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- Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:03 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 973393
Probably because no one had called shenanigans on what was going on until the Wildfire guys got sick of not being paid, at which point all hell seems to have broken loose. It's easier to chime in than to be the first to raise his voice. There seem to be a lot of people that want to make this into a...
- Tue Jun 29, 2010 11:11 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Story of BattleTech: What's wrong with it?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 39362
- Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:52 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: News that makes us laugh, cry, or both
- Replies: 3528
- Views: 236283
The media is so conservative in the US that actual trolling from the right is treated as genuine constructive commentary. They are fiscally conservative, because they're all owned by Mega-Corps, but they aren't all socially conservative. I do however agree that the News Media in this country leaves...
- Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:00 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: News that makes us laugh, cry, or both
- Replies: 3528
- Views: 236283
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:51 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Story of BattleTech: What's wrong with it?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 39362
The Story of BattleTech: What's wrong with it?
A thread to discuss the various incarnations of BattleTech.
Strengths, weaknesses, future, and past.
It's all in play.
Clutch
Strengths, weaknesses, future, and past.
It's all in play.
Clutch
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:47 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 973393
The best thing they can do with the Jihad is just let a lot of in-game time pass, they should just jump to 3133. In that year it's been established what's happening in the central republic, but all the other houses and clans are pretty much a clear canvas for them to paint on. I disagree. 20 years ...
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:58 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 973393
Okay, I'm sorry Frank, but being remorseful that you didn't see the forest for the trees and accepting partial responsibility for embezzlement aren't the same thing. Every swinging johnson that worked at that place knew something wasn't right. I wonder why they didn't speak up until just before the ...
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:36 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 973393
What? You mean Bills has never stolen/philandered/defrauded/accidently-withdrew-$850K? True, he merely aided and abetted. Which is not quite as bad, I guess. So let me get this straight, you believe Randall Bills helped Coleman embezzle/comingle money that belongs to the company he co-owns? Yeah, r...
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:54 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: News that makes us laugh, cry, or both
- Replies: 3528
- Views: 236283
What do you mean 'we,' white man? I like taxation just fine. I was speaking more to events that occured directly after the revolution. Shays' Rebellion, the Whisky Insurrection, and various other armed protests against Hamiltonian measures to bring in revenue for the federal government. Even the es...
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:14 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: News that makes us laugh, cry, or both
- Replies: 3528
- Views: 236283
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:12 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: News that makes us laugh, cry, or both
- Replies: 3528
- Views: 236283
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 973393
I agree. Bills has never had regard for the average RnF gamer. What? You mean Bills has never stolen/philandered/defrauded/accidently-withdrew-$850K? True, he merely aided and abetted. Which is not quite as bad, I guess. I take some umbrage with this. Randall Bills does respect the average gamer. I...
- Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:17 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 973393
- Sat Jun 26, 2010 5:19 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Where did Japan get its money from?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5687
Seriously, it's not worth answering any of your shit Yet you did. Let me put it like this - why have you escaped the poverty trap, when so many others are unable to? I don't know. Luck? Fate? I'm usually the smartest man in the room? It wasn't from a name, I'm a Taylor. Clutch P.S. It might have be...
- Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:08 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Where did Japan get its money from?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5687
- Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:04 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Where did Japan get its money from?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5687
This kind of borderline-racist anti-immigrant bullshit is really fucking disheartening. Bring on 'Moorish Spain'. Bring on an ethnically-diverse population. I cannot see those things as anything other than good. Then you can't see. Clutch P.S. As a dyed in the wool humanist I really wish you were r...
- Fri Jun 25, 2010 3:04 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Where did Japan get its money from?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5687
Mexico's actually fairly well developed economically, so if you simply divided GDP with population the result is a respectable average income for each Mexican. The problem is with the distribution. Mexico has a fairly wide divide between the ultra rich and the ultra poor. So you probably won't see ...
- Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:28 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Where did Japan get its money from?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5687
I give you hard numbers and you give me a subjective anecdote? The kinds of lies my friend, Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. Statistically Mexico is a burgeoning nation with a strong a healthy Middle Class, (so long as you don't look too closely). Here are some numbers for you: Mexico: Population: ...
- Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:59 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Where did Japan get its money from?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5687
Huhhhh? Mexico is within striking distance of Russia and Turkey ($12,400 to $14,800 and $12,000) and modestly ahead of Brazil and South Africa ($9,700 and $9,500) in median income. Of course this doesn't hold a candle to the United States ($45,800) but the distance of Mexico from the incomes of Sou...
- Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:36 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: News that makes us laugh, cry, or both
- Replies: 3528
- Views: 236283
The lawyer told the Justices, for example, that one of the chief sponsors of the anti-gay marriage referendum in Washington had his family sleep in the living room to protect them from retaliation. Unexpected ally in Freedom of Speech ruling . -Crissa Now all they have to do is deal with intimidati...
- Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:31 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Where did Japan get its money from?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5687
This of course assumes that the United States doesn't do something really, really dumb like close its borders in the near future and Mexico doesn't join the ranks of the most industralized nation during that time. There's a much better chance of the former than the latter. Mexico is an absolute bas...
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:16 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Where did Japan get its money from?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5687
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:30 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: News that makes us laugh, cry, or both
- Replies: 3528
- Views: 236283
The two conventions in Pittsburgh would be more entertaining if they were not miles apart: At the airport Downtown At DragonCon 2000 the Salvation Army was having thier National Convention in an adjacent center. The two crowds mixed surprisingly well. That was the year that the FASA booth was right...
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:01 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Where did Japan get its money from?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5687
A recipe for disaster would be a low native birth rate and a low immigration rate - because that would mean that the actual number of workers in the next generation would be less than the number of workers in the last generation. As long as reductions in birth rate can continue to be made up with b...
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:54 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Where did Japan get its money from?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5687
Spain is hardly screwed - with a debt to GDP ratio that is less than half of Germany's despite a massive stimulus program, and despite all the talk of PIGS Spain has low interest rates amongst the EU nations (Lower than Irelands for example, despite Ireland embracing fiscal austerity) they are tota...