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So we keep defeating the BBEG's minions, but he always teleports out before we get to fight him, but we finally have the big battle at the end of the move/book/TV season. T hat's the very definition of a recurring villain in most pop culture. Most recurring villains don't keep popping out, though. ...

The New Jerusalem Bible, the same as the Brick Testament.

The King James Bible, incidentally, uses much the same phraseology.

I probably got biased by the hypocrisy commonly found in pacifism (people who would want to kill others have no problem admitting they don't do so merely outta fear, which's at least honest), since ... when was the last time someone was found refusing to fight for oneself? But fair enough. That sai...

Really, all I'm asking for is the game not to break when PCs do the same basic setting things as NPCs. I'm okay, though not thrilled, with NPCs not being able to do the same things as PCs but the reverse situation is unacceptable. I don't mean things like 1st level PCs being able to summon demiplane...

I love how you singled me out be for laughter and your mischaracterization of me as the only person wanting these things, TS. Fuck, man, people on this board have been saying for months about how 4th Edition does not allow you to break out of your tiny cardboard shell of fighting monsters the way yo...

lol Astral Projection.

That spell was so broken that nobody even complained about it. It wasn't like polymorph or wish or gate where we managed to convince ourselves for years that if we just made a couple of rules tweaks it'd manage to work. Oh no.

Jesus isn't a pacifist.

Where the fuck did THAT idea come from, too?

He outright said that he's not here to make peace, but to put people to the sword.

There definitely has not been enough effort made into tearing down the reputation of this idiot.

Why is it impossible to make a kingdom using mundane resources? Okay, RandomCasualty. With as little DM fiat as you can manage, why don't you tell me how: You attract and convince people to come to your village in the first place. You put up some buildings, walls, whatnot. You supply your populatio...

The rules you write are not separable from the world that is painted on that canvas. The 4e thing where you say "Fuck it, ignore the rules, only 12th level characters fight Cyclops minions..." is completely unacceptable. It shouldn't be possible to outgrow the setting, because the setting...

If you actually read what he preaches, he's actually a huge grabass. Yes, he comes off as nice compared to his disciples or his dad, but the fact of the matter is that by most standards he's a tool of the first order. I can understand why Christians want people to believe that Jesus wasn't a huge gr...

Hold on a second, why didn't we want players of sufficient level to be immune to two hundred kobolds throwing spears? I mean, c'mon. Discounting his weakspot, Smaug is not going to be taken down by a hundred hobbits shooting arrows even if he sticks to the ground. A pathetically minimal goal for D&a...

Okay, let's face facts here. Obama did actually overperform in the Democratic primary. This is very noticable in Virginia, the Carolinas, Texas, and of course Iowa. However, this is the Democratic party. Obama hasn't gone up against the rest of the country yet. So the whole myth/validity of the Brad...

Fuck Job. I mean, yes, that book is a fuckjob and Job didn't deserve any of that shit but that's nothing compared to some of the bullshit you'll find in Judges. I mean, Jesus fucknuts, God actually sends an angel down to punish the Israelites for failing to complete genocide! What the fuck? Oh, and ...

I'm also hoping that once things settle down, we'll be able to publish Hillary Clinton's original health care plan she proposed into the primary. And the DNC replaces fuckin' Reid with her. We need a real knife-fighter there and she's proven herself. Wouldn't that he nice? Unfortunately, with the GO...

I'm not sure about your time table though. I think that they'll last until 2012. The midterms are House and Senate races, and those individuals can not back the party wherever they want. And if Obama wins, he's likely to win by a lot more next time, as the current 14-17 year old group favors him mo...

The thing is though that it doesn't matter if their real voter is shrinking the crazy christians have an organized agenda to have a greater control than their numbers justify in a democracy. If they succeed in taking over the Republican party, pretty much a stated goal, then in your two party syste...

Big Kucinich fan as well. Other than his being short, I'm not really sure why he never really caught on more with the liberal base of the Democratic Party. Kucinich, unfortunately, would get destroyed in a national election. I'm not a fan of Obama myself mostly because he is actually sincere about ...

You have Jon Stewart to thank for that one, though it was originally called The War Against Terra--a rather clever pun mocking our President's inability to pronounce Terror and his anti-environmentalist agenda.

I'd also like to point out the fact that if Genesis is to be believed, God completely and totally fucked up the order in which things are supposed to be created. Like, it's so screwy that it's just embarrassing. I seriously believe that a 2nd grader would do a better job if he had a list of things h...

That's the thing that sucks about the House of Representatives is that with the way the electoral system is set up right now the incumency has just too much of an advantage. I mean, most Congressmen get the lion's share of their money through their party, such as the DSCC or DNC. Unless your party i...

If you're looking for some good, old-fashioned lulz about the Bible for my money you can't beat Mark Twain and Thomas Paine. Thomas Jefferson, when he wasn't raping slaves, had some scatching things to say about theism as well. Notably, Thomas Paine's lulz apparently inspired so much butthurt that T...

I also forgot an E: E) There's going to be gay marriage and they're going to have to treat gay people as equals. The other goals may see some degree success in staving off, but E is not negotiable at all. It's going to happen. I dunno. With sufficient faith and some heavy compound doors I'm pretty s...

Well, it's a whole new level, but Cedarville has been helping to lay out the so-called intellectual groundwork for creationist arguments for years. You can argue that The Creation Museum is their greatest achievement, as they've been giving "scientific" cover to those arguments. BWAHAHAHA...

Also, hopefully, one day, maybe, the good guys will keep winning more territory. The fact that you actually have to hide and gloss over the fact nowadays that people are dying for your elite tennis shoes is encouraging in a twisted sort of way. So I still hold out hope one day that technology advanc...

Gold has a lot more industrial uses now then what we had in the past. Hell, that whole reason why they picked gold as a standard instead of, say, iron was because gold didn't have a lot of secondary uses. Even if aliens brainwashed humans into thinking that gold was worthless as jewelry, there would...