Gromnir

am suspecting we played a different d&d than did you. the following is gensai that josh mentioned. the original aasimar and tiefling were more subtle, but by 4th edition, the default tiefling were looking a bit like dragon age qunari heck, even 2nd edition tieflings were tending towards exotic so, am gonna need call foul on your claim. HA! Good Fun!

there is some truth to that, but since arafat gave ehud barak and bill clinton the proverbial middle finger in 2000 and then kicked off the second intifada with a wave o' suicide bombings, israel has been more than cautious about finding peaceful solutions. is possible that israel gave up on peace with the palestinians after 2000. the fact that hamas came to power is arguably (again, we says arguably) as much israeli fault as arab. by 2006, the palestinians in gaza were not only having learned the lessons that terroism works, but they also were convinced (and perhaps with some validity) that israel weren't looking for peace with arabs no more either. given such realities, the fact that hamas came to power is hardly surprising. "However, Barak’s decision to try and end the conflict with the Palestinians in one stroke at the Camp David conference in July 2000 was even more problematic. Barak offered Yasir Arafat an independent state in Gaza, almost all of the West Bank and parts of Jerusalem, terms that most Israelis thought too generous. When Arafat rejected the offer, Barak sweetened it the following January in Taba only to get the same response. By then, Arafat had answered what he and the Palestinians thought was Barak’s weakness by launching a terrorist war of attrition known as the second intifada. "Though 12 years later many American Jews and most of the Washington foreign policy establishment still haven’t absorbed the lessons of this debacle, the overwhelming majority of Israelis drew conclusions about the Palestinians from these events that continue to shape Israel’s political future. "Barak taught the Palestinians to think that terrorism will cause Israel to back down and retreat, leading them to think that more violence and intransigence rather than moderation and negotiation will get them what they want. At the same time, he taught Israelis that retreats like his Lebanon bug-out and the Gaza withdrawal it inspired, as well as the concessions that he made at Camp David, only lead to more sorrow for the country. Almost single-handedly (though it must be conceded that he couldn’t have done it without Arafat and his successor Mahmoud Abbas), Barak inculcated in the Israeli public the understanding that they have no partner for peace and that the intractable conflict can only be managed rather than solved." in any event, the quoted material above is an oft-repeated perspective 'pon the failed 2000 camp david peace negotiations. true or not don't matter anymore. folks believe. the israelis believe the arabs in the west bank and gaza don't genuine want peace, and the arabs believe that the best way to wring concessions from israel is through violence and dead bodies. as such, am not seeing any genuine solutions, at least not til there is a perspective sea change amongst both peoples living in the lands o' the former british mandate. HA! Good Fun!

were it intentional that in character creation at both ign and g-bomb that the same cc options were getting the invisible hand of click? seems odd that there were no clicking on ciphers, priests, chanters, etc... no dwarf or orlan? am getting that the whole thing were rehearsed, but why only paladin, barbarian, and fighter in both gameplay videos? why only halloween and human for race options? almost by accident one would likely click cipher when josh mentioned them. that didn't happen. based on what we saw and considering some feedback comments, am guessing that character creation ain't complete. and did we hear why no talents or skills? *shrug* extreme basic mechanics looked nice although lack o' any magic were painful obvious. the video were very scripted and limited, but looked encouraging. complete side-note: aesthetics o' the effect/ability/whatever icons were reminding us o' ps:t versions. HA! Good Fun!

Lol, and again I am highly amused. (nonsensical tangent) soooo, is no longer that Gromnir were inconsistent on the issue but rather that the whole damn issue is irrelevant and the baltic states got screwed... somehow. and armenia. or is it that russia got screwed? *shrug* is relevant as is imaginary quotes. ... am not even gonna respond to nonsense about the entire negev desert belonging to the relative handful o' bedouins. is a nice new tangent, but considering Gromnir has been the only one lamenting their plight under unscop til now, we is amused. and again, for at least the 6th time, there never were any partition. is mind blowing that you kids don't seem to get that point. you sure you don't need a time out, 'cause this is getting kind sad? HA! Good Fun!

