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@moth

What state do you live in?

The law firm of Ganymede, Rinel, & Saosmash, LPA might able to find an answer.

@magee101 said in Helpful Spellcasting Flowchart:

MtG is far from the most complex tcg to exist. [L5R] but I agree!

Pff. You think L5R is complex? Try V:TES. That shit was super complex out of the box, when it was Jyhad.

@Rinel said in The Work Thread:

What do you use paralegals for, then? Doc review?

I am but a wee babby lawyer, but it seems effective to have a paralegal researching with you. Even when you take into account the time you spend reviewing their research, you're saving time.

First, I handle insurance defense cases. In such cases, the insurance company is loathe to have attorneys (who bill at a higher rate) working on discovery. Our firm uses paralegals to draft, send out, and follow-up on discovery in civil litigation. This includes preparing and sending medical, financial, and employment authorization forms to plaintiffs, and then sending those out to respective third-parties for documents. Our paralegals also scan, sort, catalog, and summarize what is obtained. This is valuable, arguably-not-legal work. Plus, when you have cases with 10K pages of documents, you can't spend days sorting through what's come through. You could, of course, but the client will squawk.

Second, I work in esoteric areas of the law, like real property. When it comes to the fine points of the economic loss rule in a construction dispute or the doctrine of lis pendens as it may apply to a legal malpractice case, the paralegals may be able to dig up the research, but the lawyer is ultimately responsible for pulling it together in a cogent argument. At a hearing or oral argument, I simply must know all of the facts of a case in order to argue as to how it applies, so I essentially must read through all of the cited cases anyway. To me, having a paralegal do that work, only for me to do it myself, is duplicative.

Finally, I think of oral argument as improv. I feel as if having a paralegal handling the research and writing is like having someone else draft my responses in an improv game. That seems silly to me.

@arkandel

I wasn't limiting my comment to TS and the MUSH world. I meant, in general. If werewolves having sex isn't a violation of ancient laws and doesn't have the risk of creating a monster, then it becomes a source of dramatic tension.

Peggy, CoG: "Al, let's have seeeeeex."
Al, Fenrir: "Uh, no, Peg." flushes toilet
McShady, Fianna: "HOLD MAH BEER!"

@Ghost said in How to pronounce FYI?:

YES.

@derp said in #WIDWW pt 2 - ST, Player, or staff?:

It is a lack of cohesion between staff vision and player desire that causes this. Too many games try to keep it squarely middle of the road to appeal to the most players, while we have what seems to be a great disconnect between players who want adventure and not dark, and players who actually want dark.

I have played these games since I can't remember when, certainly all of my adulthood (past age 18). And I've been on MUSHes for this time as well.

My best experiences have come when there is staff adhere to their themes and settings. The Reach was about an End of the World scenario, and, by golly, it happened. Requiem for Kingsmouth was about vampire politics, and it delivered. Fate's Harvest is about remote, small-town life for changelings, and it certainly feels that way.

I've played PCs of all stripes and backgrounds, and have had a blast.

I can't tell you if anything has, or needs, to change. It seems to me that the availability of other, active games have minimized interest, and that, in my opinion, Old World of Darkness games seem rosier because that's the only World of Darkness to dwell in. What I can tell you is that I don't honestly give a shit what or where I'm playing, as long as I'm having a good time, and I don't feel that I'm wasting it.

Maybe people just expect more.

@Admiral said in RL things I love:

They're Mongolian. Let them be nationalist. Their nation is basically a puppet of China and most Mongolians don't even -live- in Mongolia anymore.

That's because everyone is bent on building walls these days.

@apos said in Let's talk about TS.:

In trying to draw it back to topic, I think there's a startling lack of awareness (real or feigned), that being sex positive does not mean forcing expectations on anyone else, and that everyone determines their own comfort levels for what they want to deal with.

This is a summation of what I try to explain to my straight friends about going to a gay bar.

@Rinel said in RL things I love:

The difficulty of my ongoing Chick fil a boycott just dropped to zero.

It's pretty easy when the only time your kids want it is on Sundays.

@roz said in Why did you pick your username?:

So basically you're my alt.

And yet no one has noticed how we never seem to argue with each other.

That would be tedious.

@Alamias said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

It doesn't matter how you do it, as long as you do it (because you wanted too. I am not one of those ex-smoker holier than thou you must quit types).

That's kind of the thing, and I don't mean to bitch incessantly about it.

One of the things that has served me well in life is not denying myself that which I want. I want something or I don't. Despite being a robot here, I simply do what I want in real life. I don't know how else to put it.

I want to quit. But when I want to smoke, I want to smoke. I realize that these are mutual exclusive outcomes, but --

-- I suppose I have to learn to either love me or change me.

@kay

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

The methods to pay in the lease are totally different because... different management (but one of the methods they got rid of allowed us to pay through a third party and that made things vastly better for schedule issues).

This is also an issue. You may have a fair housing issue. If you go to fair housing, make sure you bring all relevant documents. Here in Ohio, if a landlord fails to provide what is in the lease they are in breach of the same.

@deadculture said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

There are times your lawyer mode is never switched off and it can grind my lawyer gears a little bit, and then there are times I find your posts insightful and a bit funny.

Lawyer mode is usually on because I post from work. It's a bad habit.

I'm funnier and more insightful when I've had a couple of bourbons, like right now.

@Ghost said in Good TV:

The movie? Meh. The cartoon got it

And this is why Batman: the Animated Series should be on everyone's watch list, all the time.

@friendlybee said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

Absolutely, that seems very reasonable to me. the majority of my position has been 'Calm down about people disagreeing with you online everyone. It's not the end of the world.'

In response to that, I would say: that's one part of it.

The other part is: if arguing on the internet is pointless, then so is hyperbole; type clearly and concisely if you are actually trying to say something meaningful.

@Coin

All four are great, but I put BTAS on another level because of how it came to be, and the extraordinary writing in the first and second seasons.

Everyone who loves Harley Quinn must shout out to the show. The show’s ability to narrate in 20 or so minutes a villain’s beginning was mind blowing. The origin episodes for Clayface and Mr. Freeze made these obscure villains into real characters.

I could go on and on about the depth of some of these episodes, but if you haven’t seen them please go do so. I swear you will not go wrong.

@saosmash said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

I feel like no arguments get more heated in the constructive part of the forum than arguments about our moderation standards. I've now read this whole thread and I'm honestly not sure why.

I have been told I have to.

It's like reading a Justice Thomas dissent.

@ThatGuyThere

When they ask whether you can make an unbiased judgment based on the facts, just say no, and blame everything on Obama. You'll be fine.

@sunnyj

There are so many easy fixes to address your issues, but, for me, the fact that the Elodoth are generally useless makes me toss my hands up.

Werewolf 1E was terrible, but it was better. I'll give you that.

That said, I am a fan of RDC's work and temperament as a game-runner. I really liked Fallen World, and I think I'd like a game with Demon as its sole focus. So, I'd recommend picking one of the two lines, maybe pulling them both together, and seeing what shakes out.

But a lot of pre-game work needs to be done to mesh the lines.