Tom Cowan

Putin needs Trump back in the White House. That's his only practical chance to end US military support for Ukraine.

Spoilered for body humor.
 
 

I would say those ad hoc decisions are still decisions. When you or I set up a Supers game, we have likely already set many of the dials not recognizing that we have done so.  We know that:
 
 - Without Hit Locations
 
 - Standard Supers point totals (we might consider this one, depending on the game)
 
 - Equipment must be purchased with points, not cash (and looting fallen opponents won't allow you to keep their stuff)
 
 - Knockback; Knockdown is a limitation
 
Until some poor new player who tries to read the books asks questions that are so obvious that old-school Hero players don't even recognize that there IS a question.
 
If the entire group is new to Hero and starts with the 6e (or 5e, maybe 4e but it had Supers stuff in the back if you bought the big book - but that won't help for a different genre) and has to figure out all those dial settings, coming away believing that Hero is super-complicated is a pretty predictable result.  Even though most of those dials are pre-set as "Superheroic" and "Heroic"  for most of us.  A quick chart setting the dials in the genre summaries could have done a lot - and putting them near the start of V2 instead of at the end might help those newer to Hero focus their read of the rules based on the game they want to play.

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looks like no tax on the donate fall fund

looks like no tax on the donate fall fund

For the first time in my 15-year teaching career, we had a lockdown (not a drill) at my school. From what I've heard, they took one kid out in cuffs and are now searching at least some of the other classrooms in the building with dogs.
 
I've been in the school's lecture hall with two other teachers and ~75 students for about an hour and a half. No word yet on how much longer we're going to be holed up together. 
 
Edit: They just lifted the lockdown. All is clear.

His voice was a big part of the late 90s, for those of us who were there.
 
Steve Harwell, former Smash Mouth singer, dies at 56: 'A 100% full-throttle life'
 
The article mentions liver failure as the cause of death. Not a great way to go, as I understand it. At least his hospice period was only a few days. 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jimmy-buffett-margaritaville-singer-dies-072354351.html

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jimmy-buffett-margaritaville-singer-dies-072354351.html

"I am a man of mystery. Where are my keys? Where are my shoes? Why did I walk into this room? What is the name of this person who just told me their name? Man. Of. Mystery."
~ Jonathan Edward Durham