The precise appearance of anthropomorphised embodiments of the concept of Death seems to me to be a culturally determined thing. I don't know if you can say much about what it "should" or "shouldn't" look like without a pretty strong background in the surrounding culture. is even more varied. am a big fan o' neil gaiman, but his death from sandman were looking like a perky goth girl. he were using largely judeo-christian mythology to arrive at this? most folks liked it, so what do we know? HA! Good Fun! ps thanks to josh for the reply on stat minimums

hey, we has tuned in to watch law and order, if only 'cause virtual all the assistant da looked like models... which is Far different from reality. HA! Good Fun!

Programming is currently hooking up all of the description displays in CC. good to know. is there an obsidian rationale regarding stat minimums? we won't ask josh personal pov as we has already heard regarding various games and developments and we promise not to bludgeon you with past comments. if you explain, we will take explanation graciously and forgo a response. assuming abilities is balanced, we is always perplexed by minimums, but am genuine curious 'bout the PoE reasoning. HA! Good Fun!

character creation were odd. perhaps we need watch again, but all we saw were lists w/o explanations. choose race. okie dokie, but what advantages does human have? choose class. fine, but what are attributes o' a barbarian or fighter? choose ability point spread. nice, but what exactly is perception and how does one point in perception benefit our character? choose... whatever. also, as already noted by other folks, there were no skills or talents. based on character creation we saw, the functional gameplay customization through character creation were incredible sparse. finally, why have ability minimums? yeah, having such does result in less extreme character builds, but if all abilities is equal useful, then am not seeing a need to provided minimums, particularly if every point is equal useful as well. we will watch again, but character creation were underwhelming or incomplete. HA! Good Fun!

video that so complete sold us on octopedes. jolly good show. HA! Good Fun!

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118828/israel-palestine-war-army-knew-beforehand-gaza-was-crisis is another worthwhile read. HA! Good Fun!

Not many. I'm saying our Mike McCoy could do it. He has a face that looks like it wins a lot of staring contests. am suspecting tomlin could have a couple years ago, but am not so sure if he could today. singletary were actual kinda old, but he were in ridiculous good shape. if you mean "coaches" and not head coaches, we believe many could survive the basic physical test. is more than a few position coaches who is former players or just super-jocks who has kept themselves in good shape. however, once you become a head coach, there is typical insufficient time to sleep, eat and shower much less workout. HA! Good Fun!

how 'bout halfling tossing? if you need a racist trait, then might as well go complete gauche. your halfling projectile could be armoured in bladed or spiked armour, then either self-propelled or hurled by player at enemies. range would be something ridiculously plausible like 2 metres. is possible that Gromnir is not taking the ranged animal companion attacks suggestion serious. HA! Good Fun!

