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Their opinion says they believe McDonald's (probably) sells Big Macs but didn't meet the burden of proof in court . Kind of like how I can believe you're over 18, but can't sell you cigarettes if you don't have your ID. The bullshit part is that they're claiming sales figures aren't sufficient evide...

I seem to remember Trump saying much the same thing, he only sleeps like 4 hours a night or something. Maybe when you're a rich person pretending you're going to fix everything and obviously lying you aren't allowed to sleep. Word from the whitehouse is that Trump doesn't let anyone disturb him bef...

Korwin wrote:So Democracy is not a synonym for rule of the majority.

Simple majority rule is mob rule and doesn't form a functional or lasting government. Democracy requires some level of delineated rights for all citizens and protections for minorities from the tyranny of the majority.

I second what tussock said. It has the added benefit of actually treating the anemia, rather than faking the blood test. Anemia is an extremely common medical condition, especially among women. Failing a blood iron test is a reasonable reason to reject you for donating blood on that day , but super ...

Is any of that surprising? While people tend to obsess over the PHB, there's a strong argument to be made that the MM is the book that defines DND. It's also a shit ton of completely unglamorous work and a massive blind spot for the majority of players. So of course we're going to get blog posts abo...

You skipped over the part where you actually explained why this is the case. Again. No I didn't. As others have said, "Mary Sue" has to mean something more than just "is poorly characterized" this is true because words have meaning . Rey definitely does a lot of stuff in TFA, bu...

It's misogyny, but just the classic unconscious double bind lots of people apply to women where the floor to be taken seriously is higher than the ceiling for being unlikeable. Fuck you and your "just the classic blah blah" bullshit. You're waaayyyyy too quick to play the "misogyny&q...

I don't know why you think you can tell me what my argument is, but, uh, obviously you do not get to do that. I'm not playing this game of "I won't listen to you until you tell me what my argument is, no that's not my argument don't tell me what my argument is". Go fuck yourself in the ea...

Luke is a random farmboy who turns out to be the most important person in the galaxy, saves the rebellion (twice), suddenly turns out to be related to two major characters, saves his father's soul through the power of love (tm), and is named after the author . Annakin has the most specialists tragic...

Are you claiming that people didn't notice midichlorians? See, this is how wrong you are. You don't even understand that you're the one claiming people didn't notice midichlorians. It's your argument that requires people to be familiar enough with the prequels and original trilogy that they know wh...

Chamomile, people have been restating your argument to you ad nausium. The reason you don't see that is because your argument is stupid and bad and wrong and every time it gets restated you self-delusion blinds you to it. Your argument is so bad that you only think it's correct when it's coming out ...

The only thing that would establish that Mind Trick is level gated to Knights is having a Not-A-Knight try to use Mind Trick and fail in circumstances where a Knight would succeed. Even then it doesn't because there's any number of reasons the non-knight may have failed other than the ability being...

They could do some kinda CGI fuckery ala Rogue One. Since Star Wars holotech is forever grainier than a 1970's UHF station they could easily have CGI versions of anyone on screen for as long as they like without tripping over the uncanny valley as long as it's in a holonet call. It would honestly b...

Occluded Sun wrote:How many movies DO hold up after viewing them a few times?

Die Hard, Emperor's New Groove, Clerks, Reservoir Dogs, Super Troopers, 7 Samurai, The Big Lebowski, The Fifth Element, most Ghibli movies, In the Heat of the Night, Terminator, Shawshank Redemption

Your failure to understand storytelling is not an impressive counterargument, because it turns out - and you can double check this - Star Wars is fiction. Talking about sample sizes isn't a gotcha, it's pretending that Star Wars is an actual real thing we can study and not a made up story presented...

This night fury is pretty much completely indistinct from Toothless To be as fair to Prak as possible, that is lightened picture of toothless and nearly a century of color limitations in comic books and animation have trained us to interpret dark blue/purple as black. So absent any context that's r...

Are Karma and nuyen really meta-currencies, though? Buying up a non-magic skill doesn't make all of your current magic worse the way losing a point of essence does when you implant some 'ware, and buying a foci doesn't make any of your current cyberware worse. Of course buying a foci means that's nu...

The meta currency that can be spent on magic or cybernetic enhancements does not particularly support characters whose concept involves leaving any amount of that currency on the table. Seems to me that one of the problems is simply that you pay for cybernetics with cash and not any kind of meta-cu...

Stahlseele wrote:Yeah, 80's were the high time for flashy bitz cyberpunk.
Sad really.

Cyberpunk is basically the 70's/80's NYC subway but the scary guy everyone's pretending not to notice has a metal arm and an Uzi, not a leather jacket and a sneer.

Just watched episode 10 of Westworld season 1. It honestly had one of the best, most well-crafted, most "oh my god wow" plot twists I've seen in any movie or TV show, possibly in my life.

William is the man in black. Fucking hell!

Anyhoo, wasn't a relativistic kill vehicle mentioned in The Force Awakens? In the sense of "It's very dangerous to exit hyperspace this close to the enemy base, you get it wrong and you hit them at light speed"? Expanded universe physics is that realspace entities shed a "mass shadow...

The problem was that PCs made weak challenges, and should probably have been CR = level -1 thanks to the action economy imbalance. In addition to action economy, the quadratic cost of magic items means you quickly lose the ability to challenge the party with PHB race/class combinations without blow...

I summed up the problems with the adventure in this shameless plug . So in that post, you seem to treat "being the goddess of honor" as implying "adhering to the precepts of honor culture". That makes sense to me. But does Paizo indicate that that is what "being the goddess...

Or how about the 7th Sea Kickstarter which raised over a million dollars? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnwickpresents/7th-sea-second-edition Note how the cover image is bigger than the blurb? At this point you have reduced yourself to legit arguing that pictures are bigger than words and ...