BNakagawa

New PC, who dis?

Not as such.  Bolo had a nuclear accident (accumulated 50+ XP and told the GM I wanted a rewrite) -- that's when the Multipower came in, to add some versatility.  Prior to that, his only attacks were a pair of tethered bolos (basically a short-range Entangle) plus an electric attack he could use on the people he entangled.
 
Bolo also had the lowest DEX of our team, giving me time to watch what was going on and figure out the best way to use that versatility.  Also, Bolo's Teleport allowed him to pop in behind foes and catch them unaware.  So I'd often hold my action and then pull something out of my Multipower.  Like flame bolos to use on someone vulnerable to fire attacks.  Or a Force Wall to englobe someone throwing an AOE attack at our martial artist.  Or the Running Drain on the speedster about to do a move-through on a stunned hero.  I wouldn't say Bolo was relegated to being a support character, but rather that I looked for ways to use his powers in a support role.
 
Plus, the change of his tethered bolos from a limited number of straight Entangles into Stretching + addition STR only to Grab and Hold, allowed Bolo to put the Grab on someone about to finish off one of his teammates.  Sure, the electrical attack wasn't the most powerful (though it was NND), and the enemy could typically break free in their next Phase, but it blew that guy's Phase and gave my friends time to recover.  Or held the guy still long enough for the other heroes to pound him into the dirt.
 
If Tactics skill had existed at that time, Bolo would have bought it. 

My namesake character, Bolo, was always the lesser-powered character in our team.  (He once got taken down by one of Firewing's agents.)  Powers-wise, Bolo's saving grace was a Multipower of various odd, little used things like a Force Wall, a Running Drain, and so forth.  And despite being the low-powered guy, Bolo managed to save the butts of every other hero on the team at least once. There was a certain satisfaction in having the team's mega-brick rely on *you* for help in a crunch.  So yeah, playing the clean-up specialist can be fun. 

If you build your character exactly to the maximum parameters allowed by the campaign, then you may become dissatisfied with your inability to grow until the rest of the campaign catches up. Scale back a bit and leave your character some room to grow.

This video was made to promote a contest for users of an animation freeware package called MMD. It features some animations created by the userbase through the first two years. 

This was done for the 15th biannual MMD cup. The first character represents the Kongo - a Japanese battleship constructed by the British during WWI. The characters dressed as archers represent carriers.

mostly onomatopoeia and sfx  Kizuna Akari is both a vocaloid and a voiceroid. (so is Yuzuki Yukari, her intended audience)

To give some perspective to the violence inherent in the system, nearly all of the robots featured in this video weigh just shy of 250 lbs.
 

Would it help if I got out and pushed?
another nominee from the same songwriter.
 

Not sure why Helvetica isn't True Neutral...

This year's season of Battlebots was pretty intense. Although a number of teams went to China to compete in a different show's contest, they still had most of their stars and a few new faces too. Some newcomers made a grand entrance, some sputtered. A few of them were utterly wrecked. I attended events almost twenty years ago and the amount of damage these machines produce has increased dramatically...very few of the machines I remember from back then still compete and few of them are still effective. I'm not sure if they are still going to be replayed on TV, but youtube has plenty of content.

This year's season of Battlebots was pretty intense. Although a number of teams went to China to compete in a different show's contest, they still had most of their stars and a few new faces too. Some newcomers made a grand entrance, some sputtered. A few of them were utterly wrecked. I attended events almost twenty years ago and the amount of damage these machines produce has increased dramatically...very few of the machines I remember from back then still compete and few of them are still effective. I'm not sure if they are still going to be replayed on TV, but youtube has plenty of content.

30 years ago, the Loma Prieta earthquake rocked the bay area, interrupting the World Series, closing the Bay Bridge and collapsing numerous structures ranging from Oakland to Santa Cruz.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
My mother was watching the winter olympic opening credits and was puzzled over why the american team entered right behind spain.
 
I explained that it was because they were being introduced in alphabetical order...in Italian.
 
Then I wondered how they were going to arrange the countries when the olympics move to China...