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Post by sabs » Sat Jan 12, 2013 6:40 pm

> Essence wrote:https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/respon ... re-looking
> Official White House Response to the Petition to Secure Funding and Begin Construction of a Death Star by 2016.

Thats actually pretty boss.
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Post by nockermensch » Mon Jan 14, 2013 2:46 pm

> Essence wrote:https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/respon ... re-looking
> Official White House Response to the Petition to Secure Funding and Begin Construction of a Death Star by 2016.

This post has increased my faith on USA.
@ @ Nockermensch

> Koumei wrote:After all, in Firefox you keep tabs in your browser, but in SovietPutin's Russia, browser keeps tabs on you.

> Mord wrote:Chromatic Wolves are massively under-CRed. Its "Dood to stone" spell-like is a TPK waiting to happen if you run into it before anyone in the party has Dance of Sack or Shield of Farts.

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Post by Cynic » Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:10 pm

My name is Inigo Montoya and I'm not allowed on planes.
edit: changed link because my copypasta skills were weak...
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> Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.

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Post by ishy » Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:38 pm

> Cynic wrote:My name is Inigo Montoya and I'm not allowed on planes.

> You've reached a page that requires you to log in.

So, what does it say?

> Gary Gygax wrote:The player’s path to role-playing mastery begins with a thorough understanding of the rules of the game

> Bigode wrote:I wouldn't normally make that blanket of a suggestion, but you seem to deserve it: scroll through the entire forum, read anything that looks interesting in term of design experience, then come back.

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Post by Cynic » Thu Jan 24, 2013 7:34 pm

> ishy wrote:

> > Cynic wrote:My name is Inigo Montoya and I'm not allowed on planes.

> > You've reached a page that requires you to log in.

> So, what does it say?

Check the link again. I pasted the wrong link originally...

> Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.

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Post by RobbyPants » Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:45 pm

While it relates to politics, I think it's a better fit here:
Troll comments make people double down on their existing beliefs
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Post by Chamomile » Thu Jan 31, 2013 5:46 pm

When I see the phrase "climate deniers," I picture people saying there's no such thing as climate and the temperature and weather is actually exactly the same all across the world.
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Post by Stahlseele » Thu Jan 31, 2013 5:54 pm

Welcome, to IronHell.

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> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by tussock » Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:00 am

@Robby-pants: they noted that rational arguments are more likely to change people's opinions than just calling them an idiot. In what way is that surprising?
OK, they probably found that sprinkled insults make it hard for people to accept otherwise rational arguments, but when you're seeing any insults you're necessarily seeing less rational argument in the same time period, so it's got to have some effect.
OK, they could've totally been careful about providing non-insulting distractions in equal quantity, lolcats spam or something. Not that the web article cares.
PC, SJW, anti-fascist, not being a dick, or working on it, he/him.
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Post by Username17 » Wed Feb 06, 2013 7:25 pm

Long Cat no longer Long.
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Post by Koumei » Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:09 am

When I saw the BBC article on that, I was disappointed there was no mention of longcat.
So does this mean the time of judgement is coming, when Longcat rises from the grave and fights tacgnoL in an epic battle for the fate of the world?

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Post by K » Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:43 am

Games Workshop gets author's eBook "Spot the Space Marine" pulled from Amazon because they claim that they own the trademark for the words "space marine" and no one is allowed to use these words in fiction without their permission
Dick move, GW. Dick move.
It's a shame that Heinlein is not alive to kick them in the jimmies.
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Post by Maxus » Thu Feb 07, 2013 8:04 am

Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker saves people from homicidal racist wannabe Jesus.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Post by nockermensch » Fri Feb 08, 2013 2:11 pm

One of those revenge movies where a man is wronged by the system and goes on a rampage just manifested on our reality.
The response to this is likely to provoke widespread butthurt. People love to cheer for this kind of guy when it's a movie, but now shit got sadly real and people are dying because they're relatives to the people who wronged him.
EDIT: The guy's manifesto.
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@ @ Nockermensch

> Koumei wrote:After all, in Firefox you keep tabs in your browser, but in SovietPutin's Russia, browser keeps tabs on you.

> Mord wrote:Chromatic Wolves are massively under-CRed. Its "Dood to stone" spell-like is a TPK waiting to happen if you run into it before anyone in the party has Dance of Sack or Shield of Farts.

