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Originally written by Lord Safey:

Second the unbound is a product of the Rebellion not the Drakons alone. If you read the trakovite ending where you destroy their equipment but still make one generation of Unbound you find out that the drakons can't make another generation because the rest of the rebillion refuses to help them.

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Originally written by Schrodinger:

Try using the elixir on a belt, shoes, or a shaped fiber cloak.

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Originally written by Drew:

do you really think you have the knowledge to make such determinations

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Originally written by Stillness:

The issue is skill. You can't reason away the simple fact that the drakons have 'far more skill' than monarch. The game says it. Case closed.

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Originally written by Drew:

In the very least, Thuryl, I don't think you can argue against an "effective" requirement for medications before they're marketed. Look at the alternative - the dietary supplement market. Statutorially protected from the FDA, it's a multibillion dollar industry that is based largely on anecdotal evidence of effectiveness and frequently outright fraud in marketing.

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Originally written by Sir Spiff:

If you're going purist pro-shaper, i.e. no canisters, then the only ultimate creature you can get is War Trall, which is pretty good when it has no competition on its own tier.

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Originally written by Randomizer:

The FDA allows drugs that are only marginally better or sometimes worse than placebos into the system. Their availability means that people get them because of manufactuers pushing them instead of better alternatives. If the FDA kept them out of the system in the first place, then they won't be causing problems.

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Originally written by Retlaw May:

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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Originally written by Excalibur:

"Wall ogres" sounds kind of cheezy, but I like the custom graphics. Keep up the good work.

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Originally written by Randomizer:

Even when drug manufactuers disclose adverse side effects, they do so in a manner to minimize them. Saying that the effects are only temporary without mentioning that this applies to very short term use and not the long term use that they push for treatment. That the chance of occuring is subdivided into enough catergories to get below 1%.

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Also you can get placed on a drug with adverse effects against your will and/or legal directive by court order or doctor's order in a hospital or nursing home. Try getting someone off when the drug is not working and there are very obvious adverse reactions occuring.

I took one relative out of a nursing home after having this happen. One of the drugs had an FDA warning to discontinue immediately because of health risks if it wasn't working. Since it was an anti-diarrheal medication it was very obvious that it was having no effect. The others were causing brain damage.

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Originally written by Redstart:

Apparently the film's Italian title is "Mia moglie è una pazza assassina?", if it helps at all.

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Originally written by Hawkwind:

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If the drug contains what it claims to contain and isn't contaminated with anything else, and all known adverse effects are disclosed, the manufacturer shouldn't be liable for what happens to people who take it.

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Thuryl, would you apply the same reasoning to cigarettes?

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Hmmm; isn't liver failure apt to be a progressive thing? If 1% of people develop it after X months on the drug, doesn't that mean that more and more people will develop it the longer they stay on it? And liver failure is pretty nasty.

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Originally written by Drew:

It's unfortunate, but one-size-fits-all serves the most people with the greatest need. At least FDA has attempted to meet the needs of individuals with rare diseases; FDA offers ridiculous periods of marketing exclusivity for companies willing to develope "orphan drugs." Until pharmaceutical manufacturers are motivated by something more magnanimous than profit - and that's going to be a long wait - we're going to have to make due with the initiative they take, combined with what incentives the government can provide.

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As for pulling lifestyle improving-yet-threatening drugs off the market: what are you talking about? Vioxx?

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It's all well and good, until the patient dies and the family takes action on behalf of the estate. Never pretty, and Merck is getting hosed for it. The alternative is for Congress to make the corporation immune to liability, and that's a horrendous slippery slope to start down.

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Originally written by Meter Maid:

Actually, if the rat-you-cannot-stop is a bug - it's a very fitting one (Who will survive mankind? Rats, arthropods and bacteria ...).

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Originally written by Drew:

How about your medications? Thanks to the FDA, you can be 99.9% certain your remedies aren't anything more than snake oil.

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Originally written by Synergy:

Oh please. Anything besides point and click. Mouse usage = carpal tunnel and cursage.

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Originally written by Meta-Undead Spokesmage:

The Shapers did come up with something better. They created new things instead of adding unpredictable and unreliable power to old ones. The creation of new things, not the altering of old ones, is, in and of itself, a sign of superiority.

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Originally written by Hawkwind:

In G3 the way status effects were implemented was changed somewhat, and Glaahks cause slowing rather than stunning. The same is true of G4.

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