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You know, most of this thread's argument is based on the assumption that there are gamers out there who only play in order to experience a constant barrage of instant gratification and immediate rewards in terms of victories and loot. But do those gamers actually exist? So far, this is all empty...

As it is, this entire discussion is rather pointless. All of the theorizing in the world is pretty empty unless it can be backed up by concrete proof and then be used to suggest concrete changes. Celebrim, unless you actually suggest something like "5E should have such and such features", then...

I actually don't agree. The reasons why someone might play in god-mode can be compleicated and varied. When someone is playing a game with a god-mode cheat, they aren't playing the game in order to experience Fiero. If the game doesn't provide a challenge, it can't create any sense of...

Celebrim, I would response to your response to my last post, but I hate line-by-line quoting, since that causes the important details to quickly be lost amidst quibbling over minutia. Overall though, I don't think you really said anything of substance in response to my comments. As it stands...

I think that the theory put forward in this thread is simply terrible and full of logical holes. Not to mention, it is downright insulting to a wide range of gamers. As far as I can tell, Celebrim is saying that there exists a class of gamer called "ego gamers" who play games simply to...

Except that the writers on SGU have been very clear about what the Destiny is: a deep-space exploration ship. This is not supposed to be a mystery. In just about every episode they explicitly point this out. If you want to wonder about mysteries, there are quite a few elsewhere in the series...

There are two ways I can respond to that: 1) Even if we don't understand the motivations and thinking of the ancients, that doesn't change the practical necessities of a prison ship. If the Destiny was a prison ship, then the crew would have discovered some sign of it by this point and would...

Does anything about the layout or structure of the ship so far looked like a high-security prison facility? Look at the gate room, which would be the main place prisoners would board the ship. It doesn't exactly look like the kind of place you would want to do a transfer of dangerous prisoners...

There is no way that the ship is a prison ship. Here a few reasons: 1. The Destiny doesn't seem to have any kind of high-security layout. All we have seen are fairly comfortable crew quarters. 2. The Destiny has weapons. Who would give prisoners access to anti-ship weaponry? 3. Just getting...

I really liked this episode. On of the most striking things about the episode is the existence of that planet and star. First off, it points to the existence of a completely new alien race in the Stargate mythos that might surpass the Ancients in terms of raw power. Second, the fact that the...

Strangely enough, I actually got the opposite impression. From their final conversation, I got the weird impression that Wray was the one who put Rush up to framing Young in the first place. Considering that Wray orchestrated Young's trial, this isn't an unreasonable hypothesis. No evidence for...

Well, to be fair, with WiiWare, PlayStation Network, and XBox Live Arcade, there is room for a lot of smaller games in the digital distribution market. I think a lot of smaller titles have moved to the iPhone market as well.

What actually happened is pretty simple and straightforward. The telepathic devices are one-way, exactly as Rush told Young-in-an-Alien. Rush used the device to read Young's mind, then, immediately after Young got disconnected, he was able to read the mind of the alien Young was possessing. From...

I highly doubt it. Much of the episode involved Eli becoming less and less happy with Col. Young's orders. This culminated in Eli's big exclamation to Young during the big battle: "You should have thought about that before you decided to get rid of Dr. Rush." That was a critical moment in the...

Most of my gaming experience has been in the context of a university gaming club. In that environment, a DM would advertise that he (or she) was planning on starting a new campaign and was looking for players from among the large pool of regular attendees of the club. Eventually, the DM would...

From your examples, it sounds like you are a PC-gamer. The problem you may be facing is that PC gaming isn't very healthy right now. Most major developers and publishers are focusing their primary efforts on consoles these days, with PC gaming a distant after-thought. Unfortunately for PC...

I didn't see this at all in the episode. I never thought that the creators were going to turn Rush into some kind of villain or antagonist to the crew. The idea that Rush would join up with some aliens and attack the Destiny seems both out of character for him and rather silly and cliche. I was...

I suggest you start searching deviant art. That is the only place I can even think of where someone may have created art for something like that. Though, I don't doubt that there is much stranger lurking on that site.

When Beowulf became a king, he still went out to slay the dragon that threatened his kingdom by himself. Various King Arthur legends involved Arthur going off himself to slay giants and the like. Heck, Odysseus was a king, and that didn't stop him from going on a very, very long adventure...

What are the "standard races and classes players have come to know and love"? I assure you, my list would probably be significantly different than yours (and probably way too long to ever fit in a single PHB). As for the main topic, I would like to see a significant refinement/revision to the...