I'm not sure that Slashdot is the right forum for intelligent theological or philiosphical discussion. The said, I personally believe that 'God' is non-interventionalist, and it doesn't matter how much you pray - they (he/she/it) are not going to step in and change anything for you. They may have wound up the toy and set it spinning, but they now only watch it for their own edification/amusement, not to maintain it. Think of it like a science project with a really long runtime.
A frighteningly large number of gamers I know are martial arts black belt equivalents [1] in a wide range of disciplines.
[1] Not sure if it is referred to as a Black Belt in all disciplines, but many of them have had assorted gradings this year - one had to go to Japan to do here grading as she couldn't do it here (Australia) at the level she was at.
If you really want expansions - try Talisman - I once started playing in a game with all expansions, it took up the entire living room floor of the house where we were playing, we wimped out after 10 hours and no one close to winning.
If you can find a copy - get Beyond Good and Evil, based on your other game choices, I think you'll really like it. Also Animal Crossing nearly resulted in us getting a second game cube so both my husband and I could play it at the same time. We are thinking of getting to DS untis when it finally ships of DS.:)
What about Paranoia, Macho Women with Guns, Tales of the Floating Vagabond, RIFTS, Don't Look Back, GURPS, Call of Cthulhu, Vampire the Masquerade or Minds Eye Theatre, or any one of dozens of others we have on the bookshelf at home.
I find it hard to get an intelligent conversation about women in gaming happening on Slashdot, but I would concur with the above statement about cooperative vs. competitve gaming. I like playing games where I'm cooperating with my husband -> it's something we can do together; as opposed to competitive gaming -> where it's something we do against each other.
Even team events against other players really doesn't do it for me - I play on a WoW PvE server for a reason - I have not desire to do PvP. I might try battlegrounds one day, but their plenty of world to explore in the mean time.
Really, there's only a small chance that Cthulu will actually be summoned.
If you're summoning Cthulhu in your D&D game, not only are you running with a REALLY old version of the monster manual, but you are probably using the wrong players handbook.
Personally, pre-OSX, I always had alias files in me Apple Menu Items directory of my Documents directory, my Applications directory and my HDA. That way I could get to anything on the HDA via the Apple menu.:)
As far as I see it, the only anti-competitive behavior apple's shown is their proprietary encrypted-AAC fileformat.
AFAIK this was a requirement by the record labels before they would permit digital distribution of the music files. So is the anti-competitive behaviour Apple's or the RIAA cartel's?
The root of the problem is that currency is constantly being produced, but it's being produced faster than it's destroyed. Every monster you kill generates some cash, but the only things that effectively 'destroy' money are 1) Mounts 2) Training 3) Repairs and 4) The limited number of useful things that NPCs sell. Everything else, you just sell right back to the gold farmer for that epic sword.
Trust me - if you're raiding MC or BWL there's plenty of money being destroyed in repairs. I'm up to 6 epics (two of which don't take durability loss) and it routinely costs me 4+ gold to repair after a guild raid. Our MT pays 20+ gold per raid in repairs.
You also missed consumable items for tradeskills and casting reagents which add up to quite a bit.
The implementation of 'soulbound' means that items are constantly taken out of circulation, there is no market for 2nd hand goods. You might have paid 300g for that sword, but then you got that really uber drop in MC and don't use it any more - there goes the cash. You can't on-sell the sword to get the money back.
Macgrrl is a nick I've had for over a decade now - and come from the fact that I was the only 'Girl' working in the service department of a Mac Dealer from some years. I was at the Mac workshop, was the only girl - hence, the Mac Girl. The nick stuck.
Personally I refer to myself as a Gamer Grrl - I design and play all sorts of games, have been paid to design games and have edited published games. I don't see why the order of the words are particularly significant.
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Yeah, Robert Palmer lives! (Well, actually he's dead, but his music still rocks)
I'm not sure that Slashdot is the right forum for intelligent theological or philiosphical discussion. The said, I personally believe that 'God' is non-interventionalist, and it doesn't matter how much you pray - they (he/she/it) are not going to step in and change anything for you. They may have wound up the toy and set it spinning, but they now only watch it for their own edification/amusement, not to maintain it. Think of it like a science project with a really long runtime.
It's Llama not lamma.
