Grailknight

Hold on to that anger and let it out if you are selected for a panel. One side or the other will disqualify you. I've been to jury duty four times but all it came to was four days of catching up on my reading.

I understand your example but rolling a 4 in Hero is actually making a 5-star quality macchiato

If I were the GM, Horus would see the attacks coming . He paid for Mental Awareness and Enos did not make his power invisible. If Enos manages to accumulate enough to get his +20 effect, , he will still affect Horus(seeing it coming doesn't make you immune, it just lets you react). Also if Enos does make it to +20 then Horus still will not know what specific power Enos used on him even after he makes his breakout roll. No to questions 2 and 3.

T'Chaka killed Eric's father because Eric's father killed the man who reported him. Although it was in a heated moment, he added murder to treason and justice was served. Not taking Eric was still wrong though.

Best wishes, Hyper.

The balance of my collection says fantasy. That said, as a true Herophile , I know they really are the same with variations of SFX in the setting's premise.

But the Flashpoint premise takes time to set up. At this point . the DECU Flash doesn't have any history or character development. Basing a movie around a character with about 40 minutes of screen time can be done and done well(see Wonder Woman and Black Panther). I don't see how Flashpoint can work without an established history to undo and no motives for the characters.

Or you build all robots as ninjas.

No one has ever been tagged for the third time. If I was Cousins, I'd sign it as fast as I could find a pen. The 3rd year tag for him is 34.6 million. If I was the rest of the NFL, I'd lose the Washington's phone number after they did it and let them play a season with 50+ million committed to just 2 QBs.

And all of these things are failings of this piss-poor version of the Batman character, not an affirmation of Luthor's genius and not an indication of Superman provoking Batman. Snyder's Batman has fallen into despair, and I get that he is exhausted from years of fighting a crusade that he feels himself losing but that will never excuse the murderous tendencies he shows in this movie. Batman has endured the seeming deaths of Jason and Stephanie and the maiming of Barbara without going on a murder spree. Miller's Batman retired rather than become a killer in a world ruled by villains. Even in his come back, in his 50's, he never resorted to killing as an option in Dark Knight 1 or 2. He's not a killer in the Injustice Universe or the Justice Lords version either. It all comes down to failure of the DC writers to understand Batman. The character the comics portray is a combination of James Bond, Sherlock Holmes, Bruce Lee and Bond's tech guy Q. Bale had Bond and Lee but punted the brainy stuff. Affleck also has Bond and Lee without Holmes or Q. Bale's Batman is led by the nose in all 3 movies and the only thing he personally outwits is Scarecrow's fear toxin. Affleck is shown with some Holmes in him in Suicide Squad but his lack in BvS is telling throughout and the only real way the plot advances. I also despise the trope that has the hero or the authorities go bad and their first target is another hero because "they're a bigger possible threat than the villains". It always ends in hard feelings between heroes after the error is realized and our confused hero being nicer to the villains after seeing the error of his ways. Heroes go after threats, they shouldn't attack those who aren't but could be. Otherwise you'd have to take out everyone with access to nukes and shut down all the CDC's of the world for fear on a rogue action by someone who's been law-abiding for years.

I didn't . I said that Batman, the World's Greatest Detective, should know he didn't. It was your suggestion that the bomb was what caused Batman to implement his kill Superman plan. And then I repeated your quote while citing how it came into the conversation .

Hmm, I wonder how I linked the bombing and Batman's decision to kill Superman, Hmm, oh yeah it was from this: Pretty ludicrous huh? I am not disputing that a senator wouldn't be able to get Lex a tour of the ship as a consultation. I'm arguing that Lex wouldn't have clearance to come and go as he wills at all hours of the night, and definitely wouldn't be allowed to take samples or perform experiments without accompanying guards, observers and documentation( Case in point, Trump can't fill posts because his appointees can't pass background checks and this base requires a much higher classification). And do you really think that Lex would be the first and only person among the countries best security people , researchers and scientific consultants to think of holding Zod's fingerprints to an obvious scanner? In 18 months , no one but Lex is smart enough to think of this? You're also assuming the government doesn't have cameras , motion sensors and trip wires set up to monitor if the door was opened or guards posted to see if anything comes out of inaccessible parts of the ship. This is an alien spaceship surrounded by a base on its crash site in the middle of New York City , it would set new standards for security and be overseen by someone at least as hard as Waller. Lex may have gotten the fingerprints(assuming the giant idiot ball somehow applied) with permission and under the eyes of observers and armed guards but as soon as that door opened, he'd have been shown off the base with a "Thank you sir, you've been an invaluable aide , We'll call you in if we need further insights."

