Merus

thanks for the update?

As a player I don't care. As a GM, I've got a sandbox D&D 5E adventure, a Numenera dungeon crawl, a robot apocalypse in Eclipse Phase, and a GUMSHOE/Trail of Cthulhu adventure set in Fallen London/Sunless Sea. I'd provide characters to ensure we can get right into it.

I can't make a long-term commitment but I'd be interested in a one-shot.

The thing about mansplaining is that it's trying to name an action when it's the intent that's offensive, which is bound to cause drift.

I don't think that locking the Recently Completed Games thread will have the desired effect, because in the last few years the breadth and diversity of the medium has exploded. If I start a thread about Rhem, or The World Ends With You, or DROD, it won't get posts not because people have already discussed it in one of the megathreads. It won't get discussed because no-one else will have played it. The AAA games are really the only things you can guarantee more than one person has played. I like the games megathreads because it's fun reading about games I might never have heard of.

Yeah, there's intentionality to that design that only becomes clear when you play it as intended: in multiplayer. The element combinations are designed so that you forget, so that surprising and usually fatal chain reactions take place when there are four people all casting spells at once.

Oh yeah, I saw someone recently follow their twitter mocking as it became a story about how people were 'outraged' on Twitter.

Oh right, so Mensa was in the business of private tutoring in your area.

I actually did join Mensa, and yeah, basically it's a social club. No-one really talks about how super-duper-smart they are in the club, because obviously everyone else there is also pretty smart so they're not going to be impressed. Problem is, intelligence is nice to have but what you really want out of a social group is 1) mutual social compatibility and 2) no jerks, and if you already have an entrance exam, you don't really get away with kicking people out who passed the entrance exam but turn out to be jerks. I have a better social group, fewer geniuses, they don't like hawaiian, but otherwise much more enjoyable. Mensa makes a lot more sense when you find out IQ and IQ tests were promoted by the American eugenics movement. The idea that intelligence is a desirable quality in and of itself is a really old-fashioned notion. I'm mostly responding because of this, though, because this doesn't seem possible and I want more information. If 'loads of parents' were taking their kids to gifted programs, you would have noticed at least one of them doing well on like a national exam or something.

Come on man, give me some damn credit.

I think it's a very odd idea that your tastes should conform to an average of a bunch of reviewers, especially games reviewers.

I am going to wait until Dropsy goes off sale to buy it, because I finally have money and Jay's a cool guy.

And yet who's manufacturing outrange here

Oh my god what is that from

I'd suggest Media Watch but it's very heavily Australia-focused, it's heavily skewed towards journalism ethics, and it's a TV program so it's a vodcast.

It also feels like they're doing Superman storylines with Captain America - in terms of superheroics he's basically a brick with a Cool Shield, and we know his heart is absolutely in the right place so there's no real source of internal conflict. So what we get in the movies are the kind of storylines they should be doing with Superman: the world is wrong, and he can't fix that on his own, so he has to inspire other people to join him in making the world a better place.

I'm as suspicious of Steam as anyone, but even I can't fault Humble for offering Steam keys.

A woman in Western Australia died in police custody because the police thought she was faking it. It's made national news here.

Ninety-Three's argument also works for any other kind of whistleblower, I notice. The value of the Fallout 4 leak would have been mostly neutered if Bethesda had put a title card at the end of Skyrim saying 'Fallout 4 Coming Soon'.

I use Metacritic exclusively for movies, because Metacritic can differentiate between polarising and mediocre movies much better than Rotten Tomatoes can. I still read reviews.

There's some solid research showing that social software and its userbase are co-dependent, and the same kind of software can give rise to radically different communities depending on the userbase. Take 2ch and 4chan; the same software, except only one spawned a hate group. (Similarly, the same people using different software will behave very differently on each.)

It appeals how by sheer chance you've managed to line up the anniversary episodes during GDC week.

You would not believe how often pineapples come up on a video gaming forum.

I think megathreads are only toxic if people expect everything in the thread to be read. No-one's got that kind of time,.

So I need Christmas advice: Do Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nightmare Before Christmas hold up? They're featuring in a movie marathon I'm planning on running, but I have four other films I also want to show and I only have room for three. (Third one's Brazil.)