Gaming News, Cthulhu, Sex Crimes

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Recently read from the beginning to the current issue; The Order of the Stick, one of the funniest pieces of work from gamer culture. Roleplaying reviews this week included RuneQuest (3rd ed) and a very old Traveller module, Chamax and The Horde. Played some Traveller: The New Era on Tuesday and Dungeon! Dragonlords Dreamland scenerio went very well except for a very strange visitor.

Last night attended the arthouse film gathering in Collingwood with the usual suspects (Brendan, 2600AU crew, Paul from Polyester). Gorged ourselves at "The New Raffles" (opposite The Tote) and then watched three H.P. Lovecraft inspired films, including "The Call of Cthulhu", a 2005 film in a 1920s style, the very cheesy From Beyond and Dagon. On a related note, fishermen in New Zealand have caught a half-tonne squid. Ry'leh is nearby you know...I-ai! I-ai! Cthulhu, Ftan'g!

The war against youth marches on; a 13 year old in Italy gets pregnant to her 15 year old boyfriend. Her parents and the courts force her to have an abortion (link in Italian). A couple (one 16 the other 17) exchange sexual images of themselves to each other. They are charged and convicted of child pornography (from erudito. In good ol Denver, a 13 year old girl has been charged as both offender and victim for having sex with her 12 year old boyfriend.

Comments

[seriouspaul.livejournal.com]

Those last two stories come from Florida, one of the most corruptly and incompetently run states in the US and Utah, one of the most heavily Bush-voting states in the US. No big surprise.

Nor is it surprising that you'd use this as a measurement of fact. Perhaps someone here is allowing their emotions surpass their rationale. Gee it sure is hard for me to tell who.

Oh wait. Nope. I can't back that up.

As a non politically aligned independent, who is also pretty militantly atheist I'd have to say you give people like me a bad name by acting just like the people you hate.

[kremmen.livejournal.com]

Huh? Of the states with sodomy laws on their books (ruled unconstitutional in 2003), only one, Michigan, voted Democrat in 2000. Judges in the US tend to be appointed by politicians. I therefore find it unsurprising that some of those states have harsh, badly written laws regarding minors and that those laws occasionally get prosecuted in the courts. I therefore conclude "no big surprise". Why do you have such a problem with that?

[seriouspaul.livejournal.com]

Well since that has nothing to do with your previous posts, as I read them, I don't have a problem with that.