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Posted by: Shepherd - 12-23-2020, 10:29 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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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.
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| Tell me a story... |
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Posted by: robkelk - 12-21-2020, 07:14 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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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.
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| The cost of peace |
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Posted by: hazard - 12-21-2020, 07:52 AM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun
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(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.
Taking this to politics because it's going to get political.
No, the USA does not require more money spend on its military than the next 8 top spenders, combined, to be able to afford the taxpayers to complain about the homelessness and being hungry, or to make sure people aren't abducted in the middle of the night, sometimes in plain view I'll note, for being inconvenient to the government.
Why, the last one in particular has been shown to be something the military does not protect against at all, just this year. Are we quite certain that everyone was returned?
The USA has 2 massive oceans protecting it, along with Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. Both are nations which, if the USA so desired, be defeated in any invasion scenario with half the military spending, total, and at the same time. Even the USA would not attack a nation with the military capacity the USA would have at half its military spending for any reason, because there is no way to win that war without being ruined in a Pyrrhic victory at best.
The USA isn't spending money on the military to purchase and insure freedom and liberty for its own people. It's also not spending money on the military to purchase and insure freedom and liberty for its allies, although it says it does, and it might even be a desired and deliberately maintained and cultivated side effect. The USA is spending money on its military for the economical benefits it offers. Banana republic is an old term for a reason and it's one the USA caused to come into existence, and the USA hasn't really ever stepped away from military adventurism for the sake of its economics.
With the political influence and growth of the military-industrial complex the matter has not improved. I mean, for those companies to continue to grow and exist, as is the proper way of things, more, bigger and more expensive munitions and guns and uniforms and vehicles and so on must be sold, in bigger quantities, and who better to buy them than the government, especially when the government will then make use of them in combat and thus need and desire replacements?
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| [OOC] Voices: who plays who |
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Posted by: robkelk - 12-17-2020, 09:55 PM - Forum: The Attic
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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."
But they're only a little bit wrong... so the seiyuu should sound similar to the displacees, even if they aren't exact. Ne?
For reasons, I made a list of who's shown up so far.
EDIT: Out-of-date list snipped - see post #8 in this thread for something that's a little more up to date.
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