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Re: Deaf/blind people being sortitioned into power, I expect they wouldn't have hugely more problems than deaf or blind people who have been elected.

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...You Lost Me wrote:

I thought of a Birthday card. I did it completely wrong.

ORLY?

I imagined a vaguely abstract card from a collectible card game, so me too.

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Yeah, "christmas tree"...

My immediate thought wasn't 'Christmas Tree' either.

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Yeah, this is more like what I thought...

I didn't want to clutter up either of the Back to Basics threads, and I don't know where else to put this, so here we are: AH, I think this has to be one of the greatest typos in history. And if it's not a typo, then don't tell me; I want it to be a beautiful mystery, like who really killed Abraham...

How is the Mass Combat system of SIFRP? Just as terrible as (apparently) every other part? I ask because the other members of my group are totally into GoT and are all enthusiastic about playing SIFRP (complete with throwing around house-rules on the spot and stuff) and I don't know a system that ha...

I figure it should be possible to look up the costs for the graphics and sound hardware the C64 had and just add that to the cost of a Spectrum. A Spectrum 48K was £175 at launch and the C64 was $595 later the same year. At 57p/dollar that makes the spectrum about half the price. I guess that the C6...

In reference to the UK government and one good thing they did do: Legalised certain parody stuff.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29408193
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YBumQHPAeU

Ancient History wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fournier_gangrene

Definitely do not image-search for that, unless you are happy to see gruesome pictures of crotch-rot.

As a Queens-English-speaker, I shall weigh in with my two-penn'orth. In general, I'd say it depended on context. I suspect that 'slag' would be considered a worse insult when directed at the female half of the population. I should think calling someone a 'berk' to tend to be milder than a 'fuck(er)'...

My favourite theory (which I think I heard/read somewhere, years ago) is that the Conservatives would immediately start splitting up into separate parties, which would do them no good, electorally.

I don't know how relevant the rise of UKIP is to this theory.

There appears to be a lot of 'right wing'/xenophobic shenanigans going on in European politics lately - I think a lot of it might be to do with the economic problems.

Personally, I am just hoping for the bad things to go away.

Monowhips come from Shigawire in Dune. Shadowrun (and Cyberpunk) have them because there was a character with a monowhip attached to a fake fingertip in Gibson's Burning Chrome. But Frank Herbert did it 17 years earlier than Gibson did. -Username17 Larry Niven had the monowire-encased-in-a-forcefie...

Ancient History wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_waffle

I remember this from my childhood...

Is there some sort of fiendish supermarket-logic for putting most of the things up-side-down?

Well, as computing continues to get cheaper, robots get cheaper and software improves, a lot of those minimum wage people may well be out-competed by automation anyway.

Did CGPGrey's 'Humans Need Not Apply' get linked earlier in the thread? In any case, here it is again.

Better Late than never department: [http://www.advocate.com/world/2014/08/22/queens-decree-alan-turing-now-officially-pardoned]Turing receives pardon[/url] Isn't a pardon for someone who did something wrong? Is there a legal concept where someone is declared innocent of something because it was a b...

Any sort of at-will divination is potentially plot-breaker level powerful.

HP are quantum, both a wave and a particle, both wounds and luck running out, sometimes neither.

I never considered negative xp. Back in the old days, I just added in full cleric casting, and enough other stuff to balance out the negatives to a total of +1/4 for my theoretical before I got bored of it. I figured that way you needed 7kxp to reach level 9 and 7.5k per level thereafter and called ...

Would it be cheese of lightning-bolt attracting level to use the rules at the end of DMG chapter 3 to create a custom character class which cherry-picks the best abilities you want and advances ludicrously rapidly?

So... avoid using political labels, since lots of people will disagree with what they mean. Just say things like "I would like {desired result A} and I think {action Z} would help towards that, so I support {action Z}" ? Then we can (hopefully) argue about whether Z would help A, whether A...

Make sure you're aware of the board culture before you are surprised by some of the language. I have been impressed by the way there can be sensible to-and-fro discussions, possibly with one side even admitting to changing their mind about something, while both sides simultaneously say things about ...

So, I would think that anyone raised christian heard about the armour of god growing up. I don't know if it's a bigger deal in certain varieties than other, but I was familiar with the idea. I don't think it's a Catholic thing. At least I didn't get to hear of it, and I went to Catholic schools. It...

I... I did it. I preordered the 5E D&D PHB through Amazon. It comes by in a week. I didn't mean to! I just saw it available for only 60% of its list price and I couldn't resist. My butthurt levels were running dangerously low, to boot! I'm so ashamed of myself. :gross: :( All three books still ...

Is autosuccess costing you a percentage of your base hp too terrible an idea to contemplate?