Teflon Billy

Yes, this would also be known as the "Rachel Maddow Defense", she successfully used this deflect a libel lawsuit a few years ago. So, what's good for the goose...

TB

Yes, this would also be known as the "Rachel Maddow Defense", she successfully used this deflect a libel lawsuit a few years ago. So, what's good for the goose...

TB

Yes, this would also be known as the "Rachel Maddow Defense", she successfully used this deflect a libel lawsuit a few years ago. So, what's good for the goose...

TB

Yes, this would also be known as the "Rachel Maddow Defense", she successfully used this deflect a libel lawsuit a few years ago. So, what's good for the goose...

TB

Re: Rocket-propelled Chainsaw
 
A Stalin's Organ of Rocket-Propelled Chainsaws would be cool.
 
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My main issues with it were that Ultron was horribly miscast (James Spader?), there was never any menace from him, he was entirely too human in mannerism and motivation (Ultron needs to be more inhuman in his frame of reference, Agent Smith from the Matrix would have been better even if still too human in mannerisms). That's why Vision is so much more than Ultron, he has humanity which Ultron lacks.

Whedon completely ruined Black Widow as a character coming off of her exceptional role in Winter Soldier, she was a clinging, overly emotional basket case for Bruce Banner, which had zero plot foreshadowing in any of the other movies, and when coupled with how Whedon showed their interactions in Avengers 1 it comes off as fairly creepy IMO. Banner nearly killed her in Avengers 1 (it was a great scene, don't get me wrong, it demonstrated in no uncertain terms that the normals should not be near the gods when they play.) So you have this whole underlying abusive aspect, then Whedon throws in the totally unnecessary and frankly gratuitous sterilization of the Black Widow's character (as if having her murder other Red Room trainees wasn't dehumanizing enough of an upbringing to show what Romanov has had to rise above) Whedon takes it just that one step too far.

Then the whole plot was just another example of the relatively new Hollywood convention of being nothing more than barely connected whitty dialogue spliced between disjointed overly long actions scenes (the Hydra Base assault, Hulk trashing the African City, the Chase through the American City for the Ultron Growth Pod, and the final Destruction of Sokovia). None of this made a whole lot of narrative sense, and could have been done much much better if someone with actually writing talent had written it. The Last Jedi was an even worse example of this kind of movie, but this core failing is riven throughout AoU.

My main issues with it were that Ultron was horribly miscast (James Spader?), there was never any menace from him, he was entirely too human in mannerism and motivation (Ultron needs to be more inhuman in his frame of reference, Agent Smith from the Matrix would have been better even if still too human in mannerisms). That's why Vision is so much more than Ultron, he has humanity which Ultron lacks.

Whedon completely ruined Black Widow as a character coming off of her exceptional role in Winter Soldier, she was a clinging, overly emotional basket case for Bruce Banner, which had zero plot foreshadowing in any of the other movies, and when coupled with how Whedon showed their interactions in Avengers 1 it comes off as fairly creepy IMO. Banner nearly killed her in Avengers 1 (it was a great scene, don't get me wrong, it demonstrated in no uncertain terms that the normals should not be near the gods when they play.) So you have this whole underlying abusive aspect, then Whedon throws in the totally unnecessary and frankly gratuitous sterilization of the Black Widow's character (as if having her murder other Red Room trainees wasn't dehumanizing enough of an upbringing to show what Romanov has had to rise above) Whedon takes it just that one step too far.

Then the whole plot was just another example of the relatively new Hollywood convention of being nothing more than barely connected whitty dialogue spliced between disjointed overly long actions scenes (the Hydra Base assault, Hulk trashing the African City, the Chase through the American City for the Ultron Growth Pod, and the final Destruction of Sokovia). None of this made a whole lot of narrative sense, and could have been done much much better if someone with actually writing talent had written it. The Last Jedi was an even worse example of this kind of movie, but this core failing is riven throughout AoU.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 

 
As they would say on FIREFLY ... Shiney!
 
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Re: Help needed designing a magical store catalogue
 

It gives a little more than a listing. It has pictures and descriptions as well. 
Think of it more like a self-updating Sears & Roebuck catalogue.
 
I'm leaning right now for the only overtly magical property the catalogues themselves having when not being updated is that they don't wear out and they hold more pages than their physical size would permit. The pictures don't move (like Harry Potter pictures), the pages don't reformat dynamically to the user's wishes.
 
Now, the reason is due to expense and the level of sophistication used by the original Wizard who cast/created the item creation spell. I plan on having a merchant house that specializes in magical items/supplies, their catalogue (that shares many of the properties of the Rumpold & Lloyds catalogue) would have these extra perks, like dynamic pictures, auto-search, etc... But that's because Wizarding Clearing house like this would be targeting a more discerning clientelle.
 
Does the Access Perk describe a store catalogue? If it does, then I'll just slap OAF, Independant on it and call it a day.
 

In general, no, common people do not have access to Cantrips. This is a high magic campaign (Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk style mainly), so people know of magic. As the campaign is set in a more modern setting, due to modern process development and centralized planning, common people (unlike in Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk) due have access to magical items if they so choose to seek them out. 
Magic User's however are still fairly rare, not everyone has the mental aptitude to learn how to practise magic/psionics (Wizards, Psionicists), the personal desire to devote their life to divine service (Priests), nor the physical/spiritual gifts to manifest magic or the Force (Sorcerers, Jedi)
 
However, mundane people are perfectly capable of using magical items, potions, ointments, etc... that don't require magical effort on the part of the user.
 
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Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 
Jeff T's Millennium Knights.
 
Jeff gave me an exhaustive description. I hope I did his team justice. To those others that I have commissions to do for, I will be getting to them slowly and surely. Origins is eating up a bit of time due to prep. But I'll be taking sketches to do with me.