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I wonder, what were the names of the characters in your CoC game? I would really like to know.

We didn't. None of us knew any Serbian names for certain, so we had our characters using code names the entire time. Whenever someone needed an actual name for them and we couldn't safely reveal their employer, we had the characters make up American-like names and claim to be working for the U.S. Army. Given how famously neutral the U.S. was prior to World War 1 and how it was a nobody at the time, this worked rather well.

Uganda court tosses out anti-gay law

Have you noticed yet that these clever conversation plans of yours don't tend to work out?

Yep. Too clever, obviously; I tend to outsmart myself with them.

Are you seriously looking to accomplish anything in this community thread beyond trolling and making it feel unfriendly and unsafe to the LGBT people who've been posting in here for ages, MagusJanus? I mean, you made up an entirely new, female avatar to come in here and dump on feminism. Trans women and lesbians are already aware that there are some corners of feminism that don't like us, and trans people know we're the redheaded stepchildren of the queer rights movement. Both these attitudes are dying out. What are you hoping to accomplish by walking into a community thread where various queer identities are getting along just fine and ranting about how much we shouldn't be getting along?

I've had this avatar for quite some time, actually. Look at the posting history.

And my actual goal was not to create a rift, but to demonstrate an existing rift before moving on to discussing the idea of using education to hopefully close it and to get people to thinking about the political system in itself and how screwed up of a worldview it operates under in hopes of leading people to discussing different strategies for utilizing that worldview to advance causes and correct problems. Unfortunately, that got lost in the course of the conversation.

It was not to say people shouldn't get along, but to point out problem areas to discuss ways in which they can be corrected.

There are no worries of me ever bringing it up again. Or anything like it. I should not have posted it the first time.

Oh, I'm sorry. Should have realized from the "political reality" talk. I really need to look at aliases and realize who I'm talking to. It all makes sense now.

I included "Janus" in the name and said I'm a lobbyist. I thought it was rather obvious.

Duh. B&$!@ing on my country degrading social politics continues. I just read an article about Polish Ministry Of Foreign Affairs removing from their guide for Poles going abroad list of countries where being non-hetero might lead to imprisonment or execution... Reason? "Ministry cannot favor any social group or be suspected of aiding any worldview option"... WTF?! Warning people that they might get murdered by barbarians violating basic human rights is favoring someone's worldview? Seriously?

Sadly, thejeff is right. Unfortunately, political reality is often far different from actual reality, from what I have seen; it involves giving those who had hateful voices too much voice way too often. Thus why you can have governments such as Poland making policy decisions like that which are utterly bizarre.

Two even more silly things are the idea that trans women can't be feminists or that lesbians can't be feminists. And I wish I was making either of those up.

I'm waiting for someone to connect what I said about different realities and which one I deal with most often with what I've said on here. It should put what I've said in an entirely different light.

Okay, the following just happened.

U.S. General: "You love to play FTS games and you're up-to-date on the Israel situation, right?"
Me: "Yes. Is this going anywhere?"
U.S. General: "Would you like to help Russia design a video game related to dropping thermonuclear ordnance on key target locations?"
Me: "I am not helping Russia nuke Israel."
U.S. General: "I see. Well, I have to go."
And then he tapdanced out of the room

Apparently, my headache meds and my brain meds have an interesting interaction when I mix them...

Legion Janus wrote:

Orthos wrote:

Up at Stupid O'clock again.

Did not sleep so well.

12 hours of work ahead.

Kill me now.

Here's hoping we don't have to do this tomorrow as predicted, by some miracle.

I need to tell your job that you need a more reasonable work schedule! I hope you don't have to do it tomorrow!

Here's hoping. The shelves are looking significantly better. I might be able to slide by getting in a little earlier than my normal time but not as crazy-early as I have been.

Tell them You have a bad case of kidnappeditis. Say it's extremely contagious.

Just spent three hours filling out a 30-page job application for a $9/hour part-time position as a stocker at 84 Lumber. This s&@& is getting very stale.

