I've been online-researching details of a bunch of medieval crafting methods recently for... reasons. (Mostly leatherworking, flax processing, dyeing, and brewing.) So far, a really useful resource has often turned out to be PDFs and webpages put up by random people in the SCA, especially because they often include practical instructions derived ( Read more... )

You are two low-level D&D characters. One of your party members, who is a "monster" race, has been captured and is being held in the pens of the city gladiatorial arena, destined to be possibly-killed in an upcoming event. There are both wooden and stone/metal pens, the latter being for the more dangerous things ( Read more... )

Finally watched Guardians of the Galaxy, only several months late.

There were a lot of bits that made no sense and seemed like failed Fridge Logic. It was, however, really amusing. If a little lot melodramatic at the end.

One side effect of picking up a good part of my Japanese vocabulary from manga and novels is that I can't tell when a word is common and when it's obscure. When reading I look up everything, and some portion of them stick in memory, more or less randomly. If it's a word the author is fond of, then it sticks better ( Read more... )

#1: Patterns for mage armor with a str/con slot. Str being utterly worthless to mages and Con being almost so.

#2: Being forced to choose between two really bad options in a situation where there is an obvious choice clearly better than either. In this case, the Demands of the Qun quest.
( conversation, as it went in my head )

by Brandon Sanderson
...who is apparently taking some time out from his giant fantasy world and its giant doorstopper series to write some post-apocalyptic superhero books instead. Is it just me, or has the superhero novel genre really taken off in the last few years? Probably it's just me.

Anyway, Firefight is actually the second book in the ( Read more... )

[DA3] Notes ( Read more... )

Continuing adventures in psuedocooking ( Read more... )

[DA3]
- Doing a lot of item crafting. Wish there were a war table option for "do this resource-gathering mission over and over until I get back".
- Re. romance options: I <3 Josephine. Not only is she awesome, but you don't need to muck with approval ratings and so far all the romantic dialogue options for her have been classy instead of idiotic ( Read more... )

I am so far fairly underwhelmed by the combat AI. I understand the desire to make things simpler to deal with and appeal to a broader audience thereby, but needing to manually execute combos and click regen potions is kind of annoying when I consider how in DA2 I'd just set up one rule for it and then never think about it again. The bits where ( Read more... )