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bluecliff says...

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
I have enjoyed the game so far, and I don't have a beef with it using 'standard fantasy' as its chosen backdrop. I think they changed it up nicely enough with the elves being 2nd class citizens, Dwarves being anti-magic gurus, and humans being Theo-political mixes. I have to agree with Y's sentiment of being tired of humans always being the prats in the story. Oh well. Anyway, an enjoyable game and that's what matters. I don't need games to be radical new innovations to like them.


Yahtzee is all wrong about it being standard fantasy. and it's actually bad that it isn't. if by standard he means tolkienesque. and dragon age ain't tolkiensque.

edit:
Also, it is a bit dark. but it's more horror dark than fantasy type dark.
Rape, eating flesh, torture, cannibalism. I'm surprised no one's commented on that.

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bluecliff says...

pity this busy monster, manunkind,

not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond)

plays with the bigness of his littleness
--- electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange; lenses extend
unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
returns on its unself.
A world of made
is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh

and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical

ultraomnipotence. We doctors know

a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go

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bluecliff says...

V.B. Nimble, V.B. Quick

V.B. Wigglesworth wakes at noon,
Washes, shaves and very soon
Is at the lab; he reads his mail,
Swings a tadpole by the tail,
Undoes his coat, removes his hat,

Dips a spider in a vat
Of alkaline, phones the press,
Tells them he is F.R.S.,
Subdivides six protocells,
Kills a rat by ringing bells,

Writes a treatise, edits two
Symposia on "Will man do?,"
Gives a lecture, audits three,
Has the sperm club in for tea,
Pensions off an ageing spore,

Cracks a test tube, takes some pure
Science and applies it, finds,
His hat, adjusts it, pulls the blinds,
Instructs the jellyfish to spawn,
And, by one o'clock, is gone.

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bluecliff says...

>> ^HollywoodBob:
The rub lies in that not everyone considers their obviously cruel actions to be so.


The rub is that not all actions are obviously cruel.
...

In fact, moderns society is the most advanced one to have ever made such (probably) non-deliberate advances in masking it's cruelty in the form of help, caring, and love.
And THAT, is truly disgusting.

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bluecliff says...

>> ^ponceleon:
So does the guy now not believe in God? I mean the equation was pretty simple and it failed...
ooh, speaking of fail
Also, I always get pissed off when people say that "god gave us the gift of doctors." Fuck you. Doctors went to medical school for 4 years and studies SCIENCE. They didn't get "blessed" with some "magic" power allowing them to wave their hands around and cure people... After all, these doctors also perform abortions and stem cell research, how do you know which ones are god-approved?
As for the Israel thing... oh just stfu... I don't even know where to begin with that crap. The religious significance of a shitty piece of desert has the world in turmoil and none of them can see that they are all delusional followers of fairy tales? All I got to do is watch idiots carrying crosses down a street, dopes bobbing their heads in front of a wall, or lemmings walking in circles around a rock to know that none of these religions (or any for that matter) know a damned thing about the nature of the universe.



Your doctors have only 4 YEARS of college!!?
That's fucked up.

OH and it's called MEDICAL SCIENCE. It's not a branch of physics and you don't have to know squat about math. It's also the only "science" where having a smile on your face helps the the experiment go more smoothly. And where the "object" that's experimented on has it's own voice.

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