Yeah, that's always fun. I'm sorry you are dealing with so much paperwork, and I hope you get a job soon.

Legion Janus wrote:

Though, if you want to be technical, World War 3 already happened. It happened in the 1940s. World War 1 is known as the French and Indian War.

No one in the rest of the world calls it that, the North American theatre was a sideshow to what was happening in Europe.

Bah! Everyone knows this is the correct map of the solar system. No worries. We'll educated you Yoo-Oh-Pee-Uns eventually

:P

Fragging American education system not covering the entirety of a massive fragging war...

Time for the final push, and we shall be out of the old house. Then the wait for the new house.

I hope the new house comes more rapidly than you expect.

Plane ticket reserved. Meh. I wish I did it when I checked it for the first time, when it costed 32 instead of now when it costed 44 (values rounded up).

Now I need to consider options between taking baggage, or sending it as through a courier to Poland. It might be cheaper that way.

Sending it as a through carrier is also easier for it to get lost. I would be on the fence about either option. I know just how badly luggage can be handled either way.

If it were winter, I would suggest you wear all of the clothes and show up to the airport that way.

Here's hoping the new meds work for you, friend.

They are so far. It also helps that I've been busier than normal.

I'm with Lynora. I dislike very much handshaking - which drives me bonkers at church, where everyone and their grandmother wants to shake your hand for no reason other than it's the "acceptable form of friendly address" or something - but can be pretty open with hugs with very close friends.

Same here. I like my personal space. Plus, if they hold it for too long, it starts sweating.

Great defense in martial arts, crappy for social situations.

Welcome back Janus. I sympathize very much with adjusting to medication. It took me a few days to adapt to the side-effects of the blood-pressure meds I had to start taking at the beginning of the summer.

So far, most of the adjusting has been to dosage regularity. They're still trying to figure out how to do a dosage that'll last all night without risking poisoning me or insanity due to sleep deprivation.

Good news on the teaching job front. Regardless of the school's stupidity, I have a job in January. I may start as a long-term substitute teacher and transfer to certified teacher later in the semester. The long-term subs make the same as starting teachers, so I'm significantly less worried. The school is hurting for math teachers (only 5 teachers for a 5A sized school). The administration would take me on as a long-term sub this fall, but I know my limits. Teaching full-time and finishing school full-time would be impossible.

Congratulations on the job! I hope it is massively long-term. And, I hope that this is the beginning of a long and distinguished career.

Also, according to my high-school English teacher, Jack Daniels is the alcohol of choice for professional teachers.

And I am trying to take care of myself. Easier when all pistons are firing at the same time.

Pffft. Online university. I do my assignments however I want.

Which currently means jeans and t-shirt.

That's overdressed :P

Up at Stupid O'clock again.

Did not sleep so well.

12 hours of work ahead.

Kill me now.

Here's hoping we don't have to do this tomorrow as predicted, by some miracle.

I need to tell your job that you need a more reasonable work schedule! I hope you don't have to do it tomorrow!

Evening shift days are even more unproductive for me than morning shift... I get up, watch internet, play some games, eat something, wake up, wash myself and go to work before my brains reaches any acceptable level of focus and creativity...

That sounds extremely productive. I get up, toddle around, eventually wake up six hours later...

My weird food allergy is that certain fresh fruits make my mouth swell up and itch. Apples, pears, and all varieties of stone fruit. But if you cook them, the heat denatures the sugars and I have no problem at all.

No one wants to believe me when I say, "No, I can't eat that apple; I am allergic. Ooh! Can I have a piece of that apple pie? I love apple pie."

It's a real thing, though (called oral allergy syndrome) and I am not alone!

That is a sucky situation. If they ask, explain to them that it's pesticides. It doesn't matter if it's true; most people will accept it and not question it. After all, if you're allergic to pesticides, then foods that have been cleaned and made into pies won't be dangerous ;)

My money is that the battle lines will be borders involving fresh water and that it won't be one side against another, but a lot of small sides and individual nations duking it out.

