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The horror of Innsmouth isn't the fact that some people are really fish people. It isn't even that you might actually be a fish and not really a human. The horror is that the government might send submarines to shoot torpedoes into an undersea housing development because of racially proscriptive id...

File location: "${STEAM_APPS}/common/Pillars of Eternity II/Pen & Paper Starter Guide/" Having just looked at the TTRPG doc... page 2 and page 3, which discuss the basic concepts of a TTRPG, look good, the rest seems very very incomplete. Good points in the early pages: Instead of &quo...

I haven't looked at the TTRPG notes, but in the Deadfire CRPG, AFAIK the only thing weapon proficiencies do are: Offer you a second attack mode with your weapon (e.g.: "half-sword" is the ability for the standard "sword", and it gives you +2 armor penetration in exchange for -20(...

Next random, and likely stupid idea: echo-chamber interaction penalties You have a vaguely shadowrun sort of setup with multiple axes: amount of cyberware, mana pool, degree of kung-fu mastery, etc. Each of these is an independent variable that counts up. There is no absolute limit, but you take pe...

Rules exist to: Resolve conflicts when not all players agree on what should happen. Create a stable reference with which to define a character's (PC or NPC) capabilities. Provide inspiration for characters and scenarios. Resolve scenarios in which the players have no idea what should happen. Keep fa...

1) The headcount at the start showed Team Clinton outnumbering Team Sanders. The headcount at the end showed Team Clinton outnumbering Team Sanders. Team Clinton outnumbered Team Sanders. The cellphone footage you recorded while standing in the middle of a bunch of Sanders supporters does not prove...

The government could just have tossed arbitrary amounts of money to keep Bear Sterns afloat. But they didn't, and a whole bunch of basically unrelated companies lost a ton of money as a result, plus it going under was the official signal that it was time to panic because lots of other major compani...

It's harder to coordinate if you have more entities you have to coordinate with. ... which makes it harder to regulate things. The recession wasn't caused by some grand conspiracy, it was caused by recklessness driven by small-scale greed and permitted by inadequate oversight. How would it be harde...

hyzmarca wrote:So, just nationalize all banks and merge them into the Federal Reserve.

We'll consider putting that on the grand list of 'things to do once we have unlimited political capital and a bunch of time to spare'. For this century, regulation.

MGuy wrote:It's harder to coordinate if you have more entities you have to coordinate with.

... which makes it harder to regulate things.

The recession wasn't caused by some grand conspiracy, it was caused by recklessness driven by small-scale greed and permitted by inadequate oversight.

The Bernie quote you have, in the line before he says that he specifically wants to break up banks. In the line you have I read it as him just not giving specifics about how they should be broken up. Clearly he believes they should be forced to split and him saying that the company can decide what ...

If I were to base my opinion of what you just said off of what you quoted I would not come to the same conclusion. One of them thinks we should just trust the banks to handle breaking themselves up, the other isn't so sure. The latter also wants to assign some personal financial liability to the de...

That seems like a hard sell for people who are anti establishment. Senators have to speak and deal with other senators yes. However getting paid heaps of money at a company's "pretend we care" event is not that and because she's not as anti big business as some would like her to be it see...

Like, really, you quoted a post that explicitly describes why it is likely that stupid crazy democrats who should have been republicans for the last 40 years would vote for sanders, and as some sort of contradiction, you point out that some current republican used to be a crazy democrat? I was resp...

I've heard that the Trump-vs-Sanders numbers come from long-registered conservative Democrats: www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/upshot/where-democrats-like-hillary-clinton-the-least-besides-vermont.html Trump vs Sanders numbers come from a lot of places. In specifically West Virgina, 39% of them come fro...

I've heard that the Trump-vs-Sanders numbers come from long-registered conservative Democrats: www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/upshot/where ... rmont.html

Are there "standard" terms for different kinds of throat pain?

So, uh. Nestle literally uses slave labor. I don't even know what to say. Well, at least they're coming out and saying they don't like it and want it to stop. EDIT: The point of the article is that they discovered and reported it themselves . I consider this a positive action on their part, and wou...

If someone experiences a sudden[1] loss of energy and will to exercise and whatnot, what are some likely causes?

[1]: Identified to a specific month

Chases: how do you resolve chases with multiple fleeing characters?

Example: the PCs (a Vampire, a Werewolf, a Witch, and Steve) are running away from a throng of enraged Akuma.

How do you resolve this?

Doesn't a human body without sex hormones develop into a more-or-less female body, but without breasts? (Frank would probably know more)

[quote="FrankTrollman] This is the fundamental problem with Law and Chaos. Ain't nobody in the history of the universe been able to lay down an explanation where Law and Chaos are even different things . Let alone things that are mutually exclusive or comprehensive in coverage of potential mot...

You are a god damn idiot. Acting on your own set of rules is literally indistinguishable from acting on your own whims. Literally. Those are exactly the same thing. In every respect. You are doing what you want to do regardless of what other people want you to do. Whether you call that "person...

What about vitamins in pill or chewable form?