Bill the barbarian
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If this continues I will be asking the management to shut this thread down... this is incredibly insulting to me as a socialist and a trade unionist! And a fan of the IWW...
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36 minutes ago, svensson said:
Marxist, Leninist, Stalinist, Maoist... it doesn't matter. It's still the same murderous dictator. The point is that communism/socialism is as failed a system of government as fascism or anarchism is.
As long as you never call them... the murderers socialist again... I will be happy... now again I ask this conversation be moved to another thread... It has no place here and worse... I do not like to be made kin of murderers
It irks me a lot!
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30 minutes ago, svensson said:
Truth.
Like I said, I don't mind the idea of owning property. What I dislike is the manipulation of the market so as to jerk over most of the people living in that market. I grant you 'capitalism' and all that, but you'll find similar manipulations of housing market or systems in any government type in the world. Sure, a worker in Beijing is going to have an apartment, but they never have the right to own a house or improve their living conditions beyond that which the State prescribes. And the material quality of the buildings they live in is lousy by and large. Electrical outages, plumbing and sewage problems, even concrete that isn't allowed to set sufficiently and begins to fall apart after only a few years of occupancy, and that's not even getting into the aesthetics of a building that looks like a warehouse. And no one to appeal to in order to get direct action on the problems discovered. 'Socialism' isn't as 'glorious' as Comrade Ulyanov would have anyone believe, ya know?
Sir, I did not create this topic to be an argument about what socialism or what capitalism is or is not, I created it as a way to have a bit of fun at the expense of a head of lettuce as I recover from a devastating year of horrible health. Can you please create a forum on the evils and benefits of socialism or capitalism elsewhere in this fine tavern. We are now totally off topic and it is not looking pretty.
Let's keep this are light and civil, SVP!
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16 minutes ago, svensson said:
And no one to appeal to in order to get direct action on the problems discovered. 'Socialism' isn't as 'glorious' as Comrade Ulyanov would have anyone believe, ya know?
China is not socialist. I have no idea what to call it, but socialist it is not. Do they still call themselves communist?
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SDLeary for the win!
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Much appreciated, Brian.
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3 hours ago, soltakss said:3 hours ago, Ian A. Thomson said:
'Allowed?' You wrote some of it! 🙂
As I am playing in an RQG Campaign, out GM have vetoed me reading some scenarios, in case he uses them.
Fortunately, he is staying away from Pavis, Prax, and Dorastor, so I can read those.
Just stay away from the ones you wrote Simon, unless ya have old folks disease. In which case go for it, it might well all be new to ya!
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17 minutes ago, svensson said:
Well, I don't entirely disagree with the idea of property ownership. It used to be one of the ways that someone could solidify their place in the Middle Class, after all.
I must say I disagree with it entirely as it exists today. But then I prefer socialism. Of course, not only is it legal up here (and has been for close to a century) we have a party dedicated to democratic socialism that is steps away from government... Now as I created this as a humorous forum I would love to find a joke to insert here but when I think I have zero housing rights in capitalism run amok Alberta, I can only cry when I think of the amount of money I get charged for rent, that I will never get anything back should I leave here and I can be kicked out in three months without cause or recourse.
Oh, and this is after having paid 170,000 canuck bucks over 17 years!
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16 minutes ago, Ian Absentia said:
Which is why land "lordship" is a fundamentally criminal enterprise.
Oh sure, you tell New York landlord Donald Trump that! I ain't going near him!
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8 minutes ago, Qizilbashwoman said:
if he's sent to jail for refusing the subpoena from Congress, how is that going to work, exactly? I've been wondering
With his Secret Service guards he becomes the big man on tha block and takes over the contraband market muscling out the mafia, the bikers and all the other gangs! (proudly returning topics/threads to humour since 2017)!
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Shiny, absolutely shiny!
Folks, I did not get a chance to work on this puppy, volume 3 was where I hung my hat, so getting a copy of this was a pleasant surprise. Volume 3, when I worked on it was 60 or so pages (Ian tells me it will possibly grow even larger!) and that one was filled to the brim with Pavic Goodness. This hefty tome weighs in at a mighty 201 pages (and the goodness is not stinted on from what I can see with a cursory glance! And this is only a portion of it. Ian, you are going to have to consider a leatherette slip case for the full series when it goes to Electrum and can be Printed on Demand! ;)
Let's see. Great cover, name and art! Old skool look! Check, it is old skool, after all! Hmm, that name looks familiar, now where have I seen it before..? Crack it open and... page after page after page of lore. Wow!
"Dust in my mouth and dust in my heart Even feeling homesick for Boldhome. If ever I go to Pavis again
'Devil shall be me sergeant.
Poor old soldier - poor old soldier.
If ever I go to Pavis again
'Devil shall be me sergeant."(Informal marching song, Army of Prax)
Yep, now I can taste the dust of Pavis... So, it's off to Bob's Bison Burger for a pint to wash the dust away, and maybe a burger... now where is that joint.... flip, flip, flip, flop... ah here we go...Bob's Bison Burgers, page 147...
