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  1. Gavinmad

    Star Trek: Discovery

    I don't remember exactly when the Defiant shows up in 3, but Worf shows up in the Season 4 premiere, so it's not that long of a wait. And honestly, once you make it through Season 1, you'll survive the wait for Worf and the Defiant. Absolutely not. Homosexuality has been cured by the 24th century.
  2. Gavinmad

    The Authoritative Final Fantasy & Bravely Default thread

    I don't mind the Woolsey translation for the most part, but even as a kid I always thought 'Son of a submariner' was dumb. It definitely doesn't hold a candle to 'You spoony bard!'.
  3. Gavinmad

    Blood Bowl

    Dirty player is handier than I thought, i didn't realize it also give you a +1 to the injury roll.
  4. Gavinmad

    XCOM Enemy Unknown

    So I started a game with operation slingshot, went ahead and picked that mission first. Now the second mission has come around, and it's saying something about diverting an enemy battleship. I'm not going to have to shoot the fucking thing down am I? I mean I assume not, because I haven't...
  5. Gavinmad

    28mm Miniature Tabletop Wargaming Thread

    get two 4x3 sections, put hinges on them, and then put the whole thing hinge down on top of a folding card table. Barely takes up any space at all when it's all put up.
  6. Gavinmad

    Planescape Torment Kickstarter: A spiritual sequel to be set in Monte Cook's Numenera

    Also, Monte Cook is wildly overrated and hasn't had any real success. I mean Planescape was really cool, but it was never particularly popular, which is why it got cancelled and nobody has cared enough to bring it back.
  7. Gavinmad

    XCOM Enemy Unknown

    You can build satellites even when you don't have enough capacity for them, can't remember if you can start them even before you have your first satellite room though, probably not. Assaulting the alien base is worth -2 global panic reduction, so if you can get to that point without any nations...
  8. Gavinmad

    XCOM Enemy Unknown

    So is project slingshot just a miniature story arc that you play throughout the normal course of the game? How does that work? Deciding whether or not I should pick it up. Also, what exactly comes in the elite soldier pack, is it all just fluff or does it actually add something to the game?
  9. Gavinmad

    Blood Bowl

    Did you actually score with a troll? lol, mine still has 0 SPPs, granted he's only around 3 games old since I didn't start with him.
  10. Gavinmad

    The Pokemon Thread

    Eh, I've been playing White, after not having played since Emerald, and it certainly doesn't feel stale to me. Maybe if you've been playing every single release since Red and Blue, it will seem stagnant, I don't know.
  11. Gavinmad

    The Pokemon Thread

    Pokemon may be a bit kiddie, but it's been a consistently good RPG franchise for the last 15 years.
  12. Gavinmad

    Blood Bowl

    The powergamey thing to do is just save it to avoid unnecessary TV bloat. I'm guessing you probably have an assload of cheerleaders and assistant coaches too.
  13. Gavinmad

    XCOM Enemy Unknown

    Aside from carefully choosing your missions, assaulting the alien base is a global panic reduction. If you can complete that mission before anyone withdraws, it should be smooth sailing the rest of the way.
  14. Gavinmad

    Gun control

    Probably not possible. My uncle had an unopened kit to extend the magazine on his 20ga semi-auto. The kit has absolutely no legal use, but owning the kit itself is completely legal.
  15. Gavinmad

    Top 10 movies of 2012

    Finally got around to watching Dredd, hooooly shit. Really wish I had caught it in the theater.
  16. Gavinmad

    Gun control

    Aren't 30 round mags being defined as high cap?
  17. Gavinmad

    Gun control

    If I'm reading that correctly, the first one would not be. From that list, the only thing it has is bayonet lugs. And you could theoretically replace any pistol grip with a thumbhole stock, although I've never used a thumbhole so I can't say how it compares to an actual pistol grip. The point of...
  18. Gavinmad

    XCOM Enemy Unknown

    Fucking finally
  19. Gavinmad

    Gun control

  20. Gavinmad

    Darksiders II

    My mistake, I thought you were using the 5 dollar comment to insult my precious Darksiders game.
  21. Gavinmad

    Gun control

    Well there would need to be a law reform as well.
  22. Gavinmad

    WH40K: Space Marine

    If you don't get raped by the slowdown bug, the game is incredibly enjoyable. Unfortunately all the DLC splits the community, and with absolutely zero support, MP is pretty dead.
  23. Gavinmad

