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That... isn't at all what I was talking about. I only brought up BG3 as an example of multiple ways to deal with a locked door. I specifically said that it was a computer game with limited possibilities of outcomes, and that a live human GM could respond to an infinite number of solutions! Why...

You would be surprised!

This is why I think it's important to have a definition of railroading that isn't needlessly broad. When "bad thing happens to my character" or "obstacle placed in my way that I have to overcome" are considered railroading the term loses any meaning. I am a living human being with real human...

Tag yourself! I'm the draconian with the inexplicably human head and the arm that phases out of existence through the gap behind the dwarf's axe.

Was it cracked screen pornography?

In any case, Sunny Side Up, Over Easy, and Over Hard are all very distinct egg cooks (as is the missing-to-the-poll Over Medium!) and the differences which might seem miniscule to the untrained pallet are actually pretty critical (though it is correct to call them all fried eggs, in the same way...

I was about to warn you to never argue cuisine with a Brit but I then I noticed that your own location was in the UK so I will have to amend that statement to say that you should never argue cuisine with Morrus :p

I was honestly waiting for somebody to make a second wrong guess like "Was it [X]" so that I could then come in with the "Was it [X] pornography?" because everyone loves a good Rule 34 joke

The problem with this is that the term "railroading" is never going to be able to drop its derogatory baggage. And so insisting that setting campaign expectations is necessary some form of "railroading" is to necessarily designate that as a "lesser than" style of gaming. Which I get is your...

You can dislike a thing personally without lumping it in with a whole actual in-game agency-denying behaviors. I understand not liking anything except for a pure sandbox as a player and/or a referee, but that doesn't mean you get to declare a whole universe of different styles of TTRPG gaming as...

Called it!

I recently wrapped up Ghost of Yotei (the successor to Ghost of Tsushima) and the one thing I constantly remarked upon was how much the gameplay loop reminded me of Horizon Zero Dawn. It is very, very good. I need to give the original a try. Well, I abandoned Disco Elysium to jump on Pillars of...

I mean, of course there are sandboxes where this is not really a problem at all, but there is a broad spectrum between sandbox and railroad; it is not a binary. Here's the thing... those are all actual options in the adventure in question. The adventure doesn't say that the players cannot do...

How annoyed do you think the worst people in the world will be if they have to share the wall with Elon?

He also apparently lacks the ability to actually perform live anymore, if his absolutely atrocious lipsynching was anything to go by. I'm not convinced he even knew the lyrics of the song he was "singing". It helps that New England hadn't really played a remotely quality team outside of Buffalo...

Everytime I see this acronym for Dallas/Fort Worth I always have to double-take because in higher education we replaced "course failure rates" with "DFW rates" (that is, the rates at which students received a D, an F, or Withdrew from the class after the drop date (which adds a W to their...

When in doubt, you can always just blame Sam Altman

The carbon footprint for these models is largely down to the way they are trained and maintained, so while an individual front-end query may require a miniscule amount of energy, to even exist in the first place, let alone have the ability to effectively answer that query, is what requires the...