Oh, Count. I thought you had died.
Then again, that's my default setting toward anyone who I haven't heard from/seen in awhile.
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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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It's really hard to say what the actual situation was.K wrote:Not to defend Jefferson, but I was pretty much under the impression that you were a free black only if a powerful nearby landowner said you were free and continued to say so. All the writs in the world don't mean shit when a bounty is paid on escaped slaves and your writ of freedom can be torn up on the spot.
I mean, we can all agree that slavery is unpleasant, hereditary slavery is an order of magnitude worse. We can also categorically say that there were places where slavery was more or less bad (e.g. Fredrick Douglas was owned by one guy who basically charged him rent and let him do his own thing, and one guy who sent him to be beaten daily for a few months. It's hard to argue that the latter isn't worse).
So, given that there's some variation in experience, look at what the primary sources of the time are. There's not a lot from the south which is credible (which I assert without evidence; it's entirely possible there's a large body of work that I'm unaware of. Correct me if so). The north was largely apathetic, so most of the writing there came from ardent abolitionists. It takes rather a lot of outrage to e.g. move a legislature to interposition (link), so those abolitionists had a very strong incentive to cherry pick or exaggerate any excesses that did exist. In a modern analogy, if you wanted to see an end to the detention of "enemy combatants", you might keep bringing up Abu Ghraib.
On the specific point of Writs of Freedom: Yes. Putting the burden of proof on the defendant is pretty abhorrent. It's also abhorrent when the IRS, the TSA, or the DEA does it, but banality doesn't make it better.
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http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/de ... review.phpShrapnel wrote:Okay, so...
I get the Connect 3 4 thing, and I think I get the dragon in sheep thing.
But I don't get the sprite thing.
An explanation thing would be lovely.
http://lparchive.org/Deadly-Premonition/
Thanks, Koumei.
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!
--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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Today's XKCD is perhaps the sole piece of responsible post-election journalism out there:
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"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
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Welcome, to IronHell.
Shrapnel wrote: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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Welcome, to IronHell.
Shrapnel wrote: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.
Wut? Like do Squids believe that Obama was born in Kenya birther, or they lay eggs in your throat birther or some terrifying combination of the two? Regardless I may have to sig this.Shrapnel wrote:Especially since everyone knows squids are birthers.
Oh thank God, finally a thread about how Fighters in D&D suck. This was a long time coming. - Schwarzkopf
It's a trick, they want to slide down our gullets to do their diabolical work!Koumei wrote:Oh come on. Humanity long ago developed a way to combat the squids: we eat the fuckers. Calamari rings exist as testament to our victory.
Oh thank God, finally a thread about how Fighters in D&D suck. This was a long time coming. - Schwarzkopf