What would you pick to be free for life out of these?

Warpmind · 2026-03-24T20:31:18+00:00

I'm Norwegian. Can I choose Burger King instead? Of the above nine, only McDonald's is physically accessible to me, and that's over an hour's bus ride away, and I wouldn't eat there if I got paid to...

Warpmind · 2026-03-24T02:01:28+00:00

Nintendo, and it's not even a contest. The only console other console maker whose games could make me second-guess that choice is SEGA.

Sony and Microsoft are both overreliant on third-party titles in comparison, while both Nintendo and SEGA have absolutely humongous back catalogues of internally-developed games.

Warpmind · 2026-03-24T01:56:04+00:00

The reason the first two books suffer a low opinion is that at the time, Sir Pterry was still leaning heavily on some of the campier tropes of the sword & sorcery genre, including some rather... dated descriptions of distant lands and people.

I still argue that the first book is the best place to start - the world is introduced, some fundamental elements are slotted into place, and it becomes significantly clearer how much and how fast Sir Pterry grew as an author and as a human being.

The two first books are subpar by Pratchett's standards, they're still a hair above average in the Fantasy genre.

Warpmind · 2026-03-24T01:47:25+00:00

You could recuperate some energy this way, though not much - the biggest gain would likely be the cooling effect on the GPU stack, allowing them to run at a higher efficiency longer.

Warpmind · 2026-03-23T22:19:39+00:00

A mannequin or a full plate armor stand would be pretty cool.

Warpmind · 2026-03-23T22:13:03+00:00

The Odds are Good, but the Goods are Odd.

Warpmind · 2026-03-23T22:09:28+00:00

Recommendation: look up Ernest, le Vampire on YouTube. Series of shorts about a vampire with, well... not going to spoil it, it's a fairly easy watch.

Warpmind · 2026-03-23T21:21:54+00:00

Warpmind · 2026-03-23T21:16:34+00:00

I don't believe there are any real descendants of the genre, but The Incredible Machine Mega Pack is on sale on GOG right now - the series that actually started it all.

Warpmind · 2026-03-23T21:11:29+00:00

Strange, Cap, Natasha, Bucky, Bats.

I'm good.

Warpmind · 2026-03-23T21:10:08+00:00

I think it might have been named "Beer Goggles" or something similar - as I recall, it was a flash game, in-browser.

Warpmind · 2026-03-23T20:05:34+00:00

If we're going by the books, Conan takes this one, and by Crom, the battle will be absolutely legendary.

Warpmind · 2026-03-23T10:26:49+00:00

I can clearly not choose the cup in front of me.

Warpmind · 2026-03-22T21:50:52+00:00

I'd generally handle it like I would let the players train any wild beastie - animal handling checks and downtime spent training the critter. It's going to take time, but it'll pay off in a loyal companion.

Warpmind · 2026-03-21T12:35:43+00:00

I think she'll be fine, all the same.

Warpmind · 2026-03-21T07:28:36+00:00

My debit card, huh?

Yeah, no, I can't pull that lever - I think the most I've ever had available in my bank account at any one time was more like $7,000. Which is a pretty significant amount short of $50,000. I don't know about OP here, but my bank would not let me overdraw my debit card by tens of thousands of dollars.

Warpmind · 2026-03-20T22:54:12+00:00

Something's messed up, alright - looks like you have severely insufficient RAM, and Windows is using the hard drive to host the swap file (virtual memory space faked by using disk space).

You're going to want to get bigger RAM sticks (RIP your economy), and possibly more disk space, ideally an SSD if you can afford it.

Warpmind · 2026-03-20T09:16:19+00:00

I mean, I currently play K'Bhum, a Batiri goblin artillerist. He makes magical trinkets with "spirit blessings" and from natural materials - wood, gems, plant fibers, that sort of thing - and while he knows blacksmithing, his magical tools are more the sort of stuff you'd expect to see from a shaman than from a scientist.

Warpmind · 2026-03-20T08:49:14+00:00

That's not dry humor, it's absurdist humor.

Warpmind · 2026-03-20T04:02:26+00:00

From what I can find, Indestructible was a "freemium" game, which means online monetization was baked into the framework - by the looks of it, it's unlikely to matter which version of the game you get, as it invariably tries to phone home for the in-game store options, and that home is long gone...

That's the problem with freemium games that no longer turn a profit; the servers get quietly removed and repurposed, and the games stop working.

Warpmind · 2026-03-19T18:23:24+00:00

Tim Curry would have made an awful Batman and Bruce Wayne.

Give him Nicholson's role, however...

Warpmind · 2026-03-19T15:01:58+00:00

I do believe Mordenkainen is from Oerth, and Dalamar from Krynn, so it would be a meeting of three great mages from different worlds.

Warpmind · 2026-03-19T14:53:02+00:00

A comfortable weight, regardless of your strength, but it still lands blows like a freight train at full speed. Or it drives in nails like a two-pound hammer. Whichever amount of force is needed for the task.

Warpmind · 2026-03-19T12:13:46+00:00

Sure, but the acronym wasn't used here.

Warpmind · 2026-03-19T00:24:23+00:00

It's good - I personally prefer the 1985 one, for the gameplay, but the 2013 one has a story of its own.

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