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Godspeed, Sir. May you fly farther than ever before.
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As promised, here is to poll for the Super Sitcom Superdraft! For your consideration, here is a list of the stories up for your votes. (Spoilered for verbosity.) Choose three, please. Spoiler Title: Don't Riddle Me This! The Setting: New York City; now The Lead: Batman (Bruce Wayne) The Partner: Wonder Woman The Family/Flatmate: The Riddler The Wacky Comic Relief / The Best Friend: The Comedian (Edward Blake) The Nosy Neighbor: J. Jonah Jameson The Guest Star: Superman The Antagonist: Maxwell Lord The Secret: Riddler had a breakdown and is tr…
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So I'm new to TTRPGs outside D&D's and Pathfinder's. I heard about this via twitter, it seems really creative. I'm visibly impaired into video games and anime. Hey, looking forward to find a game and trying this system.
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Hoy there, true believers! It’s time for the Super Sitcom Superdraft! In this edition of the Superdraft, you will be choosing characters for a sitcom, but with a twist: The focus is on Supers! Heroes, villains, agents, mooks, DNPCs, super-pets, you name it! Bring them all together for a super story of friends, family, and quirky fun. In this Superdraft, you will select the following: The Setting: Choose a time and/or place for your story. As usual, this is the first pick. The Lead: This is your main character. This character should be a super. (Your other characters need not be supers, but this one should be.) The Part…
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From: Sean Patrick Fannon For those among my friends and followers who know Scott Bennie - or who know his work - I have the difficult news that he has been hospitalized and undergone surgery. I do not know what his current condition is, but according to his sister, he is undergoing significant rehab. He has no access to a computer or the Internet and is very much cut off. As I understand it, you can send him an email address to the following address, using the following information to ensure a message is hand-delivered to him by the Volunteer Resource team. This will be the only way he knows friends and fans are thinking of him. youvegotmail.ARH@fraserhealth.…
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https://variety.com/2021/music/news/jim-steinman-dead-meat-loaf-celine-dion-1234955739/ Jim's songs were so recognizable. Once he was on my radar, it was pretty easy to know his songs regardless of Artist performing them. He is also the reason I got to know Lord Morham and share music with him. Rest in Peace, Sir. So, In his honor one of my favorite songs of his from Bonnie Tyler (no, not Total Eclipse of The Heart, but same album)
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Why limit the fun to the Star Trek universe? Tell us which episode of Babylon 5 you like best, and why.
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We have an uncle in his 80s who's in a retirement home. The place is completely locked down due to COVID-19, of course, so he doesn't get a lot of contact with the outside world. We've been considering using part of our stimulus to buy him a device that would give him some options other than reading the news on his phone (which is kind of making him paranoid, frankly). One idea we've had is getting him a tablet. Amazon currently has a Kindle Fire 8 for under $100. They also have Chromebooks with similar memory (16 GB) starting at around $160, so that's also an option. A Kindle would probably be easier for him to use. But he's pretty tech-savvy; unl…
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He was 50. Overdose and heart attack. 8 studio albums. Not my favorite artist but he had some good songs. possibly NSFW(explicit lyrics).
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Prince Philip has died aged 99 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11437314 His life https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50589065 A life in pictures https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-36417297
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And what a way to finish off the first round... Abilene Christian slays BIG GIANT brother Texas in a 14 over 3 upset. The brackets are almost certainly WELL smashed; in ESPN's (usually HUGE) public brackets, no one has a perfect bracket...after one day, that's rather rare. Big upsets: 2, 3, pair of 4, 5, and pair of 6 seeds all fell. Buffs took Hoyas to the woodshed; UCLA solidly pulled off the upset; Longhorns lost; Big 10 took a big gut-punch to the ego (the 2 and 3 to lose...were both Big 10). Excellent start... Kind of a funky schedule for tomorrow...back-to-back single games to start, then 3 games staggered..…
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Some whackjob just walked into the Table Mesa King Soopers and shot up the place. At least 6 dead, IIRC. Including one police officer. They have a suspect in custody. It's even a little more freaky cuz...it's less than 2 miles south of the CU campus, and I graduated from CU. So, while it's been a long time, I've been there. I just hope with all my heart that this isn't the start of another Really Bad Year for shootings.
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A player wanted to created a goo character but wanted a larger picture. Does anyone know where this is from?
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Has some potential.
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I'm very excited about it.
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I was on Deviantart when I saw a notice from Prodigyduck. InputJack whose real name was Marc Curlee has died due to Covid 19 https://www.deviantart.com/prodigyduck/journal/RIP-Marc-Curlee-872022855 Some of you will have seen some of his art in the Champions forum for example. He even did a piece for me. This one hits home. RIP
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Yaphet Kotto: James Bond villain and Alien actor dies at 81
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More info https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/captain-america.html
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The All Star Freedom League Draft In this draft, Franklin Delano Roosevelt has ordered every superhuman in America to form into one group, the All Star Squadron. This group is instrumental to invading Europe and Japanese waters. Participating drafters have to put together mixed teams from that era to attack designated targets in front of the Allied forces. The draft pool will consist of any hero active during the war such as Captain America, Nick Fury, the Shield, and Samson, any hero who had served during the war but was retconned into not serving such as Superman, Captain Marvel, Batman and Robin, and Aquaman, and any hero created with a back story of s…
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So, I'm a sedentary old arthritic guy who needs to get back into some kind of shape. Where I am right now suggests that flexibility it's probably my first step, after which I can start looking at more intense forms of exercise. What I'm looking for is a 15 to 20 minute stretching routine that I can do each morning. My flexibility right now is not great, especially in my arthritic ankles. Basically I'm just looking for a place to start. Do any of you have a stretching routine that you use, or that you've seen other people use? Something for beginners would be ideal.
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Cause of death was a kiteboarding accident. Stargate: SG-1 & Veteran TV Actor Cliff Simon Passes Away, Age 58 Ba'al was the best villain of the entire series, bar none. He was witty and affable and over-the-top and irredeemably evil. He was the one member of the Goa'uld who didn't get sucked in by his own hype. Cliff Simon played him masterfully. Rest In Peace, sir.
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Oh man... Cause of death was not listed specifically; it was only reported as "a short illness." But he was 85, so any illness is serious.
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Lou Ottens, Inventor Of The Cassette Tape, Has Died In fond memory, a question: What was the first cassette tape you ever owned? (Alternately, what was your favorite cassette tape back in the day?) The first cassette that I bought with my own money was The Cars' "Heartbeat City".
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As some of y'all out there know, one of my other hobbies is collecting fountain pens. I have a semi-valuable array of a bit under 900 pens so far, ranging from ultra-cheap everyday use kinda pens to expensive works of art that I'd never dare write with. Another hobby is collecting antique maps from the 1920s and '30s, partly to help with Pulp Hero writing. If you need to know exactly where the police station is on Gibraltar in 1934, where the short-lived nation of Tannu Tuva was, or where the railroads run in the Pulp Era Belgian Congo, I'm your man. So, after many years of waiting, I just got a new pen chest that will hold all my pens on the left,…
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