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Police are modern. They came into existence after the United States did.

The first contracted law enforcement was in the early 1600s in Scotland, unless my random 2am fixation on the history of how shitty cops are is wrong.

And a quick search tells me 1611 in Edinburgh.

Cops have been bastards for longer than the US has been around.

I love this movie. It's in my category of "I didn't say it was high cinema, I said it was fun!" movies.

Sitting in whichever space I can fit it, usually tangled up with my wife's bike.

Space isn't abundant where we are and they're bulky.

But hey, weather is off-and-on good enough to ride, so we get to use them plenty.

"Our glorious handling fees" vs "their barbaric tariffs"

Okay look, I have a large piece of old leather I've been meaning to make into pieces for my Renfaire outfit, I have dozens of pieces of steel that are waiting to become knives and other tools, there's 20-something 3d projects in various states of ~~un~~finished on my laptop, and I've got 3 large woodworking projects on hold.

Of course I can start hyperfixating on a new project!

I want a two-part episode of Picard and Janeway with them co-captaining with a brand new crew and a mixture of series senior officers.

And at some point Picard tries to promote Kim, only for janeway to panic and try to stop Two Pip Kim from happening.

But I don't want to date a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

Oh wait, that's a different kind...

It's called "executive dysfunction" and it doesn't make you lazy.

My sister and I would make people around us uncomfortable with our "fighting" but the second someone tries to butt in and take one side, we both would jump down their throats that they have no right to talk shit about the other sibling. And Your Deity help you if you actually raise a hand against one sibling, because you might catch a baseball bat in the neck from the other.

It's like my mother. I am allowed to call my mom an asshole for certain things, but the second someone else does it, that's not cool.

My wife started out with tons of republican views, she just didn't vote ever.

Through conversations about the state of things, pointing* out hypocrisy, and validating the feelings her religious family was telling her to suppress, I'm happy to say I've managed to marry a leftist. She didn't even really have the liberal pit-stop many of us take.

I'll take 100,000 leftists married/dating/whatever to 100,000 liberals over 200,000 conservatives any day of the week.

It's called Dragon Storm, and it's funny you mention friends inventing it because my family does know the only living creator. It's been an interesting story with all the legal issues and tracking down business partners.

The game is very much modeled after D&D. It has some basic campaigns you can run, and has some general background lore.

The premise is that there's are weird magic storms that pop up sometimes (Dragon Storms) and make some people (who have dragon blood) turn into magical creatures like werewolves, unicorns, Pegasus, as well as regular animals like wolves and horses. It's more than those couple, but it's been quite some time since I played and am having trouble recalling things I didn't personally have as characters... They later added dragon-kin that are either full-blooded dragons that take humaoid forms, or descendants of dragons that banged humanoids in humanoid form. Those tend to be more powerful.

You use cards and dice to do things and have character sheets to keep track of stats.

I personally think the game is too rigid in its rules and world building, with the card aspect. I've had players argue with me over whether I'm allowed to alter stats of things on the cards for the narrative. I've had plenty of players meta-game with their memory of the cards. "Rule 3.14" is the Dragon Storm "Rule of Cool"

It was fun to play growing up, though I wish my family had also played D&D.

A ttrpg with cards and people usually bring minifigs and map grids, if not DM supplied custom maps.