On a completely unrelated topic, a recent analysis of the metadata of the Guccifer 2.0 data dump, the one which contained a lot of documents obtained from DNC servers, seems to indicate that it would… (View Post)

Most fans who have problems with superhero films have those problems because they go into watch the film with a head full of expectations as to what the film "should" be, thus robbing thems… (View Post)

That city did not fail because of Libertarianism. Instead, it failed for three other reasons: 1) the architect of the plan, Mr. Martinez de Vara, didn't really know what he was doing and had no short… (View Post)

You can blame Huang Feihong for that. Apparently he had the habit of naming techniques as he used them, both in demonstrations and in actual combat. That may or may not be historically accurate but a… (View Post)

That is why I said that this news item was very fortuitous. In Magic we call this "a lucky topdeck" and in real life we call it "a coincidence"...but I don't think it is a coincid… (View Post)