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William "The Stallion Who Mounts the World" Riker

So, about that Star Trek RPG. Game when?

There he is! Pelt him!

MTG: Arena is great. Once upon a time, I went on a quest to build a working deck that would consist mostly of dog cards. Fun times! Which reminds me, Resolute Watchdog is such a good boy. Also, that flavor text is just heartbreaking. 😪

^ I swear to God someone posted the exact same pic here yesterday. Or the day before yesterday. That or I've contracted Alzheimer's.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person on the planet who actually enjoyed Origins.

He's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and gets everywhere? FWIW I liked Sand in NWN2.

So, did you win?

I think that's doing the game a disservice. In a universe defined by simplistic, binary morality, KotOR 2 was the first a Star Wars product which acknowledged that - in the end - EVERYTHING about the setting amounted to blue lightsabers clashing against red lightsabers. It saw right through the inherent absurdity of the material and offered a concept that (as far as I know) no other franchise writer would explore again: that perhaps the Star Wars galaxy would be better off without the Force, whether light or dark. If the entire canon is just hundreds if not thousands of years of technicolor space wizards tearing each other apart, with no real progress happening, then what does this say about the Force? What is the point of it all? Ah, right. KotOR 2 took a popular video game series in a huge media franchise and found the stones to say out loud "hey, here is why it sucks". However, more than anything else, it also showed that the setting had potential to grow beyond its constraints - it offered a glimpse into what a mainstream Star Wars story could be if it wasn't afraid to ask questions instead of regurgitating the same old lanes of "Self-Insert OC Jedi #13 fights Wish-Fulfillment OC Sith #32". Sure, some people would say that it's not exactly groundbreaking and that Avellone simply rehashed his staples (Ravel -> Kreia etc). Still, to me, it's quite an extraordinary effort when you consider that the game managed to successfully elevate stuff that George Lucas thought up on the spot in a phone call. EDIT: I read the post below. I was talking out of my ass - KotOR 2 wasn't the first. I stand corrected.

^ I love there's a dog in a hat cap in the game. Awwwww.

This is how I've always understood it; is it not so? That cRPG = computer role-playing game. Honest question.

Are you seriously claiming that Dragon Age: Origins is not a cRPG?

Are you familiar with the Discworld series? I think you'd like it. I feel like the TV Tropes website summarizes these books and their appeal pretty well:

I'm doing a casual playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas. It's one of the games that I greatly respect and feel a compulsion to refresh once in a while, so here I am. I'm still early into the DLCs, but suddenly, somehow, it's 2014 all over again. So many years have passed, and yet I'm again at a loss about I mean, in the end, it's just a small change in the ending slides, but I swear to God that this is the one choice in the entire game that always stumps me.

Seconded. Persona 5 is an amazing game and I cannot recommend it enough.

This is the way.

I thought this was obvious. He's in Australia.

Heh.

It's Lu Bu!

Honestly? Sounds magical. 🙂

I'm so sorry to hear that. I can't imagine how painful it must have been.

This reminds me of that one TNG episode where people were so immune to a disease that it caused everyone around them to age rapidly! I could swear it was a thing.

Also topical.

Masaka is waking.