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More concerned about whether your HI provider will force you to vaccinate kids for horrible diseases. Kids don't deserve to suffer for your stupidity. Admittedly, since he's in California, he'll either be forced to vaccinate them or keep them out of school. So, it's unlikely that they'll be exposed...

Erik, if he lives in California, his kids must be vaccinated if they aren't homeschooled. We actually have relatively sane state politics, so we removed the personal and religious exemptions.

Leress wrote:

TiaC wrote:Really, is there any thread that would not be improved by adding "Silva keep out" to it?

Umm... this is Silva's thread.

My point stands.

Really, is there any thread that would not be improved by adding "Silva keep out" to it?

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Also yeah, "oriental" refers to rugs, not people. It would be best to avoid using that word.

You can use it, but only if your other book is Occidental Adventures.

Kaelik wrote:They are large size. So that picture in the book better be a fucking brownie or something.

To be large size, that person would have to be under two feet tall.

Ok, I also think that what Silva has doesn't sound like an RPG. However, I think it is worth it to try to figure out what part of SMAC makes people interested in the idea, because this is at least the fifth time I've seen it suggested. First, there are the factions. The original 7 are all unique yet...

The end of that article makes no sense. The point is that we shouldn’t ask whether the G.O.P. will eventually nominate someone in the habit of saying things that are demonstrably untrue, and counting on political loyalists not to notice. The only question is what kind of scam it will be. Eventually...

My concern with more direct forms of democracy are more focused on the collective human stupidity. Majority rule is a remarkably poor way to run a society. Is that Johnny K. Toole posting from beyond the grave? Edit: The novel to which I'm referring actually WAS published posthumously, turns out. I...

Oh, you aren't counting apartheid and genocide as "big, bad, and bat shit"? There's our problem. They're always doing something, the media only reports it when it's been a while and they are doing something different. Your prediction is like saying that 3 years from now, Democrats and Repu...

PhoneLobster wrote:

TiaC wrote:Well, that period is around six months long, so that's really not much of a prediction.

Feel free to pick a different six months for yourself, but my prediction stands.

That's rather my point. You could make that prediction for any six months and be nearly assured of it coming true.

I'm just going to throw this prediction out there. Some time during say, the US presidential election campaign (proper, not this "who is running against Hillary" bullshit), right on top of the election itself, or during the brief hand over period between presidents. Expect Israel to do so...

Josh_Kablack wrote:

Kim Stanley Robinsom, Aurora Page 264 wrote: If each of our five passes was called a one-in-a-million throw, which was a very conservative estimate of the odds, then all five together made it a one-in-an-octillion chance.

Yeah, I wouldn't keep reading after that screwup either. It's a one-in-a-nonillion chance.

2. For most people who work, a whole lot of piracy is just not worth it. With the sheer amount of time and effort it takes to pirate some things, you could just buy them with your wages from a fraction of that time. So, what if there was a legal site for piracy that was just extremely time-consumin...

I had a pair of stupid/clever ideas and I'd like you to tell me how stupid they are. 1. Gun buyback programs are great, but they won't happen in America. What if the government set up an optional buyback and made resale of guns to anyone else illegal? It seems like this could do something to prevent...

So, a while ago, there was a GitP poster with many terrible houserules, and one response to him made me think of this board's quantum bears meme. How many times, when the Fighter says "I draw my sword", did you just want to smack that cheating-optimizer in the face and say "No! You do...

OgreBattle wrote:How did D&D go so long without associating hobbits/halflings/kender with loli

Because most art of them just looks weirdly proportioned and ugly as fuck.

ishy wrote:I seem to remember Savage Species had some kind of stupid minus 2 LA golem template?

No, it's a template that can be applied to golems, but it makes them into a real boy and takes away all their cool stuff in the process.

That causes transfigured objects to be bio-hazards. Let's say I transfigure a bucket of bleach into air. When that wears off, anyone who breathed it is going to die. I would suggest some form of stopgap patch that prevents de-transfiguration within a living body. If you still want to prevent transfi...

Ok, why don't you just make that a dicepool, because they are pretty easy and don't involve much adding things up. So, a disarming hex might have a difficulty of 4. 4 successes gets a normal disarm, 6 throws their wand into your hand, and 8 throws them through a wall. Lacking proficiency in the spel...

Prak wrote:So, I know we have the Dice Mechanics thread, but is there anything that just lists the pros and cons of die mechanics without PL arguing with everyone else over how to analyze 3 die systems and being PL?

Yeah, it's the Dice Mechanics thread with PL on ignore.

Truer words have probably been spoken, but I like those ones. Upon further pondering... Maybe we should embrace our hyperbolic identity. An international think tank of liberals (think tank! it sounds so legit!) masquerading as gamers so we can... We haven't gotten to that part yet. The answer is ob...

They are probably a lot more common though.

@Maxus: In Poland you can find some 80% (or even 90%) vodka. This is meant to be diluted, so that you can get more vodka. Tourists see this, don't know about the dilution part and think "damn, these Poles are crazy, drinking that kind of stuff!" and then they try it. Poles see tourist do ...