Recent content by Ruin Explorer

Yeah and I don't disagree, but I think d20 caused a temporary burst of investment by companies and people who could barely afford it, and interest ceased much sooner than people expected (in part because a lot of the d20 games were not very good as games, and in a lot of cases there were a large...

So how did that story end exactly? Remind me. No, it's absolutely an offense and disrespect to basically all creative professions. Trying to pretend otherwise is extremely silly. Technical professions it's more complex than that, but creative? Nah.

Manga fans as a group strongly prefer preserving right-to-left, primarily because mirroring the art changes stuff. Every right-handed character becomes left-handed. Badges/medals/etc. of office worn on the right become worn on the left (which can look very weird). A car turning left becomes a...

Not super-chuffed that bloody GitS is now a retrofuture, goddamn the linear passage of time.

Intentionally attempting to destroy competition is not legit. It may be legal sometimes (often it's grey area or even outright illegal but fails to be prosecuted), but it's not legit. It's not honest, it's not capitalist even (as a philosophy), it's actually anti-capitalist in an odd way...

This is a real non sequitur following the rest of your argument, and seems like a very narrow and specific question that I very much doubt even you could answer conclusively (I think it would take serious research to provide a genuinely conclusive answer, in fact), so can you explain in detail...

In the short term that was precisely how it turned out. Just not in the longer term.

I feel like this take doesn't actually understand how the market works, particularly not how it worked when most people obtained RPGs from FLGSes, not via Kickstarter, PDFs, and Amazon. The OGL existing helped, for sure. d20, on the other hand, basically bombed the entire industry, and whilst...

Buddy, those are both "evil" goals. They're both anti-consumer, anti-choice. Any attempt "reduce competition" is a bad thing under capitalism, an objectively bad thing. There's a reason Adam Smith stressed the extreme importance of competition, and a reason the main thing he thought could harm...

Goddamnit will people stop making really cool-seeming games already! I just got them playing Daggerheart and now this comes along and looks great! Ugh probably have to back it don't I?

Yes he is definitely wrong. Particularly in this hysterical statement: Yeah sure right Ryan, the only two "new forms of gaming entertainment" in your lifespan have been D&D and MtG, which not at all coincidentally, are both games you've worked heavily on. Ego is definitely not the driving...

Slow Horses doesn't miss. S5 was particularly good I thought, though I find Taverner's continuing complete disdain for them a little implausible at this point I haven't followed the books to this point (only read the first 1or 2) but with I did appreciate them admitting Roddy would be kind of...

Slay the Spire 2 is going Early Access on March 5th, here's a trailer: Which reveals that they have seemingly full co-op multiplayer with 2-4 players, that the Defect is back (the robot), and that there's a new wizard-in-a-walking-chair character. I was thinking I'd skip Early Access and...

I agree completely. The week-by-week model generally only benefits very episodic shows or shows that are extremely popular, at least in the current streaming environment. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle. I was 10% is generous but that's maybe about right (somewhere between that...

Yeah I can see how that would happen - I've definitely made pretty big assumptions about the gameplay of a series before only to be confounded when I actually played it - I'm trying to think of what it was, it was something pretty well-established - but yeah it was like "Wait this isn't even the...