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Girls Got Game
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Seriously, once again they've come up with this patent nonsense. First, battery enhancing stickers and now girls?
Might as well just make a new section: Hokum and Flim-flam, just put women under there with bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster.
How about Next-Box, I mean come on, it has the word next in the name, you can't get more 'next gen' unless you were put gen somewhere in the name, but such actions would explode men's minds.
It actually depends on what state you're in, even if your paper is advertising supported, it is still printed under the aegis of school approval. I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying that it (the ability of a school principle to censor a school paper) varies from state to state.
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How Can I Trust Firefox?
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I think that there are an awful lot of things that we as a community have a weird propensity to enjoy. These range from inside jokes to some weird obsession with Japan.
As far as cthulu is concerned, I think it's a combination of the literature (which is by H.P. Lovecraft and a few others) along with the Role-playing game, A Call of Cthulu. I think it's that we all can sympathize with a creature who has been long locked away in the darkened depths, communing with gods out of the outer dark, waiting for them to return.
It can't possibly be that we already have enough newspapers on the East Coast?
The internet is probably a good thing for newspapers, I doubt that it will become the be all, end all (though reading a broad sheet on the subway/train/bus is a bit of a pain). It's a great way to deliver content, to kep people apprised of things up to the minute, and it keeps our newsstands from being crowded.
How is this amalgam of other gaming systems even noteworthy? Seriously, in the text of the 'core rules' he makes this explicit: "This is definitely the game with the most blatant theft I've written."
Granted that it's a small community, and what one group does influences another (to some extent), but what is the virtue of this sytem? It's a nice effort, but it doesn't bring anything new to the table, or that interesting.
How does that seperate it from the OGL? There are plenty of generic fantasy worlds out there and this doesn't really seem like anything that great outside of the concept.
Sure it can, how else do you think TSR could go around suing everyone and their mother back in the day. It also works to explain the insane variety of rules systems, what with all of the dice, you have an endless array of systems you could make up.
Random Guy: I came up with a new system that uses eight sided dice, whenever you roll an eight you get to roll again, and when you roll a one, it's a 'mess up'.
Other RG: Isn't that the story teller system?
RG: no, it's different, I use an eight sided die.
What's really wrong with it is that they want to charge you $10 for it. I mean, there really isn't enough gameplay in there for that kind of money, unless you put in other assassinations, then you might have a $10 game, but one level, that's a shareware Demo.
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Remember that Infium or whatever console, that sort of reminds me of that.
The daleks made up for their lack of walking with a plucky 'can-do' attitude...
Exterminate!!! Exterminate!!!
Well the fact that the newer one, according to the poster doesn't have the same battery life or adapter set.
Of course, In Soviet Russia, this debate was irrelevant. Because internet controlled you!
This just proves that the Israeli military was right and gamers aren't to be trusted.
Seriously, once again they've come up with this patent nonsense. First, battery enhancing stickers and now girls? Might as well just make a new section: Hokum and Flim-flam, just put women under there with bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster.
Well, given the number of units that have moved for both the PS1 and the PS2, I would say that it's probably a reasonable figure.
How about that Crocodile Hunter guy? When are you folks gonna put a leash on him?
You know you're in trouble any time someone uses the word 'edgy'.
I really enjoy how the graphic on the front page of their site reads: "Smarter decisions. Safer world."
It's pretty silly.
Try again.
Have to side with the folks on this one, really just seems like mumbo-jumbo to me.
How about Next-Box, I mean come on, it has the word next in the name, you can't get more 'next gen' unless you were put gen somewhere in the name, but such actions would explode men's minds.
You have to get to exalted with their faction, and I hear it takes a whole lot of gold before they'll let you mount them.
I don't see why video-game companies are trying to appeal to a non-existent audience. We all know for a fact that women aren't real.
It actually depends on what state you're in, even if your paper is advertising supported, it is still printed under the aegis of school approval.
I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying that it (the ability of a school principle to censor a school paper) varies from state to state.
Nothing at all like /.
I think that there are an awful lot of things that we as a community have a weird propensity to enjoy. These range from inside jokes to some weird obsession with Japan.
As far as cthulu is concerned, I think it's a combination of the literature (which is by H.P. Lovecraft and a few others) along with the Role-playing game, A Call of Cthulu. I think it's that we all can sympathize with a creature who has been long locked away in the darkened depths, communing with gods out of the outer dark, waiting for them to return.
Yeah, it's probably easier to crack down on account auctions.
Well, you could probably pick up a character too while you're at it, though I don't quite know how that might work.
It can't possibly be that we already have enough newspapers on the East Coast?
The internet is probably a good thing for newspapers, I doubt that it will become the be all, end all (though reading a broad sheet on the subway/train/bus is a bit of a pain). It's a great way to deliver content, to kep people apprised of things up to the minute, and it keeps our newsstands from being crowded.
How is this amalgam of other gaming systems even noteworthy? Seriously, in the text of the 'core rules' he makes this explicit: "This is definitely the game with the most blatant theft I've written."
Granted that it's a small community, and what one group does influences another (to some extent), but what is the virtue of this sytem? It's a nice effort, but it doesn't bring anything new to the table, or that interesting.
How does that seperate it from the OGL? There are plenty of generic fantasy worlds out there and this doesn't really seem like anything that great outside of the concept.
Sure it can, how else do you think TSR could go around suing everyone and their mother back in the day. It also works to explain the insane variety of rules systems, what with all of the dice, you have an endless array of systems you could make up. Random Guy: I came up with a new system that uses eight sided dice, whenever you roll an eight you get to roll again, and when you roll a one, it's a 'mess up'. Other RG: Isn't that the story teller system? RG: no, it's different, I use an eight sided die.
Ha, they don't know who they're dealing with if they think that they only need to protect their devices against standard mischief.
What's really wrong with it is that they want to charge you $10 for it. I mean, there really isn't enough gameplay in there for that kind of money, unless you put in other assassinations, then you might have a $10 game, but one level, that's a shareware Demo.