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It's not just Trump. There are plenty of politicians that have expressed the same sort of sentiment, and have been doing so for quite a while now. It hasn't gotten to the same level as Europe yet, but it's definitely there.

Water shielding?

Water is quite heavy, which is a pretty big issue when you're trying to get something into space.

Today I learned that my great-great-granduncle was the Governor of Alabama.

Quote from: Furtuka on January 06, 2016, 06:58:51 pm

@Flying Dice: I remember that. That really sucked man, I feel for you. I was really excited when I saw that you were trying to bring Quest style gameplay over to Bay12, and it was sad seeing what happened with the playerbase.

It's sad, because Quest-style play is hands-down the most interesting sort of forum game to me, but in retrospect I probably shouldn't be surprised that it thrives best on /tg/ (and via /tg/'s /a/mmigrants) and Spacebattles/Sufficient Velocity, since their respective core interests are more closely aligned with narrative-driven play.

To be honest, I'd love having a proper /tg/ style quest on here. Avoiding Sues/Stus would probably be fairly easy; you could just give a list of pre-determined characters for them to pick from.

Ixlas awakens in the cold, barren Ice Fields; a sphere of churning ice, snow, and wind above the flat and featureless ice plains. It looks about, noting the nothingness that is all around, and begins to create.

Create the Monolith of Storms. This is a large, grey, stone pyramid, situated on the point of the equator opposite to the tower of life. It is surrounded by a massive, enternal blizzard, and occasionally spits out smaller blizzards. Most of these are sent on trajectories close to the equator, but very rarely are sent north or south into the large seas where they quickly dissipate.
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Create the Icenut Bush A small, hardy shrub with short, needle-filled branches. It's needles are a dark green in color, and small bunches of Icenuts grow on the larger branches. It reproduces when blizzards tear the nuts off of the branches and scatter them across the Ice Fields.
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Create the Snowbird. The Snowbird is a small, white-feathered bird that makes its home inside Icenut Bushes. It's nests are oblong  chambers woven into the branches of Icenut Bushes, and are located near the center of the bush, where the most protection is provided against the winds. The Snowbird feeds on Icenuts, cracking them open with its beak.
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I finally got around to watching Evangelion, and have gotten up to episode 22.

Oh wait shit that's in Oregon?

...I'm disappointed at myself for how quickly my desired response to the incident went from disagreeing drastically with RedKing to very nearly agreeing with him (more along the lines of 'firebomb the place' or 'how well do these navy experimental railguns really work - right before I remembered it should be kept intact because federal wildlife building) based entirely upon the location it happened. Still...

I say march up and tell 'em to get the fuck out. If they shoot at the police without provocation? Bring in the fucking military.

You guys do realize that they're trying to force a confrontation, right? Going in with guns blazing, or otherwise using force to end this, would be playing right into their hands. The FBI handles these situations the way it does for a very good reason

Yeah, the fun part of the US system is how powerless parties are. In most Western countries, parties by and large define their candidates platform. It's no wonder the US doesn't have more than two parties: it's easier to run with your agenda on one of the party's tickets rather than to create your own party.

Political parties only became powerless in the early 1900s, during the Reform Era, when parties switched to the primary system. (Before this, the party leaders selected candidates.) The two-party system has been around since a decade or so after the adoption of the Constitution (thus predating the powerlessness of the parties by about 120 years), and is caused by the election system used in the US.