For me, the first one was better from a cinematic and narrative standpoint, but terrible for rules adherence. This one's the reverse: the story felt clunky at points, but damn if they didn't perfectly emulate a decent session of Dungeons & Dragons.

Where's the sword-rubbing and the note-making? I literally LOL'd when I saw he had gone through half his shirt by the end.

Except that Hank was a more accurate representation of a griefer than Pierce. Most DMs wouldn't have let Pierce get away with so much, either bending the rules to kill him quickly, or sticking to them so much that a simple careless action killed him.

I understand that even a show like Community has to sacrifice some adherence to the rules for the sake of expediency, but how come Hickey didn't trigger attacks of opportunity when he tried to heart-punch the goblins? As a harsh, by-the-book DM, it would've been the fastest way for Abed to punish him for not playing…

A pity all the characters died; I would've loved to see Riggs Sonslayer in a future game.

The first episode was more about how silly D&D might seem to outsiders, as we're looking at the game from the viewpoint of the inexperienced study group. This time around, everyone save the Dean and Hickey have played, and both newbies get into the game rather quickly.

it was more like a hyena than a cheetah or a lion, having to rely on opportunistic feeding to sate their appetites given their relative abundance.

Put it this way, if some asshole dismantled your car while you were sleeping, would you consider it all in good fun?

I wasn't even talking about Calculus, but basic arithmetic.

That's the fandom you're hating. Don't let what Tumblr girls and subscriber-starved Youtubers do on their weekends sully your view of the source material. It'd be like not liking Portal because of all the stupid cake references all across the Internet.

Oh, hi Stan. Didn't know you hung out at io9.

I think they have to account for cultural differences. In my country, if you know someone else is paying for lunch, and that someone isn't a family member, standard operating procedure is to order as cheap as your stomach can handle.

As someone already said, the difference is that there's a shit-ton of competition on PC. You have Steam and GOG, plus third-party resellers like Amazon, Greenman Gaming, and Gamefly.

Wow. It's like it's meant to burn a hole through your wallet. The items and coins are still grindable though?

It was well received by G1/Beast Wars fans, at least that's what I remember trawling through the TFW2005 forums. Not sure if it clicked with young audiences, who were the actual target of the show.

Three seasons, actually. There was a planned fourth, but the show got cancelled midway through the third season.

The underpowered ones are meant to stream from your main PC to the device, kinda like how Nvidia SHIELD works right now. At least, that's the theory. It should be very possible right now, given that Nvidia's ShadowPlay feature is quite functional and usable.

That's the problem: you haven't functioned without math. Oh, you think you did, just as a baseball player doesn't actually think about physics when he's pitching. But every time you were charged for something, paid, and given back change, you did math. Every time you calculated how much to tip the waitstaff, you did…

Why not show it as a disgusting habit that he can't kick? Shoot it in the same way that people normally shoot drug addiction? Start off the series with the lung cancer storyline.

Where I come from, friends don't prank friends. Victims of pranks are usually people who are part of your social circle, but you feel need to be taken down a peg or two.