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Canva is not European, but it's also not American -- they're from Australia.
For Ontario readers, Farm Boy's store brand cereals are made in Canada.
The key word in "constitutional monarchy" is "constitutional", not "monarchy". The monarch must follow the parliament's requests, and not doing so is unconstitutional. Parliament is sovereign, at least in all of the countries that derive their monarchy from the UK's.
Outside of the UK there wouldn't be a fight anyway: in all the Commonwealth countries (except the ones that have since gone fully republican), the monarch has a representative called "the governor general" who is selected by the Parliament and recommended to the monarch at which point see above. The monarch has to take the advice of who is to be their governor-general. Issues basically never get to the monarch for them to mess anything up. The loyal-to-his-country deputy gets first crack at everything the monarch does in theory and has no reason to go against Parliament. If somehow the g-g or the king did speak out, it'd be a legal mess but everyone would ignore them. Practically we'd either get ourselves a new monarch or just say to hell with it and become a republic.
To answer your specific question then, yes, it's pro forma. The monarch's role is to be the embodiment of all legislative, judicial, and executive power, in a fairly close analog to what the American Constitution is. But the Constitution can't exercise any of those powers and the monarch can't either. It's just a historical oddity that they can walk and talk, unlike a piece of paper.
Commander Keen is probably the one that I liked the most that is also well known.
My personal favorite was Bass Class, which is weird because I've zero interest in real-life fishing, then or now.
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Review of Moon Toad's "The Jägermeister Adventure" mini-campaign adventure
(delta-pavonis.blogspot.com)
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DTRPG's Daily Special is a $2.00 Traveller-themed book of d66 Random Tables
(www.drivethrurpg.com)
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This is a history where FDR died fifteen months early and his then-vice-president Henry Wallace succeeded him. This gave Wallace a head start on the power-brokers who had him replaced with Truman in real life and he won the 1944 election. Wallace was relatively trusting of the USSR and in this timeline he allowed Germany to be re-united as a neutral per Stalin's preference. NATO never came to be as Wallace was also pretty peace-oriented (and an alliance was even further out of the question after the isolationist wing of the Republicans won the presidency in 1948).
Left up against the Soviets without the US to back them, the UK broke the bank to develop intercontinental missiles as well as nuclear bombs, using the smaller-scale prototype rocket to do a suborbital manned space launch. This served as propaganda to get France and the Benelux nations interested in sharing the technology in return for paying for some of it.
This was the dark flip-side of that space program: a land-based test of a fission bomb, a second test of a thermonuclear weapon and then a third using the missile to deliver another H-bomb from Malaysia to Peros Banhos in the Chagos Archipelago.
Yes, but it doesn't matter enough. The square-cube law means that the mass being supported goes up faster than the area of the layer doing the supporting does. So each additional brick on the bottom still ends up carrying more weight as the pyramid gets taller.
He's written some "Notes" on the story when it was printed in his first short story collection and said that it has the same theme but that he wasn't inspired by it directly. The roots were Paul Linke's play "Time Flies When You’re Alive" and the principle of least time in optics -- if you treat light as a ray, it has to know its future destination in order to know the path with the shortest time it will take to get there (though not if it's a wave). Then there's a bunch of diagrams and discussions about the principle's implications for free will that will stretch your brain. It's pretty fun.
It's the only one in English unless you allow things like "The absolute value of -20".
She might like Little Kitty, Big City. You're a cat, it's an open world, you explore, make friends, and wear hats.
Worst. Cryptid. Ever.
pauldrye
joined 3 months ago
Hooray, but this was two weeks ago?