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D&D Is 30
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I actually really enjoy playing D&D, though persoanlly I perfer GURPS. The problem is that it seems everyone udenr 30 these days wants to play one of the white wolf systems.
I suppose white wolf has created a very detailed back ground but I simply can not stand the system. There is no play balance, everyone playing it would be better off going and reading a book. but the only groups of gamers I have managed to fall in with plays it 90% of the time.
Any ideas how to get them on to a better system (AD&D or GURPS)?
just as an aside, many D&D nerds are still living in thier parents basements but some of us have gotten married and moved out. Seems unreal but it is true.
I admit I am not a physist, my major is history,and I keep up on as much Tech stuff as I can just for fun but I didn't cath anything in the article about those magic magnets of his being non-static.
The problem with that is if you are not somehow alternating those magnets you are not going to get an energy increase. I donot care how much you "slant" them. They will still provide as much drag as then do energy.
That means magnetic lockup. I may be low in physics theory but I have played with magnets before.
Before I actually get on topic I have to wonder aloud, what ever happened to OTEC technology? I thought that it sounded like on of the most potentially viable alternative energy sources. Though you do have to have floating cities to use them:)
I am curious how these regulations work out in reality; there is a growing movement in central Texas to try to push a 10% law through the Texas government.
I am afraid that the economics are against it, right now at current costs for oil, natural gas, and coal in Texas it is going to be more bottom line friendly to use traditional energy production. Any legislation mandated eco-friendly percentages are going to hike not only costs for that renewable energy but also electricity costs across the board.
Part of this is of course green energy is very expensive to develop and implement. But more importantly is because they can. Without competition prices are going to keep inching up at the rate that we are almost, but not quite, mobilized into a rampaging mob each year.
for the lazy who do not want to actually read all that I will conclude, renewable energy is nice but I doubt we will see it in the US at any scale untill non-renewable energy costs rise so the economics get better. If we try it before that happens the cure will be worse then the disease (astronomically rising energy costs)
I think that the same assholes who wont't turn thier ringer off will manage to be just as annoying with out them. Probably running out side 'your' restraunt/movie theater/whatever every five minutes to check thier phones. How is that an improvment?
Second as I understand it the air waves are not "free" but "public domain" hence you are definatly NOT free to do what ever you want over them. HAM operators have to be tested and licenced in levels, each level granting more freedom to broadcast on the air in return for proving you know what you are doing. That is why the 'boob incident' was such a big deal. The FCC regulates the hell out of what can and can not be done over the airwaves.
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I actually really enjoy playing D&D, though persoanlly I perfer GURPS. The problem is that it seems everyone udenr 30 these days wants to play one of the white wolf systems.
I suppose white wolf has created a very detailed back ground but I simply can not stand the system. There is no play balance, everyone playing it would be better off going and reading a book. but the only groups of gamers I have managed to fall in with plays it 90% of the time.
Any ideas how to get them on to a better system (AD&D or GURPS)?
just as an aside, many D&D nerds are still living in thier parents basements but some of us have gotten married and moved out. Seems unreal but it is true.
I admit I am not a physist, my major is history,and I keep up on as much Tech stuff as I can just for fun but I didn't cath anything in the article about those magic magnets of his being non-static.
The problem with that is if you are not somehow alternating those magnets you are not going to get an energy increase. I donot care how much you "slant" them. They will still provide as much drag as then do energy.
That means magnetic lockup. I may be low in physics theory but I have played with magnets before.
Before I actually get on topic I have to wonder aloud, what ever happened to OTEC technology? I thought that it sounded like on of the most potentially viable alternative energy sources. Though you do have to have floating cities to use them :)
:)
I am curious how these regulations work out in reality; there is a growing movement in central Texas to try to push a 10% law through the Texas government.
I am afraid that the economics are against it, right now at current costs for oil, natural gas, and coal in Texas it is going to be more bottom line friendly to use traditional energy production. Any legislation mandated eco-friendly percentages are going to hike not only costs for that renewable energy but also electricity costs across the board.
Part of this is of course green energy is very expensive to develop and implement. But more importantly is because they can. Without competition prices are going to keep inching up at the rate that we are almost, but not quite, mobilized into a rampaging mob each year.
for the lazy who do not want to actually read all that I will conclude, renewable energy is nice but I doubt we will see it in the US at any scale untill non-renewable energy costs rise so the economics get better. If we try it before that happens the cure will be worse then the disease (astronomically rising energy costs)
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Second as I understand it the air waves are not "free" but "public domain" hence you are definatly NOT free to do what ever you want over them. HAM operators have to be tested and licenced in levels, each level granting more freedom to broadcast on the air in return for proving you know what you are doing. That is why the 'boob incident' was such a big deal. The FCC regulates the hell out of what can and can not be done over the airwaves.