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Interesting epilogue - "Lords of Wars" is going to be pretty brutal, then. How long of a break are you planning to take before starting on it, Stuart? I'm curious as to whether or not the other pantheons have been watching (there was a hint of that, although I'm not sure if those were oth...

Setting aside the morality of the matter, I do think that something along the lines of what Yee drew up will probably make a comeback. I suspect you are right, which is why I felt the need to make an argument against it. Yee's proposal is exactly the sort of thing I would expect some Washington leg...

Basically if Second-Life Hitler decides that he wants to kick off an aggressive Fourth Reich that would encroach on the Hell nations (not just the New Roman Republic), and especially if he declares this up front -- then that kill order can't come soon enough. If Second-Life Hitler decides that he j...

Should I assume that you have a problem with a POTUS (even Barack Obama) having the ability to essentially order a legal hit on, say, Anwar al-Awlaki? Yes, I do actually, because there's nothing legal about it. If you look at various laws as written, it is clearly illegal to "order a hit"...

Well in that case, let's introduce another concept: Rex solutus est a legibus or, "The King (President in our case) is released from the laws." Why be a nation of laws? Just set the Constitution on fire and be done with it. No point in keeping that old thing around. The only rule is, the P...

I agree with Deebles. If someone has been sentenced and carried out their sentence, you can't tack on more time just because you find out the game has changed. I think most convicted Nazi war criminals would only have to sign certain oaths forswearing serving in goverment in hell and agree to some ...

You capture the whimsical nature of Q, but maybe took it far when you borrowed Wile E Coyote's anvil. Your explanation for the Enterprise is doing nothing during the Dominion wars is... oddly plausible... but I'm not sure you have Riker and Picard's voice down quite yet. I was thinking more along t...

There is a little of that conduct in barbed penises (add snakes and insects to the list). They help to get better hold and... errr... stimulation of the female. And who knows, maybe demons are more resistant, or masochists, or something like that. What may be highly painful/damaging to a human fema...

Personally, I voted for two: Flappers and Birdies. I think we're far enough away from the 1920's now for the term Flapper to be reused in this context, and not be confused with somewhat liberated women from 90 years ago. I also like the term bird or birdie, since it can tie in with expressions like,...

On the note of suitcase nukes why would you bother putting one on a commuter train anyways? Wouldn't it be just be easier to rent a truck? Are roads in general more strictly monitored for radiological materials than railways? Of course I think you could probably get such a package on a train if you...

9/11 was not a fucking inside job. Do you have any idea how many people would have to be kept silent to keep a conspiracy like that under wraps? Dude, you're about to get dogpiled in 5...4...3...2...1... Woof! Woof! It's an old but true canard: Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stu...

Yeah, but at one point their resident A.I. builds a Mad Cat Battlemech out of lego mindstorms and uses its guns to send their marketing guy on a suborbital hop. So I think this isn't quite what Bcoogler was talking about. There are a few Project Managers I wouldn't mind sending on a suborbital hop,...

So what about people like me then? Where we already know the effects of varying types of weaponry on the human body and your story serves as the ability to watch the plebes get sick over reality? Imagine how a Hollywood writer would spin the scene, and take joy in reading something you know about b...

So what about people like me then? Where we already know the effects of varying types of weaponry on the human body and your story serves as the ability to watch the plebes get sick over reality? Imagine how a Hollywood writer would spin the scene, and take joy in reading something you know about b...

Some of the angels are in a pitiful state. They're encased in massive, fast-growing cancers. Like that Indonesian tree-man. Nobody here knows what to do about them. The radiation probably scrambled up the regenerative process like you said, which is the only real explanation that I could see being ...

Yes, bu they wouldn't know what it is, and they just dismissed it as the plague or something other than cancer. "Look! Her wings are deformed. Witchcraft! She's a witch!" "How do you know she is a witch?" "She turned me into a newt!" "A newt?" "Well... i...

Cecelia5578, it's not a "formality" problem, it's his horrible timing: the photo interpreter was joking to a morose Petraeus who had just ordered the deaths (and horrible "post-initiation lives") of over a quarter-million beings, and was already facing the prospect of having to ...

Okay, I haven't read every post, but I would like to comment on the whole strange twist that started off as the what-if-Hell-had-WWII-level-tech argument. To me, that argument makes about as much sense as how may angels can dance on the head of a pin. Pointing to Nazi Germany as a role model for Hel...

Something like this?

The earlier art work, plus a recently seen bumper sticker on the road inspired me to make up this bumper sticker.

I'm reminded of the plot of Mortal Kombat . We are told that if humanity's greatest warriors cannot win the tournament of mortal kombat, then Shang Tsung's legions of warriors will flood onto Earth. At no point did anyone ever manage to explain how a bunch of kung-fu morons with funky superpowers a...

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Jeez, pictures of pieces of ships. I'm really impressed how Stuart had it pegged.

For all I know, that could be an art project at Burning Man.

This story post got me thinking, how would each specific pantheon react to us? From what I've read, the Norse gods are the most likely to form a positive relationship with us, but what about others, like the Greek, Egyptian, Shinto, Chinese, Hindu, and Mesoamerican pantheons? Are there other 'gods'...

I must object to that. Silver was the standard for currency. Yes, you're right, both metals have been used as a currency standard, with silver a favorite. For example, a pound of silver used to define the value of the British Pound, which is why pence (old system, 240 pence = 1 pound) was the basis...

Michael could pay off the warlords in gold, which could be theoretically used as a form of currency. Perhaps you didn't quite mean it that way, but I find it ironic to refer to gold as a "theoretical" currency, when historically gold has been THE standard for currency for thousands of yea...