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20 hours ago, Cancer said:

I have said before somewhere on these boards: If you find yourself accused of bizarre and heinous things that would never occur to you, all too often those things are what the accuser would do if they were in your position.

Back when major news sites still had comment sections, any article about atheism almost always had at least one person asking "If you don't believe in God, what's stopping you from robbing, raping, and killing all the time?"

Just because you're apparently a potential serial killer only kept in check by your fear of divine punishment, that doesn't mean everyone else also lacks the ability to form an internal moral code, even though believing that might make you feel better about yourself.

21 hours ago, Cygnia said:

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4007362-texas-passes-bill-stripping-authority-from-cities/

 

It reminds me of the Republican state legislatures that transferred powers from the Governor to themselves in the period between a Democrat being elected Governor and the Governor taking office.

The Red October BBS had a big selection of unique characters.  The content of the site (and other material) is still available archived on Shelley Chrystal Mactyre's site.

3 hours ago, Ranxerox said:

 

It is illegal to make false statements to the House of Representatives?  Why aren't they all in jail?

It's illegal to make false statements to the House of Representatives, not in the House of Representatives.

A complaint was also filed today asserting that the treasurer hired to handle his campaign funds, and legally required by the FEC, doesn't actually exist.

On 1/8/2023 at 5:44 PM, steriaca said:

The idea is that Huntmistress is an abusive parent, using the fact that her daughter is a mutant as an "excuse" for her abhorrence treatment twords Hound One. Yes, I was kinda thinking Ahab/Rachel Summers (and her codename of the month). But of course Rachel overcame her abuse to become a hero. Can Hound One do that?

 

It also reminds me a little of Harness and Piecemeal from the various X-Book annuals back in 1991.  A mysterious figure in powered armor was dragging an abused mutant child around the world, using his powers to absorb the remnants of Proteus' energy while verbally and physically abusing the child.  Harness was eventually revealed to be Piecemeal's mother.

12 hours ago, unclevlad said:

 

His is one take but it reads like the writer's a Republican apologist.  The effort by the holdouts wasn't to make anything more democratic, it was a demand for power to be moved. 

See also, for example, the times recently that a Republican state legislature has passed laws to strip power from their state's Governor and give it to themselves in the period between a Democrat getting elected Governor and taking office.

1 hour ago, unclevlad said:

 

In Arizona, Kari Lake was pushing election fraud even after she won.

 

So was Trump in 2016.  He won, but lost the Popular vote, so he insisted that millions of fraudulent votes had been cast for his opponent and he had actually won the Popular vote too.

On 9/2/2022 at 7:13 AM, assault said:

Watching the Palin supporters cry "fraud!" is worth the entry price by itself. Poor darlings.
 

This is likely to be our future now, thanks to Trump.  A prominent Republican loses and they immediately start shouting fraud, demanding an investigation, filing lawsuits, etc.

Way back in the old "Gadgets" book from 1986 there was a Neutrino Beamer that only affected targets who had force fields, since the beam doesn't interact with physical matter.  In that case, it was built as ALD (what it was called at the time) against Force Fields with the -1 Limitation that it only did damage against targets with Force Fields.  Anyone without a Force Field was immune and someone with a Force Field could only apply that against the damage.

Obviously that was multiple editions ago and the rules are different now, and I'm not sure how the concept could be applied to Life Support.

They didn't sufficiently embrace him and his policies.  Trump cannot fail, he can only be failed.

On 5/21/2022 at 7:45 PM, unclevlad said:

 

UNDER populated...yeah, right. 

She means underpopulated with the right sort of people. 

18 hours ago, starblaze said:

And that women tend to be treated worse than men in comics.

I was going to mention this.  One element is a female character being reduced to an object whose only purpose is to motivate a male character.

Similar to BoloOfEarth's Genocide story, many years ago our GM sent us against the Seven Horsemen, from "Wrath of the Seven Horsemen".  As written, Plague's signature attack was a Continuous Uncontrolled Cumulative Transform that caused a debilitating illness that imposed reduced CV and increased END costs for all powers and abilities.  The GM decided to replace it with a Continuous Uncontrolled BODY Drain and almost immediately killed a long-running PC.

There was an old Adventurer's Club article that mentioned a team of villains that included a little old lady with a bunch of Invisible Drain and NND attacks based on her ability to mentally disrupt a target's biological processes.

(The article was actually about the creative use of Presence attacks.  When the heroes detected her and moved to stop her, she made a Presence attack on the crowd around her, convincing them that crazy heroes were about to attack a harmless senior citizen and they should protect her.)

Marvel is apparently publishing it themselves.

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Marvel has announced that it is publishing a new tabletop roleplaying game, with the playtest rulebook being released in 2022. Marvel announced that it is publishing a new tabletop roleplaying game called Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game.

