys are slacking off!
The command to stop exercising, "and relax", suddenly takes on new meaning in this context.
I hope you can see this, because I'm doing it as hard as I can.
I usually get mod points about once a week or two and haven't seen any come my way in about the past three weeks. It's kind of weird, but it didn't occur to me that the same might be happening to other people until you mentioned the relatively low level of moderation lately.
I also find it amusing that you point out stereotypically whiny kids groups and then spend the next five paragraphs complaining about how everything used to be better "back in the day". Fourth edition D&D is all about stripping out rules that shouldn't matter, because it gets in the way of telling a good story. After playing a few of the public play tests, I have to say that I haven't been this excited about D&D since my uncle described my first dungeon, back in '85. Combat is tactically interesting and flows quickly. In all of the earlier editions of D&D encounters ate up most of the play time, because it took so damn long to get through big fights. In fourth edition, instead of spending 10 minutes on plot and 2 hours on combat, most games will be able to split their time more or less evenly between the two.
Also, the reason why Eberron got so much more love than Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance in the past few years is because Eberron's new. There's an entire universe of things that people don't know about it. On the other hand, between the 100+ novels and sourcebooks, Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance are pretty well defined. It's really hard to fill a sourcebook with new information. They could retread the old material, but that's boring for everyone except new players and people that are really rabid about their campaign setting.
No, no. I assure you that Professor Ripley is quite certain that nuking it from orbit is the only way to be sure.
I've heard that nuking it from orbit is the only way to be sure.
I, for one, welcome our new binary peanut star dwelling pony overlords.
Yes, the walk of shame with a $3,000 laptop that's highly ebay-able and $10,000 in prize money. I wish someone shamed me like that.
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He's pointing out that users are not typically found between the monitor and the keyboard. Now, if the poster had said "monitor and chair" or "keyboard and chair", it'd make a lot more sense.
Anyone that can confuse a Nerf gun with a real gun is an idiot and needs to identify themselves, so they can be slapped.
Identity theft and various other forms of fraud, which cause several billions of dollars of loss to private citizens?
They don't have to be functional in space; they're sight-seeing passengers. They're not going to be conducting scientific experiments under funky conditions. They're going to be sitting in their seats, snapping pictures and drooling about how awesome it is. The more enterprising of them will be collecting and selling said "space drool" for thousands of dollars an ounce.
I'm being facetious, of course; Iron Man's only been around for 45 years.
I don't know the racial modifiers for Tiefling under 4th edition, but assuming a +2 to Int and no other modifiers, it's a 31 point build. High-powered, certainly, but not insane. Most current games play somewhere between 25 and 32 points.
Maybe, but Firefox has this plugin. And it's really hard to find a more useful one.
Surely you mean "power cycle".
That would cause the Earth's year to grow longer. We should create holidays on the new days, in honor of the helpful robots. We could name them Robonukah and Robanza.