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Oh, I get it now. It's not about saving or improving human lives in abstract, it's about saving particular kinds of lives. Who cares whether one political philosophy has openly shilled for ending American food stamps (thus damning at least thousands of people to death by starvation) -- both of them...

How is American foreign policy any different under the two parties? I don't see any real difference. Your politicians stance on abortion means fuck all to me, when the majority seem to be unopposed to high collateral drone executions and keeping soldiers in poppy fields, to protect the heroin trade....

A Democrat is a politician who believes in capitalism, military hegemony, and restriction of certain civil liberties. They receive campaign funding from, and owe blowjobs to, various corporate interests. A Republican is a politician who believes in capitalism, military hegemony, and restriction of c...

I don't have a problem with whistleblowers or prophets of doom. People that have their sight set on serious issues that society needs to wake up to. I just get annoyed when people try to make bullshit issues relevant. I feel bad for this Pulling lady and her son. But I can't help but feel that in he...

The bless effects replace the rider on a lot of different weapons. You have to look at some of the data available for modding to make sense of it. Stuff like a poison bite or a frost brand has a secondary effect on the attack, be it poison or AoE frost. The bless effect will replace that rider with...

Yes. You can do something like cast multiple Rain of Toads on a province in order to lock down production.

There may be exceptions, but to my knowledge this is true for all event causing spells.

Lago put some links on page 13 of the more recent "fighters suck" thread. I don't know how to link to a specific post, I'm afraid. Fair warning, some of the troper quotes are nauseating. My only experience with exalted is making a character for a game about 8 years ago. I ended up creating...

LA Atlantis draws on some north American mythology.

LA Man has a summonable, undead Sidhe and the fey dogs.

Some of the Kami are ancestor spirits. Pre-Jomon, some of them would probably be living under Bakkemono or Oni rulership as humans. Then they die and their descendants summon them.

Moral panics are a form of scapegoating social issues, that see a lot of individuals jump on a bandwagon in order to raise their own profiles, for political or economic gain, or for the sake of their own ego. You only need to watch a typical mainstream 'investigative journalism' program in order to ...

Grab and dash. If the theft provokes a combat, run, assuming you keep the shield.

So Totemist is the class for Berserkers, Cuāuhocēlōtl and other animal themed supermen.

Mystic Warrior can cover the 'noble savage', ninjas and fighting monks.

Present in fiction from the Scarlet Pimpernel to Iron Man. I think it is immediately clear by your own examples that cosmopolitan/sophisticate are in fact not the source of those character's powers. No one is suggesting that classes should be made for every possible background a character could hav...

Fuck the barbarian. I want to play a cosmopolitan, or a sophisticate. Do you have any source material that makes being a cosmopolitan or a sophisticate worth noting and people will agree with you that it needs emulating? Do you think cosmopolitan and sophisticate are concepts with themes that have ...

Fuck the barbarian. I want to play a cosmopolitan, or a sophisticate. Class names and comparative cultural definitions should not mix. It leads to unnecessary confusion. If anything, 'barbarian' should be a racial/background archetype, like Wild Elf or Sundered Dwarf, assuming it is required at all....

The Lanning Report, 1989 Written by an actual behavioural analyst in response to the satanic panic. relevant quote: Overzealousness and exaggeration motivated by the religious fervour of those involved in law enforcement training is more acceptable than that motivated by ego or profit. There are th...

Units with swamp survival gain +1attack/defence in swamps.

Everything else has a -1 attack/defence penalty, reduced action points and increased encumbrance (+2).

I hate these filthy Neutrals. With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me.

Draw your sword and prepare to continue the epic struggle between good and neutral.

They have a better poison, poison immunity and require blood 1 to summon. I use the better poison label generally. The weak poison delivered by FoD will build up over time, with every hit they land. They might be of situational use in swamp battles or if you plan of casting spells like quagmire, or ...

Alchemically treated biopolymer banknotes. Made from Kaorti resin. Lightweight, tough and resilient. Use some powdered gemstone in the alchemical process and it should thwart the most basic attempts at replication via polymorph or fabricate. Forgery requires milking a Kaorti for fresh resin, in addi...

I was with you at the start, and then you went off the rails. MA Ulm is anemic at all stages of the game. They have very weak magic, they have a shitty army that is hard to mass and takes a long time to recruit. They aren't even particularly good at forging , because their site searching, research,...

I am not sure CBM is about balance. The mod is popular because it adds content. CBM nuthuggers then use that as an ad populum justification for all of the tweaks that have nothing to do with balance, or new content. I happen to like some of the new content. Some of the tweaks seem to be without rhym...

It''s an adjustable leash. Maybe a reference to people who choke themselves while they masterbate. The red bull to stop you from falling asleep after you rub one out?

Nyan Caxx

Based on a true story.

Culture is an integrated system of learned behavior patterns, which are characteristic of the members of a society and which are not a result of biological inheritance. Language is the primary vehicle for social interaction and social interaction is in turn the primary vehicle in which the major int...

I think it would be more ethical to harvest a genetically modified pig for 'spare parts' to be used in organ transplant, than say, an unwilling or coerced human donor. Just as I think it is more ethical to eat pigs, than it is to eat humans. As a fan of science fiction, I also have issues with label...