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12 hours ago, Pattern Ghost said:

Yeah, Beau's looking for clicks. Assassinating political rivals is far beyond a lawful order, and would be ignored by any command. This is Hollywood-level BS, beyond moronic.

The president  could hand pick the members of a unit for their willingness to do such things for him.  I don't believe it's credible that the court will increase the president's already considerable protection from legal consequences for anything he does, but a president who really had total immunity for anything marginally related to governance could do such things.  

I'm suspicious.  How likely is it that no two states have the same top search terms?

Cartholicism.  

That was one of two references to Macbeth in TLOTR. You see in Macbeth, the witches make two prophecies about Macbeth, that he shall not be defeated until

Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill

Shall come against him.

MacDuff later orders his men while marching through Birnam Wood to cut wood from the trees to make torches which they then bear on their night attack on Dunsinane. Burning wood. Shakespeare you card. You hack.

Anyway this is the reason why the Ents exist, so they could literally make a forest march on Saruman's tower.

The second one was the prediction that no man of woman born can slay Macbeth. Turns out that Macduff's mother died in child-birth so he was cut out of her ala the myth about Julius Caesar who gave his name to the Caesarian section. That one really pissed off Tolkien, who realized that if you were going to engage in that kind of word play there were better options like having a nonhuman or a woman kill the target of the prophecy. He went with both, a woman and a nonhuman working together to kill the target.

Here's the thing though, it's not that women or hobbits were the Witch King's kryptonite. It's just that he happened to be predestined to die under that particular circumstance.

4 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

 

Which one are we supposed to believe is responsible for the skulls?

Look, that's rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide!  It's a killer!

They quickly realized they were making a terrible mistake so there probably wasn't time for anyone to offer those relatively inoffensive options.  

Warning.  Graphic car crash imagery

It always amuses me when a reincarnator walks into a room filled with nothing but blonde people, tosses her bright red hair and thinks "Good thing I'm an unimportant side character and not the center of attention."

3 hours ago, Old Man said:

 

 

I can't decide between that and the teleport thing, which would get me past many doors and walls.

How narrow are you?  

No matter how hard you try, you will never be as cool as this duck.  

Is It OK to Wear Sweatpants to Class? (cosmopolitan.com)

I just bought Dungeon Fantasy from the bundle sale...so naturally I'm thinking about Space Horror.  I mean really DF is far from my favourite genre.  If it had been I would have bought it already like I bought Space, Spaceships and the Space Atlases.  So instead I'm thinking of are bits and pieces I could use for other campaigns, and I took one look at the Deep Beyonder and thought "Space Horror".  Especially given that I looked in my Wizard's Cabinet and found that something called "Eldritch Skies" had popped up in there as a new download for reasons I do not understand.  It is a thing I was not meant to know.  

So now I'm rummaging through my collection and making a list of critters that would fit into a horror oriented space campaign.  Obviously not a very hard science fiction campaign, since really almost all my options for hard sf horror are different flavours of parasite.  But still quite a lot of critters are either insufficiently spacey in flavour or are things players will just dismiss as a moderately dangerous specimen of wildlife.  

Biden issued his statement.

I’ll never forget the first time I met Dr. Kissinger. I was a young Senator, and he was Secretary of State—giving a briefing on the state of the world. Throughout our careers, we often disagreed. And often strongly. But from that first briefing — his fierce intellect and profound strategic focus was evident. Long after retiring from government, he continued to offer his views and ideas to the most important policy discussion across multiple generations. Jill and I send our condolences to his wife Nancy, his children Elizabeth and David, his grandchildren, and all those who loved him.

Morbius was the one of the movies of all time. 

That is the most lukewarm tribute to a deceased person I've ever read.  

On 12/1/2023 at 4:23 PM, Lord Liaden said:

However these cases turn out, Trump is living every day in terror of punishment, his empire of houses of cards is bleeding money to death, and his precious "brand" is annihilated. That at least is some measure of justice.

The blood may be flowing into the sand the house of cards is built on but he keeps on throwing stones in it.