babaganoosh13

"I keep tellin' ya: Ya gotta go for the ear!"

I've always hated that stupid world championship that goes on after the regular season. 1) It's pointless 2) most of the best players are still playing in the playoffs 3) Steve Stamkos + concussion

Well the biggest problem with D&D stats is that they don't take into account differences between individuals with similar stats. For example, I highly doubt that two people who would score 16 would be able to lift the exact amount of weight in every single muscle group, even though they are ranked the same by D&D standards. Yeah, but then we'd be using that d100 die for everything, and then you have off days where you can't quite lift as much...

EDIT: It was a UK thing. Realm does look pretty neat though. I wonder how it will compare to that Sierra one from a bunch of years back that they dumped a lot of money into.

I don't know about Surgeon Simulator, but back when I was in Jr. High, my record for a lethal surgical error with a scalpal in Life & Death was 1.3 seconds if I remember correctly.

Maybe they can call it: Borderlands Homeworlds, because those seem to be the only games they've made recently they don't screw up and don't suck.

I wonder if a proper defense for a movie company would be: "Your honour, everybody in the business knows by now that no movie has ever made profit ever, including Star Wars and Titanic."

I Am A: Lawful Good Human Fighter (4th Level) Ability Scores: Strength-17 Dexterity-16 Constitution-17 Intelligence-15 Wisdom-14 Charisma-14

Allan Schu, he's like a brother. He is a tester. Hey now, Allan is one who helps make Dragon Age working and fun WOOO!

Reimer's playing like Halak did for the Canadiens a couple of years back. Tip: Allowing 200 or so shots in 4 games isn't a good strategy for winning. It's nice that he save your butts from time to time, but you might want to try some fore-checking or something.

This comic describes the easy part of my shift last night.

A bunch of years back (less than 10,) the company I worked for had 1 major customer, and a few smaller ones. At one point, we had a quality issue. We're talking 1 in high 10's or low 100s of thousands. I can't remember. It wasn't something that raised a lot of red flags at the time, and sometimes if you're not specifically looking for something as barely detectable as it... So they put us on a type of quality alert that said until we passed it, we couldn't bid for new business with them. After a certain period of time, we had to go six straight months without a single incident. Rather than try some window dressing, hope we pass and just try to get more new business, they actually devoted time and resources into trying to make it work. And it did. Now we have a few major customers, and more smaller and medium sized ones. We did get hit a bit when the economy went down, but in the end, we weathered it a lot better than others, and we've expanded since. Mostly because of those moves we made then, and a few years worth of frozen wages and slightly reduced benefits, which have for the most part, slowly trickled back in. I'm assuming that's just a parody letter. Either way, EA can take this poll, and just dismiss it. Maybe try some window dressing. Or they can stop doing what seems like to the real paying customers as stupid things that do nothing other than to piss them off. Always online anything other than something that's a MMO is one thing that fits in that category. If it is an MMO, market it as such with big, bold letters. The trouble, I'm sure with calling it SimCity Online, would have been that someone in marketing thought adding the "Online" to the name would negatively effect sales. On the other hand, people would have got what they expected they were going to get without that portion of the bad will from it (assuming less customers meant less server problems.) I don't get how Steam is considered a superior form of DRM than what the current iteration of Origin is. Origin's offline mode to me has been better than Steam's. Steam certainly has a better store than Origin, with a wider selection. But as forms of DRM... The only superior form of DRM, is no DRM IMHO. Make me have the disc in the tray if you must for a physical copy. In fact, what they have decided to do to help Kickstarter funded games with waiving the fees on Origin for 90 days should only help them if they want to distribute the game on DRM channels with their respective marketplaces as well. Day 1 DLC and its many iterations has been covered to death. Again though, if it's free to people who purchased a new copy of the game, whether they pre-ordered or not and at what time they did... It's one thing if it's to curb sales of used games. The last car I bought with 0% financing had a stipulation that I couldn't in turn sell it to somebody else until the car through them was paid off, in order to curb people buying at low to no rates, and charging it to those with worse credit who wouldn't be approved of those rates at a better rate than they would have received from said company. The DA2 thing with the Exiled Prince to many (I assume) felt like punishment to those who didn't pre-order before a certain time. Regular edition copies of games shouldn't seem like gimped versions of the Collectors Edition. Window dressing is nice for those. Missing missions and companions (with their missions) for not having the CE is not. This comes from someone who has bought CE's in the past. In-game micro transactions (i.e. resources in DS3 for building weapons) for anything other than free games will always piss a lot of people off. Why not add an on/off option for it in the option menus? That will allow those who want it to get it, without bugging those of us in any way who don't want it? Also, if the default is "on," let people know that they can turn it off. Again, less bad PR. Please don't advertise the DLC only weapons/armor available in an in-game store as if it was anything else, then prompt up the marketplace screen if somebody doesn't notice it was real cash/MS points vs. in-game imaginary currency. Basically, try to make nickle-and-diming as less intrusive and casually inoffensive as possible. So far, DA3 seems to have a proper development time. ME4 will have to give me a reason to care about it (that one is on Hudson and Walters.) A new BioWare IP will always pique my interest, and I'm sure with the earlier lessons that it will be done right. I've wised up to sports games years ago, and only purchase them once in a while now instead of every year. (Since the 360 time frame, I've only got a maximum of one sports league game per console [which includes the Wii, PSP, and DS.]) EA is in a position to make themselves a lot better, especially since they don't poison towns and waterways, and kick veterans out of their homes, or charge dead people interest by refusing to believe they're dead, or essentially blackmail venues by denying them big acts that they sponsor if they don't sell their tickets (and in turn force higher prices for acts that a band may not want, but in order to perform in that venue...) or sell tickets on their scalping site at inflated prices before they're available on their regular site, and certainly no one has gone to war over EA, ect, ect, ect. EDIT: Either that, or just do business as usual, try some more window dressing, screw up big on a thing or two, and (fairly or unfairly) run for a three-peat.

