Recent content by MagnetoHydroDynamics

Built in solar panel? Solid state hard drive? Screen types? Water proofing? Direct heat conduction from CPU to chassis? Sturdy chassis? Motherboard in shock absorbing foam?

Nice guys do not finish last. Guys who don't make moves finish last. Commonly accepted facts: Women are attracted to competence, popularity and power. If you are a nice guy, do: -Appear Competent -Appear Popular and Sought After -Appear Socially Powerful -Be Interesting -Be...

Witch: Noun. A fictitious agent capable of feats that defy the laws of physics. Usually in the form of a woman; male equivalent often called a warlock. Origin of said powers plays a part in said definition. The origin of the individuals power is often of classically considered "evil", usually in...

@OP I think your efforts are commendable. I am sorry that your sister has such an odd prejudice. (Prejudice in general is bad, but some are harder to disprove.) I have a suggestion: Ask her why. Ask her thoroughly and Socratically; poke her beliefs; demand answers, if not now then at...

What remains of the world after the calamity... Damn.

Coffee... I'm a 7 a day man.

Bastion... That's about it.

World peace and prosperity. Oh, and some way to break that pesky first law of thermodynamics...

Murder is pretty much up there IMHO... As is torture. And rape. Yeah. Oh, and brainwashing. (That means you, parent who teaches your kids to be good unquestioning christians) Your thoughts and your body is your own, and it is your right be in control of them.

Pretty much this. I say sticks and stones to a certain degree, you see physical trauma and emotional pain is not entirely separate. If I am daily in horrible pain, my quality of life goes down considerably. If I get depressed enough I usually develop gatro-internal problems. That said...

For hack 'n' slash - I say: add a really good minigame based crafting system. I say: add a magic system akin to that in Magicka. I say: have all stats and inner workings of probability exposed to the player and have a really good wiki about all the builds and enemies. I say: given all...

People who remorselessly bash turnbased combat are forgetting huge successes like, say... Chess. I agree that some turn based combat is pretty out of place, and yes, sometimes the pause-the-action is much more fluid. But still, turn based combat has its place, especially in more...

Video games has taught me more about storytelling than any book ever has. And then there's the reaction times you get from them...

I think you might be reading/watching the wrong mangas/animes. I know it to be a stable in hentai, but I have only rarely come across any actual family romance...

If you do something wrong, then you must accept being told off... But that. That's just thought policing.