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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Gridrim Survival: Now with about 99% more barehanded hunting!
« on: June 07, 2018, 05:19:19 pm »
Quote from: dgr11897 on June 07, 2018, 05:08:49 pm
So should we all brainstorm up a plan of action for this turn?
By that I mean an overarching plan for what everyone should do/focus on.
I think it's hard to have much of a plan of action with as little information as we have. I think that a generic focus on food and scouting is probably good, but it's hard to get into specifics.

Personally, I'm hoping to make this husky slightly useful, get to hunting, and pull together some basic leather items like backpacks and a harness. Try to improve our ability to carry things, and hope that translates into better foraging, which seems to be our only immediate food source. But if we suddenly find an easily cultivated food source, that plan would change.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Gridrim Survival: Now with about 99% more barehanded hunting!
« on: June 07, 2018, 04:39:01 pm »
Wait, do we have as many plasteel knives as we want? I thought we only had one of each item in the stockpile.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol: new thread subtitle pending
« on: June 07, 2018, 04:38:01 pm »
Quote from: sluissa on June 07, 2018, 02:16:57 pm
If you WERE worried about the people committing suicide you'd be asking why they're doing it rather than how.
Part of the why is easy access to the how.

There's a pretty simple fact here: fewer people will commit suicide if fewer people have access to guns. We can argue about other ways to help, but it's disingenuous to pretend that removing access to firearms won't help.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol: new thread subtitle pending
« on: June 07, 2018, 01:13:25 pm »
Quote from: sluissa on June 07, 2018, 12:21:39 pm
Quote from: UristMcChladni on June 07, 2018, 11:14:29 am
Quote from: sluissa on June 07, 2018, 08:39:51 am
As for suicides, I feel like they ARE unrelated and we've had that discussion before.
Give the argument it's due. He presented data that they're related. What's the evidence they're not?

Once again, we've had this discussion before, as I"m sure we've had this discussion on guns before and come to a stalemate so why am I even bothering... but...

A suicide only affects the person who chooses to commit it. I admit there's an argument that people "owe" something to other people to stay alive. But I'd also argue that choosing to die is the last choice left to a lot of people and there shouldn't be a stigma against taking that choice.

As such, there is no "harm" done in suicide as the person taking that option is accepting the consequences, and so it doesn't belong in a discussion about how much harm guns do. Suicides are simply used as a way to inflate death numbers from guns. Not that you really need to do that as death numbers from guns are already high enough to cause people worry, but it's only used as a political tool rather than out of any sort of worry for the people actually committing suicide.
I'm not wholly against suicide, but there should be enough barriers to prevent it from being a snap decision. Not having a gun available to kill themselves with may lead many to consider other options, like seeking help for the underlying issues. That's of substantial benefit to them and to society.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Gridrim Survival: Now with about 99% more barehanded hunting!
« on: June 07, 2018, 01:10:24 pm »
Train Edgar the husky on F6.

I'll make him a harness and sleigh once we have some leather. Hopefully he'll prove useful.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Gridrim Survival: Now with about 99% more barehanded hunting!
« on: June 07, 2018, 11:19:07 am »
Do we get more information about our abilities? I'm particularly curious about exactly how my field researcher works.

Also, does anybody else have designs on that husky, or can I train it?

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol: new thread subtitle pending
« on: June 07, 2018, 11:14:29 am »
Quote from: sluissa on June 07, 2018, 08:39:51 am
As for suicides, I feel like they ARE unrelated and we've had that discussion before.
Give the argument it's due. He presented data that they're related. What's the evidence they're not?

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol: new thread subtitle pending
« on: June 06, 2018, 05:56:52 pm »
Quote from: sluissa on June 06, 2018, 05:39:56 pm
Quote from: Reelya on June 06, 2018, 05:27:25 pm
Maybe I should have clarified that as the theoretical subset of gun owners who plan to rise up shooting in response to tyranny. I can't see many of those people being on board with the gay rights movement or the Dream Act.

