BNakagawa

This is evidently the new normal. It took a little while to get used to having to store reusable shopping bags in the car all the time. Then you had to remind yourself to stop bringing reusable shopping bags because they wouldn't allow them. Storing hand sanitizer and spare masks in the car are going to be the standard moving forwards. Or they should be. Assuming you aren't one of those anti-maskers.

well, they posted 88 of them and the first sentence had 14 words in it. And the graphic was a symbol used to indicate political enemies of the state, so...

Labor day?

Not particularly. I started with 1e and have played every edition since. (not a huge fan of 6e because of insufficient playtesting) There aren't that many adjustments to make from edition to edition in play. Most of the real changes affect character building. Unfortunately, haven't encountered many new players at all recently.

Wouldn't Change Environment be a better choice than Life Support? I say this because what if you chose to bubble two different aliens in the same bubble and they breathed incompatible gas mixtures? By the definition of Life Support, they could both breathe, but logically, one of them shouldn't.

The ISS is creating the 5th phase of matter under conditions that allow it to last longer than on earth. http://spaceref.com/international-space-station/cold-atom-lab-creates-bose-einstein-condensate-on-the-iss.html

While players might balk at dragging real world politics to the game table, it might be more palatable if a long time adversary was using their knowledge of the heroes to drag them into interacting with riots via their backgrounds and/or disads. If it was an especially well informed adversary, they might be able to split the team if the core conflict of the riots put key members of the PCs at odds over their positions. If the PCs haven't been meticulous about stray shots or knockback or overzealous use of area effects/explosions, they could be the reason for the riots.

three unarmed black men that they will admit to. Who knows how many had burner weapons planted on them after the fact?

https://connectingvets.radio.com/articles/new-details-about-the-82nd-military-deployment-to-dc?fbclid=IwAR1Chw2-uCVw1q0WIUXlvB2j5ysy04bJDBuSkkWumKRnx4ZfAsLS3s39Tzo A detachment of the 82nd airborne was dispatched to the Washington DC area in preparation of taking to the streets to combat an "insurrection". The original name of the detachment was Task Force White Devil. JFC.

A black man resists being taken into police custody and is fatally shot in the back while fleeing the police. I don't know what he did to attract the attention of the police, but given their track record of treatment of black men in their custody, I don't exactly blame him for running.

https://news.wbfo.org/post/evicted-former-police-officer-claims-retaliation The police are a gang and anyone that turns on one of them is lucky if all they get is fired.

I disagree. You can make blanket statements about the scope of work of another person without having done the same work. Everybody on the streets around the world is doing exactly that. The council of Minneapolis has expressed the intent to explore the dissolution of the MPD entirely. Police all over the country have had countless opportunities to address the problems and universally they all close ranks, resist reform, refuse oversight and ignore any challenges to their monopoly of force. Police aren't part of the solution, they're core to the problem. The solution of Minneapolis might be some portion of a national solution. The structural problem won't go away without a large scale fix. They'll never accept incremental reform and they'll always just go back to their old ways once the heat is off.

if your first response to a potentially violent situation is a police officer whose default response to conflict is violence, then you're just creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

decades ago, police went to court to fight for and win the legal right to discriminate against high IQ applicants.

Because there is a long history of police getting away with murder and paying no penalty at all. And people are sick an tired of it.

That assumes a level of self reflection that is beyond the capacity of most of the police. Remember that decades ago, the police went to court to fight for the right to discriminate against high IQ applicants. (and won)

Chauvin has now been charged with 2nd degree murder. charges being prepared against the other officers present.

The fundamental problem with KA is the fact that it produces erratic results. If you took a 1d6 KA and added a bunch of +1 stun multiple advantages to it, you would have a power that pretty much maxes out as often as it does minimum damage and both of those would be roughly 1/6 of the time, what with the stun multiple being flattened out by the amount of bonuses. (If your stun mod is d3+12, it doesn't really matter what you roll) Just as a little thought experiment, would you allow an energy blast based power that rolled just one die for damage and multiplied the result by the number of Damage Classes? The minimum, maximum and average amount of damage produced by this power is exactly the same as any vanilla EB. But is it fair? Is it balanced? Is it good game design?

then there was this tone-deaf violation of the US Flag Code... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/01/cincinnati-ohio-police-thin-blue-line-flag

They should have cut his fingers off.

It's hardly different from the Boston Tea Party. White extremists instigating the property damage and trying to blame it on people of color.

LION, from Macross Frontier... and the off-vocals version. and the 420 version...