We have a problem with dwindling water supplies, and if they get low enough alliances and peace treaties are going to disappear rapidly.

Though, if you want to be technical, World War 3 already happened. It happened in the 1940s. World War 1 is known as the French and Indian War.

(ugly muscular woman): COME TO MAMMA!!!!

(ugly half-orc man in a dress): COME TO MAMMA!!!!

698. I am planning to sell them to demons as slaves, but first I need to know how much to charge.

699. I sold my last group to demons as slaves and I need a group to blame it on.

700. I need protection from the group I framed for selling people to demons as slaves.

701. I was caught by people I framed for selling people to demons as slaves... and they sold me to demons as a slave! These are the people I escaped with.

702. These are the people I escaped demonic slavery with and we're hunting the group who sold me to demons as a slave!

703. I slaughtered my last group after they helped me kill those who sold me to demons as a slave and discovered evidence I'm the one who sold them to demons as slaves. I need these people to look like a regular adventurer.

704. They are protecting me from the demons seeking to reclaim me as a slave.

705. They are protecting me from the angels seeking vengeance for my demonic slaver ways.

706. They are protecting me from the previous group after the previous group discovered I sold people into slavery and that's why the angels were after me.

707. I need these people to help me escape after my previous group got tired of protecting me and sold me to demons as a slave... and this time, the demons are more vigilant about escape attempts!

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Happy very belated birthday.

I don't really have much option to be honest. I can't go to bed early unless I'm sick or drop-dead exhausted - I'm too naturally nocturnal, my mind doesn't start winding down until midnight at the earliest. And that's what keeps me up more often than not: my brain refusing to shut up and to sleep. Thankfully a combination of allergy medication and melatonin supplements has chased off my insomnia for about the past year, so I've had very few "just can't sleep" issues since, but it still doesn't change the fact I can't simply call it a night early.

Any attempt to go to sleep too much earlier just results in me tossing and turning until I hit the time where I'd normally start falling asleep anyway... if not later due to the anxiety of whatever I'm needing to go to bed early for keeping me awake.

I had to take a sleep aid just to zonk out an hour early last night, on top of my usual array of meds. I normally don't resort to that but I consider this week to be a worthy exception.

I'm sorry you are having such sleep issues.

In other news, I finally - after three weeks of waiting, and calling them up yesterday to gripe - received my consumer report from the credit company. Not that I'll be able to do anything about it until late tonight.

In better news, I also have put in for some "unclaimed funds" the county claims they have in my name. Not sure how long that'll take to get processed, but it's apparently my mutual funds from when I was little that were supposed to get used for college; it's about $2200 that'll likely now go to paying off this standing debt and a few months of rent once I can move out.

I am glad you got the report, and I am sorry you have had to wait this long. I hope the funds went through.

Got hitched yesterday.

Congratulations on the marriage! I hope is lasts a long time.

On a less happy note:

My Dad's health continues to fail, and I must travel down to Texas again.

Maybe I can visit some FAWTL friends in the process.

Y'all take care.

I am sorry for his failing health, and I hope it improves.

Just did something financially stupid, but cool. A friend of mine works at a used bookstore (you can probably see where this is going), and posted on FB from work that he'd gotten some really old D&D books into the shop. Since the bookstore is only a few blocks away from my apartment, I went to check it out, and discovered that the books in question were a sixth printing of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook and a first printing of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide. Ended up buying them, too, at $10 apiece. Looks like I'm not going to be eating for the next week.

That is a very nice find! I hope you are enjoying them! And, sorry about the lack of eating. I'd send you food, but I barely have enough for myself right now.

Good morning folks. Still without a phone. Here's where things stand thus far.

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Today at work is a BBQ we're holding for the members. Hopefully this calms me down a bit. However, tomorrow is the training where I won't be getting the note afterwards...*sigh* more frustration. Sunday is Darklight Sisterhood at least, but it's going to be weird running it without my phone.

I'm sorry about your phone.

And, I hope the BBQ was excellent!

Finally, some good news.

