SOCIALIST
At first. Then I transform it into an imperial dictatorship that would make Emperor Palpatine blush. :twisted:
Like he said … Socialist?
If we don’t do that, we’re completely boned. Deficit is like 50% of the size of the federal budget. You aren’t going to raise taxes by 50%, and you aren’t going to eliminate half the budget either.
Problem is, people don’t want to hear it, and the Tea Party ran on the crazy idea that they could balance the budget with ONLY deep budget cuts. Hell, the “TEA” in the Tea Party was originally an acronym for “Taxed Enough Already” – well unfortunately, no, we’re NOT taxed enough already. We’re undertaxed. [size=45](Or, at least, everyone other than me ;)[/size]
A yandere in [size=105]every[/size] harem? I’m afraid I’ll have to pass. Now, if you can arrange for a yandere in [size=105]my enemies’[/size] harems, that’s a family values platform I can get behind 
To Tea Partiers & Co.: Good luck! Hahahaha!
Indeed, we have been undertaxed. Furthermore, the disparity between Corporate America and individual taxpayers have been increasing since WW2. Not to mention that the effective tax rate of the super rich is actually much less than average mortals earning wages & salaries. (Qualifying dividends get preferential treatment, for example.)
A common fallacy with fiscal issue is only looking at the spending side. It actually consists of the spending and the revenue sides! Another thing conservative talk-heads do not talk about is most of services the government provides are something we cannot easily or conveniently obtain from the private sector.
Finally, the ‘red flag’ that I noticed right away with conservatives with respect to ‘fiscal discipline’: If they were really serious about it, they should be advocating spending cuts but higher taxation. Nope. They are actually not interested in ‘fiscal discipline’. They have something else in mind.
Yeah, yandere and harem don’t really mix. She wouldn’t get along with the other girls.
Exactly! You need to have girls for your yandere to kill. Yandere largely spend their time doing one of eight things (in no particular order):
#1: Stalking you.
#2: Planning to lock you away for your own good.
#3: Daydreaming about you.
#4: Pleasing you sexually (often the end result of #3).
#5: Pleasing you non-sexually (sometimes leads to #2).
#6: Killing/maiming other girls.
#7: Killing/maiming everyone else.
#8: Killing you.
A yandere not doing #6 is not a yandere. It’s your job to avoid #2 and #8 during the aftermath. :o
In totally unrelated news, Narg, you should totally read Irredeemable. Just finished reading the first volume now. It’s messed up (in a good way, of course). Basically, Superman goes yandere in the worst way.
Evil Superman? The mind boggles. Get.
Impossible. THAT DID NOT HAPPEN. Why? Time travel is illegal in China. No Lie. Tis the Truth. 
On a side note: This is how the L-man operates. Watchout for the oppai lovers. What’s he up to these days anyways? Haven’t seen him post in a loooooong while. 
It’s not actually Superman, of course … they’d never go for that. But the resemblance is obvious: He has similar powers, his costume is reminiscent of Superman’s, his power level is as ludicrous as Supes’, and he’s named “The Plutonian”. He even has the same boy scout reputation as Supes. (Or he used to, anyway.) And he just … lost it one day.
I finished reading the first volume and immediately ordered all the rest. It’ll probably be here next week. The spinoff (Incorruptible) is pretty good, too, but at least in the first volume of both (all I bought so far) not quite as good (and not nearly as bleak, since it’s going from the other way).
Game series like Dragon Age, Fable, and countless fantasy MMO’s share an annoying visual feature that drives me… well… annoyed…
Swords/Axes/Firearms that are magically “glued” to the back of characters.
Seriously… how hard is it for the art department to draw SCABBARDS for the damn things!?
And yes, I know “drawing” the weapon out of a scabbard would require a bit of creativity… but there were scabbards that “broke away” from the sides, and so didn’t need to be drawn out He-Man or Conan style. :roll:
Well, at least it’s better than older RPGs where characters ran around with weapons in their hands all the time.
This is a war hammer. Not the enormous anvil-sized slabs of solid metal you see people effortlessly swing around.
This is a Zwiehander, pretty much the largest European sword ever used.
Cloud’s Buster Sword easily approaches a hundred pounds in weight. At least in Berserk, they point out just how ludicrous it is that Guts uses the weapon he does. (The bit where the blacksmith explains why he made such an impractical sword in the first place is awesome.) THAT bugs me way more than the silly no-scabbard issue.
If it’s historically inaccurate, and patently ridiculous, why do they use gratuitously large swords like that? Cause it looks cool! And that’s why they don’t use scabbards. Cause walking around with a naked blade attacked to your back is fucking metal 
[size=6]And apparently the forum doesn’t support non-ASCII URLs … the second link is supposed to be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweih‰nder[/size]
http://www.startribune.com/world/121294359.html
I had to look up his mother’s name. I never heard of Madeline Choules, and apparently neither has Google. (Only hits are to other references to his obituary.) So here we are, a hundred years later, and nobody even knows who she is. Except that she abandoned her son to try to become an actress. And I only know that because of the article. Years into the future, people will occasionally look up “last surviving veteran of XYZ war”, find this article, and go “Man, his mom was a jerk”.
This will be how she’s remembered until the end of time, if she’s remembered at all. Depressing, isn’t it?
That is kind of sad. To think that no matter what might have happened to her, people will think of her as a bad mother because she left and then nothing ever appears of her again.
If you have an XBOX360 or PS3, and you haven’t played Hard Corps: Uprising yet, then you’re dead to me. :twisted:
Castlevania ain’t the only Konami series that goes Over 9000 when fused with heavy metal and 2D animated sprites. 8)
I invite you all to go to nationstates.net for no other reason than to see if any of one would go and join.
Sometime in August my favorite author will have released a new book.