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I'm don't normally recommend RPGA events/Living Campaign games to anyone as they are usually poorly written, but those posters should really experience a game where the GM wasn't desperately trying to keep the players playing his game by fellating the rules as much as their home GMs do. In fact, hav...

Holy fucking shit! My mind exploded! I'm off the internet for today thanks to you, I'm gonna go eat some bathsalts, then... a puppy. I hope some of those people get punched in the head till they die. I apologize to anyone I've ever implied was a grognard, I ... I seriously had no fucking idea. I do...

I'm considered the bleeding heart liberal among my friends in the rural farm town I live in, and I have to say Obama's line of "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." is pretty fucking stupid. Yes, its somewhat out of context; the whole idea in th...

Shouldn't presidents be elected based on their political policies? Why do you care what they do in their time off? Other then it being illegal by law that is. This may sound naive, but I'm not voting for a political policy. I'm voting for a person who espouses a particular political policy, but if ...

And a) No previous theory contends that he is either a mentor or a loser in a deal with the Face Stealer. It'd be kind of cool if the spiritual mentor turned out to be that Face-stealer guy mentioned in the last episode of the first series. The reveal when Amon showed that he didn't have a face wou...

My theory is different in that I'm positing that he's not a mentor or a loser in a deal with the Face-Stealer but an actual AVATAR of the Face-Stealer. Which as far as I can tell. And no, there's not just one avatar, since the moon and ocean both had avatars, ie, physical embodiments of the spirits.

A crazy theory just struck me. What if Amon is an Avatar of the Faceless One?

Another option is that bending is metaphysical. After all, the Avatar can bend all 4 elements, and is a member of a particular elemental segment and culture. Training for an element may also be important; if you had two siblings, one with the potential to be a water bender and the other to be an air...

(himself, Tenzin, the Avatar, and two teams of tournament benders and Beifong and her police) were in the audience. And he was absolutely in the audience, and prepared to fight the equalists. Say... Where was he during that whole fight with Amon thing? doh, yeah, just re-watched that part. No Tarrl...

Well, Tarrlok knew in advance that the Chi Blockers were going to be able to overwhelm the police at the arena and baited Lin into staking her reputation on holding them out. This strongly indicates that Tarrlok at least knew that Amon had an anti-metalbender weapon and the ability to get them into...

Well, something that had a chart for base population size and then you get modifiers for the wealth of the area, police corruption, their distraction level (such as if they were expecting a raid or if there was a parade going through the city), and then miscellaneous modifiers like 'the Lone Star c...

I don't get the feeling that Tarrlock and Amon are in cahoots. More like Tarrlock is irrational where bender-rights are concerned, to the point where he doesn't even care what non-benders do or don't do so long as benders stay on top. Tarrlock's game seems pretty upfront in that respect. Amon's got ...

This is sort of tangential to the thread's point, but, one thing that would be really fucking helpful would be to know the average police response time for certain areas. A thing where the GM had to secretly roll the dice after someone called the cops or alerted the corp's security team would be am...

Bitcoin and its future hold no real mystery for me. The real mystery is why the hell are drugs being traded for laundry detergent? Is there some cartel that is going to come out with a laundromat service in the near future? Are they really cleaning clothes with it or is there some ingredient that ha...

http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?montejournal I post this mostly for the "Ego Management" posting, scroll down a bit to see it.¸ I really dig Cook's assholish, passive-aggressive approach to explaining why he left the 5e design team. Man - he probably has some sort of termination...

I found this to be a really fun book. I'm reading the sequel, Inventing Iron Man.

While I appreciate the nerding out about having Black Widow and Hawkeye being in the Avengers movie, lets not forget that the movie was about an ensemble of diverse supers getting together to fight a big bad. If you brought in Scarlet Witch or Hank Pym or anyone else with actual powers, you'd have t...

Actual research (vice half-assed recollections) agrees that hemoglobin transports O2. Which is weird, because I could have sworn it worked by oxidizing the iron. My wiki skills shows that its not just O2 being transported but superoxide anion. Which kind of blows my mind cause that's really freakin...

FrankTrollman wrote:
There are three things in a water molecule:

• An Oxygen Atom
• Two Hydrogen Ions or Hydron
• Two Free Electrons

-Username17

Balanced that equation for ya

I'd want two: the first organism that endocytosed the precursor to the mitochondria, and the organism that was the precursor to the mitochondria. Since that was the start of all eukaryotic life on earth, I think it would be wicked fun to play with it.

John Magnum wrote:Sorry. I wanted to quickly point out a really blatant factual inaccuracy, and got carried away. My bad.

I was right there with you and then decided that even participating in rebutting Shadzar runs the risk of getting his stupid all over me. Best to keep eye contact and back away slowly.

Just so I'm clear, there are two Le Pen's in this thread. Marine Le Pen is the one Lago and Sabs is talking about, I believe. Her father is Jean-Marie Le Pen and is Frank's Le Pen, right?

The average Muslim/Christian* is already worshiping someone worse than Cthulhu. I don't mean in a figurative or hyperbolic sense, either. As in, if those two deities turned out to be real and you had the choice of going to a universe where Cthulhu was the supreme being or Yahweh, the rational choic...

If you start looking at Ancient myths around the world, you start to get multiple completely unrelated cultures who talk about a Great Flood that put everything under water. There are several different Pacific Island, Native American myths that deal with a great flood. I admit that my memory is fai...

My argument is, in essence: I disbelieve that somebody, having read Bible, can interpret it as: "Go, kill stuff!" The truth is that it says 'go, kill stuff!' and 'turn the other cheek' and 'don't wear garments made of wool and linen' and 'don't eat cheeseburgers' (though I ask you, how ca...