"I'm sure you consider yourself an masterful debater and that your arguments are solid and that it's always the other guy that makes all those fallacies and mistakes. Well, you're wrong. You are doing every single thing you accuse me of." you realize that simply saying that doesn't make it true, yes? "False equalency. That is not the reason Hamas was elected." have no idea what false equalency is 'posed to mean, but we already posted links to hamas creation and their charter and such. "Israel will rise and will remain erect until Islam eliminates it as it had eliminated its predecessors." (please, no beavis & butthead responses to "erect") "The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished Palestinian movement, whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine." "Article Thirteen: Peaceful Solutions, [Peace] Initiatives and International Conferences [Peace] initiatives, the so-called peaceful solutions, and the international conferences to resolve the Palestinian problem, are all contrary to the beliefs of the Islamic Resistance Movement. For renouncing any part of Palestine means renouncing part of the religion; the nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its faith, the movement educates its members to adhere to its principles and to raise the banner of Allah over their homeland as they fight their Jihad: “Allah is the all-powerful, but most people are not aware.” From time to time a clamoring is voiced, to hold an International Conference in search for a solution to the problem. Some accept the idea, others reject it, for one reason or another, demanding the implementation of this or that condition, as a prerequisite for agreeing to convene the Conference or for participating in it. But the Islamic Resistance Movement, which is aware of the [prospective] parties to this conference, and of their past and present positions towards the problems of the Muslims, does not believe that those conferences are capable of responding to demands, or of restoring rights or doing justice to the oppressed. Those conferences are no more than a means to appoint the nonbelievers as arbitrators in the lands of Islam." this is all from hamas charter. regardless, you is confused on the point. we observed that the cartoon offers a completely implausible solution, a solution that were as untenable back in 1947 as it is today. neither jew nor arab should be trusted to protect the human rights and civil liberties o' the other group. respond with "false equalency" is meaningless and ignores the fact that hamas is even more overt about their desire to exterminate israel/jews than were the arabs back when unscop were crafting a partition plan. duh. "Pray tell, when did I ever say the other side was blemeless?" *chuckle* you started with the nonsense about disproportionate casualties giving the arab in gaza the moral high ground and your cartoon clear show the palestinians as the victims in this scenario. you is one o' the myopic folks who helps fuel this entire cycle o' nonsense. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/66123-israel-vs-palestine/?p=1466327 that post by you is our favorite as it seems to ignore that the israelis has now been in israel for more than a couple generations, which according to your own busted logic would give them the right to israel. and the majority o' the "other people' land" that the jews were given were British lands... y'know, as it were the british mandate. most o' the rest o' the land they got were land that they bought from brits and arabs. 'Which is why they don't.' so? that is not any kinda a rationale. hamas started a fight they cannot win and they choose to fight it in the streets of gaza. we has noted earlier in this thread that from a tactical perspective, fighting in gaza makes sense for hamas, but what is the point of starting a fight you cannot win, a fight that necessarily will result in many civilian casualties? again, even if you look at the tactics and find them reasonable (fighting in the most densely populated place on earth,) strategically it is a wacky battle to choose... and the fact remains that the battleground were chosen by hamas. civilian casualties is as much the responsibility o' hamas as they chose the fight and its location. the only two purposes we can see for hamas starting a no-win fight with the idf is as follows: 1) urban warfare is extremely unfavorable to an attacker. hamas is weak. they has no support from syria or egypt or even the fatah. their supply from iran is largely gone and their support in gaza had waned. hamas were weak and getting weaker. if they wanted to hurt israel, they had to do sooner rather than later, 'cause they were slowly bleeding out as an organization. 2) they were hoping to win the cease-fire, if not the battle. hamas can't win a battle with the idf, and there is nothing particularly noble about starting a bloody conflict that will get your own people killed if you has no chance o' success. nevertheless, hamas were aware that as civilian body count increased, the pressure on israel to agree to a cease-fire would also increase. the Only leverage hamas has in a possible cease-fire scenario is civilian body count, so they start a fight that will produce many sympathetic bodies. they tell gazans not to evacuate and they fire missiles from homes, and holy places and schools and they ride around in ambulances n' such. international sympathy would eventually bring about a cease-fire, and civilian body count would give hamas clout it has been sorely lacking. perhaps a cease-fire could strengthen hamas. but again, they need a cease-fire. to get a cease-fire, hamas needed a conflict. to get leverage in the cease-fire they needed bodies... lots o' bodies. well-played? or perhaps hamas simply didn't care about civilians and they is simply acting according to their charter. in any event, the larger palestinain issues is actual somewhat irrelevant in the present conflict. this is not israel v. palestinian arabs. it sure as hell ain't israel v. the arab world as has so often been the case. hamas is almost entirely alone. that is a point worth considering. 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difference is we show where your reasoning is flawed. you are even more obtuse than zor. put "uncivilized, dirty arabs" in quotes and act like we said such stuff makes you look childish in addition to your previous problems making a coherent argument. we never claimed that israel were an egalitarian state where arabs and jews were getting equal protection. that ain't the case and we ain't pretending it is. your cartoon ignores the reality that the arabs is not gonna treat the jews any more more fair if they has a majority. the UN partition plan were not authored by idiots-- they recognized throwing the jews and arabs together were not a feasible solution back in 1947-48. cartoon suggests letting arabs back into occupied territories so that jews in israel is outnumbered and outflanked by a hostile population that when given the opportunity has elected organizations such as hamas. brilliant freaking plan. the israelis haven't be serious 'bout peace since 2001. they ain't blameless, but nobody in this sad drama is blameless. everybody has blood on their hands. pretending like arabs or jews is just victims is not helpful. to be fair to you, is not as if you is alone in your myopic view o' israel. the issue of arabs, jews and the british mandate territories is so polarizing that few folks can discuss rationally. and the media don't help neither. tv journalists love to do Drama. photographers will focus on a blood soaked shirt on a dusty road and make it symbolic o' the whole jewish/arab conflict. *groan* reporters does the same but with the story o' a mother separated from her children in gaza, or showing a jewish victims o' suicide bombers or whatever. if one story needs a little objectivity and perspective, this is it, but objectivity ain't what gets folks to tune in to cnn or read al jazeera. bah. am repeating self and we do not honestly believe you is willing to listen. "It's not like they can invade Israel and fight on their territory." actually, they could. they would lose, but they could do so. they will lose anyway, so am not sure what the point is. oh, and your hamas demands list is amusing. kinda cute actually. HA! Good Fun!