Working together with my wife for the first time in a while, we have procured new cell phones through Best Buy. We pick them up today. I checked with my old provider on the sly and discovered my contacts will be moving to the new phone via google. So I'll be sending a text by this evening to all the fawtls who I am in phone contact with with my new number. It's a financial downturn that may negatively affect my Otakon trip, but who needs con stuff? I can survive on the skinny for one trip.

Grats! Glad you got the new phones!

dwarfling had three-day-fever - exanthema subitum

a harmless, very common baby virus,

nothing dangerous and almost over

Poor kid! I am glad he'll be fine soon.

I apologize for the silence. I had to take time to adjust to the new meds.

Taking the time to go through posts on this thread and catch up. Will post two more times at the most.

I've been gone for awhile for personal reasons. But, as part of being gone, I've been made aware of something important... and I need to bring it up on here because it is related.

A story about what charges of inappropriate conduct are common to modern feminism that anti-feminism gets right. Please give it a read; it's not misogynist in the least. If anything, it's utterly fair in its examination of the item at hand (and, it does call the anti-feminists out on some B.S. they spout).

Now, how does the above relate to this topic?

There is this article from Jezebel that discusses trans women and issues of socialization in relation to feminism. I would suggest giving it a read; it's an interesting article and the author makes some interesting comments. The accuracy of what the author has to say about the experiences of trans women does not matter; what matters is this article presents two ways that trans women are viewed within feminism. What matters even more is what this article does: It presents two ways trans women are involved in the Gender War. One in which they are the enemy, and one in which they are a weapon against the enemy.

It is unfortunate this situation exists. But it does not change that some people are trying to decide what position trans women have in the Gender War without even consulting them. Even going as far as to lump them in with men in quite a few cases.

I am shaking my head at this. And, unfortunately, this means that trans women may have to be very aware what the extremist feminists are saying about men because some of those extremists are applying the same to trans women.

Comrade Anklebiter, if you haven't heard about this one yet, you're gonna love it:

Iron Dome is a bluff!

So apparently I live in an Orwellian dictatorship that blinds the masses with one of the more elaborate lies in human history. Hmm.

Technically, he may be right about the missiles being self-detonation.

If the Palestinian missiles are impact-detonation, then the Israeli defense missiles exploding and releasing a lot of chaff would make sense. The Palestinian missiles would run into the chaff and detonate harmlessly in mid-air. Which would mean the Israeli defense missiles are working as intended and doing their job even though every single one self-detonates.

However, the above is speaking entirely in ignorance of both the defense system and the Palestinian rockets. They might have simply fixed the bugs in the American system and combined it with high-tech satellite and radar systems.

Legion Janus wrote:

Usagi Yojimbo wrote:

Legion Janus wrote:

United States admits evidence that Russia is behind it is circumstantial

To save everyone the trouble, that isn't the headline of the article and isn't an accurate summary of the article.

Though yes, everyone agrees that the Russian armed forces didn't pull the trigger.

EDIT - darn, ninja'd by Freehold.

Note this "saving of the trouble" is only accurate if you ignore every single time Russia is brought up in the article and the fact Kerry is trying to use the evidence to get sanctions against Russia for what happened in the Ukraine. Which, pretty much, means ignoring 90+% of the article.

No, what you said is pretty much unrelated to the body of the article. Most likely because you've been trained by media grandstanding attorneys and bad courtroom drama that circumstantial evidence = bad or weak without actually knowing what it is or how it works.

Here's a hint: The vast majority of all evidence presented in court is circumstantial.

No, I said it because of this particular quote from the article:

"There's a buildup of extraordinary circumstantial evidence," Kerry said. "We picked up the imagery of this launch. We know the trajectory. We know where it came from. We know the timing, and it was exactly at the time that this aircraft disappeared from the radar. We also know from voice identification that the separatists were bragging about shooting it down afterward."

I stated no conclusion one way or the other about whether or not the evidence counts. And what I stated about the evidence being used against Russia is also in the article. Just take a look at my previous post to see a more complete listing of quotes.

