“Once upon a time, Denino was a streamer who mostly sat in his apartment and played old-school fantasy MMO Runescape.” 

I like how I can read that and go “Oh god, Runescape. This is going to get so much worse.”

I don’t think I’ve met a single Runescape player that wasn’t a ball of congealed hate and nastiness.

Honestly, the more complex and variable a system is, the more you should push towards simpler solutions, precisely because the more variables there are, the harder and more arbitrary they are going to be to weigh. If a system is more complex, the answer isn’t ‘add even more data and variables!’ because you can cause…

So why even make SR gains directly related to numbers generated in game and just make it simple win/loss?

I know I know. Something something ‘guy gets carried to Diamond and isn’t really good’ except... if that is the case, eventually he’s going to plummet back down to earth if he solo queues—or the team is going to…

The takeaway here is that the ‘bottom’ seems to be either dictated by either games with passionate but smaller player bases who respond negatively to a new game in the series or a game that has ‘gone viral’ as particularly bad. You can infer a bit about ‘user reviews’ in general from this. Nothing good about it, mind,…

The most recent red flag to me was ‘retiring’ cards from classic out of standard rotation, even with the cited ‘too popular/powerful’ excuse. Up until that point, the one promise was that classic cards would always have some kind of value; it gave more casual or newer players something to shoot for because those cards…

Funny, most people say that about Kinja.

Serious question though: So, at the very most you’ll have five other people asking one guy to switch, but it’s generally closer to 2 or 3.

What if they’re wrong? Like everyone’s ready to give shit to the guy who doesn’t switch, but I’ve also seen situations where ‘not-switching guy’ is doing pretty good, and meanwhile…

Do note that the game subtly pushes you towards using the ‘favorite’ specs to switch between certain specs on the fly, and act accordingly. I was a Vanguard/Biotic with pull/throw (it’s fun) against the first big giant robot-worm thing.

It was not ideal.

Yep.

Also? You can totally be a Necromancer. There’s a Wizard build that literally like raises an army of undead skeletons with bows and basically runs around raining death from above.

...Uh, I do hate to tell you that a Beholder will basically wreck your day though. (His turn—he sweeps over all your undead minions with…

Kenku? They’re actually even more hilarious than that. Kenku are basically a species that can only remix ideas and have perfect mimicry, so they don’t in fact ‘talk’ normally. Their speech is actually fragments of sounds and speech they’ve heard throughout their life (and Kenku listen a lot) so it ends up being a…

“I drink one cup of coffee every morning, and my Stimpack testing day was no different. Taking a Stimpack pill at noon should have felt, more or less, like drinking a second cup of coffee. It felt a lot worse than that. My whole body felt jittery as fuck.”

This is a commonly misunderstood danger of taking supplements…

So do I! That doesn’t mean I’m fond of a borderline predatory system being put on top of it.

I mean, option three is not create a revenue model that incentives the very act of playing in a repetitive, obnoxious fashion in order to trigger the skinner box reaction of randomly unlocking a ‘cool’ thing as a byproduct of using said psychology to encourage players to eventually put money into a glorified slot…

I’ve heard some rumors that turnout for X-wing is shrinking locally, though it’s hard to say if that’s just the community seeking equilibrium; at least in part it seems like the regular crowds split between Armada and X wing as their “core” game. Step zero, in any case should be to check flgs and see who shows up for…

I honestly have a hard time recommending either off hand. Warmahordes is still extremely expensive (X wing is cheap by comparison) and ultra competitive; it basically feels like a permenet tourney scene around here. Casual Warmahordes just isn’t a thing, at least not here.

Wife and I went through it, can confirm, absolutely perfect couples game (provided that you are both comfortable feeling really foolish. Neither of us are even *remotely* good at the game).

“I blame the Toreador. Always blame the Toreador.”

There were only two sentences that could bring a chill through any WoD group when a new player introduced their new character.

I’m playing a Toreador.

I’m playing a Malkavian.

Either way, there was a 50/50 chance that the player was “That guy/girl.” 

The biggest takeaway I’m getting from this article is that Youtube is a stupid, stupid place.

Weirdly, what came to mind is that it happens even on a small scale. Play any tabletop RPG or wargame long enough and players will inevitably convinced that one of their dice is unbalanced—like, it literally rolls lower than it’s supposed to. Even if you ‘test’ it in a salt water bath for balance, even if you start…

Buried in comments for now, but fwiw for your friend, I know of a retail place that did this exact strategy before being bought by an investment firm to a T. Downscaled products, aggressively pushed ‘unique’ services, told staff sales ‘didn’t matter.’ After about 9 months, sold themselves to the highest bidder.

So,…