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Old Man

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  1. Personally I think it's less of an issue for a TV show than for an RPG session. All the characters in The Wire or Cheers had about the same powerset. Personalities and complications are what drive the story. If you really need to define the characters in the action sequences, you could have Luke be more of a brawler while Jessica shows more real-world technique like muay thai and krav maga. Danny would use more cinematic kung fu moves, setting up opponents for finishing with the Fist, and Matt would use truly ridiculous acrobatics.
  2. But doesn't it make the best grilled cheese?
  3. Three to one doesn't seem fair, but Power Man/Goliath/Atlas. Sukhoi Su-30 vs. Dassault Rafale F4?
  4. Do they not have funny farms where you are?
  5. Ant-Man, purely based on attitude. You are dead to me. Next: Paper checks vs. automatic bill payment
  6. Banshee can fly. Black Canary cannot. Irony! Bar soap vs. liquid body wash
  7. Grumpy Cat because I am sick to death of Garfield. Chalkboards vs. whiteboards.
  8. I've had one-line sql queries that took days to get right. Do your three lines of code work, at least?
  9. I could see a speedster wanting to integrate something like motorcycle leathers into his outfit if he ran a similar risk of crashing at high speed. I'm far more worried about the writing, since the best-written DC film so far is a Lego movie.
  10. You know when you were in school, and there was a group project, and you got paired with a drama queen and a slacker, and you had to do everything yourself in order to pass? Marriage.
  11. I like the Kizer pick slightly better since I found out that the Browns have no fourth round picks this year.
  12. Why the Browns didn't draft the QB they need ...and they promptly draft Kizer at 52. Kizer is... not the QB I would have chosen based on what I've read.
  13. If Trump directly paid Putin's hackers for cyberattacks on the Democratic party, would that constitute collusion?
  14. Depends on the QB. The poster boy for this is David Carr, drafted No. 1 overall, who spent four years leading the league in sacks for Houston, which taught him to be a skittish interception machine. He did get a Super Bowl ring eventually. Derek's offensive line was below average his first two years. He learned to get rid of the football extremely quickly under the tutelage of his older brother, but even so he suffered two injuries his first season.
  15. Derps spend their first-rounder on either an elite CB talent or a rapist. I guess we'll see how that turns out.
  16. Gonna go with the rebooted Conan. Momoa was a far better Conan than Schwarzenegger, even if his movie was not nearly as well written or produced. I like SLJ, but rebooted Fury is just SLJ, and is a relatively minor character besides. Next up: Schadenfreude vs. Sehnsucht
  17. Worked out well for DeShaun Watson, who instantly replaces Tom Savage on a team with elite receiving, line, and defensive talent. The Texans' dealing of picks makes a little more sense if they are deliberately mortgaging the future for present-day success, but I don't know if Watson is that good. Raiders don't pick until 24... it's almost incomprehensible.
  18. Looks like the Bears saved the Browns from screwing up this draft too badly. edit: Ouch! TRADE DETAILS Chicago receives: #2 San Francisco receives: #3, #67, #111, 2018 #3
  19. Good heavens, in today's dollars that's... $46!
  20. Monstrous indeed--my freshman-level physics text was best described as a "tome" or "compendium". It was so massive that it would throw off gravity experiments in the physics lab.* Conversely some of my later physics texts were like little handbooks, yet they cost even more. * Kidding. As if you could accurately measure anything with the garbage they called "apparatus" in that lab.
  21. Rereading The Hobbit with younger boy and it occurs to me that it's the ultimate powergamer RPG campaign. Encounter 1: Entire party captured by trolls. Rescued by NPC. Kewl Lewtz: two named artifact swords and a magic dagger. Encounter 2: Entire party captured by goblins. Rescued by NPC. Kewl Lewtz: hobbit finds literally the most powerful artifact in the game universe, on the ground, in the dark, undefended. Encounter 3: Entire party captured by wolves. Rescued by NPC eagles. Encounter 4: Entire party gets lost in the woods. One member KOed by a stream. Encounter 5: Entire party captured by spiders except for hobbit. Hobbit defeats spiders using ludicrous artifacts. Encounter 6: Entire party captured by wood elves except for hobbit. Hobbit springs party using ludicrous artifacts. Encounter 7: Hobbit wakes dragon which promptly incinerates town full of innocent people. NPC slays dragon. Kewl Lewtz: party inherits entire hoard including magic armor and most valuable jewel in the campaign setting. Encounter 8: Horde of goblins and wolves defeated by horde of NPCs. Some PCs KIA. Still a fun book though.
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