4805

I’ll do Human for Elf. Yeah, I know you give up a bonus feat, but it’s worth it for the darkvision alone.

4806

Don’t forget that -2 CON. Is it worth living 800 years if you have the flu the entire time?

4807

Go for something really OP like Drow. Bonuses on bonuses on bonuses, y’all.

4808

Yeah, I would enjoy casting Faerie Fire on a few people at work, just for kicks

4809

Holy fucking shit, he picked SAM CLOVIS for head of Agriculture’s science department?

The guy is literally just a political strategist. Jesus christ.

4810

he apparently looks and IS a pile of human garbage.

4811

Yeah I wasn’t going to remark because it really is unworthy of me but … I’m not sure Clovis actually has any bones.

4812

This made me laugh

4813

Well how well would your bones hold up if you were 13,000 years old?

Or the first king of the Franks.

4814

He does. They’re made out of reinforced Crisco.

4815

It’s like West Virginia wants to suck as bad politically as North Carolina.

4816

Jim Justice was a Republican until 2015, just as an FYI. This is just a return home, so to speak.

4817

I wonder who is going to be more uncomfortable this evening.

Justice, knowing full well he’s climbing on a sinking ship - but that getting back on a sinking ship is still his best available political move?

Or Trump, who dreamed he’d be spending his time as President hanging out with top celebrities, the best celebrities, but now finds himself resorting to visiting places he’d never otherwise be caught dead in just to get his adulation fix? A fix that keeps getting harder and harder to find…

4818

I don’t even know which thread to put this in. I feel like we’re missing a “Stupid Repercussions of Trump’s Stupid Leadership” topic.

4819

I balked at sharing that one for the same reason, Clay. :)

4820

He looks like a corpse.

4821

So what is a “cosmopolitan”? It’s a cousin to “elitist,” but with a more sinister undertone. It’s a way of branding people or movements that are unmoored to the traditions and beliefs of a nation, and identify more with like-minded people regardless of their nationality. (In this sense, the revolutionary pamphleteer Thomas Paine might have been an early American cosmopolitan, when he declared: “The world is my country; all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”). In the eyes of their foes, “cosmopolitans” tend to cluster in the universities, the arts and in urban centers, where familiarity with diversity makes for a high comfort level with “untraditional” ideas and lives.

For a nationalist, these are fighting words. Your country is your country; your fellow citizens are your brethren; and your country’s traditions—religious and otherwise— should be yours. A nation whose people—especially influential people—develop other ties undermine national strength, and must be repudiated.

One reason why “cosmopolitan” is an unnerving term is that it was the key to an attempt by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to purge the culture of dissident voices. In a 1946 speech, he deplored works in which “the positive Soviet hero is derided and inferior before all things foreign and cosmopolitanism that we all fought against from the time of Lenin, characteristic of the political leftovers, is many times applauded.” It was part of a yearslong campaigned aimed at writers, theater critics, scientists and others who were connected with “bourgeois Western influences.” Not so incidentally, many of these “cosmopolitans” were Jewish, and official Soviet propaganda for a time devoted significant energy into “unmasking” the Jewish identities of writers who published under pseudonyms.

4822

Dang… this is a useful, comprehensive, and interesting reddit thread

Edit: I was specifically referring to the vote links and tallies at the top. There are some other good comments but lots of shitposting too.

4823

Bannon’s gold farming days get a writeup in the Post.

According to interviews with the author of the new book on Bannon, Joshua Green, Bannon identified a potential political energy in the gamer community. Which we here all already know, I suppose. The nexus of MMOs/4Chan/Gamergate/Reddit may or may not have evolved as it did without Bannon’s help, but he certainly rode that wave cannily.

4824

Cheat is a stretch. IGE sold someone elses time (spent farming gold). Some MMO players I knew used to sell them gold they had amassed, which then others I knew and myself would buy.