    Gun control

    This, nobody is willing to pay for long term psychiatric care facilities, and pretty much only poor people need long term care facilities.
  24. Gavinmad

    WH40K: Space Marine

    Turning V-sync off actually worked for me. It doesn't work for everyone, so if it doesn't work for you, you're just plain fucked. The testing of the PC port was practically non-existent.
  25. Gavinmad

    Darksiders II

    Meaningless statement is meaningless? All THQ games end up cheap as dirt on Steam.
  26. Gavinmad

    Gun control

    eh, I think it is definitely gun snobbery for the most part, but I agree that it's perfectly reasonable to expect lawmakers to use precise terminology when proposing laws. Here's why this is a problem. This is a 100% inaccurate statement, so any law that said clip but meant magazine would be a...
  27. Gavinmad

    Gun control

    I can't speak for the other links, but I own Lott's book 'More Guns, Less Crime', and he completely fails to show causation between concealed carry and reduced crime rates in general, so I doubt he adequately showed they reduce any specific crime rate either. He did manage to inadvertently...
  28. Gavinmad

    Gun control

    Ignorance is a wonderful thing. What is it, something like 90% of America's gun crimes happen in the shitty neighborhoods of LA, Chicago, D.C., and New York? And yeah if someone breaks into my house with a knife, I'm going to do my best to kill him, because a knife is a lethal weapon. It sure...
  29. Gavinmad

    Gun control

    I didn't realize just how retarded the lawmakers behind the attempted ban in Illinois are. This is beyond retarded. How many pistols weigh that much unloaded? Is that unloaded with the magazine out? Do accessories such as an underbarrel light count against the weight limit? Attempting to ban...
  30. Gavinmad

    Gun control

    I gave my dad some shit the other day when he said clips instead of magazines, but honestly, who cares? Everyone knows exactly what you mean if you say clip instead of magazines, hell I still slip up and say clip sometimes.
  31. Gavinmad

    Darksiders II

    Uh, what? I've been defending DS1. I think we share pretty much all of the same complaints about DS2. I also loved Space Marine, and am in the middle of another playthrough. The feeling of the game is fantastic, but I still hate the way combat revolves so heavily around executions. 99% of my...
  32. Gavinmad

    Darksiders II

    No smartass, I mean Vigil would have done a better job with the combat, since Space Marine was mostly just Darksiders combat but strictly worse. Three cheers for a combat system where your health recovery relies entirely upon the special execution attacks which have inconsistent animations and...
  33. Gavinmad

    Darksiders II

    I do wish Vigil had finished Space Marine instead of Relic. I got to tour Vigil's studio some time well before the 40K mmo was cancelled, and they had half the walls absolutely plastered with some of the most amazing 40k concept art I've ever seen, they really had some hardcore 40k fans at Vigil.
  34. Gavinmad

    Darksiders II

    Are you serious? Puzzles are a hallmark of the genre, if I wanted to do nothing but mash my attack button, run down a hallway, and then mash my attack button some more, I'd fire up an emulator of TMNT or Streets of Rage. Or Space Marine, which is pretty much the exact game you are describing...
  35. Gavinmad

    Darksiders II

    They could have innovated without completely abandoning almost everything from the first game.
  36. Gavinmad

    Emulation

    I use a 360 controller. It's worked for everything except 64. Dunno if I mapped it wrong or what, but Mario 64 just felt unplayable with the 360 controller.
  37. Gavinmad

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    I've seen a lot of errors where it took them an hour or longer to correctly adjust the price down when something went on 48 hr or flash sale, this and the bethesda package are the only ones I heard of this year where they over-discounted it.
  38. Gavinmad

    Blood Bowl

    You shouldn't cage so defensively against High Elves, you should be doing your best to clobber them into paste with your CWs.
  39. Gavinmad

    Who's that Pokemon?

    I choose you
  40. Gavinmad

    Blood Bowl

    Yeah I fired mine after I took pile on, lol. Had decided to fire him before the match, but couldn't afford to replace him immediately. He ended up getting a smashed hip from a fucking halfling that match! Also if you haven't already, you'll want to go into your options and set a bunch of...