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I wouldn't be surprised if Alpha turned out to be Echo's boyfriend.

Said the Joker to ... hey.

Then you thought wrong. Homer is only a fraction of surviving Greek literature, and he was used in schools even in the ancient Greek world precisely because he's so much better than everybody else.

And even rules like line of sight and line of effect can be (and, one assumes, are) weighted mathematically during development for balance purposes.

That's not what I said. In fact I said the exact opposite: it seems like you haven't quite worked out what you think, which is perhaps why you haven't been able to say it very clearly. This is just the most common underlying cause of the qualities I see in your writing, though. Other...

No, it isn't. That sentence is pleonastic, by the way, which usually means you're a) substituting big words for a lack of argument, or b) just not sure what you really want to say. I noticed this problem in your original post as well. Nobody said that a system, a state, a condition, at some...

It's just part of his "things were better back when . . ." series. From what I gather, the gist in this case is basically "I don't know the history of X, therefore it has none."

It's a bit of an insult--to the people doing the bashing. During blind taste tests self-identifying Pepsi and Coke fans preferred New Coke, and it was only after the identities of the products involved were revealed that people started to get redonkulous: Pasted from here, originally taken from...

Well played, sir! :D

Hah, of course not. By "worst offenders" I'm talking, like, near Razz-level insanity. I think Razz did end up banned, actually, but most of the comparable people hide their nonsense behind a thin veil of reasonability (or in one case, behind what I sincerely hope is only the pretense of being...

I think you'll find that the discussions are more palatable once you've added the 25 or 30 worst offenders to your ignore list. It's not quite a ban, but it works. Plus it has the added virtue of them wasting time writing elaborate responses that you'll never even have to see.

You specifically just said that you didn't switch because of change--in this case, change in "core" material. Choosing to characterize this change as "gouging" (despite the fact that the amount of material was relatively constant, even if tieflings and warlocks replaced gnomes and sorcerers)...

I think TV, movies, comics, video games, etc. just literalize some of the problems all academic critics are (or should be) dealing with at this point. Instead of a philosophical critique of the subject that makes Joe Everydude go "hwha?", we actually have multiple independent creators involved...

And a fourth. I still have my FFI cartridge, though it's been collecting dust since the rise of emulators.

That would be my issue as well. The multiple authorship of the medium at every level troubles a lot of the assumptions that inform traditional criticism, and I don't really see that reflected in any of these anthologies (although granted, it's a methodological issue and would require some...

I think it holds up well next to other games and genre fiction. People whose literary tastes are a little more highbrow, though, won't be impressed by PS:T's "serious" themes. My vote would also go to either FFIV or VI (that's II or III in the states, respectively).

If you're capable of talking specifics then talk specifics. No one will begrudge you that, since for many people the big issue with "videogamey" is that it's virtually meaningless precisely because it tends to float free of such specifics. People can discuss specifics with you, but discussion...

I didn't mention 4e, which I've neither read nor played. It's interesting you make that assumption, though. I mean, my response couldn't possibly have been motivated by the pure intellectual dishonesty that so frequently accompanies the "videogamey" claim, could it? These later neutral or even...

Most reasonable people understand that the phrase "most reasonable people" is code for "if you don't agree with me you're probably being unreasonable," which as you well know is itself unreasonable. (Personally I love it when someone trots out the "videogamey" label in an obviously derogatory...

"What, do you imagine that I would take so much trouble and so much pleasure in writing, do you think that I would keep so persistently to my task, if I were not preparing--with a rather shaky hand--a labyrinth into which I can venture, in which I can move my discourse, opening up underground...