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Off Topic / Re: the weed bill didnt pass

« on: November 04, 2015, 12:57:48 PM »

I'd like to point out that while cannabis itself is not addictive, it does have (mostly temporary) adverse affects and smoking is still going to give you lung cancer because it's smoke, although it's not as bad as with tobacco, as tobacco and the additives are poisonous on their own. It should be legal, but as with anything, caution is important.

Quote from: Ravencroft· on November 04, 2015, 11:43:03 AM

That's because nobody bothers to research anything nowadays. They just blindly follow the media like zombies and repeat whatever ignorant garbage is posted online.

On a more important note, I would totally smoke a J with J.

Yeah, it's pretty sad. We have the collection of humanity's knowledge at our fingertips (Wikipedia is probably my favorite website, ever) and yet people don't even touch it, instead just tuning the TV to Fox/CNN and listening to their propaganda without a doubt in their mind.

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Off Topic / Re: war on the middle east

« on: November 04, 2015, 12:52:51 PM »

ah it does seem i forgot to mention the Kurdish conflict
I personally am of the opinion that the neighboring territories (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria) should cede territory to create Kurdistan, but it's highly unlikely and all nations benefit from it not happening and obviously international intervention is out of the question

and yeah your suggestion with ISIL is more or less what we're already doing (even Russia joined in) but it's not going so well and there's still a power vacuum
unless the UN were to directly govern the territory for a while afterwards, which may or may not be a horrible idea

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Off Topic / Re: war on the middle east

« on: November 04, 2015, 12:20:36 PM »

Quote from: SWAT One on November 04, 2015, 12:18:53 PM

Wrong.

The US caused power vacuums when it messed everything up the first time as well as over its time there. That would do nothing to solve it. It would encourage nations like Iran to fill it, which most of the Middle East does not like because it has an imperial outlook on the region.

that's true.
i edited my post

as much as european empires were maybe not that great, it's called Pax Britannica for a reason; britain filled power vacuums which left a lot of unhappy people but at least there weren't wars

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Off Topic / Re: war on the middle east

« on: November 04, 2015, 12:16:24 PM »

CIA:
well it's a tough situation
fighting in there only makes the situation worse but we can't leave CIA unattended because they are a serious threat to the rest of the world, not in terms of weaponry but in terms of having agents everywhere
you might notice that this section makes no recommendations because there is no one good option

Syria:
obviously the democratic citizens ought to win but it really isn't our war to fight
support the rebels maybe but we shouldn't intervene (and neither should russia)

Israel:
this war is really pathetic. they need to just sit down and write a ceasefire because it's not going anywhere. neither side is in the right here and neither side completely in the wrong, it's just a silly territory war. draw some borders and get over it; alternatively, allow one government to govern the entire land and let jews and muslims live in peace.

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Forum Games / Re: "DONT GET ME STARTED!!!" [TOPIC: Nudists]

« on: November 04, 2015, 07:25:25 AM »

i don't really have a problem here, but obviously i'd rather not see it unless they're hot :P

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Forum Games / Re: jairo's total war v2 planning thread (p. 39 for trait sheets)

« on: November 04, 2015, 07:19:58 AM »

cool
but, uh, question
isn't india disunified?

Also, do you have some kind of time-map you use for reference? There's a site called Geacron, but it might not be quite accurate; you can also just boot up Extended Timeline EUIV.

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Forum Games / Re: Forum Mastermind v3, game 2: hexadecimal

« on: November 03, 2015, 08:43:46 PM »

Quote from: Space1255 on November 03, 2015, 08:40:30 PM

Oh wait I'm an idiot nvm
But please don't doom us to that
Yet.
Save that for puzzle 30
Make the next one an alphabet only one

oh stuff have fun then lol
let me update op and get some homework done

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Forum Games / Re: Forum Mastermind v3, game 2: hexadecimal

« on: November 03, 2015, 08:38:49 PM »

[3123]

05 GUESSES
CONGRATULATIONS

by the way, have i mentioned that in the actual game, you're not told which digits are correct/misplaced/incorrect, only that there are some?
so for example had you said 2130 it would be green-yellow-yellow-red
also in the original game there are only 6 colors/digits rather than 10 or 16
so what do you guys say about a decimal game where the feedback and digits don't correspond?

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