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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Captain Kirk, the planet seems to be inhabited entirely by...men." "Right. Skip it." NT: First officers you do not want on your bridge.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. You should consider doing this for a living.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat He's watching a Washington vs. Dallas football game.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Grey Matter - Oingo Boingo

Re: Musings on Random Musings No, seriously. WTF did that mean? That was way frelling random, man.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Signs of intelligent life. Keep watching...

Re: Musings on Random Musings

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I'm so tired of being tired. Two more weeks of nights and I'm done. Jobless, but at least I'll be off nights.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat You keep hearing voices just before entering a room that say things like "Berkowitz was an idiot." Edit: Rats...didn't have a new topic ready. Okay, um.... NT: Signs your pet knows things you don't.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? He's ascending. Edit: Oh, and We Belong by Pat Benatar.

Re: Why is Piercing a power?

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? You May Be Right - Billy Joel

Re: movies/t.v. vs comic books Agreed. Bob Kane once said that Val Kilmer was his favorite on-screen portrayal of Batman thus far.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? My coworker babbling on and on and on and on.... Hrmph.

Re: Pulparize It! Real Genius - A couple of young scientists at a prominant college in the 1930s complete their term project - a vehicle-mounted laser! -- only to discover their professor is secretly working for the Nazis and plans to give them the laser to destroy enemy tanks and ships long before their own weapons come into range. After outsmarting the professor and putting the kabosh on the Nazis' plan--all without ever actually revealing their involvement--the young adults decide to ferret out and ruin other Nazi 5th Column scientists and their minions, including their new Nemesis, Professor Atherton!

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Re: SciFi Colonists I don't see why a mix of the two wouldn't be feasible. For example, a core of scientists, colonists and even military/security, mix liberally with a selection of "useful" laborers and the like culled from minimum security prisons. Not every criminal is a hardcore criminal, and an indentured servitude in return for a reduced sentence might entice many of the undesirables and still give the government a practical workforce. Use of control collars or somesuch would probably be the best bet of keeping the criminals in line until they've earned their freedom. Just an idea.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Dancing Queen - Abba

Re: movies/t.v. vs comic books Most definitely. Lana and Clark were high school sweethearts until he revealed his secret to her and left Smallville. She came and went in his life for a while. She was even a bridesmaid in Clark's and Lois Lane's wedding. She was married to Pete Ross, had a child (premature), had that child stolen by a Lex Luthor-inhabited Doomsday, and is still around, AFAIK. Pete Ross was VP to Luthor's Presidency, and has recently taken over the Big House (I think...I'm behind on Superman stories). Lana is still around, but is (or already has) leaving Pete Ross. As Hermit said, Doc Ock has always had 4 mechanical arms, bringing his total to 8 appendages. Spidey has always used artificial webbing until very recently (not including when he wore the black-and-white-pre-Venom costume, which shot a version of webbing all it's own without need for cartridges). Note that "Ultimate Spider-Man" and the old "Spider-Man 2099" have/had natural web shooters. Basic elements of the X-Men stories have been retained, as have the basic stories and personalities of the main characters, but to try and go point-by-point between the movies and the comics would be...well, pointless. The X-Men movies have compromised a great deal of story in order to get to the big screen. Too many characters to develop fully, so they cheat and give you a short abbreviated version that's more a nod of respect to the originals rather than a true adaptation. There have been allusions to his training off and on, but I believe Frank Miller's "Batman: Year One" storyline is considered "canon" these days. It's always been my understanding that Bruce Wayne did, in fact, travel a bit in order to fully train himself. The idea of "Batman Begins" is actually fairly faithful to the general storyline of "Year One", but of course it's been changed to meet on-screen time constraints and general pacing. Couldn't tell ya about the Batmobile. It's had so many friggin' versions who knows what's canon anymore...

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Don't Come Around Here - Tom Petty

Re: Need Villain Team Name Go with something simple: Alliance Nemesis The Elite Union League Deathstrike (I just threw that one in cuz I always wanted a villain team named that) Or don't give them a name yet at all. Maybe something will occur to you later or the PCs themselves will give you an idea.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Unchain My Heart - Joe Cocker

Re: MetaCyber Took me a bit to catch up on this thread, and there's still more I have to ponder, but allow me to say that I'm impressed (as always) by your attention to detail and the scope of your settings. I just don't know where you find the time... Good stuff, Ed. Keep it up.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I'm hiding from the world today, so if anyone calls, I'm not here.

Re: On Fantasy [G.R.R.M.] I have to disagree also. I see possible "Empire Strikes Back" type stuff in the future as our wannabe assassin Arya goes off to help her family. I think all of this back story of breaking her down and building her back up will become quite telling in future books.