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Chrono Trigger's replayability was in the alternate endings you could find by searching in the second game for areas you could fight Lavos before the endgame. Dragon's Dogma has a free class change system that takes (usually) a few run throughs to max out all the classes so New Level + allowed you to replay the other classes. Or if you just wanted to run around and try stuff in the open world. There were a few new quests (of the "Kill X [important monsters] variety) but nothing that changed the game content. Neither of those games seem to fit what PE is doing, so again I don't think New Game + is a viable option; this game seems to be built around the replayability being in trying different classes and different skills and different choices.

Hmmm, they found a dead body at work today. Homicide they're saying, but not much more because its an open investigation. Its an open campus so very possible the person has no connection to the ol' place of business.

I don't think the problem is - to me at least - too many quests in Athkatla, but too many quests triggered the minute you walk into a place by people who chase you down and force you into a dialogue screen. If I'm on an urgent mission to save Imoen and I've taken up an urgent mission from Nalia to tell me of an urgent mission to save the DeArnise stronghold that she'll give me money (towards my goal) why do I want to be stopped by a runner to tell Minsc that there's an urgent mission in Umar Hills? At some point there are just too many things that trigger because you walk into a room, IMO.

Platonic was a poor word choice on my part since it - in a modern context - has multiple meanings; what I meant was character interactions that aren't based on love & sex at all (see Merriam-Webster's definition 2b of Platonic; of, relating to, or being a relationship marked by the absence of romance or sex)

Level scaling in another can of worms entirely. Most players here are not fans for this type of game; the developers seem to be of the opinion of minimal level scaling within very narrow ranges on the critical path only. I'd argue that level scaling shouldn't be inherent to New Game+ - Chrono Trigger worked fine without it.

If it has interesting, responsive character interactions that are entirely platonic, I'm not sure how you've lost anything. Romantic relationships are part of the human story; I think artificially including or excluding them is a mistake - like making a painting without the color blue for no clear reason beyond not liking the color blue. That said its entirely possible to create a story that is still well done without romantic relationships, just like its possible to make a painting without the color blue. The difference is between understanding how to use your tools and having a solid plan or just being arbitrary.

I love New Game+ for the right game; this game doesn't seem to fit the mold (less actiony, low leveled party).

I watched a movie called "George and the Dragon" which is a bit of a revisionist take on the legend from a decade or so ago. Amusing bit of fantasy fluff.

I won't get it. Waiting to see if I'll get the PS4, but the XB-One's "have to be online once every 24 hours" is not the kind of ease-of-use I buy a console for.

I had a co-worker who woke up with a wood roach on their nose.

2000ADonline.com sells them some of them in digital format on their website. Comixology has the IDW series on its site.

The house centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata) freaks me out when I see it even though I know its an insectovore and not liable to mistake me for a cricket (we get them at work all the time, well and crickets). I stopped stepping on spiders when I went to step on one and it reared back and seemed to hiss at me (I heard it, but the TV was on so it may be a combination of motion from the spider and sound from the TV that made me think it was hissing). I captured it and tossed it outside - halfway figured it'd have eaten the neighborhood it had such attitude. I think it was a wolf spider, H. carolinensis. My oldest brother has one of the worst spider stories - as a kid he went to step on a large spider trying to get into the house only to find out within seconds that it wasn't an abnormally large spider but a spider carrying an egg sack. He found out by having hundreds of spider babies running up his leg... In fall we see a lot of yellow and black garden spiders hanging around, which are cool because they're so huge.

It is a niche title. Its a 2D Golden Axe / Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom successor. I enjoyed the new TR; while a part of the story does deal with Lara dealing with kill-or-be-killed situations, there's a lot that goes back to the original games sense of exploration and unfolding a 'secret history' of the location and its mythology. Its the only TR game other than the first one that I've liked. But that's just my view, not trying to change yours.

Rebellion Developments are the publishers of Judge Dredd (having bought the rights from IPC/Fleetway). 2000 AD is the flagship comic/magazine, with the Judge Dredd Megazine also still being published in the UK. IDW has the rights to do a US published Dredd book and to publish reprints (just like DC did for a few years). Their color reprint of the 2000 AD series "Judge Dredd Classics" in single issues is supposed to have begun in May. In September we get MARS ATTACKS JUDGE DREDD which should be worth a look, IMO. Rebellion have published trades (the Judge Anderson Omnibus is sitting in my "to read" pile at home) but your comic shop has to import them (sadly I've only been able to find a handful of them). I don't know when IDW plans to have the first trade of the Judge Dredd Classics Line out. I think the reviewer is reading something into the novel that isn't there. Jay Gatsby definitely has changed his name and identity, but he was formally James Gatz, a 1st (or at least early) generation German-American as I recall.