Whether or not the evidence does not count is not my purview. That is up to those who wish to argue the subject. I am merely providing more information.

Legion Janus wrote:

Usagi Yojimbo wrote:

Legion Janus wrote:

United States admits evidence that Russia is behind it is circumstantial

To save everyone the trouble, that isn't the headline of the article and isn't an accurate summary of the article.

Though yes, everyone agrees that the Russian armed forces didn't pull the trigger.

EDIT - darn, ninja'd by Freehold.

Note this "saving of the trouble" is only accurate if you ignore every single time Russia is brought up in the article and the fact Kerry is trying to use the evidence to get sanctions against Russia for what happened in the Ukraine. Which, pretty much, means ignoring 90+% of the article.

I think you misunderstood my post, as well as the article. It was meant to save people the trouble of looking at the article because they believed your misleading summary. If it really said that, then people would need to read it. As it doesn't actually say that...

Here's some cherry-picked quotes; note that context does not change meaning. I just did not feel like copying and pasting the entire thing.

There's more,

US working on case against Russia on downed plane

"This is the moment of truth for Russia," said Kerry, leveling some of Washington's harshest criticism of Moscow since the crisis in Ukraine began.

"Russia is supporting these separatists. Russia is arming these separatists. Russia is training these separatists, and Russia has not yet done the things necessary in order to try to bring them under control," he said.

"It's pretty clear that this is a system that was transferred from Russia into the hands of separatists," he said.

"There's a buildup of extraordinary circumstantial evidence," Kerry said. "We picked up the imagery of this launch. We know the trajectory. We know where it came from. We know the timing, and it was exactly at the time that this aircraft disappeared from the radar. We also know from voice identification that the separatists were bragging about shooting it down afterward."

Kerry also said the administration was hopeful that the incident would galvanize support in Europe for increasing sanctions on Russia over its overall actions in Ukraine.

"We hope this is a wake-up call for some countries in Europe that have been reluctant to move," Kerry said, noting that President Barack Obama had signed off on a new round of sanctions on Russia the day before the plane went down.

I bolded everything that backs what I said.

Legion Janus wrote:

United States admits evidence that Russia is behind it is circumstantial

To save everyone the trouble, that isn't the headline of the article and isn't an accurate summary of the article.

Though yes, everyone agrees that the Russian armed forces didn't pull the trigger.

EDIT - darn, ninja'd by Freehold.

Note this "saving of the trouble" is only accurate if you ignore every single time Russia is brought up in the article and the fact Kerry is trying to use the evidence to get sanctions against Russia for what happened in the Ukraine. Which, pretty much, means ignoring 90+% of the article.

I think it means exactly what I said. I leave it up to others to judge if the evidence is enough.

For the people who actually care about the plane and bodies on it:

Bodies and flight recorders returned to Malaysian authorities

For those who want to continue to use the bodies for their own political arguments:

United States admits evidence that Russia is behind it is circumstantial

FBI paying people to be terrorists

Please tell me that story is not true...

ebon_fyre wrote:

And of course, OF COURSE, after making this decision... I get a call from my university. My new advisor (since my old one switched jobs) says that he doesn't think he's allowed to schedule my classes as I had previously discussed. Meaning he thinks I won't be able to finish until FEBRUARY 15 instead of Jan 19.

ARGH.

Damn.

I concur. This is horrible to happen, especially with how it may affect job prospects. I hope the adviser can find some way to schedule the classes.

Well. This sucks.

No games this week. Monday's GM is sick. And I've been put on twelve hour overtime - 6 AM to 7 PM - and thus will be in no condition to GM on Thursday.

I am going to be so useless by the end of the week.

I am sorry there are no games this week and you're going to be so busy working. I hope that you manage to get a lot of rest this weekend.

MagusJanus wrote:

Thank you all for your well-wishes.

I know I need to handle well-wishes better. I'm... not good at it.

You do just fine. =)

No, I don't. I'm realistic enough about myself to know it is a failing. Probably like how much I post on this topic at a stretch. It looks like it's incredibly disruptive. I should post less...

