Recent content by DrunkonDuty

I love "nontroversy." It is now part of my vocabulary.

At this point, Mr Alcatraz, I shall have to withdraw from the conversation or I shall not so much step over the line of "no politics" as fling myself violently in a catapult. ;-)

Without a doubt. However, the point I was making was not about the speed of the transition but the "collateral damage." The superfluous will be left on the trash heap to die.

No, it's not. But c'mon, Peter is in a rather unique situation. And as with all things Spider-Man, I'm here for it. (y)

I don't suffer fools. I pity them.

We can look to historical examples, e.g. the industrial revolution. Early I.R. the cloth industry made a lot of use of individual piece workers, roughly equivalent to outsourcing the fine manual labour, mostly (entirely?) to women. When the mechanical processes became more sophisticated and...

If the mechanics support fun combat* then I enjoy the combat part in and of itself. Making tactical choices, rolling the bones, burning through resources as the combat grows more desperate. But for combat to be fun there need to dramatic stakes. Random encounters with monsters as you walk along...

I appreciate the amount of work that must have gone into that. Also, the drugs were good that day.

Holding actions. A character can hold an action or part of an action. You can take the action when you want. You do not neeed to stipulate a specific thing you wish to react to. If you're trying to interrupt or go before else someone does you must beat that other character in an initiative...

It's Atlantanese. Clearly part of the Mayan language family.

Well, the action economy is a resource in a way. Physical placement of characters. Decisions on who/what to attack/defend. Terrain.

Personally, I like having in-game resources: HERO's End, spell points, L5R's rings. Not everyone does. I've noticed more people dislike the ones that look the most like maths, e.g. HERO's End. (That it constantly goes up and down is just more maths and makes it even less popular.) Whereas...

I have been meaning to buy the N.K. Jemisin lantern stuff. I believe it's avilable as trades now, I prefer trades.

The BBC was not alone in this attitude of purging stuff. And that makes me cross. I get it, back then video tape was expensive. And storing it was even more expensive. But, grrrr! On a related note, about 25 years back I worked at an editing place in London, and I got to do the preservation...

Oh my issue is with the fight scene is that it was there at all. That and convincing the Celestial to abort itself. That was aserious WTF moment for me. But I'm happy to put Eternals on my re-watch list and refresh my memory and to see how I feel about the fight scene now.