- Location
- United States
Worst case scenario I'll smuggle this quest out into Google Docs and share the folder with everyone, using multiple accounts to make it all fit if I have to.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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- a song of ice and fire a sword without a hilt d&d 3.5 dungeons & dragons 100% high octane dragon fuel ave corvidae battle action dragon diplomacy best sister bureaucromancy delicious soul-stuff dragon dreams come true dragon ta'veren greatest uncle hubris is a coward's word in defiance of gods and men mammon's folly mutually assured mage's disjunction qm murderhobo top tier coatl
- Location
- Argentina
We can always trust in the Magpie Knight to save the day!
- Location
- ?????????
[X] Goldfish
It is almost midnight and I hate uni so fukcing good night my people.
It is almost midnight and I hate uni so fukcing good night my people.
To clarify, Britian voted in a referendum to leave the EU, which set in motion a process that gave them time to negotiate the terms of their exit, particularly things like trade treaties, and borders, most especially the Irish one, since a hard border there might restart the Troubles, and (almost) nobody wants that to happen. Unfortunately for Britain, it has spent just about all it's time negotiating in bad faith and merrily pissing away whatever Goodwill and political capital it might have had—there is no deal, and unless Parliament is willing to hold new elections or a second referendum, there won't be any extensions, either. Basically, they are heading straight for a hard Brexit, which is likely to do incredible damage to their economy and is likely to result in a shortage of critical medicines like Insulin.
- Location
- United States
Michael, surreptitiously putting away his shotgun, secretly delighted: "When's the wedding?"
Molly:
Molly:
That's Molly realizing she can actually have sex now, and not go on a murderous berserker rampage.
Winters Maiden no more.
- Location
- Germany
[X] Goldfish
They do not. Neither do they stack with NA buffs
*considers who is in change of the country*
No thanks, I'm good.
- Location
- Germany
That was an excellent read @Snowfire, one can practically feel the confused tumult of emotions radiating off the page making the ending all the more satisfying.
I suspect because it would have burned her like fire. Cold Iron would have been good for sundering the bond not constraining it.
I suspect because it would have burned her like fire. Cold Iron would have been good for sundering the bond not constraining it.
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- Location
- France
No, nature's ultimate sadistic killing machine is the Red Dragon. Imagine a Cat, but at the top of every food chain and very, very aware of it.
Still an asshole. Still beautiful. Now breathes fire, not hairballs.
@Duesal, you are the absolute best. Sharing this quest around? Hot damn, I love you.
I still suspect it would be easier to just move ti another platform though. Have DP make an independently hosted blog or something.
@TotallyNotEvil, @spiritualatheist, this EU situation has nothing to do with Brexit (although spiritual atheist did summarise Brexit well). The EU is voting this new law that risks shutting down all those super-rich platforms that don't self-moderate effectively within our territory, and that may possibly stretch out to include fanfiction websites like this one. We'll see.
I don't think it will go that far though. I think that each country can choose how it will apply and enforce this law, and being too strong with it would be political suicide for individual national leaders. Therefore I presume that my shitty "President" will twist this law into knots to avoid having to follow it, if not simply brazenly break it the way he breaks all other laws.
People, the new EU law only comes into effect in 2021 ! We have two years to finish the quest !
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More to the point this is the internet. There are plenty of ways to spoof any kind of tracker that checks where you are from.
Really no need to worry about it guys.
- Location
- Australia
Viserys: Finish?
Lya Mindlinked for Reasons: Quest?
Viserys: Oh that's what The Voices call the establishment of the Imperium, but the planes are infinite so probably just another tangent, they do that.
Lya:
- Location
- Australia
More to the point this is The Internet.
They can keep their grubby little paws off of it thank you very much.
Messing with the internet is the modern equivalent of taxing bread.
As an aside, this is correct. While the EU can issue directives, each individual member country individually decides how to implement them as laws.
Also, thanks for the great chapter @Snowfire!
Here just to set people's minds at ease:
A proxy site you can log into the site no problem as though from an address in the US (I checked). All any sort of law would mean for us would be slightly longer load times.
A proxy site you can log into the site no problem as though from an address in the US (I checked). All any sort of law would mean for us would be slightly longer load times.
- Location
- Germany
Alright, here is some perspective for those of you guys hailing from other continents.
Brexit
Here are a few very nice videos that explain this whole debacle.
As it stands, Britain will leave the European Union on Friday without any kind of agreement in regards to trade, international relationships, border security or anything at all. Meanwhile, the British parliament is in open rebellion against the Prime Minister, tearing itself apart in an attempt to get anything at all in place or at least get the EU to extend the deadline.
So, basically, imagine the most heated and vitriolic vote in this thread you ever participated in. That's what is currently going on in the government of what used to be an important European nation.
