This sure hits close to home. I hooked up with a girls Friday night and maaaaan was it detached and vapid. I didn't even know her last name until the morning.
That is one of the few times it's socially acceptable to punch your screen.
I'm glad that they're going to be lifting some of the restrictions. It's way too hard to get a gun here in the Bay Area.
A protective order is the not the same as a crime. The court order is there because someone could commit the crime, so he is ordered to stay away so that he doesn't. There is by and large a low burden of proof to obtain a restraining order because the inconvenience to the restrained person is so low as compared to the increased safety of the victim. HOWEVER, the right to possess a firearm is a very important right; the removal of which ought to require the actual commitment of a crime as opposed to someone accusing the possibility of a crime being committed. Keep in mind that the Supreme Court holds freedom of speech in the same echelon as the right to bear arms since McDonald v. Chicago. In addition, the vast majority of firearms are unregistered in the United States, making the police seizing a gun owner's property an impossibility in most cases. Like it or not, as long as gun ownership remains a fundamental right in the USA, the best thing for someone filing a restraining order against a gun owner is to buy a gun herself.
Maybe it's cutting across state lines because the state congressmen are trying to protect a fundamental right?
Bluegrass + Gangsta Rap = Gangstagrass.
I signed up for the trial, but I still haven't gotten any info on it. Oh well.
Survive on my own in the Alaskan wilderness for five years. I know a lot about survival, but there's no way I would last even one Alaskan winter.
That's what I like about it. Getting the amulet is so impossible that when I finally get it, I'm going to be floored.
Brogue is by far my favorite. It strips down a roguelike to it's core design decisions and looks great.
The Forever War
For four months, my friend's sister has been preparing a presentation on Venezuelan government. One hour before she gave it today, Hugo Chavez died.
That's awesome.
That's cool for the nostalgia factor, but Swords & Wizardry did a bang-up job consolidating the rules for 0e.
Rejection.
At the risk of ruining your childhood, dinosaurs are birds, and this is what they looked like.
Fuck Tha Police
They are making a remake of the PnP RPG to coincide with the Cyberpunk 2077 video game.
Great video related to the subject at hand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwv2yHN1Yac
Cordelia's Dad. All the tracks from this album are good, but I particularly like 09-The Dying Californian.
A lot of people forget that while the Boy Scout's national council is anti-gay, it doesn't have much in the way of enforcing that policy. My own Boy Scout troop had an openly-gay member in it, and we didn't do anything about it because there was nothing forcing us to do so. This was in Oregon though, so individual experiences may vary across the nation.
People who agree with Mr. Pink forget that scene was done as foreshadowing for him being a self-serving bastard in the final scene.
Running water.
Roleplaying games, particularly narrative focused ones like Dogs in the Vineyard and Apocalypse World. It's a lot of fun, it's sort of a collaborative story-telling exercise with game-like qualities.
Any idea if there are still places remote enough in Alaska to do this? I'm still 19, so I'm allowed to be naive enough to try out something that crazy.
The other way to approach this issue is to abstract it. In the indie-rpg Dogs in the Vineyard, whenever your character is hit (Punch, gunshot, losing a debate), you get Fallout dice. Those can be used to represent whatever makes sense at that point in the story (Bleeding out, bruises, poorer relationship with the person you argued with). I dislike rpg's that have complex (but realistic rules) because I find that it bogs down play, but go with whatever floats your boat. In addition, DnD is a 'gamist' RPG. It's not meant to simulate reality particularly well, it's meant to be a game where you can go into a dungeon and fight dragons without getting into a headache over the rules (although 3.5 introduced plenty of headaches).
I like Roll20, but I have difficulty sustaining interest in my players; sometimes they just surf the web until their turn comes up.
The article mentions hunting by chasing animals to the point of exhaustion. Here's an African tribe doing the same thing for those interested in the earliest form of hunting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
If you live in or visit Portland, I strongly recommend you try out the Portland Zoo Bomb. Behind the Oregon Zoo is a giant hill that ~30 people will bomb down at night every Sunday. We take a free MAX train back to the top and do it again. Loads of fun.