"How to get rich"

Design weapon.
Sell weapon.
Move to tax haven.

/me is on the way to the shop to buy pork scratchings and milk when me is stopped by redhead woman, approximately in her mid 40's, with big teeth
"Hello, you know my son."
"Robert?"
"That's the one. I like your hair, how long did it take to grow?"
"About 12 or 13 years."
"Wow! What kind of music are you into, the same as Robert?"
"No, I like death metal."
"Yeah, I like heavy rock too. What do you reckon to the new stuff by [arglebargle]?"
"Never heard of them, I like death metal."
"What about [flibblebibble]?"
"I don't normally listen to that kind of music, I'm into death metal."
"[boinkydoink]?"
"No. I'm not into rock, I'm into death metal"
"Are you sure you're a rocker?"
"No, I'm into death metal"
"Oh, like Iron Maiden?"
"Uhh... Yeah..."

> How to Stump Anti-Abortionists With One Question <

Do you step on ants?

My dear you insult me! Whom do you think I am, Flint? I am not doing this for poopies and laughs.

Very good
Now tell me how (or why) traditional Bare-Knuckle Boxing, using your sources and logic, is safer than modern day Gloved Boxing.

Nah, looking for Anaal Nathrakh lyrics is like looking for Unicorn shite.

"The longest bareknuckle fight on record occurred in Melbourne, Australia, on October 19, 1856. James Kelly and Jack Smith fought for 6 hours 15 minutes. [1]"

"Modern Parallels
The development of these rules has since been mirrored in the evolution of modern 'No holds barred' competition into Mixed martial arts.

During the development of boxing, while some rules were added for the protection of the fighters, most rule changes such as the addition of gloves (which became thicker with time) were not added so much for the protection of the fighters, but rather to create more action in a typical fight.

In the bare-knuckle era, fighters were unable to throw as many full-force punches without risking damage to their hands. Therefore, after a couple of rounds, the punches tended to be less forceful. The addition of gloves meant that the fighters could throw more hard punches without injury.

Ironically, the addition of gloves to boxing made it a much more violent sport than without. Modern boxers frequently suffer head trauma due to the repeated full-impact punching that the gloves are able to offer.[3] Visually, mixed martial arts competitions may look more violent to the casual observer, with fights continuing on the ground, in truth it is actually safer for the competitors because the risk of head trauma from constant impacts is substantially lower[4]. This is demonstrated by the rarity of deaths and severe head trauma in regulated MMA competitions, while in boxing people die every year, and head trauma is a major concern, leading to physically debilitating illnesses such as Parkinson's Disease.

Although modern commercial mixed martial arts competitions use some form of gloves (thickly padded boxing type for most stand-up styles such as in K1 or a lighter fingerless version for those that include more grappling such as Pride or UFC), another modern parallel with full contact bare-knuckle fighting can be found in Kyokushin karate, which uses no gloves or body padding in its highest level tournaments. Kyokushin fights differ in that fist or elbow strikes to the head are no longer allowed, although all forms of kicks and knee strikes are permitted, including to the head."

Sweet! Wasn't sure I'd gotten the lines right.

> xeno syndicated wrote:

> I want to square population counts (if such information is to go into the rp), so as to make it more realistic. <

1) Why?
2) I'm not sure people would be happy about putting that kind of information on a public board.

> Thus a typical player's pop has about a hundred million pop instead of 10,000, and a typical pop banker has about LQs or anything.  So, let's just call that 10,000 pop 10 million instead.  A pop banker with a million pop on a planet (which is a rarity) would have 1 trillion pop on that planet.  (I think writing about a society with 1 trillion pop on a single planet would be a more realistic description of the pop banker's role. <

Or just multiply the numbers by ten so that you get 100,000 from 10,000 rather than twenty kajillion.

> Unit counts would likewise have to be adjusted.  I would say here that 1 soldier actually equals 1 army, 1 fighter / bomber would equal 1 squadron, etc...

Or should we just square unit counts, too? <

Why? We have smaller armies today than we did 100, 50 or even 10 years ago, thanks to modern technology.
British armed forces (serving a population of 80,000,000):

Available for military service
14,607,724 males, age 15

Con:

1) Limited participation. (guideline 1)
2) I no longer have a PC of my own.
3) I am currently homeless so cannot guarantee the kind of activity I would demand of myself.
4) I cannot overcome the feeling that at present the idea is unneccessarily complicated. (guideline 2, 7, 8)

Pro:

1) Godmoding would be impossible.
2) A player, having lost half their empire, suddenly turning the tide of battle with a surprise fleet of three million units would finally be believable.
3) Would add new level of strategy to the game (guideline 4)