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/66123-israel-vs-palestine/?p=1466145 that were arguable our first post on the subject. we were responding to ros and observed 'bout the 33% population... which were true. afterwards is when he and you brought up other bs about how much arabs owned v. jews at time of the partition plan... which we then further clarified. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/66123-israel-vs-palestine/?p=1466161 this post were in response to gorgon. it mentions that jews were a majority in some areas... which they were. again, you ain't getting that uninhabitable lands were not arab lands. the partitions, as outlined by unscop, resulted in territories that were either having a jewish majority or were useless desert. " so the UN takes a look at a map o' the british mandate and recognizes that the jews there is already a majority in many areas and there is a lot o' useless desert area to dump new refugees into." hardly seems inconsistent. looks like you is the one misreading or outright fibbing... again. we did leave out a link to one other post, simply 'cause we didn't see it when reviewing. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/66123-israel-vs-palestine/?p=1466287 in that post we again stress that much o' the land given to the jews were wasteland and that stoopid maps ignore non-arab owners and state-owned lands. is actual a flaw in Gromnir's character that we can be dogged consistent. soooo... you keep chasing your tail on this one. either you didn't read before or you ain't reading now, but either way you reaffirm our contention 'bout you being obtuse willful or accidental. thanks. HA! Good Fun!

familiars and companions is, we suspect, a balancing nightmare. if you make the familiar/companion strong enough so that it can survive and even aid in combat, then you is functionally increasing the relative power o' the character with the familiar/companion substantially. if is the equivalent o' an extra companion in the party, then the companion is too strong, yes? our ranger and his mystic poo throwing howler monkey is like 2 party members with potential 2x as many attacks and doing near 2x as much damage. conversely, these games is so level-based that a companion or familiar that is 1/2 or even 2/3 as powerful as the player may functionally be useless. if player is 8th level and the familiar/companion is a 4th level monster with no magic rings, weapons or armour, then what good is it gonna in a combat focused crpg save as a potential scout? main goal o' the player is keeping the familiar outta combat so it don't insta die when it gets crit hit by a giant or dragon or whatever. nevertheless, the howler monkey idea should be considered, along with spitting llamas and ink-spewing octopi. is it octopus or octopi? octopus looks right but sounds wrong. regardless, our maritime ranger should be able to carry an octopus companion in a wet sack and have it ineffectually dribble out ink before battle. HA! Good Fun!

