... it was widely conceded that tax farming was grotesquely inefficient. In the first place, it discredits the state, represented in the popular mind by a grasping private profiteer. Secondly, it generates considerably less revenue than an efficiently administered system of government collection, if only because of the profit margin accruing to the private collector. And thirdly, you get disgruntled ...
... Slaybeck:"Is that God?" 7.It's adorkable. Ned: "I wanted to be a Jedi." ~ Chuck: "You're like Winnie the Pooh. Gimme your paws, Pooh." 8.The pretty colors. PD World: *looks pretty* 9. Generates pie cravings. I'm pretty sure I've eaten more pie in the time span of watching Pushing Daisies than I've in my whole life. Olive: It's from the Pie Hole from across the street. As in "shut...
... their natures. If a TV writer's room runs out of ideas for its series lead, a premise threat starts to look tempting. When a player gets bored with his character, she talks to the GM and generates a new one. Also, RPG series are typically less oriented to a tight premise than to a central activity. It’s this activity that is exempt from change, with characters rotated in and out to perform it*. ...
... a TH of 6 -- or higher depending on terrain THs -- and a Payoff of "Disadvantage (Mental): 3" [PR 3]. The sequence's damage is the usual Bite damage, probably 8(M), although the wound category it generates may be staged up or down depending on the size difference between combatants, and the Grab + Press results in a hold with an escape TH of 2, so to start my next action sequence I would have to ...
... it’s what you wanted,” Silvia sighed and the brunette released some of the pressure on Silvia’s wrist before letting go. “You say that you’re tired of arguing, and I understand, I am, too. We just have to change what generates our fights and we’ll have fixed it. “Why do you think it’d be so easy?” “Because it is. I’m going to change what you don’t like about me, I’m going to think before I say ...
"In opposition to detournement is recuperation, in which mainstream media takes oppositional forms (for example, punk music — or the decentralized multicentric communication style of today’s youth) and repackages it in such a way that it retains or generates mass appeal while being stripped of its oppositional or subversive content. " H/t The Hypermodern
... Carlton Cuse have gone on record that we won't provide a definitive answer to "Where are we?" until the very last episode of LOST . In other cases, the show burns off capital early on, and generates more capital as it goes. A show like Pushing Daisies thrived on this kind of forward motion: it burned through a lot of the pilot's capital fairly quickly, but it contually set up new arcs to ...
..., and the new blending system. Also the fact that you can loot your targets is a plus, even if the cheap bastards only carry like 4 florins a piece. I can’t complain about money however, my Villa generates “the mad cash” so I usually am not terribly strapped for money. Over all the game is more smooth and polished than the first one, and also Ezio has a sense of humor so he’s already a head and ...
... Madrid. The River-Boca derby in my country is special for its colour and atmosphere. The Madrid-Barcelona game, apart from bringing an incredible amount of people together in one stadium and the impact it generates throughout the world, is unique for the quality of players involved. In this sense, it is perhaps a bigger derby than River-Boca, but for me both matches are huge. Why did you cut ...
