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- 2023-10-04 10:07am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Senator Dianne Feinstein dead at age 90
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2715
Re: Senator Dianne Feinstein dead at age 90
Somewhat note worthy: Mrs Butler was a resident of Maryland until she was appointed to be Senator.
- 2023-07-30 04:01am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: US Soldier Captured Crossing N Korea Border
- Replies: 65
- Views: 7515
Re: US Soldier Captured Crossing N Korea Border
He was an Infantry Private. His usefulness to the US Army was of extremely limited potential. These are the guys kept either on base or under supervision, because if let out in the wilds of civilian-land they're like to cause damage to people and property that might incur legal fees. Low and behold...
- 2022-04-16 03:39pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
- Replies: 1943
- Views: 259861
Re: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
The other question with the chemical attack is - how do we know that it wasn't a leak of some kind from the drone? I've heard of drone models using chemical engines, and the same with missiles they can launch. All you need it one that uses something noxious to take damage, fly over people and sudde...
- 2022-02-26 04:01pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
- Replies: 1943
- Views: 259861
Re: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
But.. the IL-76s. Sure, to drop paratroopers they won't be flying at maximum speed (jumping into a Mach 0.8 airstream is generally not a good thing) so they'll be "slow" (relative to what they could do) but IL-76's are supposed to have a service ceiling of 43,000 feet. Shouldn't they be a...
- 2021-02-02 12:17am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Will Trump end up as a 'secondary' president to the GOP?
- Replies: 90
- Views: 32210
Re: Will Trump end up as a 'secondary' president to the GOP?
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members...
- 2021-01-24 12:56pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Biden Lifts Health Care Plan From Insurance Lobbyists
- Replies: 55
- Views: 20028
Re: Biden Lifts Health Care Plan From Insurance Lobbyists
People are about to get that Obama era lesson again; Being better than the Republican doesn't means that he's good. I don't think anybody with two brain cells to bang together was expecting much beyond "not as bad as the Republicans" from the man who lost out to Obama in the primaries for...
- 2021-01-08 07:07pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Trump/Republican Coup Thread
- Replies: 527
- Views: 105805
Re: Trump/Republican Coup Thread
One of the Capitol Police has died from injuries sustained in the attack Could that lead to any charges against rioters including or escalating from assault to manslaughter/murder? and/or attempted murder/manslaughter for anyone just being there? In theory, yes, being part of committing a felony wh...
- 2020-12-12 01:41am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UK to heavily restrict access to puberty-blocker medication for trans youth
- Replies: 50
- Views: 18598
Re: UK to heavily restrict access to puberty-blocker medication for trans youth
Of course, in societies where there is an actual functional safety net such people could be left permanently unemployed but still have access to the necessities of life. Which arrangement I could live with. In actual decent societies the problem shouldn't come up very often, but unfortunately US so...
- 2020-12-09 12:24am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets
- Replies: 148
- Views: 72301
Re: Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets
Hexite is a common name for zinc chloride smoke - the mysterious green gas - in military applications. When one intends to correct someone, it's usually best to be correct. Zinc chloride smoke is white, sometimes gray. We still don't know what the mysterious green gas is, though it's possible it's ...
- 2020-11-22 10:55pm
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: STGOD 2020 Concept/Planning Thread
- Replies: 212
- Views: 109746
Re: STGOD 2020 Concept/Planning Thread
Not dead, just waiting on some OOBs to trickle in. I'm about done with the map barring new entries; the only thing I have left to place is Beowulf because I'm not sure if he spent nation points on an outsider tag, which affects placement. Sorry. I was distracted at work for a while. Yes, outsider t...
- 2020-10-27 11:38pm
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: STGOD 2020 OOB Thread
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14922
Re: STGOD 2020 OOB Thread
Master pages for the Tsaj OOB: https://kienhui.github.io/STGOD/SDNW8/
I can add the racial info to this thread if desired later.
I can add the racial info to this thread if desired later.
- 2020-10-24 10:35pm
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: STGOD 2020 OOC Thread
- Replies: 205
- Views: 124643
Re: STGOD 2020 OOC Thread
The way I play it, if the parasite craft aren't jump capable, they're part of the carrier. If I spend points on fighters separately, they're FTL capable (and more like the Longsword of Halo than a modern cramped cockpit fighter, to make it actually capable of supporting a crew for a potentially day...
- 2020-10-24 07:19pm
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: STGOD 2020 OOC Thread
- Replies: 205
- Views: 124643
Re: STGOD 2020 OOC Thread
Hm. I'm sorry if this is a redundant question, but as I try to do ORBAT stuff seriously, I find myself reflecting on the role of both sublight drone-carrier craft and short range FTL-capable "cutter" swarms in the Umerian military as envisioned in SDNW4. How, if at all, do those categorie...
