Comment Mmm-mm! (Score 4, Funny) 299
That is a tasty burger.
That is a tasty burger.
How would you do the actual mining? My best bet is controlled demolition on asteroids to turn them into rubble piles, then come back in a few years when the dust has cleared as it were, before feeding the bits into a solar furnace/centrifuge for refining/seperation.
Voyage of the Princess Ark, ah them were the days...
You miss my point - tabletop RPGs are unique in that you don't just listen to the album, you can use them to make your own albums. Forever. It's not 'like' anything else, there is no car analogy here.
And not so much sympathising with publishers, just noting the nature of the beast.
To me, your logic shows its flaw best
That's not logic buddy, it's observation of the facts. Facts which are unique to TTRPGs due to their open ended, player created nature.
If you were looking for reasons beyond the publishers business acumen, it seems pretty inarguable that computer-based adventures stole away quite a bit of the player base. Half-Life was as adventurous as all but a few AD&D games I ever played.
Roleplaying: you were doing it wrong. If you were just rolling dice and maneuvering miniatures around a battlemat, you were wargaming. Roleplaying is a much more visceral and imaginative experience, the best games use neither mat not figures IME. Computer games may have co-opted the name, but they aren't the same thing by a long shot.
Not to say anything bad against computer games, they are great at what they do. It just happens to be something completely different to RPGs.
Ah now a good weekend will have any setting converted to another system, and it takes even less time within the same system. That's if you don't just build on your system yourself, hacking this stuff is one of the great pleasures of TTRPGs for me.
Zak posts a lot over on therpgsite.com as well, he has a lot of interesting ideas.
Where do you put the meter?
What's obsolete? These aren't computer games, they're as useful today as when they first came out.
That's kind of the conundrum with the tabletop RPG business isn't it, buy once play forever. It's the ultimate open ended gaming experience, an endless vista limited only by your imagination. Great for players, not so great for publishers.
I don't use extra batteries for my phone but I do always get an extended battery for my netbook. Between that and the battery it comes with, that's about 14 hours of use before needing a recharge. Also bonus hardhack, stick in a 4gb class 10 SD card into your slot and let windows use it to boost the speed, it does make quite a difference on low RAM machines like netbooks, where you can max out your memory fairly easily. What's not to love!
Either that or it would be awesome.
I'm keeping an eye on that!
I'm fascinated by the adversarial attitude the college administration appears to have towards their students. I mean unless there's more to this story than we know about, like he made suggestive comments about the press or threatened them first, they apparently made him sign an NDA and booted him when they felt he had no recourse.
I'd have very serious questions about the ethical or even social ability of these people to operate a third level institution. It strikes me as classic CYA from middle management with extreme prejuidice, which typically indicates angry disconnected shut-ins in the back room. Well, either that or aloof disconnected gentlemen's clubs in the back room. Same result either way. It's not a learning environment from their perspective, it's a simmering cauldron of unpleasantness that must be kept strictly under control lest it get in the way of money.
Nowhere does it say it is 100% beef
...except in the summary.
Oh you are so missing out.
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.
