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Do you really think people driving around with American flags and "my country, love it or leave it!" bumper stickers don't have a personal relationship with the United States of America? Of course they fucking don't! Fanatical worship is not a "personal relationship" in fucking ...

You are in fact mistaken on a key point, the Christian line is that god is effectively a person who hears your individual prayers and answers them personally, and is only "not a person" in the same way that Yog-Sothoth is "not a person" in that he's a different order of being to ...

Prior to this thread, the only time in the history of ever that I have heard "personal relationship" mean anything less than a romantic and sexual partner - not even a family member - is Christians claiming to have a personal relationship with their god, framed as "I talk to my god an...

As I understand it the new agreement included no additional aid to Ukraine, but didn't include anything to forbid the US increasing its contributions to NATO which can then pass on the funds / equipment to Ukraine. Of course, based on how well the spring counteroffensive went, I doubt that even the ...

I think a few years ago there was an analysis of how to abuse Glyph of Warding to have more spell slots, on the basis that everyone who was here in 2015 concluded quickly that being a Necromancer and having an army of crit-fishing skeleton archers was the way to win 5e D&D and so the analyst wan...

Pools of 20 dice are kind of a nuisance in Roll20; they're entirely intolerable with actual physical dice.

is this just about the fact MAID exists? 'cause on its own, MAID existing is not the problem. As I understand it from the few times the great and mighty algorithm has shown me Canadian voices, the problem is that it's ridiculously much easier to get on MAID than to get disability payments, IE it's a...

It may be that Ausfailian consumer law is kinder than Steam's refund policy - the two hour limit is for a no-questions-asked refund, a bunch of people got refunds for No Man's Sky after way more than two hours. However it may also be that the difference in effort is not worth the uhhh time even if i...

You might think that's in conflict with the right wing claims that the January 6th prosecutions are political witch hunts, but Republicans aren't obligated to be consistent. "It's a witch hunt when it's our people and justice when it's our enemies" is basically a founding principle of rig...

sometimes I forget I have NPP on ignore over the bad faith spiral he fell into in the RPG discussions bit, because he makes more sense in the politics section. Anyway it isn't clear to me that Ukrainian assets would be turned over to the RF in the event that the latter wins the war decisively, since...

Out of curiosity what is the argument that they've given for why a cap is necessary? Surely sane people would not want a cap on that kind of thing. The original justification by the Tories was a slightly sanitised version of what Koumei said without the explicit "only the upper class should ha...

"Sir Kid Starver" is trending because the leader of the alleged opposition has committed to retaining the two child benefit cap. For those not in the UK, the two child benefit cap is a cruel measure passed by the David Cameron-era Tories, introduced in the 2015 budget by then-chancellor Gi...

Upon further research (read: checking the sources of the subheading "Use by Ukrainian forces" in the Wikipedia article "Use of cluster munitions in the Russian invasion of Ukraine") it is, in fact, true that Ukraine has used cluster munitions - but only in the most pedantic sense...

To be clear I never seriously thought the US had absolutely deplted all its non-war-crime bombs before sending Ukraine its war crime bombs, and I further would put it to you that if "let's clear our stock of war crime bombs because when the fuck else are we going to use them" was reason en...

There is one reason other than "this is the only chance the US will get" to use up the cluster bomb stockpile. Well, two if you mindlessly chant ~sLaVa uKrAiNi~ over and over with your fingers in your ears every time someone says anything to the effect that endless violence is not the quic...

The Hand were the basis for the Foot Clan in TMNT, similar to how the chemical spill that created the TMNT is a visual reference to the chemical spill that created Marvel's Daredevil. Anyway no karma for HP, Wolverine can suck it up and might also actually just get another fast healing chance before...

You are just on a hair trigger about your gun nut love and therefore read any mildly poetic criticism of the US military as actually about trying to take away your 14th rifle. You know what? I'm done. You constantly intentionally mischaracterize anyone who vaguely disagrees with you, and I'm sick o...

So, there's some subtle distinctions, and some excuses, which tbh I haven't looked super deep into either. The subtle distinctions amount to: while the account holders get all their money back, the actual institution of SVB doesn't get to continue existing, whereas the 2008 banks just got to continu...

I hadn't explicitly put NPP onto ignore until I saw the first line of their reply called me out by name. I have now, in fact, put them on ignore without reading either reply. I guess someone might have to paraphrase if there was any legitimate counterargument to "having a player sit out a scene...

not dignifying the NPP screed with a quote. RPS can indeed impact balance when talking about an explicitly competitive game like Warhams 40k. The fact that you can't really discuss balance in a vacuum does not change that. The contents of the environment determine the degree to which RPS has an impa...

I will say that "giving the Fire Mage something else to do besides fire damage" is more interesting design than just letting them shoot special fire that can't be blocked by immunity to fire. And even if you have to give the fire mage special fire that ignores immunity to fire, you can do ...

Could link an article on POCgamer (not PCgamer) which spells out how WotC still dreams of making D&D a monetised hobby, citing the fact that 5e is almost done as an edition that actually releases products. So it may not be that they have simply learned and accepted that the value of OneD&D i...

Notably the CC-BY 4.0 license has the magic word "irrevocable" that the OGL 1.0 was lacking, so they can't even try to back out of it no matter what the next bunch of know-nothing MBAs say. Short of them trying to find CC-BY 4.0 illegal or something, which I suspect would be heading outsid...

See, instead of a new space for a thousand new RPGs to bloom, I'm predicting we just get another half a decade of Pathfinder on the throne, since Paizo have proven before that they can take the top spot and I'm unaware of any changes in management or zeitgeist that would remove their ability to do ...

See, instead of a new space for a thousand new RPGs to bloom, I'm predicting we just get another half a decade of Pathfinder on the throne, since Paizo have proven before that they can take the top spot and I'm unaware of any changes in management or zeitgeist that would remove their ability to do s...