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Slate pulls a late hatchet job. Conclusion: D&D Players are genocidal. Also, rapists. Also, meatheads.

The IGN commenters managed to look like geniuses compared to this thread.

Man, I was way ahead of you on that one.

From Game Developer Research. Just an interesting tidbit.

It's a damned shame. You'd think the kids would be into better stuff than Naruto.

It'll probably be an adequate time-waster until we see Monster Part-Collector in the Land of the Horny Big-Titted Women 2 - Attack of the Conspiratorial Death Cult, which is the actual last bastion of CRPG quality. It's sad, really.

This is all well and good, if we totally disregard the fact that people could just save before the conversation. Doesn't it just become a hassle? Check and mate, Obsidian. Choices are meaningless as long as you can save the game.

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What forum changes? I'm apparently blind. I think the "add your XBLA Gamertag" feature is new. There's also a "what class are you?" profile option, but I don't know how long that's been there.

Did you check the orphans?

Arcanum stunk. The setting was an interesting idea, but the execution (outside of the excellent background music) was so horribly botched that I was embarrassed for them just playing it. A team of retarded rhesus monkeys could devise a better rules system for a CRPG. Everything from the ability balance to the TB/RT combat to the way experience points were handled was pretty much 180 degrees from what a sane person would come up with. And, despite the interesting setting, the story and characters were just dull. Truth. There were some good bits, though. The Saimese Twin skull plotline, although somewhat ridiculous to slog through, gives as close as any video game will ever get to a punch in the gut at its resolution.

That still doesn't bring us any closer to the truth of PG. My guess - Toejam & Earl RPG. Speaking of which, greetings Brian Mitsoda.

Websnark remembers the Gygax.

I honestly don't believe the candidates are drastically different, policy-wise, at least not in any way that matters to the average voter. They set out to achieve the same things, more or less. On foreign policy, Obama has pledged to take a more internationalist bent, which given all that war business, is probably what's needed. I don't have much reason to believe Clinton wouldn't do the same. The only significant difference between the two as far as I can tell is their electability. Clinton won't win. Obama has a chance, but not as strong of a chance as he would have, since Clinton is going to fight until August for the nomination even if it's obvious she won't get it, and that's going to severely weaken the Democrats. Acknowledgments to our peanut gallery.

Dear ~Di, Lurk Moar. Speak less. Signed, Abraham Lincoln, one-term US representative, best president ever. I think I have a right to express an opinion without being singled out and told to basically shut up. That was uncalled for. You have the right to be called out when you're impressively wrong. Unless you're honestly willing to argue that my old friend Abe really was an undistinguished and unsuccessful president as a direct result of his lack of experience, which I suppose you could, except... no, no, you can't, really. That would be well stupid. This is why it's imperative, if the Dems want to win in November, that they keep her as far away from the nomination as possible. Clinton's appeal among independents is laughable, and it's important to point out that those "strong feelings" are not confined just to Democrats. With 8 years of GWB, war and economic downturn lain at the feet of the Republican party, they're in a lot of trouble. Their nominee is not popular amongst the far right of the party. They need something to rally around, or against, and a Hillary Clinton ticket would be like a gift from God for them. The independents would go out for McCain, but every last Republican voter across the country will go out against Hillary, and if she gets the nomination it will only be through superdelegate currying, which will alienate a sizable chunk of the democratic voting block. So what I'm saying is, if Hillary Clinton gets the nomination, be prepared to cut your thumbs off, because you'll be glad you did when President McCain institutes the draft in '09 for Operation Persian Freedom.

Some blogger chums of mine on the ****ty, ****ty Clinton campaign.

Dear ~Di, Lurk Moar. Speak less. Signed, Abraham Lincoln, one-term US representative, best president ever.

Devil May Cry 4

Uh, no. If you're concerned about American TV programs, make your own damn TV programs. The BBC does well enough for itself.

Didn't Sega have two gigs with Obsid?

I'm interested in this Pool of Radiance jazz, but I know more of the game's infamy than the game itself.

Mr. **** Ass.

Apparently this is not official.

If living forever entailed the failures of mind and body that accompany old age, but with no impending death, nobody would want to live forever. Even if you were spared the mental deterioration and achieved clinical immortality as a brain in a jar, it's a pretty tough sell. I think the implication is that we live forever without going senile or frail.