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From Stardust, To Stardust

The species doesn't sound overpowered. If I recall, it was just a species of Proud Warrior Race guys with a hard-on for genetic augmentation.

14-foot tall soldiers aren't good soldiers. They're just bullet bait.

The New Empires

Flaws and strengths sections on NSes are only necessary on stat-driven NRPs, but even that's up for debate considering a stat-driven NRP keeps the player factions in check by using well-defined formulas and numerical values. The only thing that has ever come out of a F&S section on a NS skeleton are people coming up with completely illogical pros and cons for their nation that they aren't going to stick to when it comes to IC interactions in the first place. They're pointless in character sheets as well, because well-written characters will have strengths and weaknesses interwoven into their personality, skills and inherent traits.

And no, they don't help with diversty. Diversty happens when people don't try and rehash tired ideas and concepts that are ingrained within traditional Tolkien-esque fantasy settings---like Aryan elves, metal-loving dwarves and socially-awkward gnomes that have a sexual fascination with bombs and all things machinery.

From Stardust, To Stardust

Why do these Draconians always come up in the OOC?

American, not African American?

So Boerd said
Never saw a white man get elected to the single most consequential office in the world for no other reason than that he's white once, let alone twice.

And jews did 9/11! Can't forget that!

American, not African American?

So Boerd said
Shame on you. allegedly rational Magnum, for falling for cum hoc ergo propter hoc.Quick impressions on FBI source:1. White people (including Hispanics) murder less than Black people2. 700,000 of the margin between white and black is DUI, which they rarely send you to prison for.3. Seeing as Black people evidently commit crime at a much higher rates than Whites+Hispanics, about 85% of the population, that proves that recidivism is much more likely among blacks, prompting longer sentences and explaining the large prison population.

1. Cherrypicking and irrelevant. A crime is a crime.

2. And? Again, a crime is a crime.

3. Yeah, you still don't get it. I'm now positive that arguing with you is pointless. I'm not about to spend 30 pages wrestling with you and RPG's white-screening problem.

Also, instead of posting latin phrases, actually explain what your issue with my response is.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

The Silver Paladin said
And an addition to this: When Every single Freaking Roleplay is a Freaking Anime Roleplay. (SAO seems to be the biggest offender.) I mean I like anime as much as Bob The Janitor. (I don't know if Bob likes anime, just an expression I use.) as you can see by my profile picture. but when EVERY roleplay is an anime roleplay, or something along those lines with 20 people and 4 pages of posts, where as the original ones have only 3 people and not even a page of posts. I UNDERSTAND YOU WANT TO BE COMFORTABLE, BUT REACH OUT FOR ONCE! Sorry, it just ticks me off.

Not nearly as bad as 1x1 being the Land of Smut imo.

American, not African American?

So Boerd said
I won't let you say sources exist. Cite them.

It's as if you don't know what Google is.

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf Official racial demographics in the US. Also, apparently I was off by approximately ten percent.. Apparently whites make up about 70 percent of the US population rather than 50-60 percent.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/43tabledatadecoverviewpdf Official FBI website that has cataloged 2012 crime statistics based on race. 2012 is the earliest year I could find, but I do not anticipate the percentiles to differ much in spite of two years having passed.

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/income_wealth/cb11-157.html Poverty/annual income statistics. Basic math yields about 13-14 million persons of white racial background being poverty stricken while 8 or so million persons of black racial background are poverty stricken. Note the skewed ratio.

Do you want links that provide support for the belief that America's justice system is beyond fucked up or have you finally come to realize that it's biased against minority groups? Because I'm seriously not looking forward to the Trayvon Martin Thread Antics V2 with you again if that's the case.

EDIT: Actually it's anti-male as well but that's an entirely different thread altogether.

The New Empires

Editing that map won't be hard; just draw circles around the area(s) your faction controls. It will become difficult when there are 15+ nations on it, however. Then it'll just become a soup of rainbow gibberish that'll make me want to rope myself. Solution? Establish a player limit.

Dinh AaronMk said
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I see.

Well, that's my fast fact for today.

American, not African American?

Honestly the cop thing is under debate as to if it's actual racism, or just a matter of due to history most of the poor neighbourhoods tend to be filled with black people. A result of their ancestors having been slaves and not had many means to financially secure their family. Where in modern day it results to a lot of those people turning to crime, where since those environments have a high amount of black people you get a high amount of black criminals, and as a result more black people shot.

This shouldn't even be up for debate.

A 13-14 percent racial demographic comprises most of the poor neighborhoods in the US while the 50-60 percent white majority is largely exempt from poverty? That doesn't make sense; it's disproportionate for one. Easy-to-find sources for crime/race/poverty statistics on the internet (government-sanctioned and government-made websites) point to whites committing more crimes than their black counterparts, occupying a larger share of the poverty percentile and being just as likely (if not more so) to commit violent or nonviolent crimes as blacks. As expected, many more whites should be dying from police shootings and significantly more of them should be in jail when compared to their black counterparts.

The proportions/ratios and not the solid figures point to a biased police force and justice system. Why are these claims even disputed despite overwhelming evidence provided by the US government itself?

The New Empires

Also, Middle Ages and no gunpowder? Is this for balance reasons or for historical accuracy? If it's for historical reasons, gunpowder artillery during the Middle Ages was a thing.