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That scene was interesting. I'm sure it won't come up, but notice in the story he said it was Rust who shot the guy? Wouldn't ballistics be able to tell it was Hart's gun? There were some deliberate cracks in the story, I'm not sure if they were just meant to be overlooked or if they will be...

The director or writer seems to be really emphasizing the unreliable narrator, and how everyone's perceptions are formed off narration. I think this would be a pretty elegant way to exploit that. So it's not some 'fight club" twist, but rather simply a slight alteration of events due to some...

I hope they don't go supernatural with the ending. I hope it's more of a conspiracy ending, with people in some kind of cult that goes all the way up to the Governors office.

A game appeared here? Where? I saw some Unity assets and an incomplete design document. People burned it to the ground specifically because it was NOT a game. By the way, what do you do in your spare time when you're not "laughing" at people for being rational, maybe go have a laugh at...

Was probably discussed earlier in the thread, but how do you guys feel about always being vulnerable to invasions unless you physically unplug your system? I'm a pretty big proponent of risk of PvP in Sandbox MMO's as long as the actual aggressor faces serious risk. The problem is, Dark Souls...

2 minutes of research would have shown Brad that Star Citizen launched with this trailer. Assets rendered in game was like the dubstep drop in a room full of people on ecstasy. I contrast, Brad launched with an interview where he said "grouping" a bunch of times. It's sad because Brad...

Yeah, I admitted the design didn't translate well into "raid scenes" (Or became obtuse and clunky for other reasons, like how the one way mechanic affected casters vs melee heh). But the main point was it was attempted, the primitive outlines of these things were there. It sometimes got lost in...

Well, one of the problems with citing a problem is that in a good MMO, designs tend to overlap. It's why I had to make such long posts about the benefits, too--because sometimes a benefit or problem in one system, is actually a short sighted design decision in another system. As you mention in...

That wasn't really the main point, though. The main thrust being that "new" systems often iterate life inoneor a narrow set of directions--in this case, speed. The Jet, despite being amazing, sacrifices a lot of other qualities for speed. So assuming "the jet" is the pinnacle of achievement, is...

Looking back at the benefits of even anachronistic systems? Can sometimes provide pretty valuable insight into the future. Lets take the horse example; what way is a horse superior to cars? If you dismiss that out of hand, you'll miss the fact that horses run green AND the amount of bio-fuel it...

Because the risk was intrinsic in the actual dungeonandyour preparation, not in an arbitrary time out set by the developers (Now there WAS arbitrary "extrinsic" elements in EQ-- and they were bad, go into that below). So depending on YOU, and YOUR choices, the risk was different. Uguk, for...

Yep. Investors, in general, rarely go for video games because of how IP "sales" work in terms of assets (IE as far I know, they sell for dick--so the only way to recoup money on them is to have connections at a studio that can build on them); and how difficult it is to track progress on...

Read the post :P it's not about Garrosh's difficulty, it's about the TYPE of difficulty WoW uses exclusively. The post was stating the only difficulty meter WoW has is increasing the APM repetition; and yes, that makes Garroshharder, but it's also causing problems becauseeverydifficulty design...

That's all fair. Like I said, I don't think CR's in and of themselves were a great mechanic--I think they had a lot of benefits AS a layered consequence that most people glossed over. If we really examine why CR's, in some cases, were good; it's possible to see why sometimes punishing the player...

First, lets be honest; how many times did this happen? Now, in 1999 you might have been on a dial up, so this kind of thing was more common for you. But I was lucky enough to be in college in 2000 and on a T1 line, so Irarelydied without something being my fault (I can count them on one hand...

(Just to start; yes WoW was harder than EQ in terms of twitch difficulty. WoW raids were a ton harder to execute at the individual level, by leaps and bounds.) I'm not so sure you are, either. You're attempting to define all difficulty as tactical, individualistic difficulty. Essentially the...

You realize there were other MMO's right? What's your explination for them having 1/10th the population of EQ? (There were at least 5 other MMO's in direct competition with EQ. 4 with 3d graphical views.) EQ grew the market the largest, had the most robust life span and EQ's mechanics were...

