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This is inspired somewhat by the webcomic El goonish shive straight from the wiki: Magic users use Spellbooks for finding out what new spells they get and details about the spells' workings. Spellbooks are very verbose,[1][2] so it can be hard to understand some details, but without one a...

One day you wake up in DC, your mind is blurry and your head hurts. And that is when it happens. The Joker appears. You recognize him inmediatly, how could you not? Especially once you realize that it's not a dream as barrage of bullets rains and hits the crowd. Including you. As you bleed out...

This is a thread for the discussion of Islamic jurisprudence, and more generally the state of the Islamic world. It spawned from a debate in this thread over just how widespread punitive amputation is in ummat al-Islam, and its scriptural basis in the Qur'an. This is NOT a thread to shit on...

Or, as another indie writer who wrote up a blogpost summarising this fiasco put it: Faleena Hopkins Cocks The Whole Entire Fuck Up And it just gets worse from there. The whole exercise is basically a shakedown wrapped in plausible-sounding but utterly bogus legal jargon that would take our very...

So, I've been turning this idea around in my head for awhile; it's so deceptively simple, I'm astonished I haven't seen it in use before. THE PREMISE: A Master Vampire based in a major metropolis (I'm thinking NYC since it's the only major city I have experience with, but another could do just...

PewDiePie and other YouTubers took money from Warner Bros. for positive game reviews Inadequate disclosure on sponsored videos The Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with Warner Bros. over claims that the publisher failed to disclose that it had paid prominent YouTubers for...

so from my understanding of Westerosi law is that if a man commits a crime he can take the black in lieu of punishment where upon the criminal waits in the closest cell till a recruiter come by and pics him up and takes him to the wall. But if that was the case shouldn't the watch be overmanned...