Tom Cowan

Spoilered for language
 
 

A lot of powers provide ongoing benefits so you don’t actually need to purchase extra SPD.  This is particularly common for defensive powers that you can abort to.  Deflection is based on blocking which you can continue to do after the first try even in phases you do not go on.  When you continue blocking you take a -2 penalty for each additional attack after the first.  A better way to do this would be to simply buy a bonus to the deflection and not worry about SPD at all.
 
If you want to abort to different defensive actions after already having aborted a phase that is essentially being able to act in more phases in which case you should buy up your SPD.  The only other possible reason for this would be to somehow be able to abort to an action after you have already gone in a phase, this should not be allowed.  If you want to be able to do a specific action buy that with the advantage trigger with an automatic reset.  The ability to automatically be able to perform any defensive action without losing any of your normal phases is not balanced and should not be allowed.  
 
To me this whole concept is kind of a red flag.  How would you describe this without using game terms?  For me anytime a player wants a power that they cannot describe without using game terms that is often a red flag.  If it is something obvious like wanting to be able to defend against the body of killing damage that is one thing, but other than those types of things I want my players to be able to describe what they are doing without using game terms.  Using game terms to define the game mechanics is fine, but they should be able to define the power without doing so.  
 

SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas’ aide collected Venmo payments from lawyers for judge’s Christmas party
 
I would urge Americans to spread this story to as many of your fellow citizens as you can. The degree to which a Supreme Court Justice has been bought and paid for needs to be common knowledge, or this may never change.

Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
 
Carl Sagan, from Demon-Haunted World (1995)
 
 

Really not much has changed about disadvantages except the number of complications you need to take.   Every of matching complications you do not take reduces the points you get.  The standard superhero is 400 points and needs 75 points in matching complications.   So, if you only take 50 points of complications for your standard superhero you get 375 points to build the character.  If you take more than the required amount you don’t get any extra points.    All they really did is change it from adding points for disadvantages, to subtracting points for not having complications.  The end result is identical.  What they did was recognize that almost all starting characters took the maximum allowed disadvantages. 
 
Complications under 6th edition are not worth more points than the disadvantages of the earlier editions.  A Psychological complication/disadvantage that occurs very frequently with a total commitment is worth 25 points in both systems.   They actually cut the number of points of complications you need to take in 6th edition but left the point values basically the same.
 
They did actually increase the value starting characters get.  In 5th edition the standard superhero was 350 points, in 6th edition it is 400.   The extra 50 points was likely to cover the increased cost of the figured stats.  

so wrong, one of the cats would be moving on to the 'my side' of the bed. because cats would read 'my side' as their side and 'cat side' as theirs too. 

Musk scores another win!

I got the results back on those two standardized tests I had to take last month. I passed both of them comfortably. I just have a couple of assignments to wrap up from my methods course, and then I can apply for the additional endorsements I will need for the next school year.
 
Anyone who says that teachers are "so lucky to get three months off every year" can bite me.

Pretty sure I have posted this before, but for me, it's like Christmas music:  you just gotta have it!
 
 
 
 

Isn't this basically the Speed Zone abilities as seen in The Ultimate Speedster (p. 251) for 5th ed? 

There is an awful smell in the kitchen and we can't find it. We looked under the stove, under the fridge, we've treated the drains... nothing. I fear an animal has died in the walls. 

A focus can be considered inaccessible if it is difficult to take away.  For example, you could have could be carrying so many weapons that they have to practically do a strip search to find them all.  If you have to spend more than at least a turn out of combat to take away all the weapons that is considered an inaccessible focus.     What it really comes down to is how much effort it takes to take away the power.  

I believe Tom's comment to be based upon only one person in that situation.