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[dallen68]

i've been thinking about that question "compared to what?" I know it's common around here and I'm curious as to who the progenitor is.

I doubt anyone could really answer that question, I know it's been around for a long time now. The first time I heard it was in 1978, in a movie, but I don't remember what the name of it was.

[MrBogosity]

i've been thinking about that question "compared to what?" I know it's common around here and I'm curious as to who the progenitor is.

It's just one of those things skeptics learn to ask. Every measurement needs a baseline for comparison. Woos just like to throw out numbers without that comparison (see Over 9000 Fallacy in the Unnamed Logical Fallacies thread). You need to get them to put their numbers in context to see if their point stands (and usually it doesn't; otherwise they would have done so to begin with).

[ArtemisVale]

[tnu]

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A private orginization designed to help the homeless find homes and jobs. Don't statists say this doesn't happen?

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Hell yeah, man I want a refund on those stupid books...

[ArtemisVale]

I looked over D&D next/5th ed and I still think I prefer Pathfinder.

[tnu]

last thing I remember playing in this vain was a Shadowrun LARP.

[evensgrey]

last thing I remember playing in this vain was a Shadowrun LARP.

Last pencil and paper RPG I played was a Star Trek game.  Using the FASA Star Trek system, which was ended back in the second ir third season of TNG because of Paramount claiming license violations. (And the inclusion of the the famous photo of a Ferengi without his dentures in the TNG Season One sourcebook. That Brannon Braga attributed this picture to a random mugging for a camera somewhere off-set at Paramount shows how out of touch with Trek he always was. The background is badly out of focus, but it's the surface set of the Portal Planet from the first regular episode of the series.) I left that game in 1999. We kept using the system because we all liked it and it worked, as long as the GM invoked the correct house adjustments.

I played in one of the early Shadowrun versions. I found it frustrating.

I had great fun in the West End Games Star Wars RPG. (This is the one where if you try to use a lightsabre without developing the skill first, you can lop of our own limbs.) One campaign got a little out of hand. The GM let one player play an alien that was, basically, an anime elf. Later on, a one-shot adventure for a night when half the players didn't turn up introduced Marvel-style mutants. Next thing you know, we've got Star Wars with mutants and elves and vampires and werewolves all over the place.

[tnu]

[BlameThe1st]

The Firey Joker joshscorcher created this gem in light of all the false DMCA claims being filed by Shout! Factory against brony reviewers like him. It's a great smackdown against greedy corporate cronies that want to abuse intellectual property to go after YouTube reviewers, and why such reviews are perfectly within fair use:

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[Travis Retriever]

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Damn, the fruit didn't fall far from the tree!

[Travis Retriever]

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I think even BlameThe1st will like this one.  The bit on religion reminds me of Lord T Hawkeye saying that anyone who's religious and honest about it would call the state heresy.

[tnu]

Evey: All this riot and uproar, V... is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please?
V: No. This is only the land of take-what-you-want. Anarchy means 'without leaders', not 'without order'. With anarchy comes an age of ordnung, of true order, which is to say voluntary order... this age of ordnung will begin when the mad and incoherent cycle of verwirrung that these bulletins reveal has run its course... This is not anarchy, Evey. This is chaos.

[Ibrahim90]

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I think even BlameThe1st will like this one.  The bit on religion reminds me of Lord T Hawkeye saying that anyone who's religious and honest about it would call the state heresy.

he is right: you see what the Ba'athists tell people to say, at the pain of death? "No God but Bashshar", not "No God but God". At least unlike in America, they're honest about it their Government being their god.

[tnu]