The Gaming Den

1) Lailah can't answer questions about Important Stuff because she's sworn that whole oath/vow thing. It's not explained how it works, just that for seraphs (and possibly Shepherds), ritual behaviors or sacrifices makes things happen. Lailah can bestow the power to purify evil, but has to relegate ...

No, 2 is a separate issue that is quite well explained. What I'm talking about is in the bridge scene, where he only raises support columns because of that issue, and then the witnesses who specifically requested that he have Edna use her use his vast magical powers to help them rebuild the bridge b...

Zestria is on my list of games to get back to; I got distracted by Fallout 4 a bit after Rose got the ability to Armatize. Edna is most definitely the best. I kind of like the rest of the main characters, and Rose's ease with armatization is explicitly and openly sinister in origin. Lailah's open re...

Yeah, they discussed but explicitly rejected automatic routing for DoW. The combat penalties are pretty severe and withdrawing your troops is generally advisable but not mandatory. DoW2 has a suppression system where suppressed units slow to a crawl and take heavy offensive penalties but become some...

Lactose tolerance is pretty rare in East Asia but they totally drink milk anyway; the effects can be unpleasant but are in no way dangerous.

The rules for a congressional tiebreaker are a complete clusterfuck and I have no fucking idea if going to a tiebreaker actually means the Republicans get to pick the candidate thanks to controlling both houses of Congress. Each state has one vote, but this is in some way more complicated than havin...

Today, a Federal Judge voided Lula's cabinet post document, saying that it was illegal, for reasons. ... Can they do that? It would seem to completely invalidate the point of having immunity to court prosecutions in the first place if the court gets to decide whether or not you're allowed to have t...

Upside of those immunities is that it makes it difficult to arrest people's political opponents in parliament on false charges. But yes, people have abused the hell out of them for as long as they have existed. I just kinda doubt that the political opposition finds it a problem for any reason other ...

Let me take a wild guess: the opposition had absolutely no problem with high government officials being immune to low-level courts when they were the people who got to appoint high government officials.

As the rules stand the convention is required to reject all votes where someone votes differently from how they're required to by state law and local policy and simply record them as voting how they're required to. However, prior to the actual voting they can rewrite the rules to say whatever the fu...

They can be inconsistent about free will applying to other people. They also do believe in God giving people suggestions of various degrees of directness; if Rubio were a hardline theocrat he'd say something about how not enough people in this country are listening to God.

Oh man, I'd never actually watched the Rubio-bot incident in full and it's even dumber than I had imagined from the edited versions that showed them back-to-back. I kind of assumed that it was actually relevant in context the first time he did it.

The absolute, undisputed demand of literally everyone in OWS was "The gap between rich and poor keeps getting wider and wider. This is bullshit, change it." There was some disagreement on exactly how, but Frank's list had a strong majority of support.

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada has entered open beta.

Let the galaxy burn!

Though I feel like the game speed should be maybe a bit lower because I keep having to shift into slowdown mode to coordinate things in the skirmish mode and you can't do that in multiplayer.

If it comes to a brokered convention the RNC will be in full open masters mode and Trump definitely isn't winning; a candidate can't actually make their pledged delegates vote for a specific other candidate and the pledged delegates will be in with the establishment. Also, apparently the party gets ...

The Bernie or Trump people are basically just of the opinion that the system must be smashed and are receptive to any platform that involves not being the establishment. I think Rubio might hang on by his fingernails unless and until someone breaks 50% of delegates. He realistically might actually b...

The FBI is responsible for investigating security breaches whether or not they are criminal in nature. The SysOp presumably can assist in their investigation, so by granting him immunity they can get his help, and if they have no intention of filing charges it costs them nothing.

Voter ID laws are mostly an issue depending on the form of ID required - with the specific problem being state-issued photo IDs, which are difficult for certain people to get due to the identification demanded by the agency, agency locations, agency hours, and so forth. The stupid part is that, if ...

I'd have to check, but my guess is that you can just tell them no when they ask, and possibly have to basically tell them the contents of your registration form instead.

Warhammer 40K Beast Arises series I Am Slaughter . It is set in M32 and the theme of the series is "Why letting the Orks unify is bad". It starts with most of the Imperial Fists deployed to deal with a non-intelligent insect hive species that has inexplicably managed to extensively coloniz...

It's supposed to be used as an indicator that they're listening but do not have anything to say at the moment. Naturally sometimes people use it in an attempt to give the impression that they're listening when they aren't.

I suppose Golem: The Disguise is insufficiently pretentious.

Because Ted Cruz is a Birther and they are mocking him.

I do remember 2012, but it wasn't until at least September that I actually thought Trump himself would still be relevant come Iowa, I figured he'd have a lot of support for a month or two and then he'd somehow disappoint his supporters and they'd find someone else, like the various people who were n...

In-universe, they tend to be various prayers or oaths; devastators might wear prayers of accuracy, assault marines might wear prayers of strength. They're a combination of battle honor and source of divine aid, and like all things in the Imperium related to divine aid they work to an ambiguous exten...