Ok, he made a contingency plan, why use it when anyone with Batman's supposed intelligence would know Superman didn't cause the explosion. He was filmed flying in empty handed by every news organization in the world. Also Superman wouldn't need a bomb to kill a roomful of normal people and an explosion fits none of his powers profile. Nice deductive skills there Batman. Hmm, Batman doesn't know who Superman is at Lex's party and Superman"s ultimatum came after he saw Batman cruise through a major metropolitan area at high speeds, firing machine guns and missiles so he could hijack a truck. Upon being stopped Batman does not explain but makes threats that anyone but Superman(and he should have) would have taken as a last straw and hauled his but off to jail for(Batman is actually wanted). Yet Waller did not activate the Suicide Squad until there was an actual threat to respond to, there were no preventive assassinations. Batman ignoring the world outside Gotham was an acceptable thing until ya know that alien invasion thing 18 months before. I kinda think his priorities should have changed somewhat. And not only Luthor had more info on metas than Batman, Waller did also. Safer for who? Not for the citizens of the city he fired off missiles and machine gun fire in. Maybe you mean the thugs he was shooting at or whose car he dragged at high speed and crashed? Do you seriously think planting a tracer and then following it wasn't a better option. Batman never loses control even in deconstructionist works like Miller's Dark Night or the Injustice games. The senator could get Lex access but not at the level he needed to take bio-samples , remove artifacts(the key) or come and go unsupervised and unobserved.

That thinking in a more conservative and nationalist viewpoint . There a good and valid reasons to think this way but the message of the movie is more optimistic . That message to me is that globalism is the way of the future. It portends a world where tech will be shared for the betterment of man. Yes there will always be people who misuse it, but think about the world the MCU could be if all the super-tech was available to the public. Stark has effectively created a near infinite energy source and has tested it to the point it passes mil-spec standards so it will be as safe as anything being used today, Wakanda has advanced medicine and computer tech, Pym has created the ability to tame the insect world (and his size changing tech is probably the most world breaking while also being the most dangerous IMO). Using the engines they build for the heli-carrier with materials science from these alone would get us into space and open up the resources of the solar system. Orbital elevators, solar power stations and even Gundam-style space colonies would be the norm in a hundred years assuming we could cooperate rather than falling back on the same old self-destructive infighting. I want a positive future even if I'm not around to see it and I certainly want my superhero fantasy to be positive.

I don't have a problem with Luthor's plan so much as I have a problem with this version of Batman. Batman, the ultimate Code vs Killing character, deciding to kill someone who has debuted stopping an alien invasion and then spent the next 18 months flying around the world doing good deeds because "he could go bad." Then acting on the decision without having even met the man. Even Waller would meet him and have "We're watching you conversation" before trying to sanction him. Batman, the most prepared , best researcher in the history of comics, having no knowledge of any other meta-human's existence and having to steal the information from Luthor, a man who has not discovered any hero's Secret ID in 60 plus years on comics. Batman, the ultimate stealth hero, who instead of tailing the Kryptonite to the warehouse and sneaking in to steal it, initiates a running gun battle through a major city using 50-cal machine guns and missiles. Batman, the world's greatest detective, not having a clue that someone was manipulating him or figuring out Luthor's plan faster than Lois did. So yeah given this incompetent Batman, Luthor's plan has a chance to succeed but it still shouldn't. No way does one senator get Luthor access to the Kryptonian ship without jumping through a lot of hoops and a background check from Hell which would probably show him as a risk. And even if he got access, he would never be allowed in without an escort or left unsupervised at any time. This is an actual alien spaceship that crashed to Earth as part of an invasion in a major metropolitan area. the security here would be so black, light would warp near it.

As Hyper-man cites, Change Environment has this as an optional effect. You can also do this as an Entangle that deteriorates rapidly. But I think the best way would be as a Presence Attack.

Mazinger Z: Infinity, 50th anniversary of Go Nagai's mecha series. All the good and bad tropes of those early show but with gorgeous animation.

He didn't leave Boston, they traded him for Kyrie when the opportunity presented itself.

I think you're underselling pigs and chickens somewhat especially the pigs.

You're not part of the superhero movie audience? I'm so confused. The cultural significance may be lost on you but that doesn't mean it's not there for others.

But how do they taste? I see a large potential food source here.

I don't think you're part of the culture this movie is aimed at.

With respect, none of those movies were actually serious examinations of Black culture. Meteor Man and Blankman were both comedies and the others were more vehicles for their stars/action comedies than serious superhero movies. Black Panther is important to not only Black culture but also to the history of diversity in the comics industry itself. He was the first and was never an Angry Black Man(John Stewart) or a Blaxploitation character(Luke Cage) but an African prince with a scientific background. He adventured alongside the FF and Avengers as an equal from the beginning. If this movie lives up to even half the hype it will affect the Black community(my community) as profoundly as Wonder Woman did women.

Yeah, this season has really stepped up. I'm loving the post-Framework Fitz . Nice again, but capable of things like this episodes pursuit denial.

There's a simple solution to the Thursday night games and it has been suggested by several media writers. Just have the teams play Thursday night games after their bye weeks. That way both teams are rested and there's no unfair travel edge. The players may gripe about their bye weeks being cut short by a day or two for practice but they make it up because they get an extra two days before the next game. The franchise tag is a mixed bag. The first year favors the owners but the second year and beyond swings heavily to the players. Cousins got paid something like 24 million this year and the third year tag was 34 million. I wouldn't pay anyone but Brady, Brees and Rogers even the second tag and feel I got my money's worth and it's worth noting that no one in the league has ever gotten the third tag.