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And Mallus earns a billion internet points. I had a similar idea for a dog/wolf treating the group much like a pack. I'd overplay the heck out of a dominance hierarchy for giggles. I want to play Philip Marlowe as a gnome in a high fantasy setting. I've been meaning for years to play a...

I hope we are all in agreement that is what explosions should do, in any case. In this respect the A-Team are way cooler than real life.

Didn't say that. I do, however, define "competitive" with more components than raw price. I would rather the bulk of the profit taken from my purchase stay relatively local, so I try to buy from local retailers. If those local retailers do something as idiotic as The Auld Grump described, all...

Well, it's probably the most tactically interesting class and the best defender while having the best toys. When they design the next edition they should spend a LOT of time looking at why the Fighter worked so well. It feels like a fully realized concept in a way that some of the others...

Those prices are as low as they are because they are competing with the convenience of brick and mortar stores. Once competition is removed, do you really think they're going to keep those prices low? Short term thinking is why our economy periodically goes "Boom!"

And that's fine, if you also don't care whether you even have book stores. Like everything else, choosing how you spend your money has consequences. You can choose to ignore those consequences, but they exist. If they don't matter to you, that's fine, but it might come to matter later...

Well played, sir. Well played. What some of us are saying is that becomes a self-defeating technique over the mid-to-long term. If relentless bargain-hunting already killed your local book shop, and is now killing your local chain.... you're a step closer to simply having bubkis. You are...

No, it was self-centered when we allowed all the local book stores to get killed by national chains to save a couple bucks. Now those chains are dying. Soon there will only be one or two flavors of book stores. ("All restaurants are Taco Bell"). It's capitalism at work. What are we actually...

The biggest one was the streamlining of the buff system. But there are many things that contribute: Multiple raiding modes, the new LFG tools, increased gold flow in the "economy" relative to repair and maintenance costs, the complete and utter mechanical underplay of faction reputation...

I find it ironic that when Blizzard created a multiplicity of tools to alleviate and remove grinding..... that's when people quit playing and dismissed the entire game as a grind. That's some ju-jitsu rationalization there.

Frank.... are you trying to suggest that there might have been a justifiable reason to try to put Venom in a mass market film? There's a reason the character sells T-shirts but not comic books. He's not even better than palatable in comic book form. Total travesty on celluloid. Spidey 3 is a...

I did overdo it once or twice :blush: and had to drag a couple kids back from the edge. I try to strike a balance. I also try to start off with how freaking cool these things are. If I pull that off it gets me some good will I can spend for patience. I tend to teach evo/devo and behavior...

We're getting REALLY far outside the mandate of this thread, but this is the core of how I think, and the core of how science works. All science begins with one statement: "I don't know." To be an unbiased "true scientist" you have to be comfortable with that statement. You're going to spend...

No offense taken. My perspective here is jaded, I'll admit. Reductionism is a great way to start, but it's a terrible way to finish. Out of the gate, it allows people to get their heads around the edges of the concept. But it also ends conversations. At the end of they day, Reductionism is...

You mean like literally everyone did with OD&D and 2e? ;) Or like "everyone" will eventually be doing with 4e? There's a pattern here.... :angel:

As Fast Learner has pointed out, culture is actually a red herring here, but in any case, perhaps I should have said "I think we are to assume, as Hollywood generally prefers, that in the future, everyone who matters is part of a Western culture." However, I think that's possibly an even more...

Man, lost track of this thread over the holidays.... As a scientist I have to tell you... that's bunk. Nature is complicated. It's so complicated that you can spend a lifetime in full time study and still not grasp a lot of it. I talk to non-academic friends and family about the bare bones...

Wouldn't really have mattered. The movie presented a corporate culture with entirely Western norms. I think we are to assume, as Hollywood generally prefers, that in the future, everyone is part of a Western culture. ;)

Oh, I admit I might be a picky jerk. I'm not good at effusive praise even when I really, really like something. That might be because I can always think of a way to improve things, even if it's minuscule. I think that's an important drive in society, so I don't squash it. Everyone I was with...

I don't. I care that it was a lazy retelling of other stories. If you're going to spend a gazillion dollars, at least hire good writers and listen to them. That's exactly what I'm doing. I did so in the theater by deliberately shunting my brain away from the plot holes and what not. But I'm...