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This actually happens a lot, apparently.

Anyways, there are disclosure laws and they will tell no one and there is a 99% chance that a lightbulb is not the dumbest thing the people on shift have pulled out of an ass.

Bismarkian systems are not the worst. Not having health insurance for a third of the population is the worst. Any plan where repealing Obamacare precedes installing a better system rather than accompanying or following it is a terrible plan.

It should be something that connotates at least moderately high status; they'll tend to be superior to assorted bribed/mind-controlled humans who a powerful vampire might also have hanging around. There should be a generic term for them that at most swaps gendering like Footman to Footwoman to avoid...

Oh, they became a protectorate. That's because their tech fell behind "enough" whatever that means exactly and they're no longer considered full vassals. They've got a big tech bonus to researching any techs you have and should theoretically catch up enough eventually. Civilization uplifts...

You need to wait ten years after first vassalizing them, then you need to spend a bunch of influence at a rate of 3 per month for however long it takes to reach the total for that particular vassal.

"Stole" is a bit of an overstatement. It's more that caucuses are known to be stupid and bullshit because it's possible to win at the phase with the most voters and lose in later phases and reversing it in stage 3 is no more bullshit. So far as I'm aware the Sanders campaign did not do any...

Would it be problematic if each clan called their Renfields something different? And the generic term could just be really generic, Bloodbound, or something. There is basically no chance that players will actually remember all the special names, so it's only problematic if game text starts using th...

Why would you want to do that? Set slavery and purge policies to allowed for xenos and enslave or genocide uncooperative pops. Or on the milder end of the scale, set resettlement to allowed and disperse them throughout your empire while bringing in replacements. Even if you're playing sissy pacifist...

Thrall doesn't quite fit because that sounds like someone you've just nailed with Dominate. Bloodpet? Sanguinary?

Warscore does not decay over time in vanilla so far as I can tell, so if it does the timer is generous and blocked by controlling one of your wargoal planets. You are losing battles or having planets blockaded. There are mechanics for ticking warscore, but they do not seem to be used and if you're h...

At 100 warscore, the loser is forced to accept the winner's terms.

The US President is Head Of State and Head Of Government. It's sorta like being both Governor-General and Prime Minister.

Yes, but they also have 100% accuracy and thus hit high-evasion targets with decent frequency and make corvettes explode.

Yes, that is the best part.

So I went looking for other articles about Brazil's Congress and realized that it's more insane than nockermensch has told us. He didn't mention the outstanding international murder/kidnapping arrest warrants or the clown.

My experience is that arc emitters fuck up high-evasion corvette swarms just like the description says.

You are missing that Chrome integrates Google Translate and this outputs things in English whether the original is in Cyrillic or Kanji, yes. If you want an auto-romanizer rather than a translator you'll have to go further afield and there will probably be obtuse encoding issues.

I expect that if they don't pay proper postage it just isn't delivered or whatever as opposed to officially invalidating the ballot itself. Anyway, the website says that states are obligated to clearly communicate with citizens to make sure they know stuff like the proper postage and addresses and s...

Checking the post office website, apparently it usually isn't treated specially and will take the standard amount of postage for mail of that size, which will obviously depend on how much stuff is on the ballot. For national elections, overseas absentee ballots do not require any postage.

I notice that vest isn't in the 3.5 SRD, quite possibly for precisely that reason.

It competes with a CHA booster, actually, so it matters to CHA casters and clerics who want bonus turning. The other cloaks are neat but in situational ways vs. boring but generically useful.

Overall I think America might have the better system on this one? It helps make people feel like they have more of a choice in the process (which can help people bother turning up to the actual election), even if their choice doesn't become candidate they might (barring certain Bros or "I only...

Uh, put up some screenshots and I'll take a look. I have only the faintest idea about the combat system myself but piling on as many energy weapons as will physically fit, putting in shields and reactors, and filling out any slots where the power math means I can't add shields with my best armor app...

The entry Psi tech's base weight is like .5 compared to an apparent average of like 20 and is outright blocked by the research-booster ethos unless you get very lucky in your scientist candidates; I played maybe five games pretty far and saw one psi tech once in one of them before I looked around on...

From my games so far, I think it's automatically in your first draw but goes into the general deck if you research something else from your first set. Basically all the techs are in a big-ass table and have weights and the ones with higher weights are more likely to be drawn, and you get 3, plus one...