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We're all virile he-men here, surely. Well Woldan is at least... Anyhow, realized I hadn't done the challenge, the nearest book said to start Page 45: "Do you know the name of her boyfriend?"

I've noticed that levels seem vastly easier to achieve since my last go-around in Diablo III. My crusader is almost the same level as the monk I'd beaten the game with previously.

A guy broke up with his girlfriend and posted the "why" to a website with screencaps of texts and tweets. Girlfriend is a game developer who (according to the posted screenies) admitted to a relationship with a game journalist who wrote positively about her game while still in a relationship with guy. Internet explodes. At least that's what I've gotten out of it.

Who would suggest that was even a thing? It'd be like asking for the guy who designed a blender to design you a car. Just because a casual gamer is still a gamer doesn't mean that every game would cater to them, surely.

Make a youtube video or photobomb a celeb, and I'm sure you'll be going viral again. (Sorry couldn't resist, it put a funny image in my head).

It's not a distinction between a sports fan and a gamer. In football, for example, there are fans that get into the team - know the songs, the players, history and they always sneer at fans that don't or that casually watch (prawn sandwich brigade is a common moniker for these people). So it's a similar deal. Yes, I understand that. It doesn't make logical sense, but I understand it. But from the perspective of the team/team owners, do you think that they only think of the one of those two fans who go to the matches, buy a ticket, buy concessions but only one knows all the teams history? From a game developer perspective, if there's more money to be made in quick turn-around mobile games than in longer development for console/PC do you think they care if its "casuals" instead of "die-hards" playing? Looking down at the "casuals" is meaningless **** measuring, to be honest.

Are you talking about how you'd tackle this if you've hit the level cap or not? I'm assuming not because if after it'd be no different than tackling the IE games at level cap. I'd suspect the question comes down to whether there will be objectives (and thus objective XP) tied to specific types of exploration (like whether advancing to the next level of Od Nua will lead to extra XP).

I've never heard of fedora used for anything other than a hat, so I guess I learned something today.

I'm still not sure what the distinction is here between being a sports fan. The criteria you're using sounds like the kind of thing the one with more involvement will use to disparage the one with less involvement to hide the fact that you can still be sports fan and be overly involved. To be sure, I find the same thing true of the PC/anti-Console and Console/Anti-other-Console crowds. Its like someone decided that unless someone has a special badge and knows the secret handshake then they're in the club and everyone else doesn't count.

I gather in someways the problem with video game journalism is the need for the person writing about the game to be able to play the game, which leads to people being gamers before being journalists, I guess.

Really? I can't think of any actors or actress who dated critics. Maybe its a stage thing? Not really thinking of any directors either, but again the fault may be in my memory - right now ex-actress and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper being married to actor and singer DeWolf Hopper is the only one that really springs to mind and she wasn't a critic.

Not really "What I'm Playing" so much as a "blast from the past" - Apparently had some VTM:Bloodlines screencaps from 2007 still sitting in my files.

Yeah my defense is quite high when compared with attack. It can take some time to take down stronger monsters compared to my monk (who had some pretty fast and deadly strikes) or the Barbarian (whose biggest problem was getting Rage up to smash things so always started fights slowly in damage).

No need to apologize for something you can't help Monte. But that doesn't change the fact we should still be asking " why is there such a lack female participation on these forums and how can we change this" ? I can't be the only one who has noticed the gender disparity on these forums? In my experience most everyone has better things to do than post on message boards. Posting here says more about us than it does the people who don't post here, I think. Not sure why playing a specific game or type of game makes someone a non-gamer.

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. I'm enjoying the Crusader class pretty well, shot up to my favorite class almost immediately mixing sort of the monk and barbarian classes + flails. Also finding some of the other classes more fun than I remembered as well (never messed much with the Demon Hunter or Wizard).

Isn't that what the preview button is for? I use the preview button and still end up finding stuff that I think is spelled wrong or perhaps could be edited for clarity after I've posted. Somtimes, I just leave it and hope no one notices...

Its an American Football reference. Certain members of the offense are tasked with protecting the person with the ball from being tackled by interfering with the defenses ability to down the ball handler. I think in this context, the animal companion engages the opponent in melee, interfering with the opponents ability to get to the ranger (similar to how the offensive line blocks the defensive line from tackling the quarterback after the snap in American Football).

I thought this bit might address the philosophy that could look at the feedback about Might:

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/67723-josh-sawyer-explains-how-to-balance-an-rpg-extensive-editorial-at-kotaku/?do=findComment&comment=1490139 Although I suppose it might be worth discussing both in the backer and general PoE forums.

Yeah the full article is longer. And interesting reading.

A version of the "Tower of Hanoi" puzzle...

Statically speaking, AIUI, the scenario described would actually favor romance winning as all people wanting to vote for romance would only need to make one choice, while those not wanting romance (or not wanting some form of romance) would have to choose between 18 options.

Er...sorry...

Don't know yet. I'm not familiar with Indonesian folklore so I have no idea what manner of beasties I'll be up against. I just hope it's not zombies. If you're attacked by a flying head with its organs attached, its a Leyak. See, I learned something from watching Mystics in Bali