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Stephen King’s Tweets About His Corgi Molly, AKA “The Thing Of Evil” Is Everything You Need

I do hope the voter turnout is big. Thus whatever the result, at least one would be legitimately able to say the people had spoken.
 
I remember during the last referendum on Quebec independence, in 1995, of the 5,087,009 registered voters, 4,757,509 cast ballots, or 93.52%. The tally was 50.58% to 49.42% against separation, a difference of only 54,288 votes. The lead kept changing back and forth throughout the night, the result not officially announced until around 2:00 AM the next morning. I consider it one of democracy's finest hours.

Not a bad scene, but it needs more cheap beer.

He looked deeply into her eyes, his heart full of narcotics and regret, but mostly regret, "I am sorry, Sally Sue Gomez, but I must be off to drive my tractor with a team of alligators as I scream profanities about the government as I ride naked smeared in Jello....the green kind."
 
She looked up onto his beautiful insanity ridden eyes, "But, but I  LOVE you, Florida Man!" 
 
Florida Man looked away, staring at the road that would be his destiny, "I know. Everyone does. It's... my curse."
 
"They do?" She said stunned.
 
""They must. I'm always in the news. ..FLORIDA MAN AWAY!" and he raced for the tractor and jello
 
Sally Sue Gomez wept, for she knew she would never have another love like this one.
 
 

Except humanity is already doing that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility
 
The whole Idea of the Human Population explosin was solid with 1960's data, but it is no longer supported today.
 
 
Today you mostly hear it from Racists/Anti Imigration Fanatics that want to make a argument around "Population exchange" or some such nonsense. Who else would bring up a 60 year old, overturned Theory?

Wow, loving this thread. Pardon, I feel like all the good comments have been made. 
 
I have thought of running a super game with GRAB as sort of a Franchise with a Robin Hood/Leverage sort of feel just to see if my players would like it. They've been more in a fantasy mood lately, possibly for reasons mentioned above about 'protecting the status quo' trap Superheroes often fall into. Which is on me as a Game Master, I know.

Maybe so!
 
Then again, Iron Man is totally metal, and Frodo is fairly square.

1248 words while watching Critical Role. 

I have the supervillains who'd agree with you, and intend to do something about it:
 

He looked deeply into her eyes, his heart full of narcotics and regret, but mostly regret, "I am sorry, Sally Sue Gomez, but I must be off to drive my tractor with a team of alligators as I scream profanities about the government as I ride naked smeared in Jello....the green kind."
 
She looked up onto his beautiful insanity ridden eyes, "But, but I  LOVE you, Florida Man!" 
 
Florida Man looked away, staring at the road that would be his destiny, "I know. Everyone does. It's... my curse."
 
"They do?" She said stunned.
 
""They must. I'm always in the news. ..FLORIDA MAN AWAY!" and he raced for the tractor and jello
 
Sally Sue Gomez wept, for she knew she would never have another love like this one.
 
 

Falcon-Winter Soldier Limited Series in the Works With ‘Empire’ Writer (EXCLUSIVE)
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/falcon-winter-soldier-limited-series-marvel-1203015438/
 
hope it is named Sidekicks. 

"Brain stem!  Brain stem!"

I just wanna know if he broke out the KITT voice...
 
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/william-daniels-attempted-burglary-boy-meets-world_us_5bd87848e4b07427610bba18

New one up...and it (tries to) explain something...
 
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1145.html

Every day I stay alive is a day won.

I am actually for strong borders. I am not convinced having a bad economy in your own nation automatically entitles you to cross a border into another country. But the caravan are asylum seekers, while many of them are no doubt just wanting better standards of living but were not in immediate danger, there ARE others that didn't want their kids getting murdered in cold blood by drug cartels or the like.  And at least those coming to seek a better job are sympathetic, unlike the corporations that eagerly snatch them up so they can pay them bare minimum and treat them as poorly as they like because otherwise said worker risks getting his butt (and the butts of his family) deported on THEIR terms.
 
And unfortunately, in my opinion, we often make it very HARD for folks to do things legally.
 
It should not take 10 plus years to earn your US citizenship.
The courts and officials in charge of citizenship should not be as woefully understaffed and underfunded as they are. We need more funding to expand and stream line the process.
We should go after those exploiting illegal immigrants more than we do the illegal immigrants themselves.
 
My lord, sometimes I want to kick Congress in its collective keister. There are things they could do to HELP those trying to do it by the laws. THAT I think, about 90% of most Americans of either political bent could agree with.
But that would require them actually doing something.
 
Nevermind our President who clearly is okay with immigrants as long as they're blonde.
 
 
 
 
 

Well, you guys certainly get intellectual, even down right thoughtful at times.
 
Meanwhile, I just had to edit a webcomic out of someone's post because it had the F word in it ...repeatedly. And I died a little inside as I rolled my rock back to the top of the hill again.
 
“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”-Camus
 
Belgium you, Camus!
 
