Europe didn't have slaves for the same reason the north didn't, their industries didn't benefit from cheap, unskilled labor you could work to death. Not because they were noble. As for being late to save Europe from Germany... again, maybe it wouldn't have been necessary if Chamberlain hadn't been such a pussy or if the war reparations hadn't destroyed what was left of Germany. As for the US abolishing slavery, it was pretty much an afterthought, not the goal. If the north had a use for it, it would have continued. The north used it as a rallying cry and to make the north feel better about killing fellow citizens.
Funny how when the US learned its lesson about "problems there can become problems here" and "better to kill the cub now, than to have a lion on your throat later", Europe turned their backs on us (to preserve oil concessions signed with Saddam). Leaving the US (and a few token allies) and the Iraqi people swinging.
Europe gets to have awesome social programs because the US *is* their defense budget. We could have free college and health care if we didn't have bases in every time zone.
That leaves out vast dozens of players!
You're the one who exiled yourself to the smugzone. Get a real computer. You've got no one to blame but yourself for paying extra for a machine that does less.
It's about 60$ at Wal-mart or Amazon. Google shopping is your friend.
This is from an email i sent to some gamer friends about at 4e demo:
Speaking of 4.0, i played a demo at the RGP Gala last weekend. The Gala is a MeetUp.com group that gathers 30 or so players on the last Saturday of the month (usually). They had 5 or 6 tables with different games going. i hopped into the 4.0 demo.
Overall, i really liked the changes. It's very easy to pick up, the learning curve is almost flat. You could take a person off the street and have them playing competently in just a few minutes. i was playing Fenslo, a human wizard.
The trend to use the same process for more of the game continues. Saving throws are replaced with an attack roll against a target number, much like an attack. The character making the attack/doing the active part makes the roll. So you aim your Acid Arrow against the target's reflex save. Some spells do something even if you miss, Acid Arrow always does something.
Everyone has powers, all abilities are spell like in how they work. Fighters don't just swing, they use powers. Powers are Daily, Encounter and At Will. Daily powers recharge after a 6 hour rest. Encounter powers recharge after a 5 minute breather. At Will powers are usable every round. Casters never run out of something to do. i figure powers shift in how often you can use them as you go up levels, Daily powers become per Encounter, per Encounter become At Will.
Crits are automatic on a roll of 20, they do max damage. 20 always hits. This simplifies things, but also makes luck a bigger factor.
My human mage had 23 HP, and that increase makes sense because crits are more common and everyone on the field can do *something* in every round. You need the HP. It's only inflation if you are looking at it from 3.5, instead of looking at the whole of 4.0.
Minions are bad guys that are one hit kills. They fill up the field without requiring the DM to track HP. As you gain levels, what was a fully defined enemy will become a minion (to something nastier).
Teamwork has more emphasis as the powers work off each other. The Warlord can allow you to shift (5 foot step) on his turn. There was a great deal of "If you can do this, then I can do that".
Gnomes and halflings rock. They have some very cool special abilities. Kobolds are scary with their pots of flaming glue and frequent shifting.
Characters can heal themselves by forgoing an action and spending a healing surge, you get X surges per day, a surge gives you 7 or so HP.
Despite this, the cleric has plenty of work to do.
Action types are Standard, Move and Minor. You can trade down, for instance you can move, then trade your standard away to move again.
Action points give you an extra standard action. You start the day with 1 and gain and extra if you go for 2 encounters without a 6 hour rest. i didn't like that because you can't carry that point to the next day, so it's only useful in the 3rd fight of the day. Action points do more later in the game.
At half HP, you are "Bloodied". This allows/prevents use of certain abilities. For instance you might have a to hit bonus against bloodied targets, or maybe you can't use ability X when you are down to half.
AoOs are less common. The marking system seems to have replaced many of the old AoO triggers. A fighter type will mark an opponent, which means that if they don't attack you, they take some penalty. Not sure what that was because it never involved me. i guess it represents that the enemy knows you are attacking them and must focus on you or you'll take advantage of the distraction.
The skill list is about half the length of the old.
They broke magic missile. It no longer automatically hits, that is the trade off for it being at will. Methinks someone will write an olde school version of it.
Overall, it was fun and fast. Combat moved smoothly unlike 3.5 which could take an hour or more for one fight.
