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Honestly the best execution method would be ODing on anesthetics but I guess that would cost money. 

And anesthetics to buy with it, which has been an increasing problem for lethal injection programs as their stocks of drugs run dry or expire and no one will sell them more.

Space campaign? Isn’t that what Spelljammer is?

Spelljammer is quite literally D&D in (brazenly aphysical) space, though. It does not feel much like a space opera, and is built for 2e, I believe.

I think I see what happened here. The post you're calling harassment happened on r/nosleep, which is a reddit for sharing horror stories and creepypasta and so forth. In context, what you intended to be read seriously could reasonably be interpreted as an attempt to add to the story, and it looks like he responded in that spirit. That sort of exchange seems to be common on that Reddit, and no one intends them to be taken seriously. They're like forum games here.

As for the water foil board, that's an actual thing, although usually known as a hydrofoil board; it's a sort of surfboard with a hydrofoil array on the bottom so the surfer hydroplanes through the water and goes faster than they would on a normal board. Whatever the NSA presence in Hawaii might be, it's hardly surprising to see surfing equipment on an archipelago known for its waves -- but it would be surprising for the NSA to refer to waterboarding by a code that includes the words "water" and "board" rather than something totally unrelated and therefore totally unhelpful to someone listening in. That's been standard practice in the assignation of code words since WW2.

I grant you it's likely he's in the military, but there are some 36,000 military personnel in Hawaii. In the post, he mentions being assigned to a variety of administrative duties in lieu of the physical duties he'd be expected to do without his hip injury, which is exactly what one might expect of someone in the military. He's complaining about how much paperwork he has to do. Who here hasn't had more bookkeeping in our jobs than we might prefer? As for the budget review thing, review is not management. He's presumably expected to tally up the budget and ensure there are no arithmetic errors, not to determine where the money goes. Besides, we don't know how big a unit he's referring to. That budget may make perfect sense.

So, in short, what you regard as a death threat was made in a context where he probably assumed you were joking and was joking likewise, and nothing in his post history suggests he's anything other than he appears to be: a person in the military with unusual duties for his rank in view of his injury.

I don't write games, so my first inclination was to just let the player edit a text document laying out their desired organization and equipment loadouts. One function to print a list of names of units, available ranks, and equipment, and another to read the combined document back in if it's edited by the player.

I can only imagine what a step backwards this would be.

I've never actually played Chapter Master, but honestly the recent nonsense has me irritated enough to be curious about what it would take to supplant the super secret C+P recipe effort.

What would you all say the minimal feature set for a Chapter Master clone would be?

In short, the people making policy decisions are now doing so with reckless abandon, convinced that they are benefiting themselves even while actually shooting themselves in the feet. Even the Trump administration is now acting on presumption that their constituency are caricatures. Given the split polling, it would appear that his constituency does not appreciate this.

Well, 47% of his primary voters strongly approve of family separations and 68% approve overall, so it would appear they do appreciate being treated as caricatures.

After three evenings I can't freaking find their best arguments.  I don't really know what they're saying.  That's a problem.

That is partly because they cannot implement immigration policy intended solely to deter immigrants, and that is exactly what this is. Thus the "it is very Biblical to enforce the law" message.