1 hour ago, assault said:

The names were canonical for 3e and 4e. The "not a coincidence" bit is my speculation.

It was probably a retcon, but like I mentioned in my post, Enemies for Hire made them cousins.

There was also Kryogen in the 4e book Enemies for Hire.  He was the son of Icicle and Starburst, aging at an accelerated rate, so that he's currently a child who looks like an adult.  His parents were kidnapped by a villain and he started working with Crusader (who is apparently Icicle's cousin) to pretend to be a villain in order to infiltrate the underworld and try to find his parents.  Crusader then died in the events described in Underworld Enemies, leaving him alone and stuck with everyone thinking he's a villain.

3 hours ago, Christopher R Taylor said:

The frozen in time thing works really well for a campaign though.  I've never had a Champions game last more than a few years (or any other, for that matter).  My gaming group was easily distracted and would swap campaigns a lot.  For a while we just played Warhammer Quest (which was a lot of fun by the way), for example.  So not having things change a lot in a campaign makes no real difference.

I don't think it was in the original, but the new Strike Force sourcebook revealed that their Earth was being manipulated by a powerful cosmic alien that became known as the Governor, in the sense of a device that limits the speed of a vehicle.  It was conducting an experiment on how it would affect a civilization if its technological advancement was artificially stagnated.  It was the explanation for why super-geniuses and super technology never caused general increases in the world's technology level.  Once the Governor was driven off, heroes and villains could suddenly reliably mass produce their technology and it started transforming into a more science fiction superhero setting.

It wasn't until years after I read it that I realized the last panel in this Special School comic was referencing the Jester.

3 hours ago, pinecone said:

Yeah I could see Super Bounty Hunters become a "thing" Dr Doom has diplomatic immunity, etc so stopping a rampaging super might be worth posting a reward. Such things are currently used with serial kidnappers etc. Again crowd funding.

 

Marvel once did a limited series that ended with Juggernaut being given the opportunity to be a sanctioned bounty hunter for the US government, maybe connected to the Justice Department or the US Marshals.  I don't remember.  The next time he appeared though, the writer tossed it away with a casual line about how it had been a scam to escape from custody.  It pissed me off, since his government liaison had been the woman who was his wife and the mother of his Avenger son J2 in the MC2 universe.

As an extension of his known germophobia, I didn't think he would be willing to let scientists tamper with his body, so I went with technology.

On 6/16/2021 at 12:41 PM, zslane said:

Spider-Woman is indeed part of Sony's Spider-Man IP. Recent rumors indicate Olivia Wilde is developing a Spider-Woman movie for Sony.

 

Issa Rae has been cast as Jessica Drew in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2.

I recently read an alternate history short story in which a young Donald Trump attends the historic 1951 playoff game between the Giants and the Dodgers* and catches the game winning home run ball.  The attention, this being the first nationally televised baseball game, causes him to become obsessed with baseball.  For the rest of his life he brags about the amazing catch that nobody else could have made and the multimillion dollar offers he receives for the ball.  He buys the Mets and builds them a new stadium (Trump Field, naturally).  Baseball becomes the focus of his life.

It made me think.  In a superhero universe that incorporates real-life people, what if he became obsessed with superheroes?

He hires heroes to form a team that works for his company.  No doubt called Team Trump, Trump Force, or something similar.

Gaudy costumes with lots of gold trim.  Either a large "T" or the word "Trump" on every costume.  Possibly incorporating the outdated excesses of `90s "EXTREME" comic book costumes.

A large ugly headquarters, probably resembling a tacky casino.  Maybe they even operate out of a casino in Atlantic City.

Lots of public appearances, PR work, and business promotions.  Team-related merchandise of every imaginable type.  Rumors of staged fights with criminals and supervillains.

Maybe Trump himself makes public appearances as a member of the team sometimes, using powered armor or other technology.  It would definitely be gold plated. 

*The author admitted at the end of the story that Trump would have only been five years old at the time of the game, so he adjusted things to make him older.

15 hours ago, unclevlad said:

 

That's trying to make a mountain out of a grain of sand.

This is the same group that claimed a cicada landing on President Biden during a speech was a secret message too.

There was a short-lived TV series called "APB" that was basically what if Bruce Wayne used his fortune to upgrade the GCPD instead of becoming Batman.  One of the elements was a free app that people could use to report crimes directly to the district's central dispatcher to improve response time.  There was a problem with people submitting false reports because they wanted to see what would happen and didn't think anyone was actually going to show up. 

On 6/10/2021 at 1:00 PM, Lord Liaden said:

 

You're dumb enough to paddle your canoe into a flock of swans, you deserve what you get.

It almost looks like cover art from one of those old "men's adventure" magazines, where a guy in tattered clothing would be getting attacked by a swarm of coconut crabs or fist-fighting a mountain lion.