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Rupert Murdoch has fallen into the same trap that all powerful people do as they reach the end of their lives; imagining they can pull the strings from the grave.
If Murdoch wanted a legacy he should have built a pyramid.
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Does Trump have anything other than a vague knowledge of Napoleon? The one thing Napoleon was was an absolute legal fetishist.
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I don't see Europe having the reach, and with more resources likely to have been to be dedicated to European defense, I think the only choice for these nations will be to move under the Chinese umbrella.
Welcome to the multipolar world. Welcome back to the 19th century, now with extra tariffs.
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Well that is we become the 51st state
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So you won't mind if we cut off the oil, potash and hydro power.
Anyways, another poster to block. I'm sorry to all my friends in the States, but your country kinda sucks right now.
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Simple taxes are ultimately regressive taxes. Complexity has its problems, but compared to how terrible flatter taxes would be, it is preferable.
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Don't be silly! Neanderthal butter churns show up all over Europe, right next to the foot-powered cars! Why Neanderthals milked aurochs all the time...
(Sarcasm, of course, but it's stunning how little some people know about food production.)
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#justiceforwilbursvictims
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When I got my copy of Star Trek Adventures a few years ago, I was astounded by the beauty of the book, and the absolutely appalling layout, to the point that the official game screen was the only way my group could understand the nuances of the system.
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Eager to see what comes next!
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So are you moving on from Arden Vul after this?
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I have a call in to the humane society about existential abuse of large shell-bearing aquatic reptiles.
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I feel physical agony waiting for episode 97! That has to be one of the greatest cliffhangers in TTRPG history!
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TMNT is the only Palladium game I'll play any more. It's a very gonzo game with probably the most hilarious character creation rules I've ever seen.
It's still a crappy game, and you have to house rule the hell out of it. But it is a blast.
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Not sure how the midwifes at an Australian pregnancy center will pull it off, but when you have an ultrasound machine, the possibilities are endless...
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Ah yes, Anubis communing with an undead stuffy.
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To (heavily) paraphrase Enoch Powell: For a film studio to complain about film critics is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea.
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Well, I prefer Gallo-Roman syncretisms like Incontentia Buttox myself...
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"Where's my god! Johnny's has his god!" - Spinoza to the Amsterdam Rabbis.... probably.
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And Aragorn was initially a Hobbit names Trotter.
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I started listening to the Arden Vul campaign back around the end of January, got caught up a couple of months ago, went back and listened to Dolmenwood, which I just finished up last week. But it was worth it. Jon's a great GM and Ted, Mike, Matt and David are top notch players. Worth the time!
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Morality, like language, clothing, art, gender roles, law, and the myriad other aspects of human behavior and relations, is a construct of the wider culture. Most of what we call morality, has been highly fluid throughout time and space.
Study ethics instead.
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Haven't actually run it yet, except for one test session with my daughter to see how well it ran in Whitebox. Hoping to start it with my group in the next couple of months. Mainly, I'm just too damned cheap to buy OSE. But if it works 2E...
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Kind of wild, because I've adapted it to White Box FMAG, so basically OD&D.
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How are you finding adapting the OSE rules in Arden Vul to 2e?
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For once I was pissed that my commute was over. Half an hour to go and want to find out if the tip of the evil obelisk of doom, and whether they use levers, firepower or Wilfred's cheeks!
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I think it's doing that before our very eyes. It was a short-lived marriage.
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That's why all security-minded experts use VT100, or if they really value security, dust off the ol' teletype! :)
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It was inevitable. The BC Conservative caucus is the ultimate example of "last minute-ism"; a slate of candidates largely cobbled from whomever semi-functional riding associations could find; with an absentee landlord for a leader. Whatever Rustad's other flaws are, he's a poor political manager.
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Re-reading Robert Heinlein and Jerry Pournelle in my 40s was a... er... disturbing experience.
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That is seriously awesome!
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What's even more fun is to re-read a book you liked ten or twenty years ago. I remember picking up a novel I enjoyed when I was about 15 or 16, giving it another try, tossing it down and feeling absolutely flummoxed as to how I could ever enjoyed that book.
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Ah yes, the infamous and rarely seen director's cut of a Charlie Brown Christmas. Sadly there is no footage left of the Bloody Psychiatrist or IUD Football kicking scenes.
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The only sects at the time who were in opposition to Nicaea were the Arians and Semi-Arians, and both were extinct within a century or so. The actual Council that led to a major permanent schism was Chalcedon, where the debate was Miaphysitism versus Monophysitism, not the Trinity.
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Those are modern denominations, none of which existed before the 19th century. Prior to that anything vaguely Unitarian as generally Deistic.
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And which argument was that; the claim that somehow "common" wisdom was wisdom at all?
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Q: "Have you run the story past the editor?"
A: "Will do Bob. What time is it in St. Petersburg right now?"
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Waiting for the new Judy Bloom novel; Are You There Margaret? It's Me, God.
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So much for common wisdom...
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The New Testament is larger than the Gospels. And even the Gospels get muddy, with the Gospel of John, unlike the Synoptic Gospels, make a very clear statement about the nature of the Christian God... See John 1:1
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There are lot of people in the West who want to install autocratic right-wing populists who seem very motivated.
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I don't know... A little thing called the Nicene Creed, which the overwhelming majority (by orders of a magnitude mind you) accept as an accurate description fo the nature of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
You really hope to argue yourself out of the box you put yourself in.