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Post by Whatever » Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:31 pm

http://boywithgrenade.org/2013/02/07/ch ... manifesto/ has the manifesto and the court documents from his appeal.
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Post by Ted the Flayer » Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:04 pm

This is not how you solve social issues, but I feel for the guy. I've known several cops that got fired after they snitched out other cops for being dirty. Usually, they have to leave town due to ongoing harassment as well.
I love how the cops opened fire on a truck with two women inside it because they thought they looked like a 250 pound black guy. LAPD, you are not helping your image.

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Post by Pseudo Stupidity » Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:44 pm

Isn't the LAPD essentially the most fucked up force in the US, and even considered one of the worst in the modern world? Killing them and their families isn't the solution, but I could see how a crazy person who's also crazy about honor and truth would be driven to new depths of madness in that environment.
Seriously, killing their families? That's the most horrible thing I can imagine.
The only good news about this is he mentions how he obtained his weapons and draws attention to the severely fucked up LAPD. I mean, the LAPD shoots up a truck with two women in it because it's the same color as his? After that incident he burned his truck (no reason why, but it does protect citizens from the LAPD shooting everyone in blue trucks). Is it weird I'd be way more scared of the LAPD than the crazy guy with dozens of assault weapons if I lived in LA? At least I know if the crazy guy is trying to kill me.
Basically, fuck the LAPD for being so corrupt, and fuck this guy for being so crazy that he would mass murder folks (especially family members who did no wrong) because he was fired and had his reputation ruined.
Anyone else find his manifesto to be a bit normal at times, and then completely crazy? He basically says "the force is corrupt," gives good explanations as to why and how, then says "thus I will fucking kill everyone." He even sounds like a well-informed guy near the end, but puts on his crazy hat one last time before riding off into the sunset in his murder-mobile.
It's a tragedy his life didn't turn out alright (he was a great officer and member of the military for a decent while), even more of a tragedy that he's killing tons of people (many of whom are unrelated to the problem he's attempting to fix in the wrongest way possible), and yet the most tragic thing is that the LAPD shot random fucking civilians because they were driving a car that looked like the psycho's.
Edit: It's really worth mentioning the LAPD has opened fire on TWO different false-positive trucks, it's just that they only hit civilians in one of those instances. So yeah, they'd have caused more casualties than commander crazy-fuck if they were better shots.
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Post by Maxus » Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:18 pm

On a semi-related note: I hear Chicago's police force...well, 90% of the complaints about officer misconduct/etc are against the same 5% of the officers.
Or some proportion along those lines.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Post by Parthenon » Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:23 pm

This is a guy who tells you straight up that because someone said a racial insult he started strangling them ("I placed my hands around Burdios’ neck and squeezed.") and shouting at them not to say that word. His only regret was that he didn't murder them immediately ("What I should have done, was put a Winchester Ranger SXT 9mm 147 grain bullet in his skull and Officer Magana’s skull."). His level of reaction to what he doesn't like is not socially acceptable, and incredibly violent.
I would not want someone like him as a police officer, but then if what he's saying is true then I don't want most of the LAPD as officers.
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Post by Prak » Sun Feb 10, 2013 5:34 am

So, I was searching for stuff on alchemy for a campaign setting.
I found this. It's a piece on Fox News' "Natural Sciences" page. Basically, it seems to be talking about some scientists recognizing that alchemy was a precursor to actual chemistry, but of course, Fox feels the need to, well, report on this at all, and thus belittle science...
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

> Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.

> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by Blasted » Mon Feb 11, 2013 4:30 am

This article on the price of lego was pretty interesting.

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Post by MisterDee » Mon Feb 11, 2013 2:43 pm

Apparently, we're getting a new pope.
Wonder what that will do for the housing market in Rome? After all, Nazi Inquisitor Ben's successor is supposed to destroy Rome.
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Post by Prak » Mon Feb 11, 2013 2:48 pm

Wait, what? Why are we getting a new pope? Will he be better than Pope Palpatine?
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

> Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.

> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by Maxus » Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:14 pm

Benedict says his health is too poor for him to adequately perform the duties of the Pope.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Post by Prak » Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:48 pm

Wow. um, isn't the pope kind of expected to work until he dies? And... what fucking duties?
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

> Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.

> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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