Recent content by Bohandas

Half-Life did it more in the second game, which in addition to having its own tram sequence at the beginning also had the scene in the lab, the scene in the cave, and the villain's monologue at the end, which admittedly weren't in vehicles but were otherwise the same thing I've had people tell...

What was the deal with games with boring unskippable intros around the turn of the century. ie. Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, etc. They all started with really long boring sequences where your character is stuck in some kind of vehicle and can't do anything. In the case of the...

That game sounds pretty garbage. That's two things that are dealbreakers for me - limited saves and unskippable cutscenes EDIT: That reminds me, does anybody know if there's a word for sequences that are like cutscenes but aren;t cutscenes? Like the part in Half-Life 2 where a bunch of boring...

I hate games that don't let you save

What about a Psion/Cleric who solves pronlems with the awesome power of thoughts and prayers

As it is written in the face book

That sounds much better than modern times. Nowadays flame wars have mostly been replaced by a mix of lynch mobs, echo chambers, and/or rules against discussing anything controversial

it's idiomatic!

If he left off dreaming you where do younsuppose you'd be - Idea I had for a gonzo Call of Cthulhu storyline where the universe is gradually revealed to be an intrusive thought in the mind of Azathoth, and Nyarlathotep a sort of psychiatrist dedicated to eliminating it. The Elder Gods, who...

Which ideas got used in the adventure?

What did you eventually go with for the adventure?

This. Until a couple years ago "social media" always referred specifically to sites like Belen describes here (with the added detail of the abusive algorithms mentioned elsewhere). It's only comparatively recently that I've started to encounter people using it in the very broad and literal sense...

Ok, just came across another group of franchises where there's a striking similarity. The eponymous Dark Tower from Stephen King's book series has a lot of similarities with the tower lore from The Ender Scrolls (although I think in this instance both may have been inspired by the mythological...