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1197774898[/unixtime]] Our view of history is as equally shaded by their followers as their enemies. [br][br]I noticed lately that John Madison and Thomas Jefferson are being viewed in a much more negative light by contemporaries while Alexander Hamilton's star has been nudged up. [br][br]James Mad...

Lago_AM3P at [unixtime wrote:1197751766[/unixtime]]Well, in your opinion which one of the Founding fathers do you admire/think had good ideas/yadda yadda?

I'm rather fond of George Mason. He refused to sign the Constitution because it didn't ban slavery.

Frank Trollman facts?

Hmm...okay...

Frank and his 5 years junior sister share a birthday.

1197380092[/unixtime]][br]Right now it's the slimmest of majorities and the GOP has to defend 12 seats total. They'd have to win 8-9 of them (depending if anyone flips independent, but I doubt it) to get in that position. [br][br]No, the Dems have to defend 12. The GOP has to defend 21 or 22, 6 or ...

1197303334[/unixtime]][br]the GOP [has] no chance [br][br]It doesn't matter who they nominate. The only real question is whether the party will break up at this convention, or between then and the next Presidential election.[br][br]Guiliani has too many obvious and actually real scandals to survive...

Captain_Bleach at [unixtime wrote:1197256740[/unixtime]]Sure I will, but can I ask why when Frank personally attacks and insults people, he gets a "get-out-of-jail" free card, and when I do the same to him, I get criticized?

Probably because Frank otherwise contributes to the board, and you...don't.

sigma999 at [unixtime wrote:1197239959[/unixtime]]Welcome to the shameful secret world of drunken late night internet posting.

I dunno how shameful and secret it is. Half of my posts in the last year were written while drunk. Somehow, my spelling doesn't get worse.

I think he meant Craft and Profession. There are classes without Listen.

1197154283[/unixtime]] 1197114208[/unixtime]][br]See it all hinges on how smart your players are. If your casters have crap for spell selection, as many casters I've seen do, then your fighters (core fighters I'm talking) will likely outperform them. This is because fighters and barbarians are simp...

1196796189[/unixtime]]Between the Grayby boom, rural farmers struggling for landowning rights, the gender imbalance, India's rising prominence, the low defense in Siberia, energy/oil accumulation, and the ties to the neoliberal economies of the West, what's the likelihood and extent of internal or ...

1196783414[/unixtime]][br]I loved Hillary's remark to Obama when he complained about her vote on the Iran condemnation which boils down to "At least I was there for the vote, you weren't." I've been looking at her record for my fantasy league (yes they have one for congress. It's called, ...

In procrastinating from studying for my finals, I re-read the Pirate Nations book for 7th Sea. Reading through the character descriptions and remembering how the system works, I noticed that the NPC descriptions often produced traits that the actual rules couldn't support. Things like Berek's incred...

sigma999 at [unixtime wrote:1196566888[/unixtime]]
How much time would it take to get this grappler-engine up and runnin', from the surprise round to finish?

No rounds. Trust me. You do it right, you don't run out of grapply-ness

See if you can get some Gloves of Titan's Grip from the XPH.

1196489726[/unixtime]]I'd like to see this wiz-grappler fight an equal level warrior grappler optimized for the task, one on one, with the wiz entering the fight buffless.[br] [br][br]You really, really don't. I once played a weaker variation (I didn't use polymorph) of this concept that had my GM ...

Captain_Bleach at [unixtime wrote:1196301256[/unixtime]]
P.S. I don't care who's right; I just make fun of said person for saying something like that.

I don't care. It's tiresome, and pointless, and make you look like a complete moron. Really. Stop doing it.

1196325899[/unixtime]][br][br]The sun god cleric and bard (both NG) pretty much shrugged and realized they couldn't bring me back and attempts to control the barbarian to be pointless, so they looted my body and buried it and continued on with the adventure. [br][br]How did this not count as an evi...

Captain_Bleach at [unixtime wrote:1196300014[/unixtime]]

Leress at [unixtime wrote:1196298869[/unixtime]]The person in that thread you quoted wasn't a newbie.

Doesn't make Frank any less of a dick.

The fact that Frank isn't a dick is what makes him less of a dick. You being a sanctimonious prick, on the other hand, doesn't make you right.

While I'd agree that, in general, the Republican Party is scum. and arguably a criminal conspiracy, based on some of their actions around recent elections, the real difference between them and the Dems is that the Dems will actually break party lines pretty regularly. The GOP, on the other hand, rou...

1196044636[/unixtime]] 1196012703[/unixtime]][br]Which brings up another point: Swift Actions. I fucking hate them. Keith hates them. We both think they are bad for the game. They are an extra level of complication and delay which slows down the game above and beyond what is strictly required. [br]...

Count_Arioch_the_28th at [unixtime wrote:1195781190[/unixtime]]
Yes, I am going to college and whatnot, but it's for me, not some random trollop.

Why can't it be both?

1195691255[/unixtime]][br]Neeek: If you read this, since you're the lawyer in these parts, would you tell me... If a church used its tithes to pay for political lobbying, wouldn't it lose its non-profit status? [br][br]Answering this question anywhere near correctly and fully would require several ...

You ought to keep in mind that you are literally trying to convince people that they are simply defining words wrong. That isn't anything like slavery and whatnot. All that takes is education. Or using a different word to describe the idea, which is the route I'd go.

1195376819[/unixtime]][br]In L5R you "win" by getting to 40 honor or reducing all opponents to zero provinces. In multiplayer games many factions are completely unplayable (Shadowlands, I'm looking at you).[br] [br][br]That's not actually true. L5R multiplayer games quickly turn into &quo...

1195357326[/unixtime]][br]Still, it's not much of a competitive game unless your actions can interfere with your opponents' attempts to win (rather than just promote your own), and as long as that's the case, everyone in a FFA game will gang up on the person who looks like he's about to win in orde...