The Gaming Den

1161527197[/unixtime]]PWW, I really don't see where you draw the parallel of the safety of small aircraft and the safety of flying on an airline. They're pretty remotely connected. [br][br]The common element is that when things go wrong, they can be devastating. As I mentioned before, in both situa...

And in case there is confusion, (Z, she hasn't met us so she might be thinking the we're MuPs of one another), there's enough people (including fbmf) on this board that have met us during GenCon to know that we are different people.[br][br]As for this:[br][br] And hours/miles traveled per person to ...

1161466775[/unixtime]]'All people are created equal.'[br][br]And yet, you're happily going along with laws which treat people differently - IE, without rights - for being born somewhere else or having travelled to another country.[br][br]Those two things seem anti-similar. [br][br]It may seem that ...

1161408096[/unixtime]]Actually, in that airplane, if something goes wrong, you pull the chute and hit the ground and walk to get help. [br][br]Te parachute is not a common feature on aircraft. Yeah, Liddle's plane had it, and in fact that the feature didn't open up prior to crash raises even more q...

1160866054[/unixtime]]What 'nefarious' thing could you do with an object smaller than a Honda Civic? C'mon, there's thousands of fatal vehicle accidents every day. [br][br]It goes to failure mode analysis. If something breaks in your car, you just pull over to the side of the road. It's not the sam...

The thing is that this isn't solely an administration or a U.S. issue.[br][br] BBC Article on Muslim Discrimination at Paris Airport. [br][br]I caught this one on the BBC news show on PBS. France has no love lost for the Bush Administration or the Republican party, yet they're doing the same antics....

The thing that worries me is how they "fell" out of their airspace and whether a party with more nefarious motives can do the same "falling." Apparenlty, I'm not alone since that is what many people there in NYC are thinking as well.[br][br]Being tried in absentia doesn't worry m...

1160790234[/unixtime]]Hey, despite all the inconvieninces and stripping of constitutional freedoms, we still have the freedom to crash planes into New York skyscapers!![br][br]http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/13/national/main2087602.shtml[br][br]Hooray for Freedom! :USA: [br][br]Well, actuall...

I doesn't have to be material aid for it to be considered treason. Basically, it is just "giving Aid or Comfort to the enemy." Wikipedia Definition on Treason. In the end, the guy will probably get what Tokyo Rose got: 6 years in prison.

The thing is that for me it has very little to do with quality of the material or anything like that: really it has to do with interest. Yeah, they may print out another magic reference book, but the thing is that I have very little interest in buying a paladin feat/skill book - heck, I don't even l...

I undrstand what you are saying, but in some sense, it just starts to veer away from D&D and starts to become something like Rolemaster with its combat complexity and charts for various scenarios. Don't get me wrong; I like to game in many systems and wouldn't mind playing Rolemaster every once ...

This is already implied for combat. You aren't assumed to be making the same overhead chop each time you swing an axe, for example. Otherwise, your character would most definitely be telegraphing their punches. [br][br]Edit: And to expand a little bit on that, in some ways it has to be an implied fu...

I think that part of the problem for PCGen is that it is coded by CMP and that it needs a Java package. Four or five years ago, this wasn't a problem since PCGen was the only software that CMP was working on and thus got the focus. Now, they support E-Tools and they're in the process of releasing an...

1159484806[/unixtime]]Where does it show your total skill points? My version is constantly harping at me that I must spend my skill points and it gave me 6+2+2+2 which need to be spent specifically in order - I just want a darn character sheet for my fourth level character. Then again, while it sav...

I'm not sure what is being asked: are you asking whether we allow extra skill points to carry over to the next level? If that is it, then my answer is no: that gaming groups that I've associated with require that all the skill points are expended once you receive then leveling up.[br][br]As for othe...

Meh, I'm ok with Wikipedia on this one. I'm with Frank: Pun-Pun was a waste of computer memory.

Happy birthday indeed!

1156134400[/unixtime]][br]Because we wouldn't want any quotes from actual opposition party leaders - no, you make up ones you want - and then we don't have actual actions from the administration - we have the ones which don't show that the US was the only party standing in the way of a UN resolutio...

Ok (I'll ask it yet again), please provide the links for press releases from Democratic Sentors and Representatives site showing that they condemned the Israeli shelling. Can you show it from the Democratic party website?[br][br]All of the links that I provided showed the Democrats condemning Hezbol...

Welcome indeed, clef.

US Democrats and Republicans[br]Those few republicans who try to cast all Democrats as anti-Semites are absolutely in the wrong. It’s pretty incoherent too. Both sides right now have a number of people who support Israel’s actions. [br][br]Yeah, some Republicans tried to paint the Democrats as anti...

1156117245[/unixtime]][br]Oh, and Feinstein, my Senator. Also not a senior in the Party, and conservative in the party - she neither mentions shelling nor Hizbollah defending itself. Only the raids did she denounce, and then she called for Diplomacy (you know, not fighting?) - which is contrary to ...

Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Dianne Feinstein are spewing political conservate tripe. (Remember, I'm linking their own press release sites ... Oh, by the way, when did being the New Mexico governor hold a high post in the Democratic party ...) Okay ...[br][br]And, just to pull up one of the peop...

1156023867[/unixtime]][br]Hooray! Can we now talk about how badly this situation sucks for all of us? I really don’t like it when something that is controversial in the rest of the world gets only one sided coverage in the US. That’s a very bad thing.[br] [br][br]Well this one is even simpler. It's...

Well, I quoted the two Democrats that hold the most political clout in the party as it stands. Hillary Clinton has the inside track to the Democratic nomination for president and Johy Kerry is the last party nomination for presient. In fact, IIRC, there was the comment:[br][br] They ELECTED the guy....