I kind of hope WotC has someone bring out a new Dark Sun game like Shattered Lands and Wake of the Ravager. I don't care if the camera's top down, isometric or moveable. Just that it's like that. One would think that someone would be all over pitching that to them, with a similar budget to these new games in mind. But yeah, other than trying to figure out why I've fallen, and couldn't get up even though I still had 2/3s of my HP, I loved playing Arcanum.

There is such a thing as an official Torment: ToN forum? Right now, it's temporarily part of the Wasteland 2 forums.

The results of the GOG survey are now in. Basically, a solid majority of people seem to be fine with DLC, but was split almost 50/50 on the season passes. (Personally, I think games should offer a game pass that will give you all of the official DLC ever created for the game, rather than those season ones that only offer it for a period of time. I'd be all over that for some of my games.) Pretty much the same thing could be said for episodic games, but there was a bit more support for season passes on that front. There was also a lot of support for offering up buy-ins on Alpha/Beta builds. A slim majority of people were against games that required keys for online play, however with the follow-up question, if it offers a friendly offline mode like Planetary Annihilation, people seem to be okay with that. Naturally, the one that people were the most sided with were ones that had persistent online features, and/or required a DRM service from the developers side. Over 70% of the people voting didn't want that. EDITed for clarification on the last point.... Sort of.

They have security and cleaning services at night but I believe they are contractors & they insist on a school staff member being with us. They won't let them work at night. I was at Pritt HS today, they had a student escorting me. He was a office aide or something like it. He was really interested in what I was doing and kept asking me about the project, technology etc. He asked me how you get a job like this. I laughed and told him that all you have to do is try you hand at a number of different careers and fail miserably at every one of them. I accidentally found out I was going to be a good machinist after I won the job due to my experience in Quality Control, and the work I've done with bikes, and bowling pin setters from the 60s. It (along with electrical) was probably the only things I didn't take in high school.

Well, my siblings are a bit older than when the internet first kinda took off in the mid-90s, but I did have a Hotmail account in their first year of business before they were owned by Microsoft.

I'm sure most of us here has donated already, but here is Torment: Tides of Numenera.

There's a fair number of doctors, and others in the medical profession that are marathon runners - my brother included. I think a lot of people are just geared to want to help people, especially nurses, medics and doctors.

It probably depends on which specific union branch. My uncle is an electrician for the board, and has got called in at ungodly random times.

I should have added: New Stretch Goal 155+ posts... I don't know why I thought high fives all around are ambitious. That joke was a ground ball right to the first baseman.

155+ posts Free virtual hi-fives, all around?

Bloom: Memories is in it's final day. It's had a bit of a surge the last couple of days. It has some of the most beautiful artwork, and seems like such a different unique concept that I have heard for a video game. Of the $34K it now has, over $10K of that has been in the last few days as more and more people are discovering it. Brian Fargo's tweet about it gave it a nice bump. Here is the last game play update, including how one might approach taking on this guy:

Earthbound is finally coming back to NA (and for the first time in Europe)!!!!!! The only catch seems to be that it might only be on the WiiU's Virtual Console. If I ever buy a WiiU, I guarantee that it will be the first game I buy for it. Hopefully it will also be on the Wii's VC. I guarantee the first thing I do when it does (and is) is lug that thing into town, and buy it immediately. And the Ecco's. You see Nintendo, I do want to give you money.

"Video game companies are ready" to abandon rural markets.