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Originally written by Azuma:

LOD combines them both.. :P

Does all magic in the Ultima series do that?

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Originally written by Azuma:

Not that part..actually..LOD doesn't have spells..exceptions in Dragoon Form..you have to buy consumable magic items to actually cast magic..plus the part you have to continually mash the X button to get full power..and I really do mean mashing..

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Originally written by Rowen:

What made Golden Sun and Golden Sun the Lost Age so great to me was that you can import the very same caracters that you used in Golden Sun to The Lost Age game. The use of Djinn both in battle and in puzzel-solving makes it stand out a bit from other RPGs I think. The lost age was also very non-liner.

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Originally written by Lt. Sullust:

On a slightly unrelated note: Anyone else thing Jeff should get some royalties from Nintendo for pokemon?

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Originally written by Yama Toman?:

Chrono Trigger -- combo attacks.
I am aware that other RPGs have included combo attacks. CT is the only game I am aware that has actually made them remotely playable.

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Or we could accept to have several separate sandbox simulation games, and bundle them together in a story that ran on rails, text-adventure-style, with relatively few branchings, camouflaged to look freer than it is.

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

So is there any other kind of thing or situation, besides hacking, that might be amenable to sandboxed simulation?

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Originally written by kkarski:

The thing that can be easily introduced to almost every RPG and would make it a bit closer to what Synergy wants (and what I want too) would be to cut down profits gained from combat.

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When you have several possibilites and all of them give you the same benefits, the powergamer that always skulks inside won't tempt you, and you can try to make decisions like your character would - an evil fighter would make a roar and charge the enemies, a stealthy rogue would slip past them or assasinate their leader, a mage could make some sort of diversion with his illusions etc. etc.

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Originally written by Fractal:

WHAT!? When and where? Is Andraste perhaps an ATMOS member, or just a coincidental Terrapin trader thing?

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An immediate critique is that there seems to be little evidence for differences in the left and right hand limbic systems. However, Herrmann's system does not try to be an accurate model of the way the brain functions. Instead it should really be thought of as a model of different styles, partially inspired by the brain, but also the result of extensive questionnaires.

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Originally written by Dintiradan:

How did they determine the right/left brain distinction? Hook people up to a fMRI or something (hopefully I remember correctly and fMRI is the relevant technique)?

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Originally written by Synergy:

[QB]I seem to be unable to picture the woman rotating counter-clockwise. She's clockwise and I'm right-brained.

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Originally written by Synergy:

Our schools are designed to teach so-called "facts", to teach us what to believe, not how to think and question for ourselves, and to find our own answers. By definition, this is agenda. Vested interests want us to believe their view on all kinds of things about life, beginning with our parents.

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You guys would be savagely all over any one of those points if someone like me had made them in support of an argument you disagreed with. I think you are demonstrating hypocrisy. Color me wholly unimpressed.

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Originally written by Synergy:

Nine inconvenient untruths.

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Originally written by Yama Toman?:

I do find it interesting that Angband is so popular here. You, me, and Alorael, at any rate, compared to Aran's lonely cries of ADOM.

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Originally written by Yama Toman?:

I would actually argue that hack-and-slash is not all filler. Recently I've had occasion (at work, no less) to play a number of RPGs and pseudo-RPGs made over the last 15 years for Nintendo's handheld systems -- the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance.

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