What's your personal rule of thumb when deciding whether to include a particular mechanic (persuasion, hacking, lockpicking, etc.) as a minigame, or as something much simpler, like an attribute roll or skill check?
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Your picks for best- / most interestingly-designed games set primarily in a workplace? (e.g. Space Station 13)
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Which board games came closest to the feel of an immersive sim video game, for you? (In the sense of a single tool having multiple uses, a single goal being achievable using different tools, etc.)
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Not sure what to say. This is just...really, really bad.
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My sisters living in red counties: how do you maintain your faith in humanity, kindness, and ability to care about others, when you know you're surrounded by people who just voted against your well-being?
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Fantasy novels that focus on gender-nonconforming people
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What is the benefit (and cost, if any) of asking a guard to kick someone out of a bar?
Griftlands is a deck-building roguelite where you negotiate, fight, steal or otherwise persuade others to get your way. Every decision is important, be it the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect. Death comes quickly, but each play offers new situations and strategies to explore.
Please help me find this in-universe book
The Elder Scrolls (commonly referred to as TES) is an award-winning series of roleplaying games created by Bethesda Softworks. Set in the vast world of Nirn, The Elder Scrolls series is renowned for the level of unprecedented control given to the player over their character's destiny, establishing itself as the benchmark in immersive, independently-living worlds for the RPG genre.
When US military people say they're "fighting for our freedoms," which freedoms do they mean, specifically?
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Some US lawmakers are trying to ban TikTok entirely, ostensibly over concerns about China collecting user data. What kinds of data are they afraid China will acquire, and why?
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Have you ever encountered a situation where tester/player disagreement over whether a certain design choice was considered good or bad seemed to be largely due to cultural differences? If so, what happened?
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What's a game mechanic that made you go, "darn, I wish *I'd* thought of that"?
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Console first-person roguelikes? (a la Void Bastards, Superhot: Mind Control Delete, etc.)
Aspects of real life you find interesting that you wish you saw more games use as a mechanic?
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"So bad it's good" games you really have fun playing despite / because of their iffy quality?
"You're not nonbinary, you're just a really atypical example of <gender you were assigned at birth>." How do y'all respond to statements like this?
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Nonfiction books about video game / computer game history?
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Nonfiction books about video game / computer game history?
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Desperately need recommendations for nonfiction books about NB and especially bigender people! Thank you!
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Biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs by/about US police officers?
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ROTS had a deleted scene where Anakin *spoke* R2-D2's language and it was exactly as insane as it sounds.
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What are your top 5 favorite EU novels? Canon, Legends...everything is welcome.
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Wacky physics games on the PlayStation and Switch, a la Octodad, Safety First, and Heavenly Bodies
I want to read more lit fic novels but I rarely find them actually fun to read. Please recommend me some you found fun.
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Novels that are about the 27 Club, or where the Club is otherwise an important aspect of the plot?
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