Wesley: All right. I'm going to let you all in on something you may have trouble comprehending. I assure you however-- Gunn: Vampires are real. Wesley: I was telling!

'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue

A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.

PLEASE TO WHITEFONT SPOILERS for video games, RPG modules or anything for which foreknowledge of events might lessen one's enjoyment of whatever gaming experience.


Pix - May 11, 2008 3:29:48 pm PDT #523 of 26132
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Amych. I didn't even know there was another option rather than "font color=white".
Ditto. Sorry about inadvertent spoilage. I've edited.


amych - May 11, 2008 3:33:16 pm PDT #524 of 26132
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

No worries (and I don't mind personally). It's just something that didn't make much difference before, and can do so now in certain cases. And I'm sorry if I came across as jumping on anything -- I really did mean it as just a nudge.


Pix - May 11, 2008 3:46:02 pm PDT #525 of 26132
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

ND has been playing Paper Mario for the last hour or so, and I feel like I've been on an acid trip. This game is so bizarre that I don't know if I will be able to play it.


Laga - May 11, 2008 5:12:59 pm PDT #526 of 26132
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

please use the spoiler-font quick-edit instead of hand-coding spoilers to be white.

in other words, not the HTML?


amych - May 11, 2008 5:16:06 pm PDT #527 of 26132
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

in other words, not the HTML?

Bingo. Just an "s" at the beginning of a line, and you're off and running .


Pete, Husband of Jilli - May 11, 2008 5:47:36 pm PDT #528 of 26132
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd

amych, there was no jumping, just informing. Don't sweat it.

I've had a migraine today. Moving makes it worse but playing GTA doesn't. Hilarity ensues.

I'm actually going to have to go back to a save from last night. There seems to be something weird happening with my current save which isn't allowing me to complete a side mission. Humph.


Sean K - May 14, 2008 10:25:09 pm PDT #529 of 26132
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Wow. We got all the way to 500+ messages before the thread finally died down for a couple of days. Of course, the last few days have been quite busy, but I've actually managed to squeeze some gaming of both the RPG and computer variety into that time. It's late tonight, but maybe I'll post a little about both tomorrow.


NoiseDesign - May 14, 2008 10:45:29 pm PDT #530 of 26132
Our wings are not tired

I actually have found a little time to play a bit of Guitar Hero III and Rock Band this week, it's been really nice.


Sean K - May 14, 2008 10:57:33 pm PDT #531 of 26132
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Yeah, Drew and I had a pretty good Rock Band session the other day. He was on guitar and I was on bass. The only problem for me was that my hand was already starting to cramp by the time I stepped up from Easy to Medium. And one of the first songs we did after I bumped my difficulty level was Tom Sawyer.

And just now, I found myself wondering if they make you do rolls and paradiddles on the higher drum difficulty levels.


NoiseDesign - May 14, 2008 11:09:19 pm PDT #532 of 26132
Our wings are not tired

I need to go back to playing the drums on Rock Band to get myself better at them. I was making the step up to hard on GHIII earlier today and the hard on GHIII seems to be much more difficult than the hard on most Rock Band guitar stuff.