It's not pedantic. It's true. This machine is making PARTS, not working machines. The headline "copies of itself" is a LIE. It makes copies of its own parts. It's dishonesty used to drum up interest/clicks. This machine makes parts that are similar to it's own, that much is true. Until it can assemble them into another working machine, it is just making parts. It's an extruder. If a woman gave "birth" to a pile of organs that "could" be assembled into a person, she hasn't given birth to a person. Did it make the wires connecting to it? Did it connect the parts? Did it build the software that the child is using? If not, it's not a copy. It's a pile of parts. Your machine is not self replicating. Get over it and get back to work.
Lie lie lie, but truth.
I don't mean any disrespect, but your sister's a whore. I don't mean to be rude, but your breath is terrible. I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I've been cheating on you.
Will it run Half Life 2, Planetside and MS Office?
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Will it run Half Life 2, Planetside and MS Office? Will it use my video card? My sound card? Will it run without me having to learn how to compile? When the answer to all of those questions is yes, i'll make the switch. Until then, linux is a nerd novelty wRt the desktop/laptop market.
"Article II, of course, is what Bush has argued gives the President virtually unlimited power during war"
There is a problem with that thinking. We're not at war and haven't been for decades. It's pathetic that our leaders don't know dick about our Constitution. Congress alone has the authority to declare war. No declaration, no war, no war powers.
Before some tard trots out the oxymoronic term "undeclared war": If a man and woman live together, fuck, share income and responsibilities, are they married? Not unless they are *married*. They are either married, or they are not. They married if and only if they went through the procedure to become married. Calling them married does not make them married. A couple is married if they are married. A couple could be married and live a thousand miles apart, never fuck and never speak to each other. Is a bar fight a war? It has all the symptoms of a war, but it is not a war because it ISN'T. We're not at war because Congress hasn't said we are.
With that fact in mind, we should be able to tell BushCo that unless he gets a declaration of war he doesn't get war powers.
You're mistakenly assuming that is was just about WMDs on hand. It was about WMDs that Saddam would have produced once the sanctions ended and when oil money started flowing in again. It was about ending 30 years of tyranny and mass murder. Ending a threat to our allies/Iraq's neighbors. It was about making sure Saddam's monstrous sons would not keep Iraq on the same track for another 30 years.
If Europe's crystal ball was so effective, why didn't they share that info with us? Oh right, because their crystal ball was the same as ours. It was just that France and Germany had billions in oil concessions waiting for the sanctions to end and that Saddam owed them billions. Same with Russia and China. They had ulterior not-so-nice reasons for keeping Saddam in power as well. Out civil war wasn't about freeing the slaves, but it kept the union together and freed the slaves. We entered WW2 not because of out allies or to save the Jews, but because Japan attacked us. But the end result was Europe and Asia were not under the Axis and genocide ended. Europe happily sold Poland to Germany. Let's not pretend Europeans are inherently more noble. If they were, they would have helped us or at LEAST helped the Iraqi people. But apparently freedom is just for white christians.
Quick, change the subject to innocent Iraqis and George Bush!
PlanetSide/WoW/Assassin's Creed/Age of Conan? Microsoft Office? And do so without loading an emulator or run them through virtualization? Without compiling anything? If so, sign me up. If not... go back to the drawing board.
Off topic and sincere question here: What is the deal with using *s when typing RIAA? Is it because it's a dirty word? Or you're afraid they are googling RIAA? Is it fear that saying the unholy name in vain will bring their wrath upon your file sharing? Or is it fashionable?
AFAIK, these machines are not robots, they're remote controlled. You car isn't a robot. If you install some means to control it from afar, it is still not a robot. Your Roobma is a robot./still waiting for PACRATS
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As we in Farkistan say... "THIS".
They could also say: No declaration of war, no war powers.
Europe didn't have slaves for the same reason the north didn't, their industries didn't benefit from cheap, unskilled labor you could work to death. Not because they were noble. As for being late to save Europe from Germany... again, maybe it wouldn't have been necessary if Chamberlain hadn't been such a pussy or if the war reparations hadn't destroyed what was left of Germany. As for the US abolishing slavery, it was pretty much an afterthought, not the goal. If the north had a use for it, it would have continued. The north used it as a rallying cry and to make the north feel better about killing fellow citizens. Funny how when the US learned its lesson about "problems there can become problems here" and "better to kill the cub now, than to have a lion on your throat later", Europe turned their backs on us (to preserve oil concessions signed with Saddam). Leaving the US (and a few token allies) and the Iraqi people swinging. Europe gets to have awesome social programs because the US *is* their defense budget. We could have free college and health care if we didn't have bases in every time zone.
