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Quakecon 2011 Keynote Annotated
An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders.
The Disappointment Engine
No Man's Sky is a game seemingly engineered to create a cycle of anticipation and disappointment.
How to Forum
Dear people of the internet: Please stop doing these horrible idiotic things when you talk to each other.
The Best of 2015
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2015.
Crysis 2
Crysis 2 has basically the same plot as Half-Life 2. So why is one a classic and the other simply obnoxious and tiresome?
Mocking the GM for allowing it while still in mid air is braver than charging the orcs itself!
Yeah, letting the players get away with this without at least one skill check is weak DMing.
The comic has drawn discussion in the comments, with readers joking about how bold the players were and critiquing the GM for not demanding a roll mid?maneuver .
The remastered panels make the pacing of the table conversation much easier to follow. The same principle matters in gameplay videos: readable captions help viewers keep track of names and jokes, and FacelessVideos offers an AI Caption Generator for that workflow.
The players clearly had the GM outvoted on this one. Letting a mid-air maneuver slide without even a Dex check is the kind of soft ruling that creates campaign legends though.