Never played RuneQuest, but I did play a bit of Call of Cthulu, which employed the RuneQuest system. I really enjoyed it, but couldn't keep most of the rest of our group interested, partially due to the system and partially due to the story material.

How would you know it's crappy if you haven't seen it (BTW, it's a film, not a tv show).

You must be very young or have been in such financial distress that you couldn't afford cable tv from 1980 through about 2000, because Kelly's Heroes must have run at least once a week on Turner branded tv stations in that timeframe.

The plan to which, I believe, resting abyssface makes reference is only three or four years old. Those areas that could be pastureland still have people living in them here and there, and infrastructure upkeep for those sparsely populated neighborhoods costs the city a lot of money it doesn't have.

That and he- Allan Havey- is one of those stand-ups' stand-ups. Dude had a good show, Night After Night with Allan Havey, on The Comedy Network (now Comedy Central) at the channel's inception back in '89.

But now you know all about the Treaty of Westphalia, so there's that.

I'm not so sure it was the Boomers, but the directors who were older than the Boomers. The oldest Boomers were, after all, 13-years old in 1959.

When the news of the arrest was posted here this past Friday, PT went off on the same tangent, which, AFAIC, is an Underpants Gnome sort of conspiracy theory.

The problem is that Greenwald is drawing attention away from the alleged criminal act that is being prosecuted- which doesn't require Eichenwald to have actually suffered a seizure. That Rivello posted the gif that reads “You deserve a seizure for your posts” shows intent.

There's definitely an "if" involved, isn't there?

Wow, you read that? I quit after the first sentence. The TL;DR nature of that screed has me thinking that Glenn's gotten back to playing with sock puppets.

Right. His take was that Eichenwald claimed to have a seizure, not that someone purposely tried to cause Eichenwald to have a seizure.

So if Eichenwald went in thinking the 18-year old was a minor, is there proof that Eichenwald was planning on having sex with the kid? Maybe I'm wrong, but aren't there organizations that go around Southeast Asia buying child prostitutes from brothels in order to free the kids? Isn't there the possibility every time…

So it's either a matter of journalistic ethics for paying a subject, or he paid to have sex with someone who was NOT a minor?

Are you suggesting he was profiting from it? Using it as masturbation material?

And when you're a vice cop, you can get it for free. Maybe you have to pay an informant who has some sleazy connections himself, but still…

"The image contained flashing lights and the phrase “You deserve a seizure for your posts,”…"

Oh, fuck straight off. Greenwald purposely left out a key part of the story in order to smear the victim. The "swing" in this case isn't in question.

And Greenwald should know that, having gone to law school. It's very basic criminal law.

Whether or not Eichenwald suffered a seizure is immaterial. That Rivello wrote, “You deserve a seizure for your posts,” shows intent to injure. You can throw a punch at me and miss, but you're still guilty of assault though not battery.