MagusJanus wrote:

Also, to add to things, they finally got a complete scan that wasn't lost. Confirmed some definite structural issues. Bit of brain damage seen among the scans. Got me on a series of medications to try to compensate.

At least they found the brain! You can now brag that your brain existence is scientifically proven! ;)

Alas, they found no evidence of usage. So, it might be virgin brain; completely unspoilt by that pesky activity that makes other brains useless for acting as spares.

It must be summer. It's 2:30 in the afternoon and I'm still only one item of clothing away from having to make all my posts at the top of a page.

Hopefully you see rain soon. It would be better if the rain cooled your area down without adding humidity. Rain here is both a blessing and a curse because of humidity; blessing for the temporary cooling, curse because things end up worse once the storm ends.

Well that was a weekend, much humidity and rain. Went over to friends to help them pack Saturday and Sunday was D&D as usual.

However, GM got grumpy with us players for dithering around: so our PC's got captured and locked up in a force cage (again)

I'm sorry your GM was so grumpy. I hope that it is a problem solved in the future.

BigDTBone wrote:

LazarX wrote:

MagusJanus wrote:

Dicey the House Goblin wrote:

But Andrew, you do understand that "plenty left over to can" is such a work intensive proposition that the system you're espousing results in feudalism, right? Cause M'lord Dice and other such masters of industry grok that junk in technicolor.

Considering how well this democracy fad is working, I suspect feudalism will make a return soon enough.

Why? for the moneyed classes, the present setup has been working VERY well for them.

Oh! You mean like feudalism?

Dude, have you even tried to get someone to swear an oath of fealty to you lately? There'a a lot more to feudalism than moneyed classes doing well for ourselves.

It's a lot easier than you think. A lot of people looking for heroes these days. Lot of fools lured in by promises that will never be kept. Such a waste.

Meritocracy! DEW EET NAO!

There is a webcomic called SSDD that examines the idea of a meritocracy and why such a government style is ultimately as much a failure as democracy tends to be.

Am I the god of kingdom come?

No. You get no prize.

Legion Janus wrote:

LazarX wrote:

The Saltmarsh 6 wrote:

Am I the only one who doesn't give a s*%@ about this thread ?

You're far from the only one being less than honest in this thread. You took the time to post, and you're taking the time to read this reply.

If we were to start calling people out on this thread for honesty, it would get very ugly very fast. And in the end, those called on it would leave in a huff and have learned nothing about the little deceptions they tell themselves.

And, sadly, the people who would walk away the most unphased by it would be the people who had the most to learn. Don't you agree?

Excuse me, I've read everything so far. :P Its just fun messing with them since I got to have a conversation with Lazar in the thread that spawned this one

Not certain what you mean with this.

The Saltmarsh 6 wrote:

Am I the only one who doesn't give a s*%@ about this thread ?

You're far from the only one being less than honest in this thread. You took the time to post, and you're taking the time to read this reply.

If we were to start calling people out on this thread for honesty, it would get very ugly very fast. And in the end, those called on it would leave in a huff and have learned nothing about the little deceptions they tell themselves.

And, sadly, the people who would walk away the most unphased by it would be the people who had the most to learn. Don't you agree?

Which gave me an idea for a potentially sinister NPC for a campaign I haven't thought of yet.

Tell us about it?

Rawr! wrote:

Thanks. Still, I kinda liked being perpetual guest blogger.

You can always have an alternate personality take over the guest blogger spot. Downside: Arguments can be embarrassing.

It's not as fun as you think. Plus, the arguments tend to be only internal. Isn't that right, Magus?

Renrut, no claiming his soul. It belongs to us. His delicious, delicious soul...

Kirth Gersen wrote:

kyrt-ryder wrote:

Karyouonigami wrote:

I believe that the way people play MMO's truly affect the way they play games like pathfinder.

Some of us have never played an MMO once in our lives...

For what it's worth, I've never played an MMO either (assuming an "MMO" is some kind of on-line thingy).

