Recent content by loc978

I spent $80 on Chrono Trigger in late 1995 (I was 14). That was shortly before I got my first actual job, so I earned the money doing manual labor for my various elderly neighbors. Before that, all of the games I had were gifts of one form or another. Totally worth the asking price. Cartridge...

One through six seem like decent requirements. A relationship lacking any of those things would fall into the realm of "acquaintance" for me. There is, of course, more to it than that... but I'd say each of my friends meet all of those.

...pretty much what I came in here to say. Single player, peer-to-peer or local multiplayer... always a product. Expansions/DLC, just a product with a prerequisite. MMOs, multiplayer games with centralized servers only (no option for P2P or local)... those are services... and as a rule I...

In the case of both music and movies, the price to produce the content has either stayed level or gone down. The price to produce games has gone nothing but up, at least outside of indie development. Distribution costs have of course gone down in all cases... so I'm pretty sure on the scales of...

...Heavily modded Fallout: New Vegas, depending on your taste I suppose.

...I take that quote a bit differently in this context. Since we're talking about online gaming toxicity specifically... Playing games online was a whole lot less toxic back in the 90s before it was socially desirable to bother accessing the internet. Fewer people were online, and those that...

Marvel superheroes FASERIP system... the rules are loose and the GM (or "judge") can pretty much pull whatever they want out of thin air. It's about as casual as tabletop gets.

Have done so more than once in the past, would again. Not that it was more pleasurable than masturbation... in some cases it was less pleasurable. But it didn't cost me anything but time. I've done things far worse than have sex with someone I'm not attracted to. Hell, if it's someone I'm fond...

...but not that dangerously. You're crazy, man.

...I'm sort of a collection of slightly anachronistic technology. I still use a flip-phone for the battery life and full keyboard, I still browse the internet (and play games) with optical mice and mechanical keyboards that are over a decade old (though on computer hardware ranging from 7 years...

Honestly, all of the good old social values I can think of are no longer viable due to increased population density. Maybe if we had widespread consciousness of our overpopulation problem we could see a slight decrease to our population over the course of a few generations, bringing back the...

JRPGs: text. The dubs are never any good in any language. Japanese fighting games: Japanese. Anime: depends on how westernized it is. Some anime works better in English (Black Lagoon, Cowboy Bebop, et cetera), some of it works better in Japanese (such as anything set in a Japanese high school...

I guess I don't play these short WRPGs you do. Fable never appealed to me, and the only other example I can think of was the first campaign of Shadowrun Returns... which was incredibly short and complained about quite vehemently at around 20 hours (thankfully between user content and Dragonfall...

The BBQ option, minus the tin foil... and the barbecue. Just use wood, flint and steel... or a lighter, if you're feeling lazy. Of course, not everyone lives a few hundred feet from an abundant rainbow trout run... so if it must be someone else's catch from hours, days, or (and I shudder...

Toward that goal, my job: political assassin. Afterward, my job/hobby (jobby?): pornstar.