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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52192604 So ... how high is the chance of Boris Johnson dying? And if he does, and that is arguably the more important question, what happens then? Both from the legal "who is going to be PM in 6 month"-point and the "how is Trump going to react to his most...

Germany is shutting down as well. Most of the borders have been closed. Most public life has been suspended. Guess who still has to go to work though. First, thank you for your service, Bruder. Second, be thankfull you have a job. I am looking at the financial part of the crisis and slowly waving g...

I think it already helps that I am not imagining this. holy shit. My character will literally die on that quiz. this is worse than I imagined it would be. The best part is when you realise that they want you to pass a DC 25 Knowledge (Religion) roll to remember the defeat of Erum-Hel. Which is know...

D&D 4 is remarkable in the fact it has less than two player per game - which means the average game of D&D 4 features the MC and less than one player. Uh, 7857 players/1294 games = 6.07 players/game. ??? If you look at the numbers, it should be very clear that he means DnD 5. Which has abou...

Given all that saying that there are 'jobs Americans won't do' is bad messaging. It provides the wrong impression and conservatives use it as ammunition for both their 'minorities are lazy' Minorities are lazy because they're willing to do soul-crushing jobs? I know that conservatives thinking is r...

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/n ... h-forward/

So, that happened. The rumors where true.

Thoughts?

Man in Canada facepunches a bear and walks away alive. That's one seriously hardcore 61-year-old. Also wtf. Not denigrating the 61 year old, but the article says it was a black bear. Black bears are the pussies of the bear-world. I thought Vincent D. Baker is the biggest pussy in bear-world. :mrgre...

2) The Treaty of Rome 2.0. Individual member states realize that the current system is broken, and they fucking leave. They renegotiate their treaties individually. It's messy, it's ugly, and some member states will have their treaties written by actual fascists because we dragged our heels and the...

Now having inflicted unimaginable suffering on literally tens of millions of people, your plan is... what ? What exactly is the mechanism for things to stop being shitty? Because as far as I can tell, the "Step Two" here is exactly as unicorn fart powered as the Ordoliberalist delusion th...

are better than alternative where you just assume they are all incompetent idiots. The realistic alternative is that we assume the writers are idiots for not knowing how numbers work, not the characters. Yes, but since assuming the writers are idiots is not actually incompatible with post hoc justi...

It is my contention that the type of 'back-stabbing politics' that you see in Game of Thrones is generally incompatible with a traditional RPG where you take the role of a single character. It's not hard to get a group of people to sit around and play an adversarial game (Ticket to Ride), but when ...

Oh yes indeed, the most important 'fact' here is that the team you oppose is insane, that makes perfect sense and doesn't at all trigger our nonsense detectors. I've got three words for you: Donald. Fucking. Trump. The fact that 50% of the Republican Party is kinda ok with Trump running for office,...

If I understand OS correctly, he is saying Canada lets only highly educated immigrants into the Country and it's unimportant for him how many those are... From the outside, it looks like you two are talking about slighty different things. Ah, an intelligent response. How refreshing, for the Interne...

It seems the biggest problem here is that the character transitions are sorta kinda not really going to happen. Sure, right now we have Lady Thor, Miles Morales, whoever...but these guys aren't gonna stick around. As soon as the next continuity reboot hits I will bet actual money that these people ...

Really? Red a little the last few days on the german Shadowrun forums and did not get this impression. Curriously, there seem to be many 3ed Shadowrun Players who skipped 4th and think 5th is an improvement to earlier versions... (my impression) Well, the history of the german versions of SR4 were....

virgil wrote:

ghost whistler wrote:Deadlands did not and had never asserted the civil war is a lie.

Where does he say it's a lie?

I think he misread "tie"...

shlominus wrote:so this example is not proof enough? may i ask what would constitute proof in your view?

Let me just quote myself:

sandmann wrote:

ghost whistler wrote:That's great; can you now explain what is racist in L5R?

Your answer is literally one post before that post.

EDIT: Ok, he answered in his next post. Fair.

Stahlseele wrote:What does basic income have to do with communism?
Show me one communist state/country that has basic income.

It's communism because People get Things for free, and that's Bad. Because Period.

Can anyone explain why in the fuck FFG uses the system that it does? (...) what's all this nonsense about having Successes, Failures, Trumphs, Despairs, Threats, and Advantages? Goddammit, why is that necessary? I understand wanting to have non-binary results, but sane systems just use a simple thr...

Prak wrote:Because it's a game about being edgy and hipster.

Fixed that for you.

But there's no way whatsoever the world could be improved by magically raping the right people. And because fiction is mostly sensationalist, beneficial murder is way overrepresented in it, so "in this story, Alice murdered Bob" isn't an automatic damnation of Alice's character that "...

@maglag: So, what you are saying is that Germany, unlike most big countrys like USA, GB and France, who project force through the sea, is better at projecting force over land ... aka exactly what I said. There is a difference between "they cannot project force" and "they cannot projec...

Germany spends enough on their army that invading them would be a bitch but when it comes to force projection they're dependent on other countries. That's actually not that easy to say. Germany has traditionally given no fucks about their navy, for ... obvious reasons. If you look at the numbers of...

The rules and corresponding Battlescrolls (unit information cards) are online, and well ... It's the bearworld of tabletops. Half the rules are bizzare and shitty, and the other half doesn't exist. Units gain +1-boni or rerolls for outgame-actions like "look in the mirror" or "say shi...