I don't think EQ was a superior game at all to WoW; for example. And I don't think every aspect was fun, it had a huge amount of problems. The point is that yes, no game with a well executed hardcore rules was every released; a lot of those rules create a different play aesthetic and a different...

85, for some reason I thought she died a few years ago.

Yeah, that part was dumb....but they made up for it by him murdering the opposing general and then sitting on his throne, above the bodies of his fallen enemies, as he dies like a fucking boss.

Just because an argument works without fail does not make it a "no true Scotsman fallacy" by it's nature of being correct---which is what you're implying here. If you want to "punch a hole" in this argument, it's easy. Just tell everyone the game that had a full suit of niche rules, that wasn't...

In order for the "fair use" law to be used; it must not infringe on the business that would have otherwise gone to the company they are using the copyrighted material from. So if they are "parodying" the Starbucks logo; then they would have to prove that the customers drinking their "parody"...

Karl Urban. Just change his Dredd suit and put him in the bat suit.

They make perfect sense. It's not "just" his hallucination; its a metaphor for how mental illness is interpreted by those who have it, those who don't AND lastly those who don't have it BUT understand it well enough to help those who do. The shot of the wife was only supposed to illustrate...

It's not a dream, though. If you take "the storm" as a metaphor for the schizophrenia he's been holding at bay his whole life-- then throughout the movie he has episodes where it behind overwhelming him and in these scenes "the storm" becomes real. However, no one around him KNOWS about his...

It's Itz; so the main problem was that Nunnally was not a magical girl and/or drove a tank.

I know the main thrust of your post was that we'd need to compare BLS to BLS in order to get accurate trends; and I agree. But I wanted to talk about why the BLS figures are just bad for any real academic talk, because they have tons uncontrolled parameters even within their most specific...

If what you enjoyed was it's kind of it's logical realism within it's own world (As in, it followed it's own world's rules)? Watch berserk, you'll enjoy it. Also Code Geass if you wanted to try a mecha.

I see Electro has learned the power of Dubstep.

See though, that's the thing. They probablydidsee the impact. The way leads work is that they had to call and develop an account with the people. So I'm sure a lot of these guys had conversations post-losses with the people that they robbed. That was the twisted thing about their crimes: They...

lol, I re-added it...I think it still fits, so I put it back in. I think it would bother me less if the actors and writers didn't say "oh this is a cautionary tale" in interviews. Bullshit. If it were, we would have actually seen the victims and all the destruction he caused. We didn't. And...

Nope, I just don't want some artificial sympathy jammed in there showing how the poor man lost his family and succumbed to substance abusebecauseof how wealth destroys your soul. And so, all the plebs out there should be happy they aren't wealthy--because money is the root of all evil. After...

Oh come on, this was a lazy excuse then, it's a lazy excuse now. In a game where group slots are socially constrained due to discreet amounts of dungeon space (IE competitive). You better be able to fill a role in an adequatelycomparablefashion; Warriors were either behind or even with in terms...

Fuck me, one of the better actors of our generation =-/.

Agree completely. This stuff in movies and TV has ALWAYS annoyed me. It's like some kind literary, social consolation prize for the plebs that will never have this kind of money. "Oh don't worry; the wealthy really aren'tthathappy. It's all illusory and hollow. The joy you're seeing while they...

EQ warriors were only awesome because most players in EQ were uniformed kids who couldn't look at anything objectively. At most you can make a point about how social conditioning is a huge factor in decision making; like when people in WoW use purple gear despite it being worse than blue. But in...

Kentucky happened to Hodj. Kentucky.

Fantastic troll. Good set up, didn't come on too strong. Execution of taking the definition and applying it broadly in a specious manner that works; but still means the opposite of the current discussion? Really Kir, I'd + you if I could.

First, for LFG system. Look for the spot between WoW, and nothing. The goal here should be to take the really rough edges off but don't automate everything. Make it so the the LFG system is a collection of information that can be accessed by the player. Nothing major, just a command showing...

It's an overworked assembly line where people are bullied into plea agreements. It's not so much the "system" as it is the ridiculous workload we expect of it is creating severe fractures in it. What? The U.S. appeals process is pretty exhaustive. I think you're forming your entire opinion based...