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It's Narendra Modi btw. What you don't like muderous fascist religious zealots even if they are brown and far away? [br][br]No. Then again, I can't do much about the ones in my own country so who am I to talk?[br][br]Still, I just want it to be known that I hate the guy and I am apalled that I have...

And I hope he's one day reduced to sucking wangs for money on India's desperate, broken streets.

I just thought I'd share that.

Obama will probably end up winning the Democratic nomination, and subsequently, the presidency. He will also probably usher in a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate for the Dems, and retain the House. [br][br]I think you overestimate how many seats the Dems will pick up.[br][br]Right now it's t...

Seriously, though, Russia pretty much returned to a one-party system... and no one cares?

What the hell, old media? What the hell?

Anyway, even though Mike Huckabee's star is shining I think it will burn out very soon.[br][br]He just doesn't have the money to challenge Giuliani and the GOP is seriously underestimating how much ground social conservatism and neoconservatism has lost in the 21st century.[br][br]It's not like Giul...

Anyway, it looks like Obama is starting to get real momentum--according to NPR he's overtaking Clinton in the Iowa polls and his general support across the nation is rising.[br][br]Still can't get that Pakistan quote out of my head, however, so I'm not excited as I could be. I think if there's anyth...

I can understand the nerd rage about being betrayed by Wikipedia, but seriously, as long as Old Media can convince people that unions have completely died out I just can't get too worked up about it.

Of course Eragon was a disappointment.

You can read in thorough detail why it was a crappy movie and book here:

http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Eragon.aspx

You can't destroy your own city after building it? WTF?

That was one of the best things about SimCity, having riots or wildfires tear down your creation when you got bored of the little cretins.

The system you described is totally doable and I take back what I said about it being unworkable. In that light it is.[br][br]Though I still disagree with the whole 'shiny kitty + angry snake' shotgun issue of stats versus skills. It's not even a problem; just keep the points from skills and stats s...

I suppose that makes sense. You put on a belt of giant strength and it gives a +2 bonus to athletics/fighting/surviving heights/whatever rather than just your strength score.

What I'm objecting is the claim that no, thats not what attributes are good for, the really COOL thing about attributes is how they totally screw valid character concepts in the ass. [br][br] You can for instance have an attribute and skill system where the attributes DON'T contribute to trained sk...

So if you have a skill-only system, how do you handle (like in Frank's hypothetical example) obstacles that a character hasn't put points in but a human being could still logically try?[br][br]I mean, even if someone who has never seen a car could attempt to operate it if it was otherwise working. S...

How much money do you want to bet that this story is going to become some sort of canard the anti-LGBT haters are going to beat us over the head with?

I can see the meme now:

'If you allow lesbian couples, they'll look for ways to scam out innocent (heterosexual) males!'

I know this is a huge oversimplification, but here are three of the most basic rules of game theory towards winning an ongoing multiparty conflict.[br][br]Don't fight unless you have something to gain.[br]Don't fight alone unless you have to.[br]If you can get someone else to fight for you, do it.[b...

China doesn't just want to persist, China wants to supplant the US as the world's number one power. And while they seriously are not ready for a head-to-head, the Formosa situation gives them a zero-hour option for that if they ever want one. What they are ready for is showing up the US and Russia ...

Between the Grayby boom, rural farmers struggling for landowning rights, the gender imbalance, India's rising prominence, the low defense in Siberia, energy/oil accumulation, and the ties to the neoliberal economies of the West, what's the likelihood and extent of internal or external conflict with ...

I haven't seen the third season so maybe I'm wrong.[br][br]But, chakra and chi are distinct and recognized elements in the show. There's even a martial artist on Azula's team that's so hardcore with it that she can disable your bending.[br][br]That said, how come there aren't any hardcore martial ar...

Does the limitation of the various peoples of this world's ability to only use bending in accordance with their region a genetic thing or a cultural thing?

Of course, the real question is why you would watch Ben 10 in the first place, let alone introduce elements of that show into your game.

Yeah, as funny as it would be to not be hax, I think someone is actually playing with the website.[br][br]Today's statistics:[br] [br]Main Pageý [1,942,455][br]Homosexualityý [1,650,886][br]Homosexuality and Hepatitisý [518,284][br]Homosexuality and Parasitesý [452,844][br]Homosexuality and Promiscu...

Assuming this wasn't haxxed, anyone care to speculate the reason for these numbers?

I have my own theories but I'm a mean ol' cuss so I'll go last.

Well, if you're a mean old cuss, you could interpret the turn of events like this:

Elan is an author surrogate of Rich. A ninja chick drools on about his hawtness to the point of abandoning the mission for him.

Of course, only a mean ol' cuss would imply that.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Special:St ... ][br]Funny stuff.

Order of the Stick hasn't updated recently.

Maybe GitP suddenly came down with a bad case of narrator integrity and hid in shame when he realized that he was creating a fictional fangirl for his author avatar.


(editted to remove unnecessary snark)