That leaves out vast dozens of players! You're the one who exiled yourself to the smugzone. Get a real computer. You've got no one to blame but yourself for paying extra for a machine that does less.
It's about 60$ at Wal-mart or Amazon. Google shopping is your friend.
This is from an email i sent to some gamer friends about at 4e demo:
Speaking of 4.0, i played a demo at the RGP Gala last weekend. The Gala is a MeetUp.com group that gathers 30 or so players on the last
Saturday of the month (usually). They had 5 or 6 tables with different games going. i hopped into the 4.0 demo.
Overall, i really liked the changes. It's very easy to pick up, the learning curve is almost flat. You could take a person off the street
and have them playing competently in just a few minutes. i was playing Fenslo, a human wizard.
The trend to use the same process for more of the game continues. Saving throws are replaced with an attack roll against a target
number, much like an attack. The character making the attack/doing the active part makes the roll. So you aim your Acid Arrow against
the target's reflex save. Some spells do something even if you miss, Acid Arrow always does something.
Everyone has powers, all abilities are spell like in how they work. Fighters don't just swing, they use powers. Powers are Daily,
Encounter and At Will. Daily powers recharge after a 6 hour rest. Encounter powers recharge after a 5 minute breather. At Will powers
are usable every round. Casters never run out of something to do. i figure powers shift in how often you can use them as you go up levels,
Daily powers become per Encounter, per Encounter become At Will.
Crits are automatic on a roll of 20, they do max damage. 20 always hits. This simplifies things, but also makes luck a bigger factor.
My human mage had 23 HP, and that increase makes sense because crits are more common and everyone on the field can do *something* in every
round. You need the HP. It's only inflation if you are looking at it from 3.5, instead of looking at the whole of 4.0.
Minions are bad guys that are one hit kills. They fill up the field without requiring the DM to track HP. As you gain levels, what was a
fully defined enemy will become a minion (to something nastier).
Teamwork has more emphasis as the powers work off each other. The Warlord can allow you to shift (5 foot step) on his turn. There was a
great deal of "If you can do this, then I can do that".
Gnomes and halflings rock. They have some very cool special abilities. Kobolds are scary with their pots of flaming glue and
frequent shifting.
Characters can heal themselves by forgoing an action and spending a healing surge, you get X surges per day, a surge gives you 7 or so HP.
Despite this, the cleric has plenty of work to do.
Action types are Standard, Move and Minor. You can trade down, for instance you can move, then trade your standard away to move again.
Action points give you an extra standard action. You start the day with 1 and gain and extra if you go for 2 encounters without a 6 hour
rest. i didn't like that because you can't carry that point to the next day, so it's only useful in the 3rd fight of the day. Action
points do more later in the game.
At half HP, you are "Bloodied". This allows/prevents use of certain abilities. For instance you might have a to hit bonus against
bloodied targets, or maybe you can't use ability X when you are down to half.
AoOs are less common. The marking system seems to have replaced many of the old AoO triggers. A fighter type will mark an opponent, which
means that if they don't attack you, they take some penalty. Not sure what that was because it never involved me. i guess it represents
that the enemy knows you are attacking them and must focus on you or you'll take advantage of the distraction.
The skill list is about half the length of the old.
They broke magic missile. It no longer automatically hits, that is the trade off for it being at will. Methinks someone will write an
olde school version of it.
Overall, it was fun and fast. Combat moved smoothly unlike 3.5 which could take an hour or more for one fight.
Piracy is armed robbery at sea. Copying and distributing w/o permission is nothing like armed robbery, on a boat or otherwise.
Just because they are neutral doesn't mean they don't have threats. It just means they're selfish cowards.
It's not pedantic. It's true. This machine is making PARTS, not working machines. The headline "copies of itself" is a LIE. It makes copies of its own parts. It's dishonesty used to drum up interest/clicks. This machine makes parts that are similar to it's own, that much is true. Until it can assemble them into another working machine, it is just making parts. It's an extruder. If a woman gave "birth" to a pile of organs that "could" be assembled into a person, she hasn't given birth to a person. Did it make the wires connecting to it? Did it connect the parts? Did it build the software that the child is using? If not, it's not a copy. It's a pile of parts. Your machine is not self replicating. Get over it and get back to work.
