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OgreBattle wrote:muslim burgers and fries lately.

made from?

Real Muslims of course. What else would you make them from?

Also acceptable is forcing him to kneel and kiss your d20.

If you are considering extreme methods to lose weight, surgery is an actual treatment that doctors do. This means that it is likely to be safer than random self-medication. It still has risks of course, but if your health problems are as extreme as they sound, it might be worth looking into.

@Leress: Oh, I missed that. My point was more that reducing black people to simply a skin color is, well, very reductionist, and pretty ignorant, and the idea that black are "just dark skinned" would probably be offensive to a lot of black people. Because there's a lot more than that, and...

Even at the Charlie Hebdo level of detail, you can differentiate a black person through non-exaggerated features. I'm not talk giant lips and ears, I'm talking about paying attention to the differences in facial features and giving them a hairstyle that would be reasonable for whoever you're portra...

It's fine that you can draw black people by just giving them darker skin. um... That idea, that black people just have darker skin, is itself kind of racist. And super ignorant. For... a number of reasons. In that if you are making a drawing that's half-a-dozen lines, the only visible difference be...

Fuck you, it's really clear that you aren't interested in anything except making up strawmen that are unconnected to anything I'm saying. Dude, you specifically just said that all visual depictions of minorities which are recognizably minorities are racist. I don't know how I could even begin to st...

I was talking about visual representation in general. So yeah, if you think a visual representation of a human being is inherently racist, then the problem is with you. Fuck you, it's really clear that you aren't interested in anything except making up strawmen that are unconnected to anything I'm ...

If you can think of any possible way for a comic to depict "a generic muslim" that is even less offensive than a stereotypical arab headdress, I'd love to know what it is. Because I sure can't. (There is some contention that they draw muslims which racial stereotypes, but honestly, most a...

(Also, there are definitely some groups that can be easily depicted without relying on offensive symbols and some that can't. This is also an issue, but it's not really in the scope of this conversation.) If you can think of any possible way for a comic to depict "a generic muslim" that i...

and they still should maybe find a better way to say "hey guys, we're talking about Muslims!" than drawing an Arab guy. And all those american political cartoons should find a better way of portraying soliders than people in military uniforms, and better way of showing native americans th...

Interestingly, that memorial I mentioned going to earlier today was for a man who had decided not to have a career and lived on disability and social security. He did things that should have disqualified him from disability for all the time I knew him and decades before then. However, those disquali...

I just got back from the memorial, it was really nice. His family took his closet full of Hawaiian shirts and brought them for us all to wear at the memorial.

If we lived in an ideal world, how would we handle drug development and production?

Same question, but for democracy (general structure, campaigning, districts...).

So I'm about to head out to a friend's memorial, a good friend and neighbor is in the hospital with pancreatitis and I just found out that my aunt is expected to die today. Fuck everything.

Also, I've never been selected for jury duty ever. This completely fails to surprise me. I'm around Prak's age, so I've only received a few letters. One was summoning me to a court a hundred miles away from where I was living as I had just moved. Most other times they turned out not to need me. How...

I've been playing a bit of Ascension lately, which is interesting in that it's competitive, but you're not actively fighting the other players, just trying to acquire honor by defeating monsters. It reminds me slightly of Ninja Burger, which I quite enjoy. The art and lore, such that is there, are ...

I think at it's core it comes down to the leading quote: A game is a series of interesting decisions. Now, this isn't everyone's definition. It couldn't be. And there's also definitely room for games to be about largely fictional decisions, and I'm not ragging on that playstyle. But, for all games ...

We knew that already, Count.

This example does not actually refute his point. His point is that actual markets are balanced by thousands of actors acting until equilibrium is reached. However, if want to include prices for both crafting and finished items in your book, you will need an unfeasible amount of playtesting to balan...

And there will tautologically be some place you can set the slider where both systems would be used "enough" to fit whatever design goals you have. Sure Frank, let me file this next to diplomacy in my drawer, after all, it's so easy to create a system that simulates the the entire complex...

I would say Tempest block. Consistent art, reasonably solid mechanics, pretty well balanced for its time, if still weaker than some of the things of the past.

I would be interested in the sort of decks that came out of Ice Age once they tried to restrict the crazy of the basic set.

This is why, in my experience, for all that the moderately-optimized cleric is far more effective than the ubercharger, the ubercharger is more unbalancing. Many would go "blah blah tiers blah", but I can make encounters for a a party that plays like clerics more easily than I can make the...

Re: Illusions of Grandeur. There was some sort of combo deck for a while based on the (post-Ice Age) spell Donate, where you cast Illusions of Grandeur then gave it to your opponent to let them deal with it. I don't recall all the details, but I think it saw some tournament success? Used as 'intend...