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Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

@Dynamo Frokane There is a class of entrepreneurs, businessmen and other such corporate types who are into Ayn Rand. It does have to do with low taxes of course but it also gives them a heroic identity. I don't know if you have read Atlas Shrugged or any of Ayn Rand's other novels but they offer the idea of the creator as a heroic individualist, stoically bearing the weight of those jealous of their success and others who want to use the power of government (and social ties) to leach off their wealth. While bearing these burdens the heroic creator forges ahead with a vision only they can see until their vision is made real by their long and difficult struggle.

There is a lot more too it but that's the gist of things.

Warhammer 40k: Enemy Without, Enemy Within - an 'Ecclesiarchal' RP [Mature][High Casual/Low Advanced]

@Jbcool I can't speak for everyone of course but I'm not frustrated. Do your thing in your own timetable; I'm in for the long haul :-)

TZDL2017 Rules/Signups/Updates

I like the Lucha team. Pretty cool.

New Challengers... Approach!

I mentioned it before in the other thread but consider me interested as well.

How *I* See Communism: A Discussion of Spamtastic Proportions

More frequently than the proponents of glorious revolution would care to admit, the goons running around cracking skulls are just that -- goons.

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Arena Chat Thread

@ImportantNobody The only thing I can think of right off the top of my head would be making sure the characters are all fairly easy to understand. Trying to read a long character sheet and make sense of 19 different powers and conditions under which those powers trigger and what happens when they reach their next form and get more power/s can be a little much unless you are already invested in the Arena section. For those of us that aren't already into the arena scene I think it would make it much easier if there was a 'keep it simple' approach to powers. Not necessarily weak! But easy to understand.

What Are You Listening To?

Arena Chat Thread

Consider me tentatively interested in the newbie tournament. No promises but it seems interesting.

Oi, politidorks, hit me up with some nuanced articles you've been reading lately.

@Vilageidiotx I agree that the market would eventually correct for malfeasance. That said, that doesn't mean they didn't use bots to drive their clicks up and reduce bounce percentage. The NYTs is in the business of selling ads as well as subscriptions after all. You can get pretty fancy with those bots click path and if nothing else you can make it appear that you have a smaller percentage of singletons than you really do.

I'm not saying they are definitely guilty. The source is too shady for that. But it certainly falls within the realm of possibility and it wouldn't even make the top one hundred shady things a large company has done this month.

What I would like to see confirmed is the NYT is A: banned in china and B: had a huge spike of traffic from china in a short period.

Oi, politidorks, hit me up with some nuanced articles you've been reading lately.

The source seems biased but I thought this article was interesting and they made a fair effort to provide the evidence for their claims. Still, I'd like to see it confirmed by another source.

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