Copyright Reform
Well, this just happened yesterday, so there is not that much to say so far. The gist of it is that the EU has created a guideline that gives news outlets far reaching abilities to curtail any kind of use, citation or link to their articles. In theory, this is supposed to protect them from exploitation by major internet platforms like Google or Facebook, but in practice (this being already law in Germany and having failed hilariously) it will damage everyone else. Google will get the legal right from the news platforms to keep aggregating stuff in Google News, generating traffic for them, but meanwhile everyone running a blog or even just linking to a news article in this forum could get into legal trouble.
What's worse is the other contested article, which now makes internet platforms 100% liable for any and all user generated content. It furthermore obligates them to create technical measures that automatically recognize copyright protect content before it can be uploaded and blocks this, but it's totally not a upload-filter, because that would look bad so it's not. To add insult to injury, the thing that just passed the EU parliament is just a EU guideline, not a law. Over the coming two years, each EU state must pass it's own laws to comply with this guideline, making sure that a maximum number of people with a minimal amount of competency on the topic will keep making decisions about this for all of us.
Given the experience from the GDPR introduction, my personal prediction is that we will see internet platforms flat out banning users from the European Union, as there is no reasonable way to comply with one set of these laws, let alone with over 25 different ones. For example, this forum could be held liable for:
- me posting a snippet from a news article
- me posting a copyrighted image
- me posting a modified version of a copyrighted image
- me posting a snippet from the ASOIAF books
-- that includes me quoting the wiki, which quotes the books
-- and yes, the wiki is one big pile of copyright infringement
- me posting a fanfic about ASOIAF
All of this could suddenly be a major legal quagmire for SV. If just one author of one source material of one of the quests or fanfics on this site files a lawsuit, SV could be facing charges in the millions.
We will see what happens, but right now, there is really no way to say where this is going.
Brexit
Here are a few very nice videos that explain this whole debacle.
As it stands, Britain will leave the European Union on Friday without any kind of agreement in regards to trade, international relationships, border security or anything at all. Meanwhile, the British parliament is in open rebellion against the Prime Minister, tearing itself apart in an attempt to get anything at all in place or at least get the EU to extend the deadline.
So, basically, imagine the most heated and vitriolic vote in this thread you ever participated in. That's what is currently going on in the government of what used to be an important European nation.
Copyright Reform
Well, this just happened yesterday, so there is not that much to say so far. The gist of it is that the EU has created a guideline that gives news outlets far reaching abilities to curtail any kind of use, citation or link to their articles. In theory, this is supposed to protect them from exploitation by major internet platforms like Google or Facebook, but in practice (this being already law in Germany and having failed hilariously) it will damage everyone else. Google will get the legal right from the news platforms to keep aggregating stuff in Google News, generating traffic for them, but meanwhile everyone running a blog or even just linking to a news article in this forum could get into legal trouble.
What's worse is the other contested article, which now makes internet platforms 100% liable for any and all user generated content. It furthermore obligates them to create technical measures that automatically recognize copyright protect content before it can be uploaded and blocks this, but it's totally not a upload-filter, because that would look bad so it's not. To add insult to injury, the thing that just passed the EU parliament is just a EU guideline, not a law. Over the coming two years, each EU state must pass it's own laws to comply with this guideline, making sure that a maximum number of people with a minimal amount of competency on the topic will keep making decisions about this for all of us.
Given the experience from the GDPR introduction, my personal prediction is that we will see internet platforms flat out banning users from the European Union, as there is no reasonable way to comply with one set of these laws, let alone with over 25 different ones. For example, this forum could be held liable for:
- me posting a snippet from a news article
- me posting a copyrighted image
- me posting a modified version of a copyrighted image
- me posting a snippet from the ASOIAF books
-- that includes me quoting the wiki, which quotes the books
-- and yes, the wiki is one big pile of copyright infringement
- me posting a fanfic about ASOIAF
All of this could suddenly be a major legal quagmire for SV. If just one author of one source material of one of the quests or fanfics on this site files a lawsuit, SV could be facing charges in the millions.
We will see what happens, but right now, there is really no way to say where this is going.
I think some regulation is definitely necessary, though I don't know much about the specific provisions the EU enacted.
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My prediction is that if the worst should happen I will suddenly become a US or British citizen for the purposes of this and many other sites.
Making laws about the internet is the easy part, enforcing them not so much.
I'm glad you have an exit plan, thenMy prediction is that if the worst should happen I will suddenly become a US or British citizen for the purposes of this and many other sites.
Making laws about the internet is the easy part, enforcing them not so much.
- Location
- Germany
That is not even tangentially related to what the EU just passed as a law. Nobody gives a flying fart about 4chan.