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This reminds me of the time when I went out to a restaurant for a friend's birthday party. There were some people I knew and some people I didn't know. The guy sitting across from me I didn't know, and I happened to order the same thing as him. When we got our meals mine looked delicious and...

Nobody. This isn't a competition. As I stated at the end of that paragraph, I'm not actually looking for an answer. I don't care what videogamey means or whether 4e is or is not like a video game. My point was that saying 4e is videogamey is not "constructive criticism". An earlier poster...

"Too videogamey" is too broad a statement to be constructive, in my opinion. What is "videogamey"? I've played a lot of video games in my time, and they vary greatly. (Note, I'm not looking for an actual answer here, I'm just pointing out that "videogamey" may mean different things to...

I learned a similar lesson in creative writing classes at college. Saying something like, "This character isn't likable" is bad. Saying "This character isn't likable because..." is better, and "This character would be more likable if..." is usually best. If you want to give constructive...

I finally was able to snap a picture of the ad I was originally objecting to when I posted this thread. It's hard to grab it because the ad moves fairly fast and then doesn't loop once it's gotten to the end. This screenshot comes after the text that says something like, "enjoy the lucious...

When Rahl told Kara that she'd lose her breath of life ability my fiance and I both went "Hah!" We were convinced that this whole episode was a way to take that power away from her. Boy were we surprised (and a little disappointed) when her breath of life came back after she de-baneling'd.

Perhaps I'm using "imply" in the wrong sense. Let me rephrase. What I meant is that when one changes something it is easy and natural for someone to infer that the thing that was changed was wrong, or that the person doing the changing thought that the thing that was changed was wrong. I am...

So, let's say your wife changes her hair color and walks into work and a coworker might say, "You dyed your hair? What was wrong with the old color?" That would be a valid thing to ask. The fact that your wife changed it implies something was wrong with the old color. Note that "imply"...

I think it has to do with something that's very well loved being changed. Even if it's not intended that way, a lot of people subconsciously see changes as a way of saying, "You were doing it wrong before, here's the right way." They might feel hurt or insulted. Even if nobody comes out and...

I think the "we can still be friends" comment usually means something more along the lines of, "please don't hate me". I've been on the other side of this in the past. In college I had a relationship where we kept trying to change each other and I was finally fed up with him wanting me to be...

I wonder if part of it is that werewolves and vampires are both "contageous". At least, they are in the modern mythology, I don't know if this has always been so. Can you think of any other popular supernatural creature that can turn others into itself? Actually, as I typed that up I thought...

*drools* :p I want!

I was referring to using "cartoon" or "toon" to refer to one's avatar or character. I'm aware that "cartoon" has been abreviated as "toon" for a very long time. :p That probably even pre-dates Roger Rabbit. And I have heard the term "aggro" (along with these other terms) when referring to...

Exactly. I'm not sure if it was first coined in World of Warcraft, but the characters in that game do look a bit cartoony (at least in the sense that they are brightly colored) and I wouldn't be surprised if that was the origin.

What exactly is this rewards program? Does anybody have a link? Online games probably don't count, do they? :p

Always having rock over their head, that's brilliant. I love it!

Yeah, I almost ended that paragraph with, "" but I decided not to go there. :)

I think the idea behind that was that people near where the bodies were hung were acting on orders of Mr Lord Highness (forget the actual title). Like a Duke enacting punishment in the King's name. I don't think the bodies were actually transported very far, it's just that the bad guy's rule...

I seem to recall from the last thread on this that Morrus ended up not being able to do anything, and the solution was for the user (in this case, Ambrus) to delete one of the recurring payments from PayPal.