howler monkey throwing magic poo? is juvenile and lavatorial, but obsidian did just complete a south park game. that being said, am guessing that the genesis poster is a d&d fan who were referencing the functional ranged touch-attacks o' d&d familiars. the familiar don't have a ranged attack-- the familiar is the ranged attack. your mystic tortoise gets loaded up with a spell that it can deliver by making a successful touch attack against an enemy. obviously a fireball would be kinda too hezbollah for good taste or practicality, but there were more than a few instances in which the invisible or hidden d&d familiar would be able to sneak up on an unsuspecting enemy and deliver the whammy via a simple touch. HA! Good Fun!

keep in mind that our impeachment example is more of a law school or bar exam hypothetical. government can't impeach your testimony if you do not testify. real criminal trials is not like tv with surprise witnesses and defendants collapsing on the stand. real trial is, with negligible exceptions, very boring and tedious. our bob would almost never take the stand... and even if he did, he would not offer testimony on direct that could be impeached as we suggest. HA! Good Fun!

*eye-roll* our position has not changed. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/66123-israel-vs-palestine/?p=1468288 http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/66123-israel-vs-palestine/?p=1466216 is nothing new from us. am not sure if you is being obtuse for fun our without realizing. HA! Good Fun!

Funny, the only 50% land nonsense I can remember is someone (now who was it, I know he had some sort of posting schtick and it deffo wasn't Bruce or Volo...) claiming many areas of Palestine had greater than 50% ownership by Jews. Which was nonsense and shown to be false even within proposed partition Israel, done with maps and stats that tend to make things believable and true but for some reason were unbelievable and false in this case, even the one he posted himself, thinking it proved his point. uh, that is exactly what the maps did show. in the northern portion o' the map o' what is now israel, the UN had partitioned two areas that were to be eventually jewish. in these areas, the jewish population were already exceeding arabs and land ownership of Habitable land were also greater than arabs in those areas. the very first point o' chapter 2 o' the unscop report, The Elements of the Conflict, were an observation that Palastine were, "26,000 square kilometres or a little over 10,000 square miles, but about halt of this area is uninhabitable." at end of the report, in the partition plan portion, unscop also observed that jewish population and land ownership by 1946-47 were majority jewish in the northern Habitable partitioned areas. from our reading o' the unscop report, the well-intentioned but naive folks did seem a little dismissive of the smallish population o' bedouins in the negev, which we has always thought were a tragedy. now again, 'cause zor not seem to get this, a map that shows green v. white or white v. red for arab v. jewish ownership in the british mandate ignores what? c'mon, lets see if you learned anything from this thread. ... uninhabitable land would not appear as one o' the aforementioned colors. ... non arab and non jewish owned land would also necessarily be a color other than those mentioned. *sigh* it seems that some folks is extreme slow learners. in any event, on paper it were looking like the jews were the folks getting screwed by the partition plan. not only had unscorp recognized that british limits on jewish immigration during mandate years had been excessive, but the largest % o' their +50% o' land were the negev freaking desert. cut up the proverbial cow and give the jews the hooves, legs and head n' stuff. sure, is better than 50%, but stuff jews got were what you makes hot dogs outta. that being said, the negev did give the jews access to the red sea, which were probable making up for the crap cuts they were otherwise being handed. and furthermore, 'cause this never seems to sink in, the partition plan were never actually implemented 'cause every neighboring arab nation, plus the arabs living in the british mandate, and a few helper nations such as pakistan, invaded immediately after the British withdrew. the express purpose o' the arab invasion were kinda familiar as it were same as hamas... to be exterminating the jewish population. HA! Good Fun!

