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Hopefully the fact that Obama will help the people that supported McCain more than McCain would have helped them will blunt the chance of an attack like that happening. Oh, for fucks sake, man. That never helps. Look at what Clinton did for this country even though he had a losing hand. Do you thin...

Ironically enough, that's the case with 4e--why would you blow all your money on that +6 weapon when you could have three +5 weapons for the same price. That's the thing. You would. The vast majority of the weapons suck balls because they revolve around that idiotic daily mechanic. If you're a mele...

Let me play PARANOIA too: more importantly, what makes you assume that the competent guys won't fail on purpose? Racism and religious bigotry in this country. Let's face it. Probably 10% of this country truly believes that Obama is a secret Muslim. Probably more than that. I'd say at least a fifth ...

Frank wrote:The only people competent enough to get it done are going to be guys who don't want to spoil mid-term elections.

AW wrote:It's not as easy to kill a president as it used to be.

Surgo wrote:The Secret Service is way too good nowadays.

And just what are these optimistic assumptions based on?

Can those ballot measure thingies be overturned in a higher court? ]Straight Dope Message Board[/URL]No, sadly, it really can't. The difference between this and the earlier measure is that this is a constitutional amendment. The California Supreme Court is bound by it. They cannot find that it viol...

Yeah, there's nothing interesting to buy as far as magical items go. They completely fucked the system up. They made waaaaaay too many fucking magical items dailies and didn't even have a consistent system to deal with it. So like I said earlier, 90-95% of the magical item vault gets outright ignore...

Joshua Frost appears to be extremely sensitive to anything that *might* be interpreted in a sexual manner. It's right up there with his banning people for the "tone" of their post even in the absence of specific personal insults. Probably a pedo then. You know, like how social conservativ...

As I had predicted here: http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=45469&start=25 Increasing minority turnout would fuck up gay rights. Guess what? It fucking did in California. Imagine, if you will, the thousands of LGBT people rooting for an Obama win... when you then find out that his win comes at the...

The early assassination attempts were totally clown shoes though. I give him 3 years. The only people competent enough to get it done are going to be guys who don't want to spoil mid-term elections. John McCain beat Bush's support among the religious right in South Carolina by a substantial margin....

Congratulations, President Obama. Now get your final affairs in order.

I give him less than 200 days to live.

In the mean time I'll simply suggest that the vigorous debate of actual points of contention offered by people like me, K, Crissa, and others in the "non productive" threads you mention is some of the most productive stuff on this site, as opposed to you constantly attempting to lick Fran...

You know, the tragic thing about the Democratic party recruiting and empowering more minorities is that it'll set back gay rights.

Lame. Oh, well, what are you going to do, right?

Quick question: if there are no women on the internet, where the fuck are all the yaoi and visually scarring cosplayer photos coming from? There's no man, no matter how gay, who wouldn't be repulsed--much less AROUSED--at some of the horrifying crap that goes on in your typical slash fic. I mean, M-...

Seriously, I hated having that smirking chimp as the face of the country. Holy shit I wanted to punch him in the smug fucking face after that Angela Merkel incident. Unfortunately if McCain wins and fucking dies, we're going to have someone even MORE embarrassing representing our country. Fucking re...

Now that the Adventurer's Vault and Player's Guide to Faerun has come out, it's plainly obvious that whoever designed 4th Edition has a serious hardon for radiant damage. It's the second-least resisted damage in the game, next to psychic damage, and it's the most frequently-occuring vulnerability. A...

Warlord sucks too IMO. I wouldn't bat an eye if the whole fucking deal was scooped up in to the Fighter and other warriors as a feat chain. I wouldn't go that far. If you are very careful in picking your powers and feats (hint: Battle Captain + Tactical Warlord) then Warlord can hand out a ridiculo...

While I'm bitching about class design, I think that from a design standpoint the Warlord has to be the worst out of all of the classes. Take a look at their powers. Some of the powers hand out incredible bennies depending on how the other characters are designed. Great Dragon War Cry is either a goo...

Also, is it just me or does the rogue seems to be, well, pretty damn weak. It's not hard to put together a high-level warlord that will outdamage an equally high-level rogue even discounting the attacks and effects he or she will grant. So what gives. And I know this has already been put out on the ...

I still think daily powers are one of the worst ideas for 4th Edition. Depending on your resting and adventuring schedule, your power can shoot way the hell up. I mean, even to an extent not seen in 3rd Edition since there were more spells to go around and combat didn't last as long. Let's not even ...

Further talking about 4th Edition's failure, I'd like to point out that the greatest raw DPR'er in the game isn't the ranger or rogue, it's the fighter. The stances up the fighter's damage incredibly, especially against multiple foes. This is further compounded by the fact that the fighter gets mult...

I mean, we are offering a loan to the banks that made bad loans. What do you think the chances of them actually paying it back are? How can we punish them if they don't?

That's why it's extremely important that Obama wins this election.

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Well? Just as an aside, it always seems that when the fiscal conservatives get the nation to flirt with/suck the dick of right-wing economic policies and the US/UK gets bitch-slapped and forced to enact left-wing policies to save its bacon there's always a net gain in the end. See: slavery, oppositi...

I really don't think you're grasping just how hot 180 degrees is here, Maj.

You can't just handwave it away with 'oh, it's 30 degrees hotter than what I drink it's no big deal'. I'm not going to let you.

Can we put that stupid 'beverage between your legs' canard to fucking rest? 'cuz I'm getting getting fucking tired of you dips circumventing the safety issue by going 'hurr hurr hurr groin coffee she so stupid' This could have just as easily happened if someone knocked over a cup of hot coffee or go...