Recent content by PhroX

Monster Train 2 came out pretty recently, and it's one of the best deckbuilding roguelikes around. Runs are of a similar length to StS.

I haven't seen the film, but I didn't think that much of the book. I really couldn't figure out who it was aimed at: in terms of the story, it felt like a lonely 14-year old's fantasy and as an adult reader it was too simplistic and wish fulfilmenty, but at the same time, it was full of...

Don't know the book, but the style of the cover feels wonderfully nostalgic. The art might not have always been amazing technically (and often only barely resembled what is happening in the book), but older fantasy and sci-fi covers were so much more characterful than modern ones.

Would you respect Iran if they retaliated in kind?

I'll take this opportunity to remind people that the reason the southern Baptists exist is that they were angry the mainstream Baptist churches opposed slavery.

Yeah, that's the key point for me. By default, I wouldn't mock someone, particularly an elderly person, for tripping on a stair (hell, I do it often enough, and I'm not old). But when it's someone who criticises others for similar things then he's fair game. If you deal it out, then you can take it

Monster Train 2. It's more of the same, but better. Which, for a sequel to a mechanics focused game like a roguelite is pretty much all you want.

Yeah, that does indeed seem to be the focus of the work, which is why I said it was interesting. So why did the summary present the idea that Asians made a long migration into the Americas as news, and have nonsense like "long-held assumptions of European genetic dominance"? (Not criticising you...

At a glance, it seems like an interesting piece of work, but I'm really confused by this statement: As, well, this isn't news. I'm pretty sure we've had clear genetic evidence that indigenous Americans are descended from Asian populations for quite some time now. And, frankly, even without...

And Palenstinians have heard the same rhetoric from Israelis. They've experienced Israeli attmepts to destroy Palestine (e.g. the settlement programs, which aren't "scatterbrained" but instead highly effective - just compare a map of Palestinian controlled territories from even 20 years ago to...

This is the key bit. It's not really about porn as a normal person would think of the term. It's about criminalising being transgendered (and later the rest of LGBTQ+).

Shad does (or at least used to, haven't watched him in several years) a pretty good job of hiding his views on his main channel. I certainly could tell that he was somewhat conservative and religious but he didn't seem too extremist, so that alone wasn't a deal breaker for me. Then I watched...

Actually, most of England's nature was destroyed in pre-industrial times. The country was almost entirely deforested by the end of the medieval era and pretty much everything outside of urban areas is every bit as artificial as they are....

It has the same underlying system, but stuff like skills and encounter design are much less fun.