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Splitting off a derail from here, o er the question of if Conscription is totally immoral slavery or a fundamental duty of citizenship, something in between, or something else entirely?

As we head into the midterms proper, I noticed we don't have a thread up to discuss them in detail. Now we do. As of this posting, the two big stories are have been the Georgia Senate and the Michigan house race. In Georgia, during a tight race between the eventual winner Eric Schmitt and...

Just curious what everyone's favorite uniform from the franchise is, discounting stuff that's only been seen once or twice (so, most of the future uniforms, alternate realities, etc), and what's your least favorite? Enterprise: Original Series: TOS Films: TNG: VOY/ Early DS9...

For about a decade or so, the genre that we now call Social Deduction Games was limited to a handful of titles, until it exploded in the last few years. I just picked up a new one, First Class Trouble, and from what I've seen it's a fairly solid game, one designed with group voice chat from the...

So, Halo's getting a TV series, sort of. It's supposed to be some kind of alt-universe timeline thing, for reasons that upon viewing the trailer, become fairly obvious, there's a number of bits here that don't seem to really fit into the universe established by the rest of the franchise. A bit...

Two franchises, two armies, two battles.....but what happens if they switched sides? Would they do better? Worse? Would they still win? That's the question. All sides possess the same knowledge of their enemy that the original force possessed. Both sides will have 24 hours to operate freely...

Congressman Eric Swalwell outs "radicalized" man who allegedly threatened him and his family Before commenting, I strongly advise you read the article and tweeter exchange in question, the context on this is important. So, so ome random guy DM'd a "death threat" to a US congressmen, Eric...

This came up in another thread, it's not quite on topic there but it was interesting enough as an idea I thought it merited further discussion. You seem to be making a few points here, which don't always quite align. There's a clear difference between you renting out your property and...

As most of you have probably noticed, since January 6th the democrats have been placing increasing rethotical emphasis on the threat of "domestic exteremists", and after seeing a recent article about that habit, it felt like a thread on the topic was merited. That said, as discussion of this...

First, some background. In the US, you are allowed to deduct some of the costs of your state and local taxes from your federal income tax, though most taxpayers don't bother to itemize thier taxes and just tax a standardized deduction (as the itemizing usually won't save you more than than the...

Yesterday was the 159th anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between ironclad warships and quite possible one of the most influential engagements in naval history. The Monitor's last minute arrival at Hampton Roads and rescue of the Union fleet is one of the most amazing...

With some apologies to @Navarro for stealing his title scheme. It just fit too well not to do. I'm feeling a burned on the space marine version of this story, so I decided to backburn that one and do a different one, focused just on the mortal side of the story. War, War Never changes...

So, Perfect Dark, the greatest FPS of the N64 era and second best FPS franchise ever is, after 15 years, finally getting a new game! It's apparently a total reboot and not a sequel, which is disappointing but somewhat expected. There's also an interview with the devs: They're vague about...

I imagine most people are familiar with the broad strokes view the left holds regarding landlords, but for those that aren't, this video provides decent enough overview: This therefore leads to the natural follow-up question of if that criticism is accurate or not (and why it is or is not...

We've all been there. You know exactly what you're looking for, but you just can't seem to find it. You've look at every store you think would have it, checked online, but just can't seem to find that one item. Then you mention it to a friend, and it turns out they knew just where to find it the...

So, I just upgraded my account to get access to the ability to upload attachments, and decided to splurge a bit and upgrade one tier above that, since the media library feature might come in handy....as soon as I figured out what it actually does. And the features in the $5 tier do look to be...

So, as I've mentioned a few times in the past, I've never watched much anime. I recently remembered that that is not quite true, I actually did watch one years and years ago as a kid: Zoids. Specifically New Century Zero, and maybe a tiny bit of the first series. I don't think I was really into...

I think it's something of an accepted truth that most mobile games are awful, and more designed to drain your wallet via Pay to win mechanics, gambling, time sinks, and other tricks rather than actually be fun. But there are gems out there, and this thread is designed to help share and highlight...

Tom Clancy's Elite Sqaud recently released for IoS and Android, and has already gotten into some hot water. For context, here's the opening cutscene: Now, I personally don't have an issue with it, frankly it's about time we got a a left wing group being the bad guy, right down to them being...

War. War never changes. In the ancient past, men thought different, thought the power of science and technology could let them forge a new path. They were wrong, and in the millennia that followed, in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. For the Steel Talons, an ancient and...