DasBroot

The mirror episodes always have awesome plot-holes. But they're also, on average, very interesting episodes that give the actors and writers a chance to stretch. I was at first apprehensive of seeing the mirror universe tapped in season