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There are black people serving 68 years in prison for doing far less.
 
 

Can I get an Amen from the Congregation for Brother Hermit!!!

"I let my emotions take control" Dude, when you drive to DC, then spray police officers with your chemicals as you try to over throw a lawful election, then BOAST about it later, this wasn't just some slip of temper. It's premeditated, and as a Ex Marine, you're an Oathbreaker and a damned traitor.
 
I'm all for mercy in many cases, but in this situation? Zero sympathy.

Capitol Rioter Breaks Down Crying After Receiving 68-Month Prison Sentence

One D&D to rule them all, One D&D to find them,
One D&D to bring them all and in the Dorkness bind them,
In the Land of WOTC where the Hasbros lie.

Some of it's from the continuing drift away from forums, but I agree about seasonality as well. Certainly I've been occupied with other things lately. Bu I'll be cranking up another Hero campaign for the fall and winter. There's nothing better to bring warmth and light to a long, cold, dark winter.

From the Book of Face:
 
"Tom Brady now has more retirements than Aaron Rodgers has championships."

George Santos will not serve on any committees.  However, Anthony Devolder, Anthony Zabrovsky, and Kitara Ravache will.

2nd fun fact:
 
The Cardinals stadium is called State Farm Stadium.  Who is the most well-known State Farm spokesperson?  
 
Patrick Mahomes...how convenient.  Conspiracy!
 
s/ 

Fun fact of the day:
 
 

There was a face mask on Burrow on that play that wasn't called.  And multiple missed holding calls on KC on that last drive...during the punt return and during Mahomes scramble.  That's all I will say, too angry about the whole thing right now.  Believe it or not I think I'm pretty fair about officiating most times...the wife actually gets angry with me cuz I'm defending calls...but the Bengals were robbed.

Thanks, it is hard getting someone for FTF games these days. 😞

If I had a question like this I would PM Lord Laiden. He is our resident lore expert. If it's in a HERO book, then the odds are pretty good that he'll remember it.

Given that (at least in my opinion) the GOP House members had no intention of actually doing their jobs, but instead just being obstructionist / perpetually try to impeach Biden / posture and pontificate without legislating... I'm not sure them being tied up indefinitely just trying to elect a Speaker of the House is all that much worse, or even all that different.

This is actually worse than it sounds.  Random reps are not empowered to direct the Capitol Police--only the House Speaker can do that.  And there is no House Speaker.  So right now people are trying to figure out who ordered the removal of the metal detectors, and why.
 
(Well, we know why.  But still.)

If you aren't that familiar with the superhero genre, I'd suggest reading some classic comic books to get a feel for what superheroes are all about.  My own tastes lean towards the late 70s through the 1980s, but it kinda depends on what you're going for.  There's a website called Read Comics Online that has a huge storehouse of comics.
 
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-New-Teen-Titans-1980
 
The early 1980s Teen Titans storyline is a great team adventure.  It's got a mix of "woe is me" teen angst, characters balancing their super lives with their secret identities, one-off fights with villains, and overarching plots that the characters will encounter again and again.

Heroes in Champions don't party until after the bad guy goes to jail. They're a team.
 
Bad guy does a thing. Heroes get wind of it. Heroes engage bad guy. Bad guy gets away after saying how great his plan is. Heroes prepare for round 2. Heroes track down the bad guy and stop him just in time.

One thing I'm struck by for the characters created or overseen by Steve Long, is that a great many of his supervillains became villains as a result of some traumatic origin that completely changed their personalities. I don't mean in the sense of a personal tragedy that warped them emotionally. I mean something that physically altered the way their brains work. Maybe it's my drama background, but I find the most interesting and compelling characters are those with a through-line to their stories. I want to understand the steps in their lives that led them to become the heroes or villains that they are. That helps a great deal in truthfully playing them, or in the context of gaming, role-playing them.
 
There are many elements of Steve's game writing that I very much admire, but I can't help seeing this aspect of his characterization as rather lazy. I don't know whether this element doesn't interest him, or if he just doesn't think about characters that way. Either one could explain what I consider his most notable non-character, Doctor Destroyer. As presented first in Conquerors, Killers, and Crooks, DD can be summed up as, Power, Intellect, and Arrogance. There really isn't anything more to him, no depth or shadings. I looked forward to Book Of The Destroyer adding some role-playing meat over those megalomaniacal bones, but Albert Zerstoiten's ego and ambition seemed to be fully formed at childhood, like Athena emerging full-grown from the brow of Zeus. BOTD is full of missed opportunities. Zerstoiten's parents each get one scene from when he was a boy, then are never mentioned again. No mention of any romantic involvement over his lifetime. He was the youngest student at university, coming from a poor background, but we're to believe he was never bullied? Serving under the Nazis had no effect on his thinking about humanity? When he discovers the Vale of Javangari, and the natives worship him as a god, his thoughts amount to, "That's how it should be."
 
Not that I'm trying to suck up to Dean because it's his topic , but his character creations almost always have a story behind them, and origins with some sort of emotional impact in the classic comic-book sense. You can follow why they've come to think and act the way that they do. For my part I find that sort of character more interesting and compelling than "Brain-Damage-Man."

Sir, there are religions, philosophies, and entire sciences that are founded on words  less true than these.
 
Simply for saying it out loud, you should be able to look behind shadows.  For understanding it as true, you should be able to pull the strings on the venitian blinds of the cosmos, and cast away all semblance of darkness (until nine-thirty PM or so; I like it dark when I sleep).

I like Mechanon fine, its Foxbat that eludes me, I just don't get his appeal.  Maybe my sense of humor doesn't extend in that direction or something.

(Summed up by someone on Reddit, repeated here)
All recommended criminal charges from Jan 6th Committee:
Obstruction of an Official Proceeding 18 U.S.C 1512:
Trump
Clark
Eastman
Chesebro
Conspiracy to Defraud the United States 18 U.S.C 171:
Trump
Eastman
Clark
Chesebro
Meadows
Giuliani
Conspiracy to Make a False Statement 18 U.S.C 371, 1001
Trump
Eastman
Chesebro
"Incite," "Assist" or "Aid or Comfort an Insurrection" 18 U.S.C 2383
Trump

No....no, I can't agree.  That's exactly what I would've expected, had I wasted any mental effort on it....

Not true any more.
 
More like 2-4.

Well, apparently Trump's stuff sold out *Sigh*
 
I love my country but a too large percentage of it is freaking me out