Spike/Harm ,'Help'
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I really think that's unlikely, but of course, it doesn't hurt to try because we can always do it the regular way if the mix is really unbalanced. It's just a way to pick characters before the game starts, it's not a life-or-death thing.
ETA: Have the cylons always been pilots?
ETA: Have the cylons always been pilots?
Nah. There is a bit of a skew there though. Boomer's been in three of the games, and a Cylon in two of them. Apollo's been in every game, and been a Cylon three times. (Usually quite awesomely.) I don't think we've had a Cylon military leader yet.
Scott Pilgrim fans: try entering the Konami code at Fark.com.
... AAaaaaaand, with BSG concluded, Gaming goes dead again.
I've been re-playing the old Paper Mario games for the last couple days, I had forgotten that I had a save file for Thousand Year Door where one of my partners could 2HKO the bonus boss. My Yoshi can do 153 damage in a single attack, and the toughest thing in the game only has 200 HP.
Apparently, I enjoy doing terrible and silly things to video games, because I was cracking up while showing my roommates the sheer and utter horror of this.
Not dead, just resting. Pining for the fjords.
In addition to my usual readiness to play Mario Kart at the drop of a hat, I am now avalable for Tetris Party. Facebook Scrabble, too (I'm Laga Ratica). Why does everyone use their real name on Facebook? It seems weeeeird.
Why does everyone use their real name on Facebook? It seems weeeeird.
Because originally, that was the whole point of Facebook. To connect with your college friends, whom you knew in person or met at parties.
Despite my clever use of a pseudonym, they're all seeming to find me.
I can't remember exactly when the policy changed, but when I joined FB you had to use your real name and it had to be attached to a .edu email address. (And you had to register uphill, both ways, in the snow. It was hard times, I tell ya!)
Mal kicked our asses at Yahtzee on Saturday, so there's that gaming news.
Also, we finally played the Castle Ravenloft board game. It's made of fail. Or possibly of being used by Hasbro.
Now, I'm an old-school gamer, so 4.0 is just one of the options I think of when I think RPG. And it's not one of my favorites. But I thought 4.0 might be more fun as a board game, esp. one that didn't require a DM like Descent does. Not so much. In fact, it wasn't any fun at all.
The art sucks (although the figs are OK, and I'll probably paint them); the mechanics suck, the rules are hard to use and don't match the parts that come in the box, and it has nothing to do with Ravenloft (except for Hasbro wanting to capture fan money).
I wasn't as offended as the person who paid cash money for it, but dang, it was the cheap junk food of games...for a white-tablecloth price.