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New Beginnings Tournament.

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New Beginnings Tournament.

Honestly I'd rather create my own character. Nothing against the premades! But I think creating a character for T1 Eden will help me get a deeper understanding than trying to use something someone else made.

But I don't see anything wrong with someone else using a premade. It wouldn't hurt me at all, I just want to go through the entire process of creation and combat in T1 myself so I can understand the finer points.

New Beginnings Tournament.

@MelonHead I gotcha. Thanks :-)

New Beginnings Tournament.

Hey guys can I ask for some more detail and context on the prepping attacks thing? I apologize if this seems like a question with an obvious answer but the concept is new to me. What sort of attacks require prep? How should I judge how much prep I need for attacks of various power levels? What about defenses? Do they need prep as well?

New Beginnings Tournament.

Count me in, assuming my character is accepted :-)

Talk about (almost) anything.

@KnightShade Now that is an ironic title (perhaps deliberately). Thanks for the recommendation :-)

Talk about (almost) anything.

I've been reading The War of the Two Emperors a little every night. The end is near. Napoleon has occupied Moscow and the city has burned. But I stopped at chapter 20. There is a certain tragedy to it; Napoleon's enemies were (with one exception) pitiful in comparison, yet prevailed.

A History of Islamic Imperialism was interesting, if mis-titled. The imperialist impulses of the Islamic middle east varied only slightly from the imperialist impulses of prior eras. I'm interested in finding a good book on Nasser. He has become one of my favorite figures of the near-modern middle east.

Costochondritis continues. It is frustrating but not more than mildly inconvenient.

The pace in starting up a roleplay

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I've also never had so many damn people feel the need to nitpick every single thing they could possibly do. It's like people are TRYING to waste as much time as possible before the damn RP starts.

@SleepingSilence

The Guild has an obsession with pedantic detail.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

@Vilageidiotx From what I've read of Ayn Rand she envisioned the heroic protagonist as the opposite of the divinely empowered monarch.

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

@Keyguyperson

First off, communism has never been achieved.

I always thought this was just a meme lol.

As for violence, are you REALLY going to make an argument against an economic system by saying that it used violent revolution to come about?

Absolutely, yes.

Would you be opposed to a revolution in, say, Iran?

I would not say that I categorically oppose revolution in the middle east. After all, I do not live there so when a country revolts against a dictator and then descends into internecine war I am not affected. On the balance I would say that I am generally against it, however, looking at the evidence of the Arab Spring. The middle east seems by and large unable to govern itself without the presence of a strongman. Perhaps that will change someday but by it doesn't seem to have changed yet.

Would you have sheltered minutemen during the American Revolution?

Certainly. Life is not so dear, nor peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ~_^

Violence is not an inherent evil. You should know this by now.

First, there is no need to be condescending. Second I have never claimed that violence was always inherently evil. You misrepresent my claim. I hope it wasn't deliberate :-)

"Communist" economics don't do poorly

Let me ask you a question. If communism has never been achieved, how do you know this? If the experiment has never been run, how is it we can claim the hypothesis has been validated?

For example if I hypothesize that red cars go faster than all other types of cars but no car is ever successfully painted red, how can I claim that my prediction is validated? (Note: I don't use the silly example to belittle your case, merely for clarity and ease of reading.)

I doubt you care about the 21,000 people that starve to death every day (7,665,000 or so a year) beyond liking facebook posts and maybe sending 20 bucks to some charity that takes 15 of them for itself.

And no, your 20 bucks a month isn't helping.

My friend you know nothing about me. Yet you seem to be taking this quite personally and making a number of assumptions about my behavior.