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OgreBattle wrote:Have any of those armed militia groups taken to brandishing arms around places forced to stay open or are they 100% Republican aligned

They are literally 100% Republican aligned.

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If I recall correctly, NK's elections are not for a Kim. They vote for their legislature and local peeps, but there's not really competition. As far as I can tell, they have an election to justify the "Democratic" in the country's name. The Kim who leads the country at any particular time...

Yeah, the opening of The Enemy Within is with Nurgle cultists, but then it switches to Tzeentch cultists for the followup adventures without any real explanation.

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So were Vrocks based on something existing, Dark Crystal? Vrocks were originally called Type I Demons, and are from the 1970s. As far as I recall, they were introduced in the 1977 AD&D Monster Manual, although it would not surprise me in the slightest if they appeared in some of the white box e...

It's open source baybeeeeee! It absolutely is. If some other group of authors wants to get together and write a revision without me, that's totally fine. There are a number of people who have torched any possibility of having my friendship or cooperation who might still be on speaking terms with ot...

hogarth wrote:I associate the name Ray Winninger with superhero games. Specifically the DC Heroes RPG from the '80s.

Also FASA Doctor WHO in the 80s.

But to the best of my knowledge he hasn't written anything in the industry this century.

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I love how D&D official output has been so slow that they could legit fire the head of the department and have nobody even notice for six months. Winninger is a weird choice. As far as I recall, he's just a replacement level TSR era author. Like, from the nineties . You can read his Dungeon Maga...

Actually finishing that project would require a co-author I think. Under no circumstances would that co-author be Kaelik, because he has too thoroughly burnt his bridges with me. I'm never going to forgive him for his antics, I'm never going to work with him productively on anything. Anyway, there's...

Is there some other usage of the phrase "direct payments" besides item 1 There are other direct payment schemes being proposed, if that's what you mean. Pelosi has implicitly and explicitly put Maxine Waters' UBI scheme on the table for negotiation. But remember that Republicans hold two ...

What's Mona Lisa Overdrive's take on the internet The internet itself doesn't come up that much in Mona Lisa Overdrive. It's been a while since I read it, but the gist is that there are super hard drives called alephs that are so powerful that they can contain whole universes. And then some people ...

There's also the fun fact that to change the style of the host you have to go into the Foundation, which is dangerous as fuck. Better hope you're happy with the current style, chummer That is a straightforward shit fit being thrown about Infinity Mirror. The chucklefucks who made SR5 couldn't figur...

Sounds like someone read Mona Lisa Overdrive like twenty years ago and then smoked a lot of pot.

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Civil wars seem to only happen in countries with low access to pornography Except for the Ukraine civil war in Donetsk. Chamomile's rant is very good. Especially this part: Indeed, a revolutionary movement with the ability to take a city from the paramilitary units enforcing the government now shou...

The plagues in Eclipse Phase weren't super well fleshed out in the original book. I don't actually know if they've been much expanded upon in the last decade or so, because I haven't kept up with line. You can get infected by the TITANs and that's bad and it can overwrite your body or your sense of ...

I've totally forgotten why roll-under makes applying modifiers more difficult... so long as the final target number is known by the player, and all modifiers are applied to the target number rather than to the die(/dice) rolled. If you have to hit a 4 or less to succeed, adding a +2 raises that to ...

I've been saying since the start of this that coronavirus is the revolution we won't throw for ourselves. It remains to be seen if it succeeds because America doesn't seem like it's gonna help much. The situation doesn't seem extremely amenable to a traditional insurgency or uprising. The masses de...

Warhammer 40k got its first edition that was called that in 1993 (Warhammer 40K: 2nd edition). Before that, Warhammer 40K existed as "Rogue Trader" that was a patch on Warhammer Fantasy Battle. Now, you may notice that between 1987 and 1993 there were three different extremely different ed...

You get ~50 pages of WHFB army lists, of the type not used in campaigns. For which version of WHFB? I have no idea! The authors may not know either! This is... basically accurate. Nominally the Realms of Chaos books were made for 3rd edition. But 3rd edition wasn't an edition so much as a state of ...

I've heard she's even worse than he is. Of course, I have no proof of this whatsoever, but that's what they get for living in a secretive dictatorship. She certainly doesn't have any happy pictures like the jolly fat man does. If he did die, I wonder how long it would take for the rest of the world...

The states are financially buckling under the socialism demanded by coronavirus. This is why I said congress and the federal government have to do the socialism; congress has the power of the purse, and states do not. The illusion of democracy is on the final precipice of failing in America. Why Mi...

So . . North Korea . . Kim Jong Un dead? Maybe? The TMZ story doesn't make a lot of sense and that isn't their actual beat. Kim Jong Un hasn't been seen for a couple of weeks and has missed major national holidays (North Korea has a lot of holidays). My assumption is that he has COVID. The "he...

Thaluikhain wrote:Apart from pregnancy (and perhaps rapid weight changes) what can cause a belly button to change size and/or shape?

Umbilical hernias are pretty common. They also get infected and inflamed a lot more than people expect.

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Having discovered that disinfectants are effective at killing the virus, it's not unreasonable to ask why we don't use the disinfectants as medicine to cure people who have contracted the virus. But normal people ask that question when they are in kindergarten. Asking that question in the middle of ...

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:I'm fairly certain EP has a multitude of awful, horrible ways to get sick, all of which make me queasy IRL. I don't have the book and I never liked the game much, so I hope someone else can back me up on this.

This is Correct on all counts.

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yeah, I took someone's word for it, who probably took someone's word for it, and so on. My mistake. It happens. You should probably ask yourself why it keeps happening though. You guys keep getting rolled by pretty clumsy anti-Democrat propaganda. Over and over again. Try to have some skepticism th...