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- Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:07 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 6614
- Views: 709423
Robinhood is basically a stock trading app which lends people money to trade stocks with and then sells user's stock trading data to recoup the costs of lending out that money. In theory, they're not under any obligation to facilitate trades for any particular stock, in the same way that in theory, ...
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:37 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: This will surely work out fine
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4660
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 3:05 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: This will surely work out fine
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4660
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 1:46 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: This will surely work out fine
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4660
My understanding is that you resolve things in Before -> When -> After order, and that a 'When' rule can prevent an 'After' rule from triggering if the 'When' rule prevents the trigger conditions for the 'After' rule from happening, but cannot similarly prevent a 'Before' rule from triggering. Obvio...
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 5:39 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
- Replies: 905
- Views: 880676
Honestly, McConnell threatening to filibuster if unless they pinky promise to let him filibuster is pretty emblematic of the reasons why we should no longer have a filibuster. And yet, here we are, almost certainly about to see him continue to get away with being an obstreperous blight, both politic...
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 5:04 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
- Replies: 905
- Views: 880676
Other notable executive orders include: -Rejoins Paris Climate Accords and World Health Organization. -Assigning Fauci as the head of our WHO delegation. -Eviction/foreclosure/student loan moratoriums extended. -Keystone XL, Muslim Ban and Border Wall all cancelled. -Workplace protections for LBGT+ ...
- Wed Jan 20, 2021 3:26 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
- Replies: 905
- Views: 880676
- Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:08 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
- Replies: 905
- Views: 880676
It is as much a law of the universe as Gravity or Evolution that no Senate majority leader is ever going to do what you're suggesting they do simply because it would be the right thing to do. Water does not go uphill unless someone expends energy to pump it there. Genes which do not contribute more ...
- Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:49 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
- Replies: 905
- Views: 880676
Yes. In fact, the organizing resolution that decides committee spots is decided by just voting it up or down. So they could in fact do the normal thing of granting the majority party more seats on each committee than the minority party. Historically, the VP tiebreaker hasn't counted toward this pur...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:19 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
- Replies: 905
- Views: 880676
The actual rules say that the first thing the Senate has to do after swearing in its new members is to pass an 'organizing resolution' which decides (among other things) who gets to be on what committee. There's no strict requirements for this except that the resolution get passed by the Senate as a...
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:57 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 56723
The point behind impeaching Trump isn't to keep him from trying to regain power. Whatever else he plans to do in terms of insurrections and calling for terrorist acts, he's still going to do even if he's impeached and removed. The point is to very loudly punish Trump in order to signal that sending ...
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 8:40 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 953922
It probably would, but that sort of thing was removed from the game along with all other examples of 'real line of sight' precisely because it would lead to all sorts of intensely stupid arguments about whether someone can be seen through a particular piece of cover. People would sculpt their minis ...
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:07 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Pathfinder Kingmaker
- Replies: 79
- Views: 16721
King Bard also has not one, but two artifacts. Both of which are technological, not magical. This seems really out of place. Like… why? It's a Golarion setting thing. The part of the map in which Kingmaker is set is right next to Numeria, which is in turn where the Iron Gods Adventure Path (AKA: Co...
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 1:50 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
- Replies: 905
- Views: 880676
To clarify, I actually AM blaming Biden for not making noises about Medicare For All. He's been handed a popular mandate to give all of the stuff Obama wanted to do with the Affordable Care Act a second go around, but appears to be doing absolutely nothing with said mandate. I'm not even expecting h...
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:46 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
- Replies: 905
- Views: 880676
Is that not more or less what was expected, though? Personally, I'd say that would be the best case scenario, Trump has gotten people more accustomed to shenanigans and he's likely to make use to that. At least, that how it seems to me, someone living half the world away. I'll be honest, I was kind...
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 7:35 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
- Replies: 905
- Views: 880676
So let's be clear - bitching that the last election didn't deliver what you, personally, hoped for is exactly like going to a steak house, finding out that there are no vegan options on the menu, ordering the porterhouse rare, and then complaining that what you wanted all along was a vegan option. ...
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:38 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "The win condition of the Fighter is to reach b2b contact"
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5749
I feel like this general sort of system would also have value if you were designing something like Black Forest, where the protagonists are assumed to be much smaller and weaker than their opponents, such that getting grabbed and stuffed into a sack to be later eaten by ogres is supposed to be a muc...
- Thu Dec 17, 2020 3:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "The win condition of the Fighter is to reach b2b contact"
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5749
My understanding of the idea is that Ogre is interested in a combat model where melee combatants automatically defeat non-melee combatant that they successfully close with and where such combats are resolved by having Ranged Guy declare ranged attacks on an advancing Melee Guy, who in turn announces...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 6:36 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Pathfinder Kingmaker
- Replies: 79
- Views: 16721
Brevoy (the guys who sent you here) wants a buffer state against the River Kingdoms (a collection of feuding bandit warlords whose fights keep spilling over into southern Brevoy) where the bandits will raid your unfortunate asses instead of them. There's also some decent mineral wealth and valuable ...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Pathfinder Kingmaker
- Replies: 79
- Views: 16721
Hilariously enough, while hitting 20 Unrest is game over for your kingdom , it is not game over for the campaign - you can totally just run your kingdom into the ground here, take over Varnhold in the next segment, run it into the ground, invade the guys on the other side of the smouldering ruins of...
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 3:26 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Pathfinder Kingmaker
- Replies: 79
- Views: 16721
Pathfinder crafting doesn't cost XP. And the tabletop version gave you XP per hex explored (enough to care about for the first handful of levels) and lump sum XP for certain kingdom milestones which, by the time you're actually reaching those milestones in the module, you don't especially give a shi...
- Fri Nov 27, 2020 12:32 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Pathfinder Kingmaker
- Replies: 79
- Views: 16721
Perhaps the most noteworthy of these little random encounters is a dead unicorn. The evil Fey queen killed them for the lulz and left the body. Of course, the party can’t find out this is the case, Speak to Dead explicitly only yields vague bullshit. Because fuck you. Fun fact for aspiring necroman...
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 1:28 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Doing some Mutants and Masterminds
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3084
The Mutants and Masterminds game balance philosophy is for the GM to carefully examine whatever the players come to the table with and then veto anything that they think will make life difficult for the GM. Keep that in mind when looking at Teleport, Sense, Create, Transform, Mind-Reading and other ...
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 3:56 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 56723
Is Biden a dumpster fire? Of course, he's already planning on putting Republicans in his Cabinet. It's awful. But even on the specific question of mongering wars (which is one of Biden's absolute worst points), he's better for the world than a second Trump term. Putting Republicans in his Cabinet i...
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 6:33 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 56723
The sooner the USA's ongoing collapse can render it a non-entity internationally the better for us. The less competent the criminal in charge of your endless coups against democracy and illegal invasions the better. This makes all of your prior political posting suddenly make sense to me. I still d...