I said Bahir'an as buh-HERE-ran until I hung out with Erzsebet in person and heard her say BAH-hur-on out loud. That made sense to me, so I started pronouncing it like that until I heard Callidora pronounce it buh-HERE-ron over Skype. Since Callidor…
A company shutting down a game you like does not incline players towards playing more games from that company. (ArenaNet themselves didn't have anything to do with CoH being shut down, so I …
Losing Leonard Nimoy was very sad, for example. He did a lot for the genre and we can wish more actors were like him. Him being gone leaves a lack, but he was getting there and I think I, …
What a good comic. I suppose I should just be grateful it lasted as long as it did, but the editorial shafting it got from Weekly Shonen Jump for not being popular enough will forever make me sad.
Ironically, Dragon Ball was a manga first, and works much better in that format. The biggest and most common complaint, its pacing, disappears when you read it. When the anime draws out a scene for 10 minutes, that same scene in the comic usually la…
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Except, notably, for Vampire: the Masquerade, which rates Kindred based on how many generations removed they are from the primus. A low-generation Sire matters more than simple age.
I think legally all the balls are in IRE's court. Customer satisfaction is separate from purely legal concerns, though.
Even Raz admitted the promo could have been clearer, so there's not a lot of sense disputing that. But where to go fro…
If I'm dropping even one-hundred dollars on a thing, I'm going to look up every piece of fine print I can find, ask questions, and get second opinions. Triple- and quadruple-checking. That's a lot o…
Local boardgame shop has had a HELP WANTED sign up for two months. I'm in there 2+ times a week already, and friendly with all the night-time staff. They encouraged me to apply and said they'd put in good words for me.
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Was there some sort of impetus to keep most of the playable races fairly consistent along game lines? That's actually quite interesting, given things like Lusternia's basic equivalents.