*Different* choices. Let's say that. (Also, your post made me laugh audibly, so thank you for that.)

It's actually pretty wonderful. It spends its first four pages determining the cost of a loaf of bread before it does anything else.

I love Soulstorm, but yeah. I do not play that as a completionist, to put it mildly.

Heh, I actually do wait for the Collectors Editions, now that you mention it. The push towards heavier, pricier DLC like Age of Wonders 3 or Total War: DLC is slightly killing me, though.

Sheesh. Umm… Powder charges and landmines like crazy? Legion assassins are tough but you need to be able to kill them, for sure—especially if you're high-centered like that so early in the game. Good luck amigo.

I'm rebelling against Early Access by never, ever, ever, ever, ever buying a game in Early Access. What the crap you guys.

I'd think your weaponry would be up to snuff, if you've already killed a few (with help from the locals.) So weird. I never focus too much on guns or fighting stats initially.

That's happening, starting now. That's a wonderful idea.

The day I got curious about effective local economies and such was actually the day that ended any future GM plans I might've had. Now I read "Grain Into Gold" and I just get so caught up in secondary questions (that won't last long against your average party of PCs anyway) that I can't get around to planning out the…

It's funny, but they never really gave me any trouble. The way you describe it, it sounds like I lucked out more than was good at the game. I was always glad to see them, actually: always hungry for more loot and precious, precious XP.

Oh man. Do your internal rules for this require that you play out all the single-player campaigns? Because I mean I love Dawn of War but once you get into Dark Crusade or later, you could put dozens of hours into each expansion because of how they handle their campaigns.

Far Cry 3 - Never beat it, reinstalled it after playing Windows 10 Full Reset and lo and behold, it doesn't crash 50% of the time like it always used to no matter what I did! So, I'm enjoying it, although I was far enough into it that coming into it cold reveals the game's hand for just how preposterous it is. I'm a…

Laura M. Browning, I have to admit that I'm unclear what you were expecting from a book called The Secret History of Wonder Woman. I mean, if you wanted the character's history, that easy enough to find; what else would a book called that be about but the character's creator?

Yeah… I think maybe he gets more credit than he deserves because society has shifted so dramatically between his time and ours. "Batshit", I believe; "ahead of its time," I hope not.

I got home and found it. It's almost all in-jokes for a dead game (never said I wasn't a nerd!) so your mileage will almost certainly vary. Anyway, for the curious, here is that poem:

I thought so, myself. I enjoyed that bit but overall didn't care for it as much as some, for sure.

Yeah, I only meant the point in general. Once I experienced that movie through that lens, the specifics felt like they went out of their way to make him a slobbering chowderhead in case anyone got the wrong idea and started thinking he had a point.

Is Seagal in very poor health? I get that he's always been a lazy, nasty, self-impressed thug, but this movie makes it sound like he's only barely able to be visible onscreen at all. (Plus - and I say this as a portly sort of gent myself - he doesn't exactly look like he's in the best of health.) Did he kick his…

*Beautiful, incompetent woman carrying a trombone stumbles while she walks, clearly distracted.*

Me neither, now.