AEsheron

First we need to excise the foreign influence from the Greens though, which is probably harder than just starting over again. Which doesn't fix the problem with first past the post voting systems which mathematically make it almost impossible for one ideology to win if they have more candidates that an opposing ideology. That's where the fight has to start, grass roots voting reform to more represational systems like STAR. Get it in locally, and then push it up from there. Then new parties will be allowed to flourish, instead of just torpedoing their platform by splitting the votes.

Well, there was that one American movie that took place in South Africa.

While this is generally a pretty reasonable ask in most situations, it seems like now is the worst possible time for them to make immigration more difficult. The coming demographic collapse is not a question of "if," but "how bad," at this point. Even if their birth rate proportionally climbs to the highest in the world magically over night, they are still looking at severe issues, and now many of those new births will still be dependants when it happens. They should really be incentivising immigration as hard as they can to take the edge off of what is coming at this point.

To be fair, they used that setup first. And PS originally copied it, but for some reason switched the functions of X and O in the West. In Japan, those symbols O often used for agree/correct/confirm and vice versa for X. It is weird that X became confirm here .

I wish they'd post them more than once a year these days....

Yeah, I think it's part and parcel with the Mary merry marry merger. It's not just about those 3 words, but those 3 sounds.

I mean, Pomemon generally pass the Harkness test. They are certainly intelligent enough, and communication is a little tricky, but general jist is simple, and some people can get some pretty complex information from their partners with enough time spent together. That's before counting the fact that if they really want to, they can learn human language.

Đere's no escaping us, broðer.

Once upon a time, English both used thorn, the character you are replacing, and eth, the one I just used here. One was used for words like that, this, there, and the other was used for thin, thank, and throw. That didn't last very long, linguistically speaking. They quickly became interchangeable, and thorn rapidly became the most popular one. But I think if people want to bring it back, we should bring them both back. And while we're at it, we should bringing back the "four form system." IE, we used to have two different ways to say yes or no, those two words were specifically used to answer a negative question. Current English leaves negative questions impossible to answer with a single word wothout ambiguity. "Will they not go?" cannot be answered with only yes or no in Modern English's 2 form system. But with a 4 form system, we had yea and nay for general usage. "Will they go?" Yea means they will, nay means they won't. But with the negative form of the question, "Will they not go?" Yes means they will, and no means they won't. Over time yea and nay were both dropped and yes and no became universal.

Was used all the way up to modern English. It was one of several characters that just got dropped because they wanted to use fewer when the printing press was adapted for English. Back then it was kind of the wild west for spelling, especially when printing words that used those characters. For example, sometimes they would just replace the character with a not often used one that was obviously a stand-in from context because it just didn't fit naturally, in this case before "th" became the standard replacement, "y" was often used. One of the most commonly used examples that most people don't realize is "ye," as in "ye olde pub," etc. While "ye," pronounced as it is spelled, was used as a less formal "you," "ye" in this context was understood to be pronounced as "the."

The pattern is clearly meant to be more than just data too, because they have used previous transporter logs when they need a healthy snapshot to compare to a crewmate who is ill. It seems to be some kind of superstitious energy reserve that is that person, and no you can't just siphon some juice out of the reactor and use previous scan data for reasons that are generally presented as technical ones, but could really only logically be ethical ones.

Failed transports generally seem to stem from not having quality data to reconstruct with. Not getting a good enough sensor lock, damage to the buffer corrupting the data, etc.

Not a Druid, but I ran a Warforged Warden in 4e once, basically a tank with nature magic flavor. It was for a one-shot the DM said to bring our best builds for because he was going to try to kill us. Maybe one-shot isn'tthe right word, ot was literally just a long combat encounter with no real story. I made the Ultimate Tank, on every level. Warforged refused to die in that system, Wardens had great defensive options and a particularly good "Mark" that made disincentivized enemies from hitting your friends. But not just from a gameplay standpoint, 0erfect metagame tank too. DM specifically had a chip on his shoulder about both the race and class. Had an enormous backstory (for a one-shot character) to boot, drawing from the lore about one Epic Class that was trying to create the Ultimate Spell.

So there's a society that is totally elevated by advanced magics in every part of everyday life. One of their newest tricks is making a sentient spell, bound to this network of crystal spires. It was made to help them research this Ultimate Spell, some of the researchers argued it would be the foundation The Spell would be built upon. It helped them hunt for it, but it only passed along some of what it learned. Eventually, it turned on its makers, with its incredible knowledge of magical theory it hijacked much of the magic in their society and used it to wreak havoc, without anyone knowing why it was happening. When it was eventually found out, it Unleashed terrible magic of its own, including new and terrible spells it had developed from its research with no known defense. As it went, it constructed additional spires, and wove a web of crackling energy between them to better surveil its territory and project its power. It very nearly destroyed the entire world, before it started to encounter powerful resistance.

In one of the oldest forests, its magic quickly waned the further it tried to project its magic. And an army of Druids and other Primal warriors and spellcasters rode out to meet it. The forest began to grown unnaturally fast, and spread the dampening effect. At this point, the spell was nearing the culmination of its research, a single all-encompassing spell that could rewrite reality as it saw fit. But it was forced to divert more and more of its attention to the war. As things deteriorated, it decided to use some nigh forgotten techniques and start mass producing Warforged. It helped stem the tide of nature's champions, but they had gathered too much momentum to be stopped.

Desperate, it diverted all attention towards a specific aspect of The Spell, focusing on a single aspect of reality. In the final hours, as the forces occonverged on it's final, massive crystalline framework keeping it "alive," it summoned a single Warforged, and threw it back in time, centuries. It was covered in bark, and instructed to imitate a woodland spirit, infiltrate the Druid circle of the ancient forest, and exterminate them before they became a threat. It made its way to forest, and was welcomed. However, soon after he arrived, several of the wolf animal companions returned to the village, and immediately attacked him. They ripped off some of the bark, exposing his metallic frame. At that moment, the old guardian spirit of the forest was roused to great anger, and blasted him with raw power, the very essence of nature washing over him.

When he regained consciousness, the bindings on his mind had been withered and destroyed by the onslaught, and some nature magic had been permanently imbued into him. He told them of his mission, and warned them of the danger to come. It was then the elders made it their mission to spend the next centuries preparing for the war to come, gathering up forces and setting powerful wards. Centuries later, the only reason they had stood a chance was because of their forwarning. By the time it made warforged, there was nobody left who knew the name of the spell, only forest folk had survived, and it never communicated anything but orders to the warforged. But because of the latticework of energy it knitted across the land from spire to spire, they called it the Sky Net.

Between the class and race, I had a million ways to spend Healing Surges when I was unconscious in combat. Every time I got back up I played this on my phone. Was glorious, and we survived that one-shot.