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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Changing regions?
« on: October 31, 2008, 04:40:41 am »
Better yet, create a copy of the region two save game file, abandon in the copy and you'll be free to explore the world without needing to abandon in the original.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Sand != Sandy?
« on: October 31, 2008, 04:29:12 am »
Quote from: forsaken1111 on October 31, 2008, 01:33:28 am
Quote from: Dorten on October 31, 2008, 12:47:13 am
But not from loamy sand, though  :P

Right, because its loamy. Noone wants loam in their sand, it would just be lame.

Yes, silly me not wanting a bunch of random compounds mixed in with my silicon oxides and carefully chosen impurities.  It's not the chemistry which is keeping me from doing it, it's the name.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Last Dwarves in the world. Ulogeshud[Community Fortress]
« on: October 31, 2008, 01:20:50 am »
Nice to have you back!

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DF General Discussion / Re: I think I've created a monster.
« on: October 31, 2008, 01:02:49 am »
"Crumblewitches lied, hundreds died!"

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General Discussion / Re: Orson Scott Card's take on recent politics
« on: October 30, 2008, 11:49:47 pm »
Quote from: Servant Corps on October 30, 2008, 04:40:18 pm
Well, it appeared that most of the criticism was directed at OSC because of his political views, mostly that he's a "right-wing hack".

OSC's right wing hack status is entirely reasonable to point out because several people, yourself included, appear to be taking his views as reasonable.  The opinions in question reveal nothing except an ignorance about the issues and ideologically guided blindness to any person familiar with the issue, regardless of political leanings.  If you intend to give these views credence then it is the least I can do to tell you that you are listening to a right wing hack out of the hope that you might learn the error of your ways.

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General Discussion / Re: Orson Scott Card's take on recent politics
« on: October 30, 2008, 04:35:44 pm »
Quote from: Servant Corps on October 30, 2008, 04:34:24 pm
So OSC has a big ego. What else is new?

It's not just an ego, the man writes political editorials.  This is a thread about one of those editorials.  How could his political beliefs be anything but relavent?

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General Discussion / Re: Orson Scott Card's take on recent politics
« on: October 30, 2008, 04:33:37 pm »
Toady One does not presume himself a political visionary.  OSC does.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Last Dwarves in the world. Ulogeshud[Community Fortress]
« on: October 30, 2008, 02:47:36 pm »
Quote from: Glacies on October 30, 2008, 05:07:13 am
Have us breed with captured elf stock.  ;D

I'll see the dwarven race reduced to dimwitted, three-eyed, drooling clowns before that happens!

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General Discussion / Re: Orson Scott Card's take on recent politics
« on: October 29, 2008, 06:52:12 pm »
Quote from: korora on October 29, 2008, 06:17:57 pm
I can't do his views on homosexuality justice, but I can tell you he is most definitely a homophobe.

Can I try?

Orson Scott Card argued that Gay Marriage was a serious enough threat to civil liberties that he would consider the US government his "mortal enemy" and would support revolt against said government.  But he's totally not a homophobe, after all, he said so himself.

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General Discussion / Re: Orson Scott Card's take on recent politics
« on: October 29, 2008, 06:24:14 pm »
OSC is a rightwing hack.  Oh wait sorry, I meant to say centrist visionary who can't be defined by our narrow political spectrum.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fell because they made loans to poor people?  Like hell.  Those companies were vastly overleverged.  Complex financial packaging did far more damage then loans to the poor.

And blaming this on the dems is just freaking stupid.  The Federal government did not have the oversight to intervene.  If anyone in government can be blamed it's Regan.

OSC makes typical right wing whining about the media bias.  Way to make be fair and balanced.

The current banking crises is without a doubt the most complex financial problem in the history of the human race.  But Orson Scott Card reduces it to a few simple, ideologically guided accusations.  Here's a hint: Your not helping!

OSC suffers from the arrogant belief that he is the only man in the world with a pair of eyes to read and a brain to think.  Were he in a position of accountability, his radically nationalist, homophobic and racist views would be exposed for what they were.  But because he's an author he's allowed to be crazier then Lyndon LaRouche and get a free pass.

Edit:  When I asked a friend of mine who's familiar with Card's views to predict his opinion on this crises he was able to guess every single one of Card's talking points except for blaming the blacks (sorry, I mean "poor") in the span of 15 seconds.  Predictable much?

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Curses / Re: Some suggestions for LCS.
« on: October 23, 2008, 12:03:57 am »
Quote from: Neonivek on October 22, 2008, 09:08:14 pm
How about if you kill a Priest or Nun you get struck by lightning!

It's incredibly conservative of you to expect a freak accident to happen to someone who attacks these snake oil salesmen.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Last Dwarves in the world. Ulogeshud[Community Fortress]
« on: October 22, 2008, 11:19:06 pm »
Mendel-ed!

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Last Dwarves in the world. Ulogeshud[Community Fortress]
« on: October 22, 2008, 05:32:33 pm »
Quote from: Maggarg - Eater of chicke on October 22, 2008, 02:37:11 pm
You'll get that anyway, the way inbreeding is going.

The population was 10 dwarves 1000 years ago, never rose above a few hundred and has probably been under 100 dwarves for at least the last 3 centuries.  They're already the product of furious inbreeding.  There's not much damage left to do at this point.

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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Last Dwarves in the world. Ulogeshud[Community Fortress]
« on: October 22, 2008, 09:03:15 am »
Mother to over half the population.  Slow down woman!

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Curses / Re: Legal System suggestions
« on: October 22, 2008, 04:02:28 am »
Quote from: Servant Corps on October 20, 2008, 07:54:07 pm
A legal retainer publically declaring itself a member of a terrorist organization doesn't really sound like a smart idea. The government would just arrest and interrogate your legal retainer (or just eavsedrop on the legal retainer to learn that the legal retainer was smuggling messages from your Leader in prison...and then arrest the legal retainer with that charge).

It's not hard to maintain plausible deniability.  The lawyer has no part in the groups crimes.  There's nothing illegal about defending people in a court of law, whether they be guilty or not.  And arbitrarily arresting people without any sort of due process is doubly bad for the governments image when these people can speak at length in public about why their arrest is illegal.

If the IRA can have a political party I fail to see why the LCS can't have a legal consul.

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