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San Francisco and the Bay Area are under a Shelter in Place order. This means "it is permissible for people to leave the house for facilities related to the following activities defined as essential: law and safety; essential government services; health care; pharmacies; child care; farming; g...

Manabolt has the advantage of having properties that physical weapons do not. You can shoot ghosts with it, and it goes out to line of sight and all that shit. Hand razors and cyberguns are simply literally physical weapons that you could hold in your hand rather than building them into your arm Ye...

I suspect hand razors are popular mostly because of Molly Millions, who was a cool character and used her hand razors to great effect in the stories. The monk problem applies to combat spells as well as hand razors - what's the actual cost/benefit to having a "secret" weapon that's not (ea...

This is more of a "REALLY hoping that entertainment will rock you" item: Westworld S03 trailer It LOOKS like it will be amazing, so many cyberpunk things going on in the "real" world of the show according to the trailer. It could be an awesome season after the sort-of letdown of ...

At a surface description that doesn't have to be inconsistent - the military steals the lion's share of production so could have been first to re-establish a previous technology base and also decide to advance further instead of redistribute. Yeah, or the military had some secret advanced EMP-shiel...

Is Dutch not considered "white"? Or in his language, "white" = "white American" ? "White" was a lot more narrow back in the day. Germans, dutch, irish, scandinavians, slavs, wouldn't be considered white a hundred years ago. Considering everyone in Europe was ...

Yeah my bad, I see that my post looks like I'm dissing on Leinenkugel's, but I like the 2-3 types of beer from them that I've had. It's just a name I've not seen in a long time, and it sparked some old neurons to fire and dredge up a memory of a friend who would diss the beer this way every time I o...

Iduno wrote:and Leinenkugel's is...cloying.

Or as my friend says, "those shitty fruity pebbles beers"

ETortoise wrote:Why are certain words capitalized?

Is he German? Either that, or it seems like dumb people (prime example: Trump) tend to randomly capitalize words they think are signifcant

I am not pure white; being part Cherokee, Dutch, and Romanian. Is Dutch not considered "white"? Or in his language, "white" = "white American" ? Awhile ago there was an episode of Adam Ruins Everything about circumcision, not sure how accurate it was but it was enterta...

My brother-in-law trades IPAs with people from across the country, and he's all right in the middle of it. My sister and I laugh a lot about it. I hate the bitterness. What I'd really like to get into, though, are recreated ancient beer recipes. Put me down as another hater of IPAs - I don't like t...

Just like "blackened" was a cooking technique to disguise burned food

If everyone who can get vaccinated does, they aren't put at risk by people who don't because they can't, surely? I think the problem isn't for the vaccinated, but for the unvaccinated. So if you allow unvaccinated kids to be mixin' it up in school, there's a greater risk for every unvaccinated kid ...

I am also very much in favour of the decision to not allow unvaccinated kids into school / daycare / kindergarden. Does that apply to people that legitimately can't get vaccinated, though? I don't see why it wouldn't apply equally to everyone though? Unvaccinated is unvaccinated, no matter the reas...

Thoughts on the Chinese coronavirus? If I can be selfish for a moment...living here, it's been great, in that things have been so quiet and peaceful. No/few people or cars on the road. No construction at 3am. For an introverted shut-in like me, having an iron-clad excuse not to leave the apt has be...

The setting is turning into TORG

The only dumb part was captain "my magic is SWORDS!" who did fuck all, but whatever. Shoulda sent the neck snapping mage to kill the big bad. Haha yeah that mage was terrible - instead of being a competent swordfighter or, maybe even, carrying more than 1 sword...or using his magic direct...

I once wanted to play as a Kitsune foxperson (was a Shapeshifter I think) but was a bit dissuaded when their entire point was "they grew up in the extreme fringes of society and don't grok modern tech and can't think like people" and the vast majority of nations view you as a third-class ...

I've had some experience with SR1-2, but it was decades ago so I don't remember a lot of the finer details. But I kinda liked how karma pools worked - something like for every 10 karma earned, the player gets 1 die in the karma pool, which worked alot like Edge. So as characters got more experienced...

Iran is admitting they accidentally shot down the passenger plane
https://www.cp24.com/world/iran-state-t ... -1.4762967

And, because resistance tests don't use the magic attribute, edge would be allowed to resist (a few times before an edge refresh) magic attacks/summoning attempts when reasonable? For things that have Edge, that's what I was thinking. I was also considering not letting spirits have Edge, slightly f...

Using it to bust Force caps and bind spirits that could solo the entire rest of the team combined far less desirable. Yeah exactly - another sorta exploit was to cast sustained spells at low force but Edge them for high results and little drain. I'm thinking of a houserule that Edge can't be used o...

SR 1-3, they don't have Edge, they have karma pools, iirc a similar mechanic but not exactly. SR4 and 5 Edge are pretty close and in SR6 apparently they really changed Edge to be more like the D&D5 ad/disad mechanic, with reports that it's all kinds of terrible. I think SR4 does Edge "the b...

angelfromanotherpin wrote:3) Theoretical biology: I've seen a pretty good stab at explaining Superman's biology

The only explanation that makes any "sense" is if he's an extremely powerful telekinetic who doesn't know he's a telekinetic (is this from miracleman? I forget)

beads? Haha I just noticed the Chinese character in the upper right corner - it means "wolf". I guess the artist just thought it looked cool... This pic is really terrible, and the more I look at it the worse it gets. Like someone else said, it's like they just took a real pic of a person ...