Actually, WWI's trenches bred an interesting environment- one which was the bane of generals. The people in the trenches realized that their continued well-being had more to do with the people on the other side than with the generals back home. So for the first act of the war, they actually coordinated to minimize…

My life belongs to Mount and Blade: Warband. I'm behind the curve, and I don't care. That game is amazing.

"I was bullied by the gaming press." HAHAHAHAHA.

Scioli is a huge Kirby fan, and so much of his work is Kirby influenced. I love it, I really do.

It'd be nice if they specified what platforms they were going to support. Since they don't say, I assume this is Windows only. It'd be nice to have an OSX/Linux port that's not crap though.

The first one had the benefit of being a complete surprise. Nobody expected the game to be that good. S2 is good, but it hasn't defied expectations in the same way. People talk about it less.

I'm currently designing a card game. The theme is that it's generically 18th/19th century duelists in a fighting tournament, and so mechanically, it plays out as a series of cards of moves and counter-moves and stance changes. The game requires fighters. The easy answer is that these characters should be European…

No. Because any simulation of sufficient verisimilitude is identical to the system that it's simulating.

They've been predicting this era since the 90s. They've had time.

Actually, that would be pretty impressive.

Glad you liked!

I love Karen as a coach. I don't know if you've ever seen Gestalt at a duo show, but we use Karen for that. She's amazing.

Oh, and because I'm a nebshit, who's your coach if you don't mind me asking?

Awesome! Practice groups are really great. So much fun. Look forward to seeing you around the SCIT.

Hey! Do you come out to the house-team nights and jams? You should! I'm on "A Gun Called Christopher Walken".

No- I'm pointing out that there will always be situations that arise which cannot be described by a pre-defined ethical system. There is no universal ethical system, nor can there ever be.

While I grant than the Western use of the word "god" is highly specific, that hardly means that it's correct. There are plenty of religious traditions which have impersonal deities. Then there are the pantheists, who obviously believe in a deity, but don't ascribe it personal traits.

It's not that the male characters are flat on purpose. They're flat simply because the show isn't about them. Why waste time on unimportant characters? Art, Matt Frewer, Churchy Johnson and Pudgy McMonitorson exist to complicate the plot, not complicate the script. And yes, sorry, those are my names for them. They,…

I've been on a bit of a Bob Ross binge lately, and I can confirm: he did once paint a person in his forest. This was before he started beating "the devil" out of his brush.

Like a BFG. That'd be awesome.