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I'd say the only institution in america that rivals the public school system in incompetence is the american media institution... [br][br]HEY![br][br]What about the military, the IRS, the IMF, the actual Congress...[br][br]Jesus Christ, man, we didn't even go into the FEMA, whose epic levels of dou...

Who even gives a shit whether you're a 'half'-orc?

If you don't like how you look then get some plastic surgery. It's cheap as free.

Okay. You seem to have some insight...[br][br]How would you abuse (dynamic) alternate powers?[br][br]Also, is it just me or does it seem that your PP seems to explode once you get it at half-rank?[br][br]I was thinking about getting, say, a power that adds to your fortitude and will save but has the...

Lago: is the onanism some twisted reference to something real, or just completely needless profanity? [br][br]Onanism is one of Mark Twain's essays on how to perform masturbation correctly. He also goes into detail about the person whom the term is named after (Onan, BTW) in Letters of the Earth.[b...

On the legislative branch I would blur the House and refocus the Senate. The House is supposed to be a people’s body. We have come to the point where we can dissolve all notions of state whatsoever from it. Members for the House should be appointed based on the population at large and the boundarie...

What would happen to the world at large if the US said to Israel 'fuck it, hand over all of your nuclear weapons right meow or we're not only cutting off aid, we're going to to impose some serious motherfucking sanctions'?

riminalizing it in today's society would never work anyway. Changes need to be made on a deeper level before you can even think about putting out an effective law. Conservatives are just not sure of what to do to change things and are grasping at straws. [br][br]Let's talk about Prohibition real fa...

Oh, yeah, I'd also explicitly spell out definitions and punishments for:[br][br]Bribery[br]Aiding Bribery[br]Perjury by a member of higher government[br]A member of higher government refusing to give testimony[br]The name of whatever bullshit George W. Bush pulled in Katrina[br]Perjury by a member o...

I would just like to state that this man rocks your cocks in a box.

The Age of Reason is one of the funniest fucking things I've ever read in my life and if this doesn't at least make you a Deist y'all is crazy.

That is all.

I don't think I'm going to ever finish this story.[br][br]Partly because I can't go through logs to search for relevant details to describe more of how I felt, but mostly because I can't give a rat's ass about Dungeons and Dragons right now.[br][br]But anyway, over in the Mutants and Masterminds thr...

Has House ever been punched out?[br][br]I haven't seen the show but from what I've heard I've gotten the impression that the man is:[br][br]A) An abusive, arrogant fathead.[br]B) Incredibly good at his job.[br][br]The man has probably saved some lives no one else probably could. This does not mean t...

Try asking one of them what penalty should be applied to a woman who gets an abortion. They rarely, if ever have any answer. [br] [br][br]They do have an answer, they just know that the proposed range of punishments are either:[br][br]A) Dumb and petty. Seriously, if they slapped a $500 fine and 20...

And if it's possible to move you really fast, you still then have to explain how moving you really fast isn't better than moving the cargo really fast... [br][br]I'm not quite up to Shadowrun possession rules, but I think that a typical cargo ship is way too big for the movement power?[br][br]Anywa...

So, anyway, despite what people say of a liberal media or Clinton News Network or what-the-fuckever we do know that it's a fact that the MSM intentionally underreports really important shit, like, say, what evil fuckers the US is in bed with and who is the real bad guy for the Israeli-Palestinian co...

Lago, do you honestly think the cast of Scrubs are 'amazingly pretty people'?

I wrote 'petty' not 'pretty'.

It's up there in my post and it's unedited, so....

But you can't seriously say that by having sex people are promising the government to have a baby. Well, you can seriously say it, but you can't say it and be considered sane at the same time. [br][br]You have to remember the caliber of people we're dealing with.[br][br]Seriously, the pro-life reac...

Society in general.[br][br]That is, they hold claim to all of the children in the US unless another group had hold of them. Normally, this defaults to the parents but if they give up rights to the child the stewardship is up for grabs.[br][br]They interpret abortion as giving up ownership of the lit...

Crissa got it in one. In the case of a child being reared by one parent or the other, the divorce or deabeat parentage is considered a pre-mature termination of a contract. The parent still raising the child had entered into a common law contract to bring the child to adulthood with the other paren...

I can't believe I'm pandering like this, but...

Frank, as someone who works in emergency medical services, what do you think of the show?

What would you put in it/add/take out?[br][br]The first thing that comes to mind is a way to recall Senators. That is, if I even had Senators in the first place. I don't think I would.[br][br]And a better way to elect the President.[br][br]And explicit limits on the influence the military-industrio ...

Frank's capitalist argument earlier in this thread about abortion is probably one of the least-heard ones I have yet. But I don't know if it's necessarily sound..[br][br]How come when a child is given up for (even state-controlled) adoption there isn't any more financial obligation from the parents ...

So I finally broke down and watched this show. And while I admit the writing and jokes are good, the overwhelming unlikeability of the cast turns me off.[br][br]I know it's currently in vogue to depict amazingly petty people whose primary redeeming quality seems to be a never-ending stream of wittic...

It means that my style of thinking for MnM has been thinking of a concept and making it fit within the rules, or for reacting to characters when designing encounters. Attempting to build something with the express intent of 'most power without being stupid', before even contemplating what the chara...

And letting it be known on the streets that you're highly interested in knowing this is better than just mentally digging through the minds of normal people who wouldn't even be able to tell your digging (obviously, take Subtle)? [br][br]You're a superhero so the information you REALLY want to have...

Concealment 10 makes you unseeable to anyone, no matter what their Notice is; which is why getting that with Stealth checks is pointless, because they won't even be allowed to make the check. The rule in the book is for when they use a sense that you don't have concealment against (audio for the in...