Women have balls - we just wear them higher :)
slashdotters don't have women at their workplaces anyway ;) and you being a slashdotter don't know enough about women to make that claim
Looks down front of shirt.... Cleavage, CHECK; Breast count equals 2.
I'm fairly sure I'm a woman, I was when I got up this morning....
Any game with Target Vomiting as a weapons skill is worth keeping araound (Whips and Chains was considered both a Weapons Skill and a Social Skill) :)
A frighteningly large number of gamers I know are martial arts black belt equivalents [1] in a wide range of disciplines.
[1] Not sure if it is referred to as a Black Belt in all disciplines, but many of them have had assorted gradings this year - one had to go to Japan to do here grading as she couldn't do it here (Australia) at the level she was at.
If you really want expansions - try Talisman - I once started playing in a game with all expansions, it took up the entire living room floor of the house where we were playing, we wimped out after 10 hours and no one close to winning.
If you can find a copy - get Beyond Good and Evil, based on your other game choices, I think you'll really like it. Also Animal Crossing nearly resulted in us getting a second game cube so both my husband and I could play it at the same time. We are thinking of getting to DS untis when it finally ships of DS. :)
What about Paranoia, Macho Women with Guns, Tales of the Floating Vagabond, RIFTS, Don't Look Back, GURPS, Call of Cthulhu, Vampire the Masquerade or Minds Eye Theatre, or any one of dozens of others we have on the bookshelf at home.
I find it hard to get an intelligent conversation about women in gaming happening on Slashdot, but I would concur with the above statement about cooperative vs. competitve gaming. I like playing games where I'm cooperating with my husband -> it's something we can do together; as opposed to competitive gaming -> where it's something we do against each other.
Even team events against other players really doesn't do it for me - I play on a WoW PvE server for a reason - I have not desire to do PvP. I might try battlegrounds one day, but their plenty of world to explore in the mean time.
AFAIR it's Mordenkainen
Really, there's only a small chance that Cthulu will actually be summoned.
If you're summoning Cthulhu in your D&D game, not only are you running with a REALLY old version of the monster manual, but you are probably using the wrong players handbook.
OK, INT high, WIS low - what's their STR, CON, CHR and AGI stats like?
Personally, pre-OSX, I always had alias files in me Apple Menu Items directory of my Documents directory, my Applications directory and my HDA. That way I could get to anything on the HDA via the Apple menu. :)
I play a balance specced Druid and have done since I started playing last year. :)
A Moonkin weilding the Aurustone Hammer (and Penelope's Rose) is funny :)
But where do all the calculators go?
you forgot that fabulous new OOMkin form :)
Midori and Tonic FTW - bright fluorscent green
albeit with far, far more profanity and fruit fucking
but don't we love them for it.... :)
the 15" and 17" have a BTO option to install a 120Gb 7200 rpm HDA
As far as I see it, the only anti-competitive behavior apple's shown is their proprietary encrypted-AAC fileformat.
AFAIK this was a requirement by the record labels before they would permit digital distribution of the music files. So is the anti-competitive behaviour Apple's or the RIAA cartel's?
The root of the problem is that currency is constantly being produced, but it's being produced faster than it's destroyed. Every monster you kill generates some cash, but the only things that effectively 'destroy' money are 1) Mounts 2) Training 3) Repairs and 4) The limited number of useful things that NPCs sell. Everything else, you just sell right back to the gold farmer for that epic sword.
Trust me - if you're raiding MC or BWL there's plenty of money being destroyed in repairs. I'm up to 6 epics (two of which don't take durability loss) and it routinely costs me 4+ gold to repair after a guild raid. Our MT pays 20+ gold per raid in repairs.
You also missed consumable items for tradeskills and casting reagents which add up to quite a bit.
The implementation of 'soulbound' means that items are constantly taken out of circulation, there is no market for 2nd hand goods. You might have paid 300g for that sword, but then you got that really uber drop in MC and don't use it any more - there goes the cash. You can't on-sell the sword to get the money back.
Macgrrl is a nick I've had for over a decade now - and come from the fact that I was the only 'Girl' working in the service department of a Mac Dealer from some years. I was at the Mac workshop, was the only girl - hence, the Mac Girl. The nick stuck.
Personally I refer to myself as a Gamer Grrl - I design and play all sorts of games, have been paid to design games and have edited published games. I don't see why the order of the words are particularly significant.