Joe Walsh

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/28/1159605012/dilbert-cartoonist-scott-adams-rant-rebuke
 
More on the Adams racism...

Looks like Scott Adams is about to transition to a new phase of his life.
‘Dilbert,’ Scott Adams lose distributor over racist remarks
 

Looks like Scott Adams is about to transition to a new phase of his life.
‘Dilbert,’ Scott Adams lose distributor over racist remarks
 

Report: All 25 U.S. extremism-related murders last year were linked to right-wing extremists

Kick disappeared because martial arts got refined, and it no longer fit in.  Note that Haymaker stopped being a damage multiplier, it just adds a flat 4 DCs.  So, with a low-STR character, x 1.5 doesn't do much and it's not even close to worth the maneuver's disadvantages, whereas on a brick it might give TOO much, particularly with early END costs.  A 50 STR brick gets +5 dice, at no END.  Finally, note that 3E doesn't have HA at all.  HKA, yes...but not HA.  
 
Killing Blow is largely similar, and made more sense, based on the sourcebooks you mention, to simply roll into martial maneuvers.  The penalties were justified because killing damage was SO much more dangerous back then.  Also, I agree with CRT...this isn't about breaking bones, it's about hitting vital spots.  Normal damage is about breaking bones first, when they do BODY.
 
Hold isn't in 3E that I can see;  I see Grab.  
 
The whole basis of Flying Tackle is wrong...your raw STR doesn't come into play that much.  The martial maneuver makes a lot more sense...2d6 + v/10, both fall.  
 
Basically, I wouldn't bring any of them forward.

Before 4th edition there martial arts for the most part simply multiplied damage and did not have maneuvers that did unusual things.   So these maneuvers were added to allow them to do things that could not otherwise be done. 
 
Someone wanting to kick for more damage should simply use the haymaker maneuver.  The old kick multiplying the damage can quickly get out of hand especially in a champions game.  As you said you can already do everything the hold does with the grab maneuver.
 
Standard maneuvers are something that everyone is supposed to be able to do.  Not every high school bully knows how to hit so that it causes broken bones or internal injuries. Killing blow is and should be a martial maneuver.
 
The flying tackle also gives more than a standard maneuver should give.  I would treat this as a move through and trip.  Basically, I would waive the rule you cannot combine maneuvers in a combined attack for this specific maneuver.   
 

Flying Tackle is standard in my maneuver lists still.  Killing Blow is kind of replaced with the hit locations, since its basically simulating hitting someone in a spot that is particularly lethal, which is vitals or head.

It's cores all the way down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/24/new-earth-inner-core-layer-metallic-ball/
 
 

I'm afraid you Americans have a fight on your hands that goes beyond elections. Some prominent people have given the ignorance and bigotry in a sizable minority of your society a unity and veneer of legitimacy it hasn't had in generations. Whoever's in charge of the government, it will probably take all your more progressive citizens decades to break that down to irrelevance.

You're sure that's supposed to be the future?

It's cores all the way down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/24/new-earth-inner-core-layer-metallic-ball/
 
 

I'd been hearing good things about Matt "We should improve society somewhat" Bors' Justice Warriors comic book and now that I have the trade paperback that includes the first six issues (plus some bonus content) I have to say it really is pretty danged good. It's set in a dystopian future where a small elite hoard all the wealth while they enjoy life removed from the rest of society. The political leader is both stupid and vain, and is surrounded by self-serving and craven political advisors. Obvious pump-and-dump schemes are perpetrated on the populace without any repercussions. Police see it as their job to protect property at all costs, and will kill any member of the teeming masses who steps out of line.
 
But despite that wildly improbable premise, the story is very good. And the setting would be great for a Champions campaign. It's hard not to take campaign notes as I read it.
 
Worth checking out if you're into political comics, dystopian settings, and the like.
 
(Posted here in the Politics thread because the content is very political. If this isn't the appropriate place, let me know.)

I'd been hearing good things about Matt "We should improve society somewhat" Bors' Justice Warriors comic book and now that I have the trade paperback that includes the first six issues (plus some bonus content) I have to say it really is pretty danged good. It's set in a dystopian future where a small elite hoard all the wealth while they enjoy life removed from the rest of society. The political leader is both stupid and vain, and is surrounded by self-serving and craven political advisors. Obvious pump-and-dump schemes are perpetrated on the populace without any repercussions. Police see it as their job to protect property at all costs, and will kill any member of the teeming masses who steps out of line.
 
But despite that wildly improbable premise, the story is very good. And the setting would be great for a Champions campaign. It's hard not to take campaign notes as I read it.
 
Worth checking out if you're into political comics, dystopian settings, and the like.
 
(Posted here in the Politics thread because the content is very political. If this isn't the appropriate place, let me know.)

I'd been hearing good things about Matt "We should improve society somewhat" Bors' Justice Warriors comic book and now that I have the trade paperback that includes the first six issues (plus some bonus content) I have to say it really is pretty danged good. It's set in a dystopian future where a small elite hoard all the wealth while they enjoy life removed from the rest of society. The political leader is both stupid and vain, and is surrounded by self-serving and craven political advisors. Obvious pump-and-dump schemes are perpetrated on the populace without any repercussions. Police see it as their job to protect property at all costs, and will kill any member of the teeming masses who steps out of line.
 
But despite that wildly improbable premise, the story is very good. And the setting would be great for a Champions campaign. It's hard not to take campaign notes as I read it.
 
Worth checking out if you're into political comics, dystopian settings, and the like.
 
(Posted here in the Politics thread because the content is very political. If this isn't the appropriate place, let me know.)

Not falling for that again 

This. The thing was they were masters of mind games. After all, why shoot a dictator when you can drive him mad and provoke a leadership crisis in his country? An assassination would have been like killing Putin in a very obvious way that points to you, and exponentially increases the chances of getting caught and facing a firing squad or worse.
 
The movies turned the concept into action thrillers with stuntwork and fight scenes replacing the true focus of the series on deception and ingenious planning and execution. It would be like Lupin III, which would be difficult to capture in a live-action film unless you truly understood the character and the world he lives in.

It's cores all the way down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/24/new-earth-inner-core-layer-metallic-ball/
 
 

Broadcast News: All the cool kids were watching it. Now I need to watch Defending Your Life again.  (Netflix DVD)
 
Encanto: Fun animated musical about a magical family, this one's a re-watch. (UHD Blu-Ray)
 

Today on All Things Considered, host Ari Shapiro interviewed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about the war in Ukraine. I won't bother providing a link, because the questions and answers were boilerplate I suspect we've all heard before. I just want to grouse about two things I found irritating.
 
First, Shapiro prefaced a question about Ukraine negotiating with Russia by noting that US General Mark Milley had opined that Ukraine couldn't expel Russia from all its territory. This was misinformation by omission. I checked. Gen'l Milley's actual words, quoted in a VOA article, were that Ukraine couldn't completely expel Russia "anytime soon." Important qualifier, that, if one has resolve and an attention span longer than one season of a TV show. AFAIK Milley never said that Ukraine's goal of reclaiming all its territory was forever hopeless.
 
Second, Shapiro asked, "How does this end?" Sec'y Austin rightly pointed out (again) that Vladimir Putin is the one who coulod end the war with a word, and the US isn't forcing any resolutions on Ukraine. As the soin of a journalist, I also find it unprofessional to ask questions about future events that the person asked does not control. I hate to say Donald Trump was ever right about anything, but I give him at least mild props for occasionally meeting such questions about the future with a response of, more or less, "I hope it works, let's see what happens." Because that's the best any of us can do.
 
Dean Shomshak