I just listened to The Shepherd, as I do every Christmas Eve, which means that for me it is now Christmas.

Happy Christmas, everyone. Here's hoping that next year will be better than this year.

Old thread is here.

And to start the new thread on a lighter note, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is still pressing Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick for the $1 million bounty promised for proof of election fraud. Pennsylvania found several cases of fraud on the Republican side, for those who don't remember -- like Dan Patrick, who clearly doesn't want to pay out.

Now through December 26th, two free PDFs from Onyx Path Publishing:

Trinity Continuum Core Rulebook
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/260...yxPathWeds
The Trinity Continuum is the core rulebook needed for other games in the Continuum: Æon, Aberrant, and the upcoming Adventure!, Anima, and Assassins. It’s also very usable by itself as a modern-day action-adventure game!

Monarchies of Mau Core Rulebook
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/243...yxPathWeds
D&D meets Three Musketeers meets Planet of the Apes, but with cats. Join the Monarchies in the ancient future as they try to rebuild society after their favored servants, humans, have left.

What do you think, better, less effective, or a different effect than the original version?


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A place for links to people reading stories.

I'll start with the quintessential French-Canadian story in English: The Hockey Sweater, read by its author, Roch Carrier. If you don't know this story, then you cannot know the "two solitudes" that are Canada.

(12-21-2020, 03:51 AM)classicdrogn Wrote:

(12-20-2020, 10:28 PM)hazard Wrote: You don't need more money than the next... what was it, the combined spending of 8 of the 9 top spenders on the military for that.

I didn't say it was efficient, just that that's what we're buying with it. Trying to get that price to performance ratio a little more favorable... I'm not even qualified to pretend to be qualified to make a suggestion.

For those board members who follow a neo-Pagan or other faith which celebrates the solstice, let me please wish you a Happy Solstice.

Atlantic City is auctioning off the right to press the button that blows up Trump's old hotel/casino.

Quote:"Remember that I showed everybody one episode of the anime that was made about you, and everyone complained about the voices being a little bit wrong?"

"You said it was because we weren't in this universe, so they had to use voice actors instead."

Isn’t that just a fact?

Who knew that a "Department of No Shit" degree from the University of Duh would turn out to be so useful?

Fifty Years of Tax Cuts for Rich Didn’t Trickle Down, Study Says

Quote:Tax cuts for rich people breed inequality without providing much of a boon to anyone else, according to a study of the advanced world that could add to the case for the wealthy to bear more of the cost of the coronavirus pandemic.

The paper, by David Hope of the London School of Economics and Julian Limberg of King’s College London, found that such measures over the last 50 years only really benefited the individuals who were directly affected, and did little to promote jobs or growth.