The Dark Lord

Trade the hexcrest for a pirate hook or uncut onyx/onyx ring (non-enchanted).

Something tells me these people aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed. "The governments of the world will collapse due to collapse!" Haha LMAO Better not let Palin find out.

That sucks. =\ Oh well, guess I just need to get lucky getting a Staff of Light off the GE. :mellow:

The title says it all. I'm trying to gather tokkul from the rune shop in order to buy an onyx, which I will then use as a bargaining chip for a Staff of Light. Which is the best rune to use for this, and how much would it cost? I'm looking at something that is reasonably fast and cheap. I have up to 25 million that I am willing to spend on a Staff of Light, but keep in mind that I also need money to balance the trade, as well as possibly 2-3 onyxes. I have Karamja gloves 3.

Porcelain dolls of all kinds freak me out. My mom used to have a lot of them lined up across a window, and it would scare the hell out of me when I went to my room (which was directly across from the room with them everywhere) if the door was open, especially if the hall light was off and I was alone. I used to beg my mom to escort me to my room when I was really little. Anyway, she bought another one of those things from a yard sale (an old one, in fact). She found out it was broken and decided to throw it away, and I felt tempted to blurt out "No, it'll seek revenge!!" :ohnoes:

A wide-spread political movement has taken root throughout the Federation. The group advocates a stronger Federation with a federal republican system, stronger Anglo-American unity, merit-based values, and Federal friendship with Latin America and Europe. Their rallying tune is The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Strangely, they aren't very different from the Federalists that united Britain, Canada, and America. However, they feel that they have a mission to further unite the Federation and pursue a policy of global freedom. They especially stress the line in their rallying tune that goes: " As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free...." Likewise, they believe that the current governments will ultimately collapse in the not-too-distant future due to widespread collapse.

Congress has added an amendment to the Constitution that grants anyone at least 18 years of age or older the right to drink alcoholic beverages.

Erm, not quite. In fact we are already working out how to make life. I can't quite remember, but scientists have currently found most of the proteins and how to make them etc. etc. But the consequences of being able to create life? Have you read no Sci-Fi? It would be simply disastrous. And we wouldn't learn anyhting new about making life from the metorite anyway I guess. Basing your knowledge around fictional work isn't very creditable.. First off it is a fake world and no one can say for certain what could happen if someday we started "creating life", which is a very broad to begin with since we "create new life" through sexual reproduction. The Sci-Fi thing was a joke, but potentially, being able to create life as we wish it to be, is not a good road to go down in my opinion. We can choose who we have sex with. Therefore, we can choose what traits that we want our children to have. ;)

What about a really, really obese house cat? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PppJmQVeUU

Doubt it. A grizzly bear is like 600 pounds. Want to do something ballsy? Fight a badger or a wolverine. They're not our weight (at least they don't look like it...), but they're ferocious.

If you're going to invade anywhere, you need to post a map showing troop movements. I'm talking about a map that shows the cities, not a map like on the front page. If you do not post any kind of strategy, all forceful annexation attempts will be ignored.

Catalonia has the guarantee of independence from Italy and Germany. If Spain attempts to take Catalonia over by force, it will lose. The Federation still has much of the north Atlantic under patrol and will not allow a warship (involved with any European war) passage.

German women want African men because their husbands aren't adequate.

I'm giving this thread a month in order for everyone to stop being idiots and stop defending idiots.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8516319.stm I think this is pretty awesome.

Well, there's also the time factor. New technology (such as tanks, because they're more complicated) takes longer to produce. Germany only made so many of its Tiger tanks, despite them being the best in that era, because they were so complicated to produce.

Fair enough. One thousand a year? Sounds absurd. ----------------------------- In other news, President McPherson won the 2020 US Presidential Elections because of his more grassroots policies and adherence to the Constitution. Senator Stevenson has very good ideas, but people want a more Constitutional president right now. His ideas are too radical.

How are exoskeletons relevant to this conversation? Do you even know what an exoskeleton suit is? Have you ever seen one? About the tanks, NO. Just because you are spending more money doesn't mean it's better than something else. ALSO, YOU ARE IGNORING EVERYTHING THAT I HAVE EVER SAID. THERE ARE NO MAJOR TANK IMPROVEMENTS. THEREFORE, YOUR TANKS AREN'T 50% STRONGER THAN THE M1 ABRAMS!! CANT. YOU. GET. THAT. THROUGH. YOUR. THICK. SKULL?!?! Even if your tank was considered to be better than the M1 Abrams (which wouldn't be unfair), it wouldn't be 50% stronger. That's absurd. There aren't many upgrades that you can do for main battle tanks, hence why the M1 Abrams is still the best tank and the preferred tank of choice by the US army even today.

This. Everyone's being unreasonable. You don't just throw money at it and expect it to be good. ALSO, TANKS CAN'T BE IMPROVED THAT MUCH. @Retech: I uphold my verdict on your projects. The things that I said "Sounds stupid / It's impractical / etc." are not approved.

Him.

*sigh* You just don't get it, do you? Anyway, concerning the projects that you PMed me, most of them are fair enough or at least plausible, but some of them are ridiculous. It's December 23, 2019. The date is on the front page. Also, I will post the election results sometime later on when I feel like it. It's either President Stevenson or President McPherson (2nd term).

I was afraid of porcelain dolls when I was a child. They still creep me out.

I think most projects cost in the millions in real life, and a very few, large projects cost a few billion.

Why does he have to complete it with 10 billion or so? You don't even know what he's doing, and 10 billion seems a little excessive. And the United States is the second largest standing army. It even says so on Wikipedia... @ Rocco: That's fairly irrelevant. There's no nation on earth that will try to expend every single last person capable of military service before trying to end the war through diplomacy.