In a small courtyard are benches and squat stone plinths that serve as tables, and through a large gap in the wall, patrons can view the peculiar machine, the ramp up which the (often unwilling) beasts are led, and the pistons and levers of the machine itself. This place is a talking point of the city, and makes a great profit despite not always using the highest quality meats. It doesn’t take much to describe just how fascinating this place is for the group, so make sure to do so with some enthusiasm and a sense of wonder. In my campaigns they returned several times, so describe how delicious and filling the burgers are.
Anecdotes and info, check! Remember, Bob's not only yer Uncle, he makes a fine burger too!
Best thing of traveling is the folk one meets—and here are just two such fine folk.
My money is on the short one!
Oh yeah, the art. Pages of great old skool art by Dario Corallo, with a few new ones as well it looks like, and the great cover art is added to by the fine folk from Beer With Teeth (Kris Herbert & Diana Probst)! Any more inside, @Ian A. Thomson?
Flip, flip, flip, Temples... check! Flip, flip, flip... Villains, er, I mean Lunars (boo, hiss, boo)... check. Flip, flip, flip... Our hero, Pavis (yay, huzzah!)... check! Flip, flip, flip... Dwarfs, check! Flip, flip, flip... Rubble, ohhh yes... Check! Gazetteers... yep, it's all right here! And that is only half way though!
Looks good Ian, but if I keep on typing I can't be reading!
Bravo and well done!Ah hell, put yer money down for this bad boy, you'll flip!
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1 minute ago, Ian A. Thomson said:
Actually sick as a dog at the moment, so everything's taking ages, but this is my priority action right now
oh no, you too! Zounds!
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3 minutes ago, Qizilbashwoman said:
you gotta be a boomer, nobody younger has any belief in the future
and damn, this is not funny, but I could not find a button to give me Confused, Sad and Haha....
Hey, I just realized, I resemble that remark!! 🥺
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7 minutes ago, PhilHibbs said:
It's all very depressing, it's getting so much harder to justify mocking the US for their leadership train wreck over the last few years.
Worthy of a mention, I only post this, and have a bit of a laugh with y'all because I have met few from Britain sans a sense of humour, and lord knows we all need a laugh on occasion. Okay, these days we need more laughs than that!
Besides I'm Irish, I truly can't help it.-
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50 minutes ago, svensson said:
I heard today that the Tories are talking about Boris Badanov running again?
My vote is for Natasha Fatale!
27 minutes ago, Lloyd Dupont said:I don't want to open a can of worm and start a new scandal
Too, late, with that knack for scandal are you sure you are not a British MP?
1 hour ago, Ian Absentia said:Does anyone else see the mopey Truss-face in the head of lettuce? That'd be the head on the right.
No. but isn't that
Jesu, never mind... let's not start that scandal.-
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14 minutes ago, svensson said:
Rune Lords, yes or no?
Champions might be better, see Pavis city god in CoP for ideas.
Don't forget, BRP is kinda OGL and this might be just great for it if yer up to a big project that will make you no bucks and keep you awake at night. And health permitting, I evan no of an edotor er too;who nose a byt aboot BRP and profredding hoo mit by able two hep...
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7 minutes ago, Baron Wulfraed said:
So who's going to be the first Gloranthan to perform the equivalent of 4'33" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4′33″
Someone has been there, done that, and got the t-shirt by now,
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5 hours ago, g33k said:
Synchronized head-dropping ... Coming next Winter Olympics!
Debuting shortly after the perennial fave, the Upper Class Twit of the Year competitions.
Off topic, hardly!
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Now I just have to wait patiently for my free copy...
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1 hour ago, Brian Duguid said:
Well there's the start of whole new sub-thread on Gloranthan tuning systems. About all we can be sure of is that nobody uses equal temperament, unless perhaps the mathematically and technologically inclined Mostali, who don't strike me as a very musical bunch.
Yep and here is why...
Just watched this last week. <channelling inner Tony the Tiger> IT'S GRRREAT!
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33 minutes ago, AlHazred said:
There is a totally understandable work requirement in "overcoming creator anxiety," that takes as long as it takes. Just looking forward to seeing the eventual product, no matter how long it takes!
Times that by many, as this was a product of a great many folk.
In my case, I undertook a large project on one part of it (successfully by the grace of the goddess) and then my health failed. I tried to undertake more, but there was no possibility of it happening. Too weak and too sick. There goes one bit of the organization slowing down the project. I would imagine an undertaking like this must have made Ian a Cat Herder Par Excellence by the end!
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On 10/17/2022 at 5:20 AM, mfbrandi said:
What do the musical arts sound like in your Glorantha? Are the Uz masters of layakari? Do the Dragonewts have their own take on serialism? Are the Mostali stockpiling Morton Subotnick CDs? We need to know — tell us!
Here is a group which plays often in my Pavis' inns and taverns...
check out the first tune about horses, The Yellow Pacer @Nick BrookeAbsolutely lovely!
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Gloranthan poster maps
in Glorantha
Posted · Edited by Bill the barbarian
Austin Conrad (Author of Monster of the Months and many great works) and I have been squinting through many maps over the years and it can be quite difficult. Good luck!
Agreed!