Recent content by Rotten_Karma

This was a failure of parenting, through and through. If the parents had been responsible and taught the child the 4 rules of gun safety this would not have happened. Though improbable, even a bb gun can kill, so it is important to teach the child safety even if the parents do not own a gun...

To see the diffrence between JRPGS and WRPGs one has to see a distinction between ROLL playing games and ROLE playing games. ROLL playing games have little to no player controled character development but still have random elements (Rolls) and a level system so they get mislabled RPG. ROLE...

First anyone shooting down a $4 million dollar Predator is not gonna be concerned about a drone hunting license and is not gonna need the $100 bounty. To hit a predator at 10k feet (approx 3km) your gonna need a missile, even a 40mm Bofors or 20mm Phalanx CIWS system would have extreme trouble...

Imagine, if you will, a light skinned person, perhaps Hispanic, perhaps Caucasian, who states "****** is not a racist term". If this hypothetical person said such and happened to be noticed by the liberal media establishment they would be ruined. They of course would be called racist, they...

Of course "cracker" is offensive. It is a word meant to denigrate someone because of their skin color. By definition that makes it a racial slur. It is just as bad as redneck or hillbilly and I wouldn't hesitate to flag a post for using such a term. The fact that most of you don't recognize it...

In the earliest CRPGs, randomness also saved diskspace in addition to calling back to its pen and paper roots. Its much easier to store a single loot table than it is to store the location of each and every object. Compare Skyrim's 8 digit hex refid (a potential 4x10^9 instances of objects...

All Magic (or any other interaction) can be distilled to a series of If...Then statements. What separates the authors "real world" examples from say magic in TES, or DnD, or whatever else, is two things: Fluff and internal consistency. Fluff is just how the person performs the magic...