If you had to use a historical piece or a bow you made yourself (so likely all wood, not space age materials) how much do you think it would affect your performance? Would it be hard to adapt to it?

Something about this strikes me as off. Isn't the point of getting advice to get that other perspective? Otherwise you are A.) following others blindly or B.) incapable of taking advice.

I think I'm going to differentiate between kit and set here.

Nope. Same way. course getting the tether to work can take finagling.

Yes, true, I took that course. What I mean though is having a friendly interface for reloading it from your hard drive (or better yet, the cloud), when the power fails in the middle of everything. And the ability to mark a specific state in the middle of things to let the dog out.

I've always heard them called cutters or snips, but Craftsman lists them as pliers on the site linked.

So the ideal is a save-state style system that automatically kicks in every 5-15 minutes, including in the middle of cutscenes, and uploads to the cloud. I'd LOVE to see that in games, but I think the hardware would have to WELL outstrip the software, and I don't see that happening.

Absolutely sincere when I said thank you. Any help I get breaking bad habits is welcome.

Also, Thanks. I know a lot of people hate this, but I usually ask my friends to point out just this kind of thing. Course, now you've started me on a path where I have to relearn all my modii (is that second declension?) again. Modus tollens, modus ponens, et cetera.

ARGH! you are absolutely right!

Maybe I'm weird, but this strikes me as a really interesting take on communism...

Prepping as much as possible for the next day is really helpful to me. Having my pants laid out (I have a lot of stuff on my pants, leatherman, flashlight, two The Clips (one with keys, one with a sea to summit ultra-sil), 6 foot length of rope, blah blah etc. etc.), shirt is easy enough to grab from the closet, as…

I'll play anything in these categories. If I had to choose favorites... hmmm, probably Hordes (miniatures), MTG (card games), and any of a STACK of RPGs. Board games is tricky, possibly Inevitable, but I have a lot of board games and I like them all. Also, I know Dominion is a card game, but the box it comes in…

This past spring I managed to get a nasty cold at the height of my allergies. Confused the hell out of me. Thought it was just allergies until my roommate caught it, then more of the cold symptoms showed up. My advice for being able to tell when it's both is "Do you feel more miserable, and cannot think straight…

Would totally play this, but I'd want them to all be larger than life like this: (Note, video isn't exactly NSFW, but still pretty vulgar)

Lotta good points here.

it's like Zeno's paradox applied to game design.

*nods* I immediately thought of Teavana as well. Wonder who the credit for the first model should go to. Probably some tinkerer in oklahoma or somesuch.

I've had one of these for a long time. They aren't as hard to clean as you might think, and they make an excellent backup (the number of times I've forgotten to toss a plastic fork in a lunch man...).

That's actually an excellent point, that I'm glad some indie studios really get. Sometimes picking a good style to your art matters a lot more than the quality of it. Heck, if you produced a game with solid play that mainly used 8 bit sprites on static backgrounds, you'd probably still find the game popular, because…