complord
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The irony in your post is so delicious! Basically you are saying people would have to change their already absurdly powerful Martell decks to add yet another awesome Martell card. Woe is you!
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Oh hai guys! First, let me introduce myself: I'm really unoriginal, broken and stupid card idea man! I know, it just rolls off the tongue
Anyway, lets make a useful keyword even better! So, when I lose a challenge not only do I get to STAND but I also get to DRAW a card. How great is that! What a great card maker I am! -
US Bracket - complord <at> gmail {dot} com
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I should be able to make it. I'm trying to get LoB to come as well. I'll make sure to bring some good Madison lager with me.
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I'll be there. Hopefully I will run into some more cast members of Farscape
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Indeed, there is an LCG night at Pegasus. Everytime Jason and I have appeared on that night it was pretty empty. Regardless, Jason and I are pretty flexible at play times so just let us know what works best for you.
My email: complord (at) gmail (dot) com
Thanks,
Jesse
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I apologize in advance if these questions have been asked before but the search on these forums is terrible and I couldn't find and answers in the FAQ. On to my questions:
1. What happens to attachments on characters that go into shadows? Duplicates? Power? Gold tokens? Basically, what happens to stuff on the card once said card goes into shadows?
2. If a card goes into shadows knelt does it stay knelt in shadows? If it doesn't does it come back out of shadows standing?
3. When exactly can cards come out of shadows? I'm understanding that it is the first possible player action. So, you would count dominance before things can be brought out of shadows. Same for the standing phase, cards stand before shadow cards can come out. Do you count gold first in marshalling before you can bring stuff out of shadows?
4. Finally, why isn't any of this stuff outlined in the FAQ? The shadow rules that comes with the cards from the City series is very lacking in detail.
Thanks.
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Staton is correct, we are down to a few and haven't played in months. I'm not sure when you would be in Madison but we are going to try to make an event at a local game store in town for FFG LCGs. Here's the link to the store's calendar: http://www.pegasusgames.com/calendar.php. They have it the second Tuesday of every month.
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Stag Lord said:
What's Facebook?
I think he means Facespace. Also, I think if we started bashing TeaBaggers nobody would come to their defense now that Artaban is gone.
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Word! How is everything in Off-Topic? Seems kind of quiet...
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Yeah, they also set it up for a sequel which makes it ever lamer. Yeah, Kingdom of Heaven, the director's cut anyway, is a pretty good flick and done by the same director. Not sure what is up with Ridley Scott and his craptastic directing as of late.
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The first half started strong then it devolved into a very lame predictable swords and chain mail movie. When did an archer get so good at swordplay? Also, what is up with Russel Crowe's accent. I'm not sure if he was Irish or what. The original screenplay of the movie was going to show Sheriff of Nottingham as the protagonist and Robin Hood as the bad guy. I think that would of been more interesting but oh well.
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I'm not sure who Whiplash is but what a terrible character concept. One bullet and Mickey Rourke would of been toast. Electrified whips? Really?
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It's not belligerent but politics as usual. When Bush Jr. had the majority for 6 years the only way he got things passed is with the majority of Republican support. The Republicans are uninterested in helping people. Democrats aren't much better either but they at least try sometimes.
Yes, Joe Wilson, is he a brave idiot or just an idiot? The reason he was able to shout that and get away with it is that Obama has zero backbone. He should push through his campaign promises, **** the consequences. Bush Jr. did it with the majority of America disagreeing with him and using lies. I'm sure Obama can do the same except in his case majority of America agrees with his proposed policies and he doesn't have to lie to do it.
Even if this totally lacking public option turns into law nobody is going to see increases in health care quality or lowering of health care costs.
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I don't understand why the size of our population matters at all. Like I said earlier we are talking percentages and not total dollar amounts. If you can explain the math to me I will gladly abdicate. Taxes will be raised of course because we can't cut into any other programs like bailing out corrupt businesses, obscene military spending and of course wars.
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Stag Lord, we must agree to disagree as is the usual case with our discussions
.Kevin, as always you articulate why I cannot when it comes to my points and I give thanks.
I don't mean to be so harsh but I'm sick of rebutting questions that have been answered multiple times already. On the other maybe the tangent occured because there isn't anywhere else to go concerning health care reform discussion. It seems like most people agree that it is needed and mostly agree where the reform needs to be targeted. The only complaint I have is that the Democrats lost the narrative and are starting to lose a battle that seemed like a sure thing. Also, why isn't single payer health care on the table.
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ktom said:
You missed the point of my question.
I disagree. Your question was laced with untruths. You stated that Hitler was a self-professed pagan which he wasn't. You also stated he denounced Christianity as a whole and Catholicism specifically which is also not true. I was trying to point out that he was indeed a Catholic as most people would call themselves at that time and that he embraced some Catholic principles. The reason why excommunication would seem relevant to Hitler and his cadre is that Pius XII excommunicated all Catholic communists since most communist leaders were atheists at the time and sometimes imposed harsh laws against believers and religious institutions. That seems like a small crime compared to the extermination of 6 million people and a war that killed many more.
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1. Well, you were definitely in the minority since conservatives couldn't rave enough about two wars and the Patriot Act.
2. You make no sense. First you are saying the government should defend marriage the way it is then the next you are saying they shouldn't get involved. Also, nobody is forcing churches to marry people. There are Catholic churches that won't marry divorced people and the Mormon church won't do interracial marriages in some instances for example. All we are asking is that same sex marriages be treated the same as opposite sex marriages when it comes to the law. I'm pretty sure LBGT could care less about your religious objections.
3. What does communism have to do about not working? If I remember correctly there was 100% employment in the USSR and its satellite countries. Also, Marxist philosophy, before it got corrupted by Leninism and Stalinism, is about community based government which communism hardly is.
