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    You all miss the Escapist's glory days, what are your ideas for how could they come back?

    Let's see. I would think the following would be a good start: - Make old content easily accessible - Reviews of more games - especially indie ones or ones that don't get much attention - More editorials about game design, the game industry, etc. - More unique content and style (i.e. the...
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    Jimquisition: Copyright War

    The only reason I can think of for such copyright strikes are these: 1. The content posted is driving away potential customers via negative critique or that potential customers are not interested in what the game has to offer once they see it in action. 2. The content is legitimately being...
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    What's the most boring book you've ever read?

    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I found Victor to be a weak, pathetic, and completely unlikable lead. The monster is, while awesome, somewhat of a nob. And the prose focuses more on the pretty scenery as opposed to the moral issues of the story. Oh, another warning sign I want to make: Be...
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    CliffyB Thinks Used Games Are Bad, Sony is "Playing Us"

    Cliffy, I get it. I do. If you want to make such big games, you need a lot of cash. You can't make a gold idol out of bronze. I get it. But here is my question: Why must the idol be created of solid gold? Why not bronze? Why not marble? Hell, why not wood or stone? Are you aware that...
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    Designing Tabletop RPG. Advice?

    I definitely agree with the last note, and you are correct. Ninjutsu technically does not exist, I went to a bujenkan school (don't remember the spelling or the full name to be honest... Bujen- Bujan-kan.. screw it) that taught nine different martial arts disciplines, three of which were...
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    Designing Tabletop RPG. Advice?

    An interesting point. But it is a proven fact that a bullet moves too fast to dodge (it is possible if you move just before the gun fires, when the shooter is already mentally committed to firing, but that works only rarely and if you know how to tell when they will shoot). A firearm requires...
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    Designing Tabletop RPG. Advice?

    I've tried a bunch of White Wolf publishing stuff, Pathfinder (spiritual successor to D&D 3e), percentile systems (though only once for player-related reasons), and I've read more system books than I care to count. And I'm in the same boat as well seeing as I am currently designing an...
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    Stupidist things youve heard people say

    Alright. Anything my best friend says when not in the presence of nerds. Anything. He likes to speak in D&D and League of Legends references, and we have found out that me and maybe one other guy in the two dozen people I know get what the hell he is saying half the time. The other half...
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    What is being homophobic?

    I would state with the OP that homophobia should define as "An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something", is Google puts it. Therefore homophobia means that said person has an extreme/irrational fear of/aversion to people who are homosexual, most likely because they have a belief...
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    How would you run hell?

    I would keep a pair of large, fuzzy dice on me at all times. When a demon misbehaves, I will roll the dice and pick a punishment from one of the elaborately detailed tables accounting set up. For humans, I would begin with making them spend a month in each circle of hell before asking which they...
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    Other solutions for Jimquisition: Booth Babes

    If we have grown up and matured, then why are there still booth babes? Yeah, it's amoral and objectifying of women, I admitted such earlier. It's more the ideas of lazy companies than it is the community's. But it still happens, so those who set up the booths seem to believe it works, and while...
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    Other solutions for Jimquisition: Booth Babes

    James Bond called. He says he's under-qualified.
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    Other solutions for Jimquisition: Booth Babes

    If I don't start it, who will? We will never have a perfect world, sure, and this solution is, as I said in the OP, impossible. But we won't get anywhere if we don't give it a shot.
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    Other solutions for Jimquisition: Booth Babes

    HAHA! Nice idea, but it wouldn't work for long. Everyone would become desensitized to it, and then the jobs would be pointless. But that idea of desensitization does run very close to my concept of acceptance and moving on as I heavy-handedly pointed :( By the way, the global warming problem...
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    Other solutions for Jimquisition: Booth Babes

    Hmmm.. You have a strong point, Skys. My apathetic view does seem a little, well, distant. The solution I proposed is, as I stated, impossible. But hey, "Shoot for the moon, for if you miss, you shall be among the stars anyway." If your critique of "lazy" can be seen as inactive, passive...