 
 
 

I am actually for strong borders. I am not convinced having a bad economy in your own nation automatically entitles you to cross a border into another country. But the caravan are asylum seekers, while many of them are no doubt just wanting better standards of living but were not in immediate danger, there ARE others that didn't want their kids getting murdered in cold blood by drug cartels or the like.  And at least those coming to seek a better job are sympathetic, unlike the corporations that eagerly snatch them up so they can pay them bare minimum and treat them as poorly as they like because otherwise said worker risks getting his butt (and the butts of his family) deported on THEIR terms.
 
And unfortunately, in my opinion, we often make it very HARD for folks to do things legally.
 
It should not take 10 plus years to earn your US citizenship.
The courts and officials in charge of citizenship should not be as woefully understaffed and underfunded as they are. We need more funding to expand and stream line the process.
We should go after those exploiting illegal immigrants more than we do the illegal immigrants themselves.
 
My lord, sometimes I want to kick Congress in its collective keister. There are things they could do to HELP those trying to do it by the laws. THAT I think, about 90% of most Americans of either political bent could agree with.
But that would require them actually doing something.
 
Nevermind our President who clearly is okay with immigrants as long as they're blonde.
 
 
 
 
 

Just so we don't forget... Whale Guy!
 

This is a good question. I am old enough to have experienced the presence of real hippies, and disliked them. My tastes in RPG tended towards SF,  and modern combat, but I came at this hobby from war gaming. 
 
I think the attraction to fantasy is mostly the escapism, and to be someone else, if not heroic, but capable. Part of it is playing by their own rules, rather than society’s. Fantasy also has the advantage of attracting more women to the game table than superheroes. Overthrowing and abusive local tyrant, is something you do in fantasy, there is that hint of revolutionary romanticism nfor some, that in a Superhero environment would spark a diplomatic incident, or worse, look like domestic terrorism. So yes Superheroes wield great power, but do stand to uphold the status quo, and bourgeois values. Superheroes also are mostly analogies to modern society, whereas Fantasy is more mythic, and open to different interpretations. Superheroes are Civic minded. Fantasy is tribal. 

I also think it is easier for teenage boys to step into the role of your typical murderhobo adventurer out to kill monsters and take their stuff, getting more powerful along the way, than it is for them to step into the role of your typical superhero with a substantially more mature moral compass and a driving need to selflessly help others. Of course, there are characters in both genres that subvert these norms, but the general perception of these genres is largely shaped by those two archetypes (the murderhobo and the do-gooder).

D&D as the first rpg set the trend, and had first mover advantage plus hit on the zeitgeist of its times.
 
In the 60's, early 70's Tolkein's books entered the public domain in the US on accident due to a bizarre clause in the US copyright laws regarding import of books from other countries. Ace published a bunch of royalty free copies at a reduced cost compared to other books of the time. The themes of the books in regards to "back to nature" / anti-technology and an overall anti-war sentiment meshed well with the counterculture movement of the day (what we think of as hippies these days), and the idea that the "pipeweed" hobbits made and smoked was marijuana found favor with the same group as well (Tolkein himself stated it was just a kind of tobacco). Consequently, Tolkein-isms and similar derivatives became a cultural phenomenon of the era, and you end up with wizards painted on the sides of panel vans and rock ballads such as The Battle of Evermore and so on. It resonated with a lot of people who did not conform to the mainstream norms of their day, particularly creatives. In the downstream ripple of that, we get D&D and other vaguely Tolkein-esque content including some early video games made mostly at colleges by young techies who were hip to the youth culture of their day. 
 
Superheroes on the other hand had their original heyday in the 1940's and then again later in the 80's. For a very long time, they were seen as being strictly for kids. This began to change in the 80's and 90's, and of course the last decade has been insanely big for superheroes. 
 
Unfortunately, most people only know DC and Marvel characters from the movies and TV shows, and for whatever reason both Marvel and DC have never really been able to get their act together when it comes to RPG's and videogames. There's been a lot of good rpgs published. I myself enjoyed Marvel FASERIP from TSR in the 80's, Marvel SAGA (the card one, which was actually pretty fun if you gave it a chance), and Marvel Cortex+ (which was a GREAT game). But either they don't catch on, or they are not supported and die off, or the license lapses. 
 
I think that perhaps part of the problem with getting more people hooked on superhero rpgs is that fantasy stories are mostly literary; you read them and imagine them in your minds eye. They attract readers who are good at imagining things in their minds eye. This is the very same skill one needs to get into and enjoy roleplaying games. Superhero stories are mostly comic books / graphic novels or now movies and tv shows; you experience these stories mostly by looking at pictures or cinematic representations. You don't have to imagine anything in your mind's eye...what is happening has been drawn or acted out for you to look at. It is a visual medium, and it draws people who appreciate a visual medium and want to be SHOWN what it is vs imagine it for themselves. There is some overlap; some people enjoy both traditional textbased books and graphical books, but a lot of comic book fans are not big readers in the general sense.
 
 

My favorite Zombie song is probably By Johnathan Coulton 
RE: Your Brains
 
But Creepy Doll and Skullcrusher Mountain are also great for that 'oh what is wrong with you' feel

The best line in the series:
 
 

My favorite Zombie song is probably By Johnathan Coulton 
RE: Your Brains
 
But Creepy Doll and Skullcrusher Mountain are also great for that 'oh what is wrong with you' feel