- 2020-10-20 09:56pm
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: STGOD 2020 Concept/Planning Thread
- Replies: 212
- Views: 109746
Re: STGOD 2020 Concept/Planning Thread
Stupid possibly munchkinry idea: would it be allowed under the rules as written to have a negative hyperdrive specialization? Which is to say, the ship ends up slower than normal in hyperspace, to a limit of 0%. Gamewise, this would be the equivalent of having TIE fighters. Natural downside is: ship...
- 2020-10-15 10:31pm
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: STGOD 2020 Rules Runoff
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11623
Re: STGOD 2020 Rules Runoff
I think I prefer the structured part of STGOD, and part of the structure is the numbers. It's not just for resolving conflicts, but also for guiding how the fight should logically end up.
- 2020-10-03 12:00am
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: STGOD 2020 Concept/Planning Thread
- Replies: 212
- Views: 109746
- 2020-10-02 07:35pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
- Replies: 737
- Views: 271212
Re: COVID-19 ongoing thread part 2
Can the USA do snap elections the way the UK could? Not for president. We can have "special elections" for an empty seat in Congress, but it's never come up for the Executive Branch and I'm not aware of any mechanism that will allow for it. If the President is out, then it's VP, followed ...
- 2020-10-02 04:01pm
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: STGOD 2020 Concept/Planning Thread
- Replies: 212
- Views: 109746
Re: STGOD 2020 Concept/Planning Thread
We can have someone make up a map background, then I could do a slippy type map up, and we can use some normal open source tools to draw areas on the map. So when we fight and take territory from each other, it's a bit easier to update the map. Doesn't matter whether it's a hex grid or ortho grid fo...
- 2020-10-01 10:02pm
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: STGOD 2020 Concept/Planning Thread
- Replies: 212
- Views: 109746
Re: STGOD 2020 Concept/Planning Thread
So my earlier write up is back online:
https://kienhui.github.io/STGOD/SDNW8/
This will likely change as I write more on the Tsaj.
https://kienhui.github.io/STGOD/SDNW8/
This will likely change as I write more on the Tsaj.
- 2020-10-01 03:31pm
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: STGOD 2020 Concept/Planning Thread
- Replies: 212
- Views: 109746
Re: STGOD 2020 Concept/Planning Thread
Hey all... So.. Not sure if this is me being Nit picky, but, after reading Eternal_Freedoms rather intimidating ship descriptions... Does anyone else think it would make sense to lay down a standardized "ship size" for ship weight limits? As in "ship of X point value = 1000 meters ap...
- 2020-09-29 11:48pm
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: STGOD 2020 Concept/Planning Thread
- Replies: 212
- Views: 109746
Re: STGOD 2020 Concept/Planning Thread
Rather than 1.2 * base cost for stealth, or whatever, people can assign % to specializations like stealth or speed. So you can do 50% stealth, which gives you 50% of normal combat capacity. Or do 30% stealth and 30% speed, for a penalty of 60% to combat capacity. I'd say defender generally assigns d...
- 2020-09-29 11:03pm
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: STGOD 2020 Concept/Planning Thread
- Replies: 212
- Views: 109746
Re: STGOD 2020 Concept/Planning Thread
Points should generally be points. The specializations should mostly tell you how a given ship is focused. So an offensive and defensive oriented pair of ships fighting, you know that the offensively oriented ship isn't going to be getting shot at as much, but the shots at it are more likely to hit ...
- 2020-09-28 04:58pm
- Forum: STGOD role-playing games
- Topic: It's been a while
- Replies: 83
- Views: 63965
Re: It's been a while
Ok, I tossed some stuff up: https://kienhui.github.io/STGOD/SDNW8/Tsaj.html I've still got to make it look prettier, I know. And there's more details to come. Mainly quoting to ping you, but the link also leads to a 404 error. Well, I proposed stuff back in April, it's September, so I killed the pa...
- 2020-09-19 12:03am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: An ICE Nurse Revealed That A Georgia Detention Center Is Performing Mass Hysterectomies
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4648
Re: An ICE Nurse Revealed That A Georgia Detention Center Is Performing Mass Hysterectomies
AP News wrote:The AP’s review did not find evidence of mass hysterectomies as alleged in a widely shared complaint filed by a nurse at the detention center.
- 2020-08-31 06:55pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Conflict erupts at Minneapolis, L.A. protests over George Floyd death
- Replies: 722
- Views: 237889
Re: Conflict erupts at Minneapolis, L.A. protests over George Floyd death
The Oregonian reports : shooter was antifa . Previously cited this year for illegally carrying a pistol. Also a number is other, less pertinent crimes.