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Yes, I believe you go to a bar, pay for and have them fill the bag. The bag then allows you to serve through the system and keeps the beer "fresh" at home without having to return to the bar until you need the bag. Or friends. Or something.

^suppose the big question is - will the corporations be allowed to get married if the corporations are gay or not...? To be fair, no one is forcing an employee to work for Hobby Lobby, as far as I know. Reading a bit more, it seems the concern comes not from the two companies in this suit, but that 90% of US companies could meet the "closely held" status and what that means for the workforce.

Yeah, that's basically my understanding. The RFRA was put in place after Oregon v Smith, then there was a justice ruling that RFRA only applied to federal law (in a case of a church that imported an illegal tea that was used at the home of the church in South America) and so a bunch of states made their own RFRAs. Perhaps, though I'm not so sure that it will follow naturally since the tests of RFRA have typically three points to consider: Strict scrutiny Religious liberty can only be limited for a compelling government interest If religious liberty is to be limited, it must be done in the least restrictive manner possible I suppose the real test is for someone to form "The Church of Debauchery" and see what they can get away with.

Yes Hobby Lobby's complaint, as far as I know, was not about contraceptives in general (although I believe Catholic Schools and hospitals DID have concern about contraceptives in general under the AHCA)

"Dragon Age" is, in the lore, named because of the sighting of the first high dragon in centuries and thus noticed by the chantry at the end of the Blessed Age. So the title is a reference to a specific time of the Chantry Calendar in Thedas, and not actually about any specific creature.

'cause that just how we roll.

That's not true, as I understand it. What the ruling on the 1990 case says is that states have the power to accommodate illegal acts done in pursuit of religious pursuits states are not required to make those accommodations. Its important to note that the Hobby Lobby case is not regarding a state, but the federal government, so its not exactly the same thing (and as I understand it the RFRA is specific to the federal government; states would have to pass a state version for it to be applied at the state level).

Everything old is new again, I guess...

Hobby Lobby is a privately owned corporation, owned and run at the top by a single family. The family are conservative Christians who believe that specifically the mandate that would require the company to cover "day after pills" or emergency contraceptives that, essentially, abort a fertilized egg would force them to be a party to the killing of babies. The government's argument, that Hobby Lobby could hire a private insurance company and they wouldn't have to be responsible for what that company did, was rejected as still being essentially that the family would be forced by the government to do something that their religious convictions said was immoral. To be fair, no one is forcing an employee to work for Hobby Lobby, as far as I know. As far as I know the issue was never contraceptives, in general, but the emergency contraceptives that would essentially do an abortion, from the family's perspective.

I think for me that while I know some women gamers, they're not of a unified opinion on game content1 and I'm not sure - not being a woman - I'm in the position to best judge what anyone outside of myself would think. I can, however, still judge an argument on the merits of the argument that don't presuppose certain gender-specific knowledge. For me, the article linked here was built on weak arguments - for example it pre-supposed that the games the author is against are "****ty" which immediately is a set up to imply the people who like ****ty things are also ****ty. Others may feel differently. Which gets to the heart of the problem, in my eyes, that often these complaints are brought up in a vacuum, without any attempt to contextualize or understand the intent of the creation or storytelling.2 1Heck, I know women who disagree about online actions that I find kinda creepy and that can't even be classed as "game content" controlled by the game maker - some dislike the unwanted attention, others don't care. So which side am I to fall on regarding guys messaging women, in game, a/s/l (or the modern equivalent) much less what's actually in a game - with respect to the female gender? 2For me the ultimate justification for game content is the game itself; I think a lot of these problems could be side-stepped if a developer could just step in and say "we chose to do this because of..." and then use the game or game creation aspect of why that choice was made. There may still be disagreement over whether the choice was right, but at least there's a defensible position that's already been thought about because a choice was made rather than becoming something that exists without thought or consideration within the game.

And people still complained about it.* And Lanfear complained about her inclusion in the game (and, IIRC, left the boards) because of the execution. *heck there are people in the PoE forums here complaining that people who pledged more money in the pledge tiers than them got the ability to make stuff in the game and how this was unfair to them, being that they were too poor to pledge more but wanted to create stuff in the game. And that to be fair, Obsidian should also raffle off design space to the poorer forum members.

Was it really bad? I had a tough year in school when BG2:TOB came out and was not on the boards much. Strange, I thought that was a great cameo. This is why we cannot have nice things. Well I think it was the other cameos (like the Lanfear one) and the people who were all "Why didn't I get a cameo?" that proved to be the problem, as opposed to the Gromnir one. RE: The article - I think the signal gets lost in the noise the author throws around.

Not while I was a mod (doubt it'd be different when I wasn't a mod).

Do you taste the Tabsco flavoured Ice-Cream, or does the Ice-Vream flavoured Tabsco taste you?

Well it looks interesting. I'll probably wait for some reviews, but I did enjoy what I saw in the trailer.

Based on the interview (from a Square or Collective representative) there are two roles the publisher plays with the collective; the first is in potentially distributing the products of the collective, the second is being available to provide support during the development process including providing assistance in the form of staff from their existing studios. If so, the publisher isn't receiving money but providing nothing (else why would anyone go to the collective in the first place?)

Could be worse, he could be wearing a a beret basque and a red kerchief on his neck

It was leaked online and - as far as I know - removed to copyright heaven.

I'm still reading, I'm just not so good at posting! Spamming is what gives BISers their power. It's an entropic field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the forum together.

Made by Obsidian Isometric, RTwP, party based game unique setting Loads of class/race combinations potential for non-combat skills to really be useful through the whole game Have to wait until December So many Class/Race combinations will mean I'll restart a lot potential for increased utility of non-combat skills to make combat undesirable deep stash sounds like a potential solution to packratitis but could also be a mess but this is more "wary" than true negative I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell

I'm in the middle of moving house! We move two weeks tomorrow. So, I am currently spending a lot of time lamenting the fact that I have so much stuff to pack... Ahh, again eh? I'd help you if I could. Well we just got our final approval yesterday on a house that we've been negotiating buying for the past week. We have all that packing to look forward to now. Garage sale time: Oak dining set anyone? Wrought iron daybed? Got any comic books, preferably pre-1957?

w00t! I still have a memory.

Yeah, some of those places are fun. I've always wanted to go to some of the remaining route 66 roadside attractions.

I thought it was a bear or something for some reason.

Well, I remember back in high school here in the US when Princip and the entire Black Hand were dismissed as "anarchists". So in some ways what I'm seeing now is more informational than those days (as I think from my limited readings on the subject that only Cabrinovic (sp) - the bomb guy - self-identified as an anarchist) albeit I don't think history is ever told without an angle to it.