It may or may not be a horrific time sink that may or may not involve selling your soul and may or may not be something I do when I'm posting on the forums.

That said, its not an inherently bad thing.

I agree. If anything, video games seem to be easier to balance simply because you can limit a player's options.

Oh, and your soul needs more garlic.

Lovely. More reason to stay in the socialist dominion of Canada. Despite the hellmouth being created in Alberta.

It's in Alberta?

I knew that ritual went awry... but I didn't know we missed the entire friggin' continent! The hellmouth was supposed to be created in Paris!

Eh. I hear that Mt. Everest is great for tobogganing!

So don't use it. It's probably 900 death traps waiting to happen.

Professor Farnsworth, Scientist wrote:

{looks around nervously} Whatever you do, don't try to burn it again... you'll likely summon an OSS evangelist swarm, or worse... a mythic neckbeard!

Do you mean the contract, or my own growing neckbeard? THere aint exactly much to burn.

Hmm. Might be seeing some land on the horizon, but I'm pretty high up, so it might still be a few days of travel...

The contract. If you burn the neckbeard, you summon grognards.

Here. I got you another contract. Only, please don't sign this one; it's a Microsoft licensing agreement. It's only a couple million pages long, so you may have enough to fashion clothes and have fuel to burn for warmth.

"Riddle": What do I have in my pocket?

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The candlestick Professor Plum reverse-pickpocketed onto you after he was done with that sordid business in the library?

Legion Janus wrote:

I finished talking with my bosses. They agreed to the interplanetary teleport. There may be mild side-effects; mortals tend not to be able to wave their arms the right way to properly pronounce the second-to-last syllable. But, shouldn't be anything harmful.

Well, unless you're that Ash guy. We gave him a similar spell and he mispronounced it so badly he teleported the planet he was on into a gas giant. The Temporal Recursion Department was not happy with us needing a Chronos Reset Device to undo that.

Considering what brought me here, and the fact that I'm flying nude, I'm not sure how reliable it would be. Plus, I havent even had the chance to finish reading the first contract (I had to drop it a while back, it was slowing me down).

No need to read the contract! It's mostly just a bunch of overcomplicated ways of saying you're giving us a mere trifle in exchange for unlimited power...

Sign this second contract!

I finished talking with my bosses. They agreed to the interplanetary teleport. There may be mild side-effects; mortals tend not to be able to wave their arms the right way to properly pronounce the second-to-last syllable. But, shouldn't be anything harmful.

Well, unless you're that Ash guy. We gave him a similar spell and he mispronounced it so badly he teleported the planet he was on into a gas giant. The Temporal Recursion Department was not happy with us needing a Chronos Reset Device to undo that.

If you would sign this document I have here, I will gladly grant you the ability to use teleport as a spell-like ability at will. I will also grant you a magic item that grants flight and automatically adapts you to whatever planet you end up on.

Please ignore the demonic speech and the fact it's nine thousand pages long. It's just a lot of decorative mumbo-jumbo. And the price is something you won't even notice you're missing. Just a small trifle...

Assuming direct control

The long-term goal of myself and others is to equalize the economic and cultural factors. Gender factors are also on the list, but that area is a lot more grey; it necessitates balancing the genders as much as possible while not setting it up so that there is a switch between which which gender is dominant and which is discriminated against.

Populate Montana with kangaroos!

This makes me wonder... can we use an overload of petitions to bring down the White House website?

Maybe we should encourage him to create more just to find out.

MagusJanus wrote:

Cool. Learned something ^^

Won't stop my using the horrific oversimplification, though. And I apologize for that.

I should have marked my post as using horrific oversimplifications...

Since you showed contrition, I'll suspend the conventional sentence of three spankings with a paddled labeled "history is complicated".

Just keep your nose clean. Recidivism risks confinement on the Dry Tortugas with only John Wilkes Booth's doctor for company.

Bwahahaha!

Well, that's better than the Citadel of Unending Peace. I use that for the more rebellious souls that try to avoid being consumed and added to the whole.

People still play baseball?