The Gaming Den

Again: Gold is a fucking gamble . This has been demonstrated numerous times in this thread. You get lucky with selling high after buying low. If you weren't lucky, you're almost certainly a fucking criminal who engaged in some sort of securities fraud. Like insider trading. It is not an investment....

The source for that graph, http://www.zerohedge.com/(as far as I can tell, it is hosted there and a google for gold rate for today doesn't pop up a site), is not selling gold. And the reason chances are you are not that guy is because most people listen to the moronic financial advisors who didn't s...

Under that definition investing in ANYTHING is a gamble. You do not get guaranteed returns from anything at all. Property can burn down/get eminent domain'd/not get any tenants, business can fail, etc. You are betting on risks whenever you put money into anything(even a bank account). You can't KNOW...

This is bullshit. In order for a member of society to accept the fruits of others labours they have to be contributing to the society themselves. Society only works if the fisherman, the clothier and the builder all do their thing and then share the results. The only way that someone can decide to ...

The definition I'm using for investment is "Investment is the commitment of money or capital to purchase financial instruments or other assets in order to gain profitable returns in form of interest, income, or appreciation of the value of the instrument.". That appears to be the same defi...

Obviously wanting to live in a society like America or Rome or Greece is idiotic. Really, almost every single society in the entire world used slavery in the past. and it most certainly does not mean that every single nation in history was comprised of objectively evil people. We've still got slaves...

Zinegate, you can fuck right off. I'd happily live in a place with slavery and based on the subjugation of various weaker states. Rome was actually a pretty cool place, especially if you were a patrician. So was Athens, for that matter. And, you know, America.

This may be unfair, but the test I use primarily to test whether someone is worth listening too or is a worthless sack of carp is their stance on the 2003 Iraq war. Friedman didn't pass that test, and has failed many others, it amazes me that that man still has a career. I use a similar sort of tes...

Man, look at what happened to all those idiots who put money into gold! For the past ten years it has gone nothing but down!</facetious>

The question of whether god exists or not is more along the lines of "Can a square be round". You can say that definitively god does not exist because god cannot exist. When you actually say God you are talking about some hideous construct that can only be conceived of due to mistakes in h...

Is zinegata just a machine that goes "FRANK TROLLMAN HAS POSTED - MUST POST REFUTATION" and then proceeds to explain how whatever Frank Trollman just posted about is wrong and dumb no matter what it is that Frank is posting about, just in the hopes that something sticks? That is literally ...

...you still shouldn't invest your money in precious metals. Find some other, more sane thing to piss your cash away on... Are you high? Gold has gone up a fucking ridiculous amount recently. If you invested last year and cashed out now you would have made a ridiculously large profit. While investi...

Monster classes like the True Fiend etc seem like the obvious shortcut. I'd imagine that Giant would be a pretty simple one to write(You get bigger and stronger and throw rocks) but stuff like "Fey" and "Animal" and "Magical Beast" and "Aberration" are going t...

I'd consider it a great service. One of the most annoying things about ugly and stupid people is that they don't realise that they're ugly and stupid half the time. Sure, you'll offend them, but in the process you'll stop them from offending everyone else.

It seems pretty clear what the consensus on this is. Is anyone else interested in rewriting a few of the monsters out of the srd to actually fit this criteria? It seems like it could be another nice tome project. Rewriting Team Monster seems like a bit of work, but not too much work. I'd say the har...

Is there any reason why these should ever diverge? We know that level is meant to equal CR, so why should monster hitdice stop using the same formula? It does weird things when monsters start taking pc classes or become players, and I really can't see any reason why you wouldn't want to make them th...

I don't think anybody was expecting THAT.

I don't see why transsexuals complain so much. After all, gender is just a social construct, so there's no reason they can't just re-educate themselves to be men with a good program. I mean saying that they should actually get surgery and that sort of thing is unconscionable unless you think there a...

I'm going to put an aside in here: I don't know about you americans, but prices you pay at the pump for gasoline were at about 50 cents per liter about 13 years ago or so. They're now hovering around the 1.40/1.50 dollar range.

The big reason people don't synthesize lsd is because it requires some pretty out there ingredients(not many people have ergot fungus just lying around), requires a lot of time and intricate procedures to actually do, a large initial investment, and people with real chemistry training who are willin...

Do you have a bit more information about that, Arioch? From what I can tell here in Australia there's a grand total of one person who makes it in the entire country, who was arrested a little while back(which drove prices up a fair bit).

To go back to the original topic, crime. While dnd style murder hobo antics won't get you very far, there are a huge variety of ways to make money easily(but riskily). Considering that you're probably white and not poor, you'll barely have to worry about the police as well. If you're playing in the ...

Saying that virginity isn't desirable in a wife is fucking insane. There's a gigantic market for hymen restoration surgery for women all over the world, and in every society except modern western society, a preference for virginal brides is expressed. And in western society, we still have denigratio...

If you are a guy, you can actually test this for yourself. Just imagine your partner having hot, messy sex with another man, back when she was a bit younger. If this feels good to you, then congratulations, you are not anywhere near the average man. There's nothing wrong with 3 past partners, but ha...

If you can't see the connection between the general statement that men prefer virgins when marrying and men preferring not to get into relationships with women with high notch counts then I have no fucking idea what your deal is. Society not having an effect on gender roles is an aside that doesn't ...