Twitter and beat reporter blogs have made following a team through the offseason rather exhausting. You hear about it every time a player gets up limping or goes to the sidelines, and wait with baited breath until the coach's press conference to see how quickly you should be giving up hope for the season. I'd kinda prefer the moment-to-moment stress of being a sports fan be confined to when actual games are being played. the only good thing about the over-coverage is that the old-skool attila the hun style o' coaching is less likely to occur nowadays. back even as recent as the late 90s, more than a few training camps would look more like triage units than anything else. toughen guys up by making 'em run til they puke... and then have 'em run s'more. we has a close friend who is a successful agent, so we tagged along a couple o' times when he visited camps. am recalling one camp we witnessed had a tent set up for all the heatstroke and dehydration victims and there were more than 20 guys we could see with IVs in their arm getting 'em extra fluids. send out exhausted guys with borderline heatstroke and have them do full-contact drills-- act surprised when guys then get injured. the full coverage has reduced some o' the worst jackassery by coaches. unfortunately, the over-the-top hazing by players is kept mostly away from cameras and reporters. have a notre dame rookie sing the usc fight song while wearing a frilly pink dress and serving lunch to team? sure, we get that kinda thing. but some o' the other stuff... *shudder* HA! Good Fun!

we got no idea how many additional sales o' PoE beyond their kickstarter money grab is necessary to makes a sequel likely. if PoE turns out to be a worthwhile game for Gromnir, our only genuine concern will be that PoE sells well enough to make a sequel a certainty. if PoE sux, then we won't care how many units is sold. am a very practical fellow. HA! Good Fun!

am possible misunderstanding mor. nevertheless general rule is that only the victim o' the inappropriate custodial interrogation has standing to raise spectre o' exclusion. if the yutz blabs about third parties, the third party cannot raise. keep in mind that the exclusion by its very nature is allowing a guilty person to escape justice-- most countries don't have exclusion. exclusion is a deterrent against police excess. therefore, exclusion is very narrowly tailored. also, depending on specifics o' the hypo, statements made by a defendant wherein his miranda rights were violated may still be used to impeach the defendant's testimony. example: bob asks for an attorney but police ignore and keep interrogating. bob then admits that he killed viki. the admission cannot be used to show bob's guilt, however, if bob gets on stand and claims that he didn't kill viki, his admission can be used to impeach his testimony. am not sure if this is helpful. HA! Good Fun!

where we say that? the arguments made in the cartoon were not credible when made in print in this thread. you then post a cartoon summation. we observe that the cartoon doesn't make more true. your reasoning is flawed. sad little stick figures don't make more true. maybe a weak mind finds stick figures more sympathetic than the reality o' hamas, but we hope most folks ain't so easily manipulated. oh, and another aside, how would you like to be a jew living in iran or syria? 'cause those poor arabs has historically been so concerned 'bout the civil and human rights o' non-muslims, yes? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/07/24/christian-woman-once-condemned-to-death-in-sudan-for-her-faith-meets-pope-francis/ is additionaly disappointing as the sudan is one o' the most tolerant muslim countries. let all the arabs back into their previous lands (side note: the lands they woulda' had if they had gone along with the UN partition instead of initiating a war o' extermination against the jews) and now the israelis gotta displace citizens who has been living and improving lands for decades and they add an overtly hostile and majority population into the mix. does that make any sense to anybody? even here in the US, the Oglala and Lakota don't actual expect or demand US citizens to be displaced from the Black Hills, 'cause that would be stupid. oh, and we has seen just how well arab nations has handled recent experiments with democracy.... but am certain the palestinian arabs wouldn't take advantage o' the situation once they were a majority populace in a democratic state along with israeli jews. *snort* cartoon were funny and sad. we don't swallow all the zionist nonsense from israel either, but that cartoon were so misleading as to be utterly useless. but no, being a cartoon isn't what made it useless. however, being a cartoon didn't make it more believable or true. duh. HA! Good Fun!

'cause everybody knows that if you put it in the form o' a cartoon it must be true. *snort* every issue in your cartoon were already discussed earlier in this thread... like the 50% land nonsense. cartoon does have nice stick figures though. chris avellone would be proud. HA! Good Fun!