“Female Draenei and Tauren, however, are just a little bit shorter than their male counterparts, and can usually fit through the same doors that males cannot, while mounted. This may sound like a trivial problem, but to some people it is a really big deal — so much so that some people have vigorously petitioned the WoW developers to allow them to switch genders on their Draenei and Tauren characters.
“Be they sororities or IRC channels, there’s a point where they get big enough that nobody knows everybody anymore. The community becomes overwhelmed with noise from various small cliques and floods of obnoxious people and the signal-to-noise ratio eventually drops to near-zero — no signal, just noise. This has happened to every channel I’ve been on that started small and slowly got big.
“I think the most important lesson I (re-) learned in the entire 4e process is that playing D&D or any other RPG is an intensely personal activity. There’s a reason why we game with our friends, usually at the home of a friend, over food and drink. This is intensely personal stuff, where we say and do things that we wouldn’t let loose in public. [...]
“A game has also recently been released for the PlayStation Portable. The game centers on the lone Predator cleaning up the mess left by a crashed ship.
“Refactoring isn’t about removing code, its about providing coherency to your metaphors. The story you were telling has changed, and while many of the symbols will remain the same (wicked step mother, dark woods, prince) others will change (dwarves, and bramble bracket, ditched for updated concepts of self determinism and midnight balls). Code is symbol manipulation, programming is narrative construction, and refactoring is editing for sense, clarity, and pronoun agreement now that you’ve changed your protagonists gender.
— kellan
“It’s satisfying to have [solved Ghost], but my brother is sad because I ruined our game. Wikipedia suggests a few variants on Ghost. Can anyone suggest any other replacement games playable by voice and memory only?
“The heroes manage to run a shipment of weapons and supplies to Moses in their cadilac-speeder. They approach the wise smiling old man with the beard and the staff to deliver the goods, “Moses! Here are…”. The wise man shakes his head, points to the cliff edge, where they follow his gaze, and see a bald, scarred man in Warhammer 40K-style battle armor blowing up Egyptian cruiser tanks with a gatling, then leaping up to tear the wings off a passing fighter plane. This real Moses turns to the PCs mid-fall and gives them an unmistakably American “Good Job!” thumbs up right before he lands on a tank, punching through it.
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately dairy-house decree…