Lie lie lie, but truth.
I don't mean any disrespect, but your sister's a whore. I don't mean to be rude, but your breath is terrible. I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I've been cheating on you.
"solve any (solvable) Rubik's cube"
Will it run Half Life 2, Planetside and MS Office? Will it use my video card? My sound card? Will it run without me having to learn how to compile? When the answer to all of those questions is yes, i'll make the switch. Until then, linux is a nerd novelty wRt the desktop/laptop market.
"Article II, of course, is what Bush has argued gives the President virtually unlimited power during war" There is a problem with that thinking. We're not at war and haven't been for decades. It's pathetic that our leaders don't know dick about our Constitution. Congress alone has the authority to declare war. No declaration, no war, no war powers. Before some tard trots out the oxymoronic term "undeclared war": If a man and woman live together, fuck, share income and responsibilities, are they married? Not unless they are *married*. They are either married, or they are not. They married if and only if they went through the procedure to become married. Calling them married does not make them married. A couple is married if they are married. A couple could be married and live a thousand miles apart, never fuck and never speak to each other. Is a bar fight a war? It has all the symptoms of a war, but it is not a war because it ISN'T. We're not at war because Congress hasn't said we are. With that fact in mind, we should be able to tell BushCo that unless he gets a declaration of war he doesn't get war powers.
You're mistakenly assuming that is was just about WMDs on hand. It was about WMDs that Saddam would have produced once the sanctions ended and when oil money started flowing in again. It was about ending 30 years of tyranny and mass murder. Ending a threat to our allies/Iraq's neighbors. It was about making sure Saddam's monstrous sons would not keep Iraq on the same track for another 30 years.
If Europe's crystal ball was so effective, why didn't they share that info with us? Oh right, because their crystal ball was the same as ours. It was just that France and Germany had billions in oil concessions waiting for the sanctions to end and that Saddam owed them billions. Same with Russia and China. They had ulterior not-so-nice reasons for keeping Saddam in power as well. Out civil war wasn't about freeing the slaves, but it kept the union together and freed the slaves. We entered WW2 not because of out allies or to save the Jews, but because Japan attacked us. But the end result was Europe and Asia were not under the Axis and genocide ended. Europe happily sold Poland to Germany. Let's not pretend Europeans are inherently more noble. If they were, they would have helped us or at LEAST helped the Iraqi people. But apparently freedom is just for white christians.
Quick, change the subject to innocent Iraqis and George Bush!
[OffTopic]
For sarcasm indication, i invented ^sarcastrophes^.
Should be called Moore's Prognosis.
A novelty like cars or planes... or computers.
"Boo hoo, JK is filthy rich and famous and I'm not! No one wants to make movies of my books, wah waaaah. Liberals humped my hippo!"
PlanetSide/WoW/Assassin's Creed/Age of Conan? Microsoft Office? And do so without loading an emulator or run them through virtualization? Without compiling anything? If so, sign me up. If not... go back to the drawing board.
Ahh. Thanks. :)
Off topic and sincere question here: What is the deal with using *s when typing RIAA? Is it because it's a dirty word? Or you're afraid they are googling RIAA? Is it fear that saying the unholy name in vain will bring their wrath upon your file sharing? Or is it fashionable?
No, you're supposed to call him a puppy kicking orphan killer and a willing pawn in W's evil scheme for world domination.
Or is that Fark?
OffTopic Snobbery:
He dies at 90? Is that because it is going to happen in the future? "The train arrives at noon." Or is it dies habitually? "Tony Hawk skates."
It seems more likely that "Lorenz died at the age of 90". Or "Lorenz is dead at age 90".
Do people go stupid when someone dies and forget verb tense because they are so wracked with grief for a stranger?
Take the character sheet. Grab a pen. Write in whatever skill you want. The spooky wizard doesn't care.
Verbification weirds the language.
AFAIK, these machines are not robots, they're remote controlled. You car isn't a robot. If you install some means to control it from afar, it is still not a robot. Your Roobma is a robot. /still waiting for PACRATS