Hugh Neilson

Dance like nobody’s watching, write emails like one day they may be read aloud in a deposition

It's funny how guns change our perspective. In the real world, the Roman ability to work steel and make short swords for their army made arming your troops with spears obsolete. Then cavalry brought (longer) spears back into vogue. When better metalworking allowed the creation of longswords, the short sword went away. But in fantasy games, we accept that huge list of weapons all existing at the same time, and all fairly well balanced against each other.
 
But not if we add guns. Guns are different. Just like everything else.

Dance like nobody’s watching, write emails like one day they may be read aloud in a deposition

I don't disagree. If anything is common enough, including magic in the typical D&D setting, it stops feeling like magic.
 
How magical is a Magic Missile when every wizard casts it and every player knows the spell well enough to recite its effects from memory?
 
It's still "magic", but the mystery of magic has been removed.
 
Simply by adding rules, we make it "no longer magical".
 
The old DC Heroes game had an essay on grappling with this, especially after a discussion that, if two characters were equally powerful, the one using magic would win - because "it's magic". That works a lot better for fiction than gaming!

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Whatever, dude.

How did I miss that? Sorry!
 
 

[chorus]Don't do it[/chorus]
 
Too many men have failed before!

Don't pay the ferryman, until he gets you to the other side.

I guess the CW shows could just show all their female characters dressing up as guys, with no one ever noticing. That was a Shakespearian trope, after all.
 
His knowledge of history tended to adapt to the side of any conflict the prevailing rulers favoured, so ignoring fact for fantasy must be OK.
 
And as long as we keep the angst down to Hamlet levels, it must be OK as well, right?

Well, Shakespeare wrote for the common man, not necessary the educated man. 

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. 

I can't believe we are on page 11 without
 
Speak softly, and carry a big stick
 
Also on the political front
 
The only people who know how to treat polls properly are dogs.

I have to say that Iris and Harry Wells urging Barry to find a better way than killing Grodd -- because his sense of moral responsibility is what makes him a hero -- was to me a refreshing change from the ruthlessness of recent "superhero" movies. I know such a stand is not fashionable now, and reasonable people can make reasonable  arguments why killing is sometimes necessary... but those speeches echoed the comics I grew up with, when superheroes represented ideals to strive for.

Telling the truth is easier than remembering an ever-increasing web of lies.

When you are explaining that it can't be done, please do so in a location not impeding those who are busy doing it.

Ooh, how do you like your love ?
Ooh, how do you like your love ?
But if you want to know
How I really feel
Just get the cameras rollin'
And get the action goin'
Baby you know
My love for you is real
So take me where you want to
Me and my heart you steal

(More, more, more) How do you like it ? How do you like it ?
(More, more, more) How do you like it ? How do you like it ?
(More, more, more) How do you like it ? How do you like it ?

Ooh, how do you like your love ?
Ooh, how do you like your love ?

But if you want to know
How I really feel
Just get the cameras rollin'
Get the action goin'
Baby you know
My love for you is real
So take me where you want to
Me and my heart you steal

(More, more, more) How do you like it ? How do you like it ?
(More, more, more) How do you like it ? How do you like it ?
(More, more, more) How do you like it ? How do you like your love ?

But if you want to know
How I really feel
Get the cameras rollin'
Get the action goin'
(More, more, more) How do you like it ? How do you like it ?
(More, more, more) How do you like it ? How do you like it ?
(More, more, more) How do you like it ? How do you like it ?  

If the rain comes they run and hide their heads
They might as well be dead
If the rain comes, if the rain comes
 
When the sun shines they slip into the shade
(when the sun shines down)
And sip their lemonade
(when the sun shines down)
When the sun shines, when the sun shines
 
Rain, I don't mind
Shine, the weather's fine
 
I can show you that when it starts to rain
(when the rain comes down)
Everything's the same
(when the rain comes down)
I can show you, I can show you
 
Rain, I don't mind
Shine, the weather's fine
 
Can you hear me, that when it rains and shines
(when it rains and shines)
It's just a state of mind ?
(when it rains and shines)
Can you hear me, can you hear me ?
 
Sdaeh rieht edih dna nur yeht semoc niar eht fI
(rain)
(rain)

Measure with a micrometer.
Mark with chalk.
Cut with an axe.

Please forego yanking on the cloak of the Ubermensch
 
I would not recommend repeated expectoration in the direction of a stiff, oncoming breeze
 
Refrain from attempting to remove a disguise from a solitary Texas policeman
 
And most importantly, by all means immediately cease and desist any interference in the day-to-day activities of someone named James

If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.

I thought love was only true in fairytales
Meant for someone else but not for me
Love was out to get me
That's the way it seemed
Disappointment haunted all my dreams
Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer
Not a trace of doubt in my mind
I'm in love, I'm a believer
I couldn't leave her if I tried
I thought love was more or less a givin' thing
Seems the more I gave the less I got
What's the use in trying?
All you get is pain
When I needed sunshine I got rain
Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer
Not a trace of doubt in my mind
I'm in love, I'm a believer
I couldn't leave her if I tried
Love was out to get me
Now that's the way it seemed
Disappointment haunted all my dreams
Oh then I saw her face, now I'm a believer
Not a trace of doubt in my mind
I'm in love, I'm a believer
I couldn't leave her if I tried
Yes I saw her face, now I'm a believer
Not a trace of doubt in my mind
Said I'm a believer, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(I'm a believer)
Said I'm a believer, yeah
(I'm a believer)
Said I'm a believer, yeah
(I'm a believer)

He was a fugitive with a pseudo name
Lost his mind in a hurricane
Coconut upside his head
People said he'd be better dead
'cause his glory days are gone
Sits on the shore with his saxophone
And plays
 
In another place, in another time
He was a soldier in his prime
On the battlefield, makin' history
Young men died for his destiny
And their widows came each day
'til he was forced to run away
From home
 
So he bought a town, but he sold the sea
Claimed a shallow victory
On an iron ship, with a wooden crew
They hit the reef when the moon was new
Now he cries himself to sleep
On a beach made of promises he meant to keep
Long ago
 
Nobody speaks to the captain no more
Nobody talks about the war
Hey what the hell were we fighting for
Such a long, long time ago
 
And now the monkeys and the iguanas
They listen to his song
Most uncaptive audience
He plays to all night long
 
So the story goes, he was dressed to kill
When he jumped from the old mahogany mill
And the jungle beasts, they were heard to wail
As the saxophone still played the scale
For a man we never knew who looked like me and you
Long ago
 
Nobody speaks to the captain no more
No one is interested in settling old scores
Hey what they hell were we fighting for
Such a long, long time ago
 
Nobody speaks to the captain no more
No one is interested in settling old scores
Hey what they hell were we fighting for
Such a long, long time ago

Up until Avengers, the "story so far" was all about leading into the gathering of the Avengers. At that point, I think there was a confab where they worked out how some early items could become Infinity Stones and that could be the next big arc (remembering also that the early comments on Thanos at the end of Avengers was that it was a shout-out to the fans, not a hint of things to come).
 
What's next? Dr. Strange wasn't really linked to the rest of the movies until we saw him talking with Thor. GotG had nothing to do with the rest of the MCU, other than "hey, an infinity stone". Build the characters, make good movies and let them integrate where the fit makes sense.

Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes
 
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone
 
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...
 
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high
 
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone
 
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...
 
Picture yourself on a train in a station
With Plasticine porters with looking-glass ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes
 
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds 

What would you think if I sang out of tune
Would you stand up and walk out on me ?
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song
And I'll try not to sing out of key
Oh I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm gonna try with a little help from my friends
 
What do I do when my love is away ?
(Does it worry you to be alone ?)
How do I feel by the end of the day ?
(Are you sad because you're on your own ?)
No I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm gonna try with a little help from my friends
 
(Do you need anybody ?)
I need somebody to love
(Could it be anybody ?)
I want somebody to love
 
(Would you believe in a love at first sight ?)
Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time
(What do you see when you turn out the light ?)
I can't tell you, but I know it's mine
Oh I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm I get high with a little help from my friends
Oh I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends
 
(Do you need anybody ?)
I just need someone to love
(Could it be anybody ?)
I want somebody to love
 
Oh I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm gonna try with a little help from my friends
Oh I get high with a little help from my friends
Yes I get by with a little help from my friends
With a little help from my friends