Recent content by Irick

I can't help but notice that we seem to argue a lot on this forum. We might as well get good at it! So, I propose making a game out of this with the following rules: 1) A poster may decide to use their post to either suggest a topic or continue a debate. When suggesting a topic or continuing...

CP2020 is a fun system! My first CP system was v3 :3. People tell me it is the worst of the systems, but I did enjoy it. I can definitely see why though, it's not very mirrorshades. My first set of polyhedrals were for Warhammer 40k Dark Heresy. Before that, I had a bunch of D6s for wargaming...

Look at that slick yellow and black beast! You can tell that thing has felled more dragons than the Dovahkiin! Until I moved for college it was really, really difficult to get someone to wargame with. There is a local gameshop here that has tables open and hosts tournaments and such, but I...

We require pictures of your savior dice :3 I know that most people don't get into a tizzy about dice. It's just such an interesting cultural icon to me. The idea that they can be an expressive part of your gaming experience (cool specialized sets) is interesting too. I know some people pick...

Can it. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_Shit] In all seriousness, the idea of artistic vision has always been debated within any given medium, as is the validity of that vision opposed to critisism. In the end really only time can tell. It may shift between the two polls, in any case...

I know it was your artistic vision to make a parody thread, but i'm going to drop a Serious Commentary bomb. It's odd to me just how reactive the game development market is. So, imagine for a moment that you are marketing a movie and your cast list gets released. Then, suddenly, you get...

So I just bought a set of precision d6s. They are clunky, huge things that require special rolling surfaces and truly are inconvenient for a tabletop game. I will probably pick up a set of precision backgammon dice after this, but the question is: why? In tabletop circles dice are front and...

Farcry 3 and 4 are jokes, and the punchline is the FPS. Seriously, the fact that the storylines bug you are 'as intended'. In this case (as are there many) pointing to ludonarrative dissonance and just leaving it as that is missing something the game is trying to say. In any artform, there are...

Oh what a brave new world is this. :) So as of recent contemporary gaming is gaining more traction as a respectable pastime. I imagine that we will be soon showing top League players the same sort of veneration as chess masters (/sarcasm). This brings into light an interesting little bit of...

But they will, so the sentiment is somewhat redundant. If everyone was perfect we wouldn't need law or order, and in a perfect heist no one knows anything happens. The technical sophistication of some attacks can go largely unnoticed in the day to day operations of the massive companies that...

I think you might be confusing my point a bit. I'm saying that was Lulzsec's goal, I'm not speaking toward the goals of Lizard Squad. Here, reading on into the third and fourth sentences of that paragraph: "I think these sorts of events can help bring up, for instance, dialogs about just to what...

The point of all activism is to bring in people who are not in your fight to the fight. To bring the issues that you have to light. Otherwise, your protest just stays within a small group and no one ever hears about it. As for the current situation: THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A...

The problem that I have been addressing is that there isn't an academic exemption, or even an informal guarantee of consideration in these cases. I've later on presented scenarios that are well within the realm of plausibility that would lead to positive hits on VAC by accident or simple...

No, my issue is that it is programmatically impossible for the system to take into account academic exploration, and that by that virtue it hampers the exploration of the game. I don't love it. That's not what I am arguing. It's possible to check what VAC is doing by reverse engineering...

I think the question is too general. There are ways to produce well designed games that need out of game references Slaughtering Grounds is not one of them. It is bad to design play pieces that are not easy to differentiate. The visual language is important to establish. However: It can also be...