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I'll cop to a small amount of presumption, but not arrogance. History repeats itself with stunning regularity. History shows a pattern: 1) A medium is invented 2) It is used badly for a while 3) It is derided for not being art and as a negative impact on youth 4) People figure out how to do...

Simple question, Felon: Why do you think the writer of Penny Arcade should not engage in hyperbole or sensationalize? What makes him subject to greater scrutiny than blogs, editorials, or "news"? We do not live in a world where everything people type and post on the internet can be expected...

It's not about his age. It's about his role in the narrative. That accounts for 99% of the issue, just like it accounts for so many other decisions most people make. A lot of much younger film critics have the same opinion. Their purported reasons are contradictory and, frankly, irrelevant...

This is the core of your mistake. There never was an opportunity for dialogue. Ebert has rejected efforts to have a dialogue on this in the past. His mind is closed. That is not slander, but a fact. But it's cool. He's playing out the role history has laid out for him as an elder of a...

No one said you had to. I just said that it's a defensible point. Fair discussions and arguments can be had on the point without needless hyperbole or accusations of badwrongMMOfun. ;) That can certainly be true, depending on the table and the game. But there is tons of room for variance...

That's not what he was saying. You are blowing "take this example from WoW" completely out of proportion. He was saying that the time cost for missing is disproportionately high given how long it takes before you get to act again. Which can be farking forever in 3.x and 4e. This contrasts...

Way to miss the forest for the trees. The meat of the argument is about the feel of misses and their relative importance. He could have chosen any number of examples, but chose WoW because it's a very stark difference from D&D in action economy. It is also a modern example that everyone is...

That's how most people end up successful. The trick is seeing the right fruit consistently. Been that way since well before we were walking. This is what trichromatic vision is for, after all, and brother, I got trichromatic vision. That aside, I'm curious why you hold a guy who writes a...

Tycho's style is hyperbolic. This should be no surprise. Tone down the invective, however, and the point remains. In this case, Ebert is choosing to represent the old guard. He is telling video games to get off his lawn. When he was young, he was probably chided by his elders for his taste...

To the OP, we (including Tycho) are allowed to put Ebert on the wrong side of history because all the evidence suggests that he is. Go back to the beginning of cinema and the Roger Eberts of the world were art critics who spent most of their time on paintings. They wrote screeds against film...

Rarely do those have any puzzle detail, though. Whereas playing through any number of Legend of Zelda dungeons in either 2D or 3D could give you straight up useful puzzles. For me, at least, there's something a lot more immediate about angling 4 mirrors and bouncing a light with my shield to...

One of the advantages of all the reading I did as a kid is that I usually don't have to whip out a dictionary while reading anymore. Going to get the dictionary is a healthy endeavor that is to be encouraged. Of course, your near-future audience is going to be reading it in an electronic...

I wouldn't be so quick to equate video games with novels for this kind of inspiration, there is something there, at least in terms of mechanics. Video games have an urgency and artificiality to their structure that makes them ripe for mining mechanics in a way that a novel does not. Example, I...

Sure... stipulating that I have not read PHB3 and only part of PHB2 and therefore have no idea what you're talking about :angel:

Quoted for getting to the heart of the matter... and because I can't give you xp again yet.

So... turn dailies into encounters (with appropriate adjustments to damage), and let people spend action points to turn them back into dailies, or even dailies++. Rebalance distribution of action points to maintain roughly the same power curve. Salt and pepper to taste.

I'm not sure how group synergies hide the median, unless only the players get them, and their opponents do not. In which case it could just as easily be called "lobbing softballs" as "hiding the median."

Interesting, because I worked with a couple of the people who did research on the psychological and cognitive effects of FPS games, and I've never seen data that could justifiably be interpreted that way. Everyone who behaved outside of social norms after gaming.... also behaved outside of...

I haven't played at all since shortly after 4e came out. Hadn't played before that since.... somewhere between when 3e came out and the advent of 3.5. Hadn't played before that since freshman year of college. So.... yeah, I fit into the category. I'd like to play substantially more, in theory.

The ipod is not a DIY device. It is a very mass market device. The ability to make a playlist does not make it DIY. That's like saying making mix tapes on your shelf stereo back in the 80s made you an audiophile. Also, the first ipod, which was less a pure music player than a small portable...