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-What kind of nine-year-old knows what a blowjob is? Was the frankly ridiculous amount of sexual content (given that this book is about a nine-year-old kid) some kind of avant-garde, or an attempt to shock the reader?

Millions upon millions of them? I had ran into necrophilia by the time I was eight, so far as knowledge goes (fuck you, anthony!). Even more would know about 'em nowadays, probably. Not all of my peers would have known what a blowjob was, but if you had asked a class of my fellow nine-year-olds, the number would not have been zero (well, assuming you could get an honest answer out of all of them). And that was before the advent of much internet saturation.

My guess would be the Asian currency exchanges opened for Monday business.

That'd could do it. Cheers.

... kinda' disappointed it wasn't an actual catapult.

Also wondering if there's bigger planks and larger rocks in the game >_>

Can now see someone's beginning goal to be to hit the top of the skybox :V

Ayup. And I'd definitely say those two have the best UI of any spiderweb game currently made, including the Avadon ones, which for whatever reason are a bit clunkier on that front. Geneforge 5 is probably just a step behind, about on par with the Avadon games, iirc.

The amusing thing from the american perspective is that the results of the UK vote would have... pretty much never happened in the US. Which kinda' makes it weird when US folks crow over the "victory of democracy", when they're living in a country that it would be viewed as a significant failure of democracy. Our system is pretty much explicitly set up to stop anything but a supermajority from having any significant influence over major issues :V

Basically this is one of the better examples of the democracy the US was in part built to avoid, ehehe. Not that the referendum is binding or anything, technically, but still.

By the way, MSH, I'm interested in hearing your views on Wales. There hasn't really been much said any where, but it shocked me that it voted leave. I assume you voted in, however? If you've gone over this already, sorry - just link me to it.

... do you mean some other MSH? Metal's in north carolina. Not wales. And ninja'd, but eh.

And yeah. Go figure, people in a more stable household are less likely to be concerned by economic issues. Or at least existentially/primarily so. They know they've got a backup, and they've been away from the ratrace for long enough the situation on the ground isn't as immediate. Is, again, the point.

Also no, it's almost always a lot easier to make more money when you've already got a base. When you're not paying rent, don't have to travel, and all those sorts of things that being well and long established brings, suddenly a small paycheck becomes a lot larger. I've been living watching it for the last few years. I've got family that's making probably around 40-50k USD annually between the pair of them. I've got other family that's making more than that. Guess which of the two is having an easier time accumulating savings and dealing with day to day issues? Hint: The old couple is the one that's been buying houses, plural, over the last five or six years. The young ones are the ones living in some of those houses :V

can we just stop blaming people for voting for what they want to happen.

thank you.

Chances of that happening is inversely proportional to the extent people are getting screwed over by that, methinks. Folks've got a right to vote as they please. They ain't got a right to avoid criticism for it, yeah? It goes both ways, of course. Folks would've been free to kvetch if remain had got the small majority instead, too. There'd just be a lot less panic involved :V

The real problem's democracy. Giving every individual the power to voice their own self-interest? Who thought that was a good idea?

Nah, problem's not democracy. Problem's the ones that don't realize how sexy that 2/3rds or better majority for major issues is. Well, that and whatever the hell's going on with the UK's political parties right now, save maybe the SNP.

We also have a thread for it. Might consider checking out Roguebasin, too. Newgrounds/armor games/kongregate are probably the primary flash game sites out there, if that's of interest. Lotta' junk on those. Probably a bunch of other stuff out there as well, but that'd give a nice start to things.

What ZebioLizard2 said.

I'm just thinking over weird/intresting variations for hosting, like "Normal game, but we just fast forward past the first 3 turns, so we got a bunch of "rich/old/kingdoms" at the start of the first playable turn.

If you're going to do that, you might as well go big. Fastforward to like turn 50 or somethin'.