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Then why was Israel selling weapons to Iran? Are you thinking about Iran-Contra era shenanigans, or something more recent? I know the Israelis have been angry that Russia has been trying/succeeding in selling missiles to Iran. It also depends on what Israel is selling to Iran. The likely scenario f...

...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. As for the Taliban, they where being funded...

the_taken wrote:Hi, I'm Daisy!

I used to deal out crack for Canadian Tire money. Now I operate the Tire Swing Casino at Steels and Highway 7.

Welcome to the Den!

You're from Brampton, I can tell.

One mistake I see a lot of people make IRL, not necessarily here, is they think that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are only about accomplishing one thing: getting oil. In reality there are a bunch of different things, power projection in the region, putting pressure on Iran and maybe radical elem...

Do not embed yourself with the enemy, especially one that is not uniformed. Do not point ANYTHING at anyone in a war zone Leave the medical attention to the trained military responders with big red crosses atop their vehicles Pretty simple rules, really. What the fuck are you talking about? Embed y...

For for laying out a complex situation for those of us on the sidelines Frank.

I will say one thing only in the gunner's defense. The MFD's on an Apache aren't like a big screen, I think they're about 8 inches square, so in such a small image, in the heat of the moment it's possible that a camera look like an RPG. It's hard to be sympathetic to the gunner, the pilot and the gr...

So Frank, from the tone of your posts I'd guess that you'd recommend not buying any Catalyst products for the next two months because of concerns about where the profits are going. When FASA 2.0 or whatever they want to call themselves rolls around, do you think the money will get back to the authou...

Prior to this health care bill I alway thought that Americans should have the right to not wear seat belts or wear a helmet. In Canada if you took those types of risks you did so on my dime. If you where an idiot in America and you could get themselves killed for a minimum of cost and inconvenience ...

A lot of liberals on the tubes seem to have gotten cynical about Obama and the Democrats. Specifically that they are shills to the health and banking industries. No matter what they do turn out will be lower this year, at least for the left-wing.

As intense as the debate got, the Republicans will need another issue come November. After 8 months of nothing the spectre of health-care changes starting in 2013 won't be enough to propel them to victory.

The experiment didn't stop when the guards got abusive, that's one. At one point some of the prisoners start to demand to be let go, but they weren't, that's two.

EDIT: Sorry, that was the Stanford prison experiment.

A rational player will just print out a big chart before the game.

I hate randomness in CharGen, or anything else that requires a DM's approval. To many times the entire first session has been spent generating characters, half are dead two games in.

They published a few good Battletech books. Tactical Operations and Strategic Operations where bloated but still had some decent content. They also released the TR:3075, their are some interesting designs in there.

If I remember correctly they require you to enroll more people into the program to get anything, I think 10 for an iPod and a lot more for a PS3. Also there is a raft of small print, and you have a set amount of time to complete all these tasks. So basically it's better to get an actual job.

Shiiiiiit. Battletech is my favourite property, I've only recently convinced my FLGS that it is still being made, now this shit happens. What type of dick steals from a game company? It's not like Catalyst is some huge faceless corporation, it's less than a dozen people. If Coleman did steal then he...

Why would they want to fragment it? Who fucking knows? Of course even if they didn't do anything it would be fragmented anyways because of Pathfinder. But they certainly are helping it along. D&D is basically dead at this point. There are people out there who could save D&D, but none of the...

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Half-orcs can put their +2 to int, be a Wizard. Pathfinder hasn't fixed arcane casters so you can still break the game if you need to. If the game is capped at level 8 or there abouts take Barbarian. You can do all the combat maneuvers in the game without AoOs by using Lunge, which increases your re...

I wonder if left wing comedy is the reciprocal of all the good/long lasting talk radio being right wing? Being good at one prevents you from being good at another.

There's an old adage that goes 'a conservative is just a liberal who's been mugged'. Most of the Republican's issues are framed in fear, like allowing gays to marry will destroy marriage and eventually all families everywhere. If you're laughing at something you're not afraid of it any more, or at l...

The current generation is very comfortable to read, it's like reading paper. Unfortunately the screens are small, the readers are expensive and they are slow to turn pages. I think in 3 years or so they'll get to to the point where they are easily accessible and they'll be a paradigm shift. They wil...

I think it's because of this.... If you give a person a whole day before they're going to do something; they might be more likely to chicken out over the course of the day. When you've planned and planned something, and you're ready and you want to do it, all you can think about is getting it over ...

How closely do you think the board game will play to 4e? I hope Windjammer is right and they pare it down to the level of D&D minis. I fear it will be only a slightly reduced version of 4e proper.