Why would they do that, when he points out that they didn't exclude women from their club (and presumably they would still take members*)? "We never excluded women, but noone was intertested in joining us." Then he says that later women came and I guess instead of wanting them to join at that time, he wants them to create their own club. It's a little unclear there. *Its possible they were closed to new membership, but its not specified and it seems like something a thriving organization wouldn't do. Ah okay, mkreku clarified. Seems like they'd have done something differently legally.

This looks like a job for Fortean Times! ...because I have no clue. Some stuff we see probably will never have satisfactory explanations.

I'm perfectly fine with the art of Dragon's Crown. Looking forward to the game. I'm perfectly fine with the art of Project: Eternity. Looking forward to the game. I see no inconsistency here; different approaches by different developers making different games.

Kotonoha no Niwa / The Garden of Words. http://www.kotonohanoniwa.jp/

Even with unbiased, fair questions the poll is self-selecting and I doubt anyone sees it as anything more than a bit of fluff to go along with the personal expressions of interest/disinterest in various types of UI.

Today, I work on my computer. Because my muscles are sore as the last two days I've done nothing but try to clean my office out. The previous occupiers had accumulated a rather copious amount of paperwork (so much so at some point they stopped filing it and just created stacks and stacks). When I was first moved to this location and taking over this area, I went through and eliminated everything that was unimportant (like copies of recipes printed from the internet or 15 copies of the same draft memo or notes taken from a conference a decade ago). Now however I have time to actually go through and organize the remaining stuff, like getting the personnel files in order rather than having a stack of files covering the last decade using the paper equivalent of an archeologist looking at rock layers and determining what stuff in the layer corresponds to some fixed point in time to find something I wanted. Unfortunately I also brought a fair bit of files with me so I've been eliminating some of that stuff too. Big re-organization required of one of my important files though, which will take some time to do. But summer is shaping up to be low key (a relief after last summer). I've just answered the door with a kitchen knife between my teeth and an annoyed look, actually made a little girl recoil. The Jehovah's witnesses are undeterred by that though. As I think I may have mentioned before I just told them that I couldn't rule out needing to kill someone for Queen, Country etc. When they objected that many LDS are in the Armed Forces I put it to them that I had no intention of joining a group which failed to take its own commandments seriously. LDS =/ Jehovah's Witnesses. The latter might HAVE been put out by being told you would kill for country, as some of the groups I've encountered are against getting too chummy with the secular world, particularly the governmental institutions.

Like the new picture! I would actually really like this. I mean if they're all pre-lit I'm okay with that, but it's a neat idea. I'm not crazy about having to carry a bunch of torches around for lighting and stuff like that (because it turns out too often to just be a busywork idea), but aesthetically I like the idea of being able to turn on/put out lights in a space as a whole like this. You...might want to have someone see about that. I don't think that's a typical sensation you should be having in your eyes.

I liked DS3. I only kind of liked DS1. Didn't like DS1 enough to try DS2. YMMV.

Reminds me of when the heating element in my oven broke and was sparking and melting despite the oven being turned off; my initial reaction was standing there thinking "Well It shouldn't be doing that...!" instead of doing something sensible like turning the power off at the breaker. Felt pretty stupid later when it hit me that's what I should have done first, not last. Thankfully nothing burned, just had to replace the heating element and clean the oven out.

My first character1 was a (kinda dumb) human CG fighter who started up in the Keep on the Borderlands2. There was a fight with a shop keeper and we were booted from the city. This became an ongoing grudge with the shopkeeper and one player that ended up with said party-member murdering the shopkeeper and getting away with it3. This same player then kept murdering the various successor shop owners (all relatives of the original, brother, cousin, kids, wife) every time we returned until he did it while my character was actually there to witness it instead of waiting as he usually did and then we got into a fight that ran through the streets of the keep, up the walls and ended with the other player killing my character before passing a check and doing a spider climb down the keep walls to escape the city guard.4 The end.5 1this is actually a bit more complicated then I let on, my first 20 or something characters were all pretty much the same guy. We died a lot and sometimes lost our character sheets and re-rolled and ran with it. 2the 1981 revision D&D basic set, IIRC 3technically, there were actually two players who ended up playing more or less the same character so I may be confusing who did what to whom. 4the other player also liked killing the other PC's in their sleep and looting their bodies; to be honest I'm not sure if the monsters or the other players racked up more TPKs... 5I ended my human fighter streak by convincing the DM to let me play a Lizard Man fighter. He rocked. Well except that he couldn't actually go into the damn Keep on the Borderlands...

One big question is "Did the poll allow multiple votes" in case we have to wonder if there was intentional vote stuffing by PC fans to try to favor the PC (perhaps with the idea that if EA/DICE see the PC as a big market the PC version will make better use of high-end rigs?) If ballot stuffing is a possibility, then that could also lead to the numbers without any disinterest in the player "groups". How many people voted in the poll? Looks like their twitter followers on the official account is 602,695, was the respondents even a fraction of that? What percentage of the population mobilized for the poll?