Search results

Why would someone rent physical media that they'd have to return when they could save themselves the trip with digital rentals? You speak of "better terms", but the only better term you're going to get is Redbox, which offer a limited selection. Plus, it's a crap shoot if any popular titles...

I'll give you some genuine credit for providing food for thought. At the very least, the study group walks away with a somewhat higher opinion of D&D, as opposed to, say, Christina Applegate's Jessie killing off her fellow players so she can leave early.

The posts preceding mine conveyed the attitude that this episode was somehow more respectful of D&D than previous depictions of D&D in mainstream media. I disagreed. Your reply seems to do little but champion the right of Community to make people the buff of jokes, which in no way refutes my...

Just caught up to the rest of the series through Netflix. Depressing to think that a sci-fi series for grown-ups can't find an audience. Of course, I had to laugh when I came to this thread and seeing it evaluated on the basis of space battles and stuff blowing up. The ending was pretty near...

Although I liked the episode in question, and it piqued my interest enough to watch both seasons, I can't say I recall it being particularly respectful of the game and its players. Neil is presented to us as, as Pierce describes him, "a fat crybaby". His character loses his sword, and he starts...

Yes, Dalek is what I meant to type, sorry.

So has anyone posited that the one-eyed lady is some kind of Dallke?

So they're trying to eat their cake and have it too, trying to create fresh starts while maintaining something like Batman inc, which is as postmodern, jaded, and convuluted as comics can get. There is no such thing as rebooting halfway. That's the entire point of appropriating the term "reboot"...

I so wanted to believe they were doing a real reboot. I mean, to me it just seems that comic books universes should do that every other generation. It worked wonders for DC's silver age. But then they're faced with doing stuff like killing off Grant Morrison's Batman Inc, and they flinch. They...

An excellent observation and I hope your prediction comes to fruition. So, I watched the season to date marathon style, along with the new Sherlock Holmes, and it left me wondering: are gay couples now the hip, trendy, BBC diversity thing that I should expect to see slipped in somewhat...

I don't want to restate my whole stance about action-denial, so I'll just say that while there is enough of those shenanigans going around that a nuanced improvement in debuff-slinging simply isn't needed and generally isn't notwworthy. I agree with some of what you say, but from my take on...

I take it that this is an attempt at ridicule, but there is not a lot that's funny or clever about taking a large-concept post and then trimming it down to something that you can throw a facile response at. If there's one thing that makes D&D 4e tedious, it's the abundance of action-denying...

For that matter, many strikers and defenders have a sizable assortment of debuffs at their disposal. This is an inevitable outocme of 4e's (initial) design, where building a class means coming up with, what, sixty or seventy powers distributed over thirty levels? And they're each supposed to be...

Thanks for the info. Seems wrong somehow to combine spellstrike and spell combat to milk an extra melee attack, but seem legit by RAW.

Any chance the magus changed from the playtest version? I'm playing one from 1st-level, and mehanically it's a little lacking. Spell combat is basically of the foundation of the class, and it works rather terribly. On paper, it seems reasonable to saddle the magus with a penalty to both the...

Symbowhatnow? That's a complicated mouthful that communicates nothing. Did the people who titled this show ever hear of focus groups?

Ah, Heavy Metal. At one time, the most cutting-edge mag. Today, it strains with all its might to avoid stepping into the digital age. DVD compliations? Nope. Online issues? Nope. Hardcover anthologies on Amazon? Negatory. What a pity. Anyway, check out the FATE game, Starblazer Adventures...

Are we talking about the Saga Edition? That one was pretty good. It introduced some new concepts that carried over to 4e D&D, like how skill training replaced skill points. Did we ever get any more news about who beat out Mongoose for the license a few months back?

I bought an ASUS EP121 Windows 7 tablet a couple weeks ago, and I certainly wish it was lighter, but not necessarily thinner. At a certain point, something's that's too thin leads to hand cramps (try hold an 8.5 x 11" piece of postcard-thin carboard for a length of time. I'd say when we're...

If that milimeter thinness or two of thinness doesn't have some personal practical value to an individual, how can it have anything to do with qualifying a product as The Best? Because lines of form around the block for it, like cattle waiting to go into the chute? Because CNN or CNet does a bit...