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4) Less administrative overhead means benefits are more efficiently distributed. It takes a lot less money to hire people responsible for distributing income evenly across all citizens and residents then it does to run all the different welfare programs that also have to decide who gets money, take...

If someone wants to buy your house, they need to use cheques or bank transfers or some other kind of portable form of large value. No number of copper coins is going to be accepted as a fair exchange. Nor should it. You're being retarded. As evidenced by, among a lot of other things, the fact that ...

The current way is force which is godly strong since other than Force Dragons, what has immunity to it? The only one that leaps to mind isn't immunity, just some reduction: the Argent Savant From this thread : Rants aside though, I can't think of any creatures immune to force damage except Force Dr...

I hadn't known that. Interesting.

Avoraciopoctules wrote:There's some new Harry Potter and the Natural 20 chapters since last time I checked.

I think the author said new chapters on Fridays.

I think you're ignoring the voluntary eugenics programs, like the system the Amish have set up to let prospective mates know if they both carry a recessive for one of the major genetic disorders they're more likely to have. They don't even reveal the test results, they just tell the elders whether ...

ishy wrote:And what 4 major stereotypes would that be?

These were the ones I thought of

So what word or short phrase do we use to describe (as wikipedia puts it) the "classification system used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by anatomical, cultural, ethnic, genetic, geographical, historical, linguistic, religious, and/or social affiliation."...

I had that in my last interview too - "We'll call you Monday" - and they never did.

It momentarily confused me when I could have sworn I read that post and it said fmbf instead of fbmf. Especially since I had intended to post that near-exact post and only didn't because I was ninja'd.

They have a racial intelligence bonus of 1. An odd number. Have I forgotten something obvious or is that really weird? Also, resistance to fire means what exactly? Does it halve fire damage or is there a lookup table based on level or something? Check http://media.wizards.com/downloads/dnd/DnDBasic...

My first thought was 'they could be Hobgoblins'
Without some obvious scale (although they give me a short and bulky vibe) they could be anything from Small to Large - any of a lot of different monster races. depending on art style.

I wonder if there's an app to exchange every single word or phrase you type for homophones or other internet-annoying uses?

[edit] Take this book and run it backwards over the input text.

Octopuses? Octopodes? [edit]octopusies! [edit2]*remembers this is not the subject of the thread, apologises for derailing, stops.

I accept your explanation of the datums.

You're not suggesting that there is one true way to spell all words and that all others are wrong, are you?

It is definitely your IP and not a cookie setting or something? You can't get through on another browser or after deleting the rpg.net cookies?

Re: Gender-named Hurricanes. I heard that the difference was an artefact of the change in naming systems. Apparently, when you do the test (excluding the massive outlier, Katrina) on just the ones before or after the point that they changed the naming system, the correlation goes away. [edit] Source...

+11 BAB : Duration of stunning effect?

Is it still railroading if the players do not notice?

As I understand it, as a non-USian and a non-lawyer, Fair Use is a defence used when sued for copyright infringement, not a right. I may be wrong and it is a right as well, but then it is a right that's restricted a lot by the fear of lawyer-fu.

Less Wrong tends to use the term Steel Man. There may be another short phrase for 'The Best Possible Version of an Argument' that is common, but I don't know it, and couldn't find it with brief googling.

Gnorman wrote:Fair use would like to have a word with the author of that video, who seems to believe that fair use does not in fact exist.

How do you reach that conclusion? IIRC CGPGrey has said he was very aware of Fair Use when making that video.

Wear a T-shirt with a pictures of a werewolf on it, or hang tablets showing werewolf video from your front and back, go on a crime spree! If you wear a field-of-vision-restricting helmet, it will both allow you to do this with lower WP and stop you setting yourself off (but avoid looking at yourself...

Regarding the 'Masquerade' in Werewolf: Is the problem with keeping it that the werewolf aura that stops normals from remembering the mad killer monster spree can't easily work on all the CCTV and camera-phones that are now everywhere that were not 20-odd years ago? In WtF werewolf aura explicitly ...