How so?

You are certainly right that virtuosity can be a real bore — I wouldn't listen to Joe Satriani if you paid me — but I can't think of any artist I really really dig that was not technically very proficient. Just that a lot of that time the skill is applied in service of very simple forms.

Right, they are lies, but there's a major difference that I can't seem to articulate. — lying in person carries risk of being called out *in person*, lying
on the internet only carries risk if you actually expose your "person" your self.

I know they did - but like I said "enough" people dug it and maybe I'm naive or something but I think it took major balls for him to come across like he did, alienated, uncomfortable, anti-performing.

Yes. Would AV Club care to amplify their statement?

Not with you, Miller. It's like internet tough guys — a guy can front at the bar but someone's gonna call him on it. A stage musician can adopt a persona, but they have to show it to people and then those people say "want it" or not. Gary Numan broke because enough people were into his onstage weirdness. Internet…

Well said. All that stuff like learning how to do shit really "smacks of effort" anyway though.

ha ha, truly. I'm about ready to chuck it in.

@avclub-0f0d67e214f9fef69b278e3d08114da9:disqus  - too erudite I am afraid dear boy.

KEEP ON THE BORDERLANDS BITCHES

@avclub-24285ac5fdc310a2a0b518e5d86cd608:disqus  - no way man. Do it right and it's a blast. If the DM gives a lot of non-combat XPs and lets people level up automatically for the first few levels, it's great. Give them some fuckin' potions so they have an alternative to dying. Or some patron or something.

Only with a shitty DM. 1-5 was always a blast for my friends. "Dead again?! You stupid halfling! Stop footpadding you jackanapes!"

I thought you were writing "tuna fish". Like the retainer was retaining tuna fish. Thanks. Not your fault but fuck you anyhow.

@Dr_John_Zoidberg:disqus  - I believe you mistake the situation, Zoidberg.

Astral plane probably. Or the Plane of Fake Women. I don't know ask the Archmage.

I'm not even going to read the article. I'm straight to the comments to read and write of our manly adventures.

I dunno, are you talking act two Pyramid Head or act three Pyramid Head?

@avclub-1f5b519cde67ac0d0fcab419aa3048a4:disqus - Catan is a German game after all. But even others that are not of German origin have a lot of their market there. A cultural thing; Germans love complicated board games. Bully for them!

I don't want to be an asshole, but all these folks here getting up in arms about this, do you think maybe you want to dial it down a touch. I come from County Cork Catholics who are so Up The Irish it's sick. Our favourite crazy uncle-who's-not-really would come to my parents' Paddy's day party every year dressed in…

@avclub-eaa88660d97aa2a15400335bcf9d93ac:disqus - exactly, thank you.