Rick Santorum and others for example refer to same sex marriage laws as "tyrannical". So I can only guess that this is the sort of thing that gets their blood boiling and that they plan to rise up against.

How about you just acknowledge that painting 100 million people with a single brush just isn't going to work out well.
So long as gun ownership does in fact coincide with political belief, it will be a poor way to maintain a democracy. There are more republicans with guns than democrats, and that fact alone creates a scenario where the will of the people could be interpreted as tyrannical by an armed minority. That undermines our democracy, it doesn't support it.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol: new thread subtitle pending
« on: June 06, 2018, 03:46:49 pm »
Quote from: Shazbot on June 06, 2018, 03:36:42 pm
The way constitutional republics operate is the protection of individual rights against the tyranny of the majority and the private ownership of firearms protects those minorities.
The only right that gun owners seem to consistently threaten to use guns to defend is that same right to have guns. So yeah, it might make it hard to take them away. But it doesn't seem to support minority rights like gay marriage, promote equal rights for racial minorities, or anything like that.

So give me some concrete actions you believe would be acceptable. Lets say you're concerned with immigrants rights, and you see border control agents as taking children from their families, etc. Can you gun them down? Or if you perceive the police as an antagonistic force in your community that levels particularly brutal punishment against racial minorities? Are they fair game?

You're suggesting a right not only to possess arms, but a right to use them. Who against?

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol: new thread subtitle pending
« on: June 06, 2018, 03:04:21 pm »
Quote from: Shazbot on June 06, 2018, 02:58:16 pm
You're pretty sure people who disagree with you are gullible law abiding citizens.
Fixed that for you.

Really, you think that the solution to a stable democracy is an armed populace that is completely antagonistic towards the government and opposes any law that don't personally benefit them?

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Gridrim Survival: Different theme, same inadequacy.
« on: June 06, 2018, 03:02:21 pm »
Not sure if I'll go on waitlist, or be an original. If not original, the last two abilities can be dropped.

Name: Lilith
Gender: Female
Character Ability 1: Field Researcher
Character Ability 2: Animal Husbandry
Character Ability 3: Tanning
Character Ability 4: Rakish Charm
Character Ability 5: Shamanic Traditions

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol: new thread subtitle pending
« on: June 06, 2018, 12:46:13 pm »
Quote from: Shazbot on June 06, 2018, 12:25:21 pm
France, Germany and Australia.

31 per 100 ownership, 30 per 100 ownership, 13 per 100 ownership.

To break it down simply, for every able-bodied French or German man, there's a firearm. The Australians will have to arm half that number with knives, spiders and drop bears.
You're saying that one of the countries with the strictest gun ownership laws in Europe, France, is adequately armed? Because if that's the case, we can pass a ton more restrictions on guns in the US and get by fine. The strict psych evals, limits on clip capacity, limit on guns and ammo per owner, and the ability to only obtain temporary carry licenses, and only in cases where you demonstrate a need to carry the handgun, would be great to implement here.

Also, you're dodging the point. Democracy doesn't rely on firepower anywhere else, why would it here?

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol: new thread subtitle pending
« on: June 06, 2018, 11:42:12 am »
Quote from: Shazbot on June 06, 2018, 11:25:44 am
The casual dismissal of an armed populace being a credible threat to a foreign invader or a theoretical tyrannical American government is therefore unfounded.
This does explain why places like France, Germany, and Australia are having so much trouble holding their government accountable to it's own laws, and have valid fears of a slow decline into a dictatorship. Unlike the US. /s

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Marga, township
« on: March 09, 2018, 04:14:46 pm »
Honore cares for his wambler, and takes it for a nightly stroll.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: The Great Wave Defence of Bay12ia - Wave 1
« on: March 09, 2018, 04:13:05 pm »
Continue to stab.

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