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1. You were complaining that each state has its own rules when it comes to health care which goes against your stance that states should be in charge of their own health care reform. When you start letting smaller communities have more power that is the sort of situation you come up with and if you aren't happy with it maybe you should understand the position you are coming from better.
2. I think COBRA is a good thing but is hardly a solution to uninsured people between jobs. What I find mystifying is you complain about bloated health care premiums but are against reform? What exactly is your stance? Let me guess, the opposite of whatever Obama is proposing because you are myopic. Also, what you are paying with COBRA is what your employer is paying. You are still getting a deal relatively speaking since you aren't getting a plan directly from the insurance company which would be much more.
3. I also notice you have no rebuttal to me abolishing lifetime premiums.
Artaban, before you discuss health care reform any further I suggest you educate yourself on exactly what you are talking about. Your commentary on these forums are showing a lack of understanding of what we are discussing. Look at the WHO rankings for health care by country and then look at the costs as a percentage of GDP for industrialized nations with socialized medicine. You will see that your stance against universal health care holds no water.
On to the Roman Catholic tangent. I promise I will make it brief and painless. I appreciate some of you on these boards are Catholics but that doesn't change history just because you believe the Church wouldn't do horrible things. Pius XII was Pope during WWII. He never condemmed the Holocaust while it was happening and gave aid sparingly to the oppressed. He kept diplomatic ties with Italy and German leading up to and during the war and supplied Vatican passports for high ranking Nazi officials (most of which were involved in the Final Solution) and secured safed passage to Latin America. None of these facts are in dispute, look them up yourself.
Hitler himself was a Catholic plain and simple. Maybe not the most devout but you could argue that he was considering his actions during the war. He praised Jesus as the first Aryan and learned his anti-semitism from Christian teachings. He was on good terms with both the Catholic and Protestant church during the war mainly because he allowed the mandatory church tax and teaching of Christianity in Germany. He was not into the occult or other things you may have seen in the movies. I'm sorry, but these facts are there for you to see and if you don't agree then you disagree with history.
One last thing. I assume you agree Artaban, since you lack a reubttal, that the French Revolution was a revolution against the aristocracy, which some of them were religious leaders (notably the royalty), and not a secular movement. Try learning history before distorting it.
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Artaban, your fundamental lack of understanding anything involving the rational world is astounding. Even if the French Revolution was a secular movement, which it wasn't, it has nothing on the 2,000 year reign of Christian atrocities. All I have to mention is the Holocaust which the Roman Catholic leadership denied ever happening while at the same time supporting it during Hitler's rule. To this day Hitler has yet to be excommunicated by the Holy See.
Secularism, as you call it, is the rational world. Yes, it is a big bucket, it encompasses the whole Universe and how it actually works.
Onto the points you were rebutting Stag Lord with:
1. You are contradicting your whole 'let the individual states' manage health care. You just proved the point of why that doesn't work.
2. This is called COBRA and it's very expensive. I was on it for 6+ months when I became unemployed and it was a humiliating experience.
3. How about just get rid of lifetime limits?
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Correlation doesn't equal causation. The civil rights movement in this country was started because of ethnic minorities being persecuted by the government, religious institutions and other organizations. Most religious organizations supported slavery until the very end. The same with Jim Crow laws and segregation. The reason why is that religious leaders, like the Pope, and, most importantly, the Bible supported these claims. Just because some of the people that were involved in the movement were religious doesn't mean it was a religious idea. That is like saying communism is an atheist movement simply because Marx, Engel and most of the communist leaders were atheists. There were religious people on the other side of the equation that fought against the civil rights movement as well. The KKK comes to mind and their movement was partially religiously motivated.
The real question is what does any of the above have to do with health care reform. The Republicans, which usually represent the religious right, are against health care reform because it will raise their taxes to help people in need, or lazy people as they claim. I think if people like Stag Lord started spreading the message that Jesus did indeed support help for the disadvantaged maybe there would be more support for health care reform which would be great. Unfortunately that is not the case.
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I said started and support by secular ideals. There is no doubt religious figures joined in and helped with the struggle but the genesis was never one of theocratic making.
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You also have to remember that the first incarnation of our country was a confederation of states that resembled what the South was trying to establish during the Civil War. The Articles of Confederation was the United States first foray into making a government and it failed horribly because it gave states all the power and the federal government was very weak. If anything happened across state lines nothing could be done because each state was sovereign and the federal government didn't have the power to create a military. This is the ideal country the founding fathers wanted.
The point of all that is obviously that is not what governments look like today so going back to the Founding Fathers for advice on how to deal with any modern problems is ludicrous at best. It's the same thing as what would Jesus do except a bit more reasonable but just as misguided. The Founding Fathers created the Constitution to be purposely open ended because they knew there would be problems they didn't think of. That flexibility should also be lent to the government so it can actually take care of problems, like health care, without being hamstrung by the founding document.Also, I don't think armed revolt is necessary for logical health care reform. That kind of tactic is usually used if the government isn't doing its job overall or is oppressive.
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In reality this country was founded by landed gentry that owned slaves and wanted less taxes and more financial freedom. I doubt the Founding Fathers would be for health care reform unless it created a market. Social programs and civil rights in this country were started and supported by secular ideals. If Jesus wants to get on board with health care reform great but I doubt a lot of Republicans look at it that way. Right now the Republicans are trying to shore up their elderly base by protecting Medicare from the Democrats which is insane.
Anyway, lets make a useful keyword even better! So, when I lose a challenge not only do I get to STAND but I also get to DRAW a card. How great is that! What a great card maker I am!
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It was awesome seeing you again Nick, as always!
Our top 4 game was awesome! 