Lord Liaden

Must be a fake, there's no purple.

No, that's a knife!

They're too large.

Who says herding cats is hard?

"And I'd have gotten away with it too, if those meddling kids hadn't stepped on me with their van!"

This is assuming someone wants to be king of Florida. I mean, it's Florida. Now if pulling the knife out turned me into Crocodile Dundee, that might entice me.

This will seem a bit circuitous, but bear with me a moment. The first write-up for the Star*Guard appeared in Digital Hero #5, including full background and stats for Brin Rae Tarn, a Dendrian who was the first StarGuard assigned to Earth's solar system. That article includes a black-and-white drawing of Tarn, which was later colorized and added to rotating side-art appearing on an earlier version of the Hero Games website. That's the only "official" illo of a Dendrian I'm aware of. I happened to save that art and am attaching it here, blown up a little for easier viewing. Implicitly from this, aside from coloring Dendrians are superficially practically identical to Humans. The fact that Tarn had a long romantic relationship with a Human female suggests that the rest of their anatomy is probably comparable.

Yeah, that's the thing. In the COVID economy I'm on a budget, which only exacerbates my natural cheapness.

I just want to pull back from having to buy all new pants.

Very interesting perspective from the viewpoint of possible Republican strategy. (And it's fairly short.)

"Thank you, you've been a great audience! The bar is open 'til 2:00."

The driver may or may not have lit a cigarette after filling those fuel tanks. It's telling that none of us would be shocked if he did.

That's not necessarily a bad thing, Jill.

The impression I got was just the opposite, to be honest. Throughout the first WW movie I could see and feel the building relationship between Steve and Diana, their mutual understanding, trust, admiration, their shared joy and grief, through intense moments and quiet ones. It's also worth remembering that experiences are heightened in war. You go through a lot of living in a short time, and people who share that experience quickly form a bond of literal life and death. When Diana and Steve made love I absolutely believed their relationship had led to it, and when Steve died I completely bought Diana's grief.

Yankees say 8 fully vaccinated members tested positive for COVID.

If they do form a third party, I doubt it will draw many of the existing Republican base which polling suggests is now predominantly Trumpist. But any splitting of the vote on the Right will benefit Democrats, and even "lesser of two evils" believers should welcome that in the present circumstances.

They really need to take those "Wet Paint" signs on the benches more seriously.

"Treatable" would be hit or miss.

Fear vs Greed. That should be quite a confrontation.

And I agree that's logical. Except that it doesn't match what the Ancient One said. And Thanos from the past died during Endgame before he destroyed the stones. MCU time post-Endgame is a mess. We'll see what they do with it in upcoming movies and TV.

Hey, I'm just pointing out what the scene said. Like I said, I expected the point to be argued. Of course you can argue that the time line of the MCU that they're all living in now has changed, because the Thanos who came forward from the past and was killed in Endgame never got all the stones in the first place. Yeah, I think I'm going to lie down 'til the headache thinking about this gave me goes away. 😣 EDIT: The plot of the Loki miniseries appears to be based on repairing fractured time, so maybe it will all make sense after that.

The dog looks so disappointed that it left.

But horizontal works. It does what it's supposed to. Vertical just does it better.

You could consider the ethical/moral dimension of the Eye's power to be an expression of "soul" rather than "mind." Or just join the very long list of philosophers who have debated the difference.

If the MCU had followed the comics precedent more closely, I would say the Soul Stone would be a closer match for what the Eye was shown to do than the Time Stone. Its light hurts and weakens creatures and forces of evil and/or darkness, banishes illusions, reveals hidden things. When Strange causes the Eye to levitate out of the amulet and affix itself to his forehead he can see someone's deepest thoughts. I'm sure I'm overlooking other things it's been shown to do. I'm not sure why they chose to make MCU Strange's amulet the Time Stone, but IMO they worked it into his movie pretty cleverly.