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I sort of liked the card game.

Do you mean any product in particular, or the setting in general?

Nebuchadnezzar wrote:Two words: Lapsang Souchong. It's the Islay scotch of black teas.

I second this endorsement.

TheFlatline wrote:Good read, though I'll disagree that the means always justify the ends...

The results of the means are the ends. If Sauron does nice things and then mean things, the ends are "nice things and mean things" and you have to balance those according to your own moral calculus.

What if we went the other way with magic items, and massively discounted them? Say, 1/100th of their actual cost? Your +2 sword enchantment is 80 gold, plus whatever you charge for the sword. A 1st level potion of cure light wounds is 5 silver. Your Tome of various stat adjustment comes in at a who...

I was making the assumption because there is literally a scene where she's debating using her healing because she's running low on the special water. I think it's the episode where Zuko is trying to get them to let him join, someone gets burned, and she just soothes the burn, rather than using the ...

Actually healing isn't a special bending technique, it's literally magic water... Katara can use regular water to sooth burns, but she's basically just putting ice on them. Basically she's just bending a special natural healing potion. I have no idea why you are making this assumption. Healing deat...

Hey souran, that overview was pretty informative and entertaining. Could you do one for the fantasy nations?

Air Bender Classes Flying Bison Style <- Ang's core style Way of the Vole <- Ty Lee's fighting techniques Screeching Dodo Style Fist of the Wolfbat Aang does not have a readily identifiable core style. There are no other airbenders with whom he can really be compared, and he is a master. Anything h...

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67493

Someone actually did a d20 Avatar RPG. Haven't read through it, but I do not imagine that it is any good.

Artless wrote:Also, gyro meat and feta equals good stuff.

Gyros and tztaziki on a pizza can only make it more delicious.

Aaaargh. Why did no one cock punch that asshole before he ruined everything? I seriously have no idea why he was hired to direct the film. I mean, have any of his other movies ever made you think "This guy would be really great for Avatar ". No. No they have not. Also, why did he feel the...

So, does anyone know of something else that is similar to and as good as Avatar? I tried to watch fullmetal alchemist, but it was sort of disappointing in comparison.

I just watched through Avatar (the animated series). Wow. Great show.

When I asked her how come anarchy isn't the ultimate freedom, she replied, "Why can't you understand? Anarchy is the... Ultimate Unfreedom!" This is pretty much true. Anarchy is not a sustainable state of being for a society with decent population concentration. Basically, any time that p...

Crissa wrote:Obama goes all Frank on question about Palin.

-Crissa

Must be Prague.

...putting pressure on Iran... What's really ironic is that Saddam Hussein and the Taliban were Iran's biggest regional enemies. That's an interesting assertion. Iran didn't like Iraq, definitely, but Saddam had no capacity to interfere with Iran's plans. This is partially true. While the two natio...

Juton wrote:...putting pressure on Iran...

What's really ironic is that Saddam Hussein and the Taliban were Iran's biggest regional enemies.

...you are still missing that link. Your (implied) argument is obviously faulty. Just because someone else does something terrible does not give you an excuse to do that same terrible thing. Especially when you are doing that terrible thing to an innocent third party. Was your childhood so deficien...

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If you are going to have an argument on the internet (or, indeed, any argument), do not cite television news unless you have to. Especially do not cite television news when the other guy is arguing from primary documents.
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He was walking down a street, he wasn't on his own, and the helicopter folks wouldn't have been able to see the "press" sign.

In any case, what about the civilians? They were by no means doing anything wrong.

Fucking hell...


NB: the rules of engagement were also leaked. Here they are: http://collateralmurder.com/en/resources.html

You know, I have a family. I'm a father of two. I understand that your pretendy fun time games might be at risk, but saying you'd be happy if someone died? That's just asinine. I imagine that some of the freelancers in whose stiffing you were involved (if only through your silence) also have famili...

I've been kind of wary about continuing my electrical engineering degree because I've heard remarks from TAs that getting a masters or PhD doesn't make you all that more competitive than a BA. Most of the time, experience is more valuable than additional degrees. If you are going into academia or p...

Economic Geologists can make six figures with a BA because there is a lack of interest in the subject and a huge amount of new demand for resources from the world's developing economies. It might not meet your definition of easy, but the ratio of cash to work is better than a lot of fields.

Money earned is a poor way to judge art, but your previously suggested "awards" paradigm is perhaps even worse. The problem is that art is, and always will be, subjective. That's the irony in this situation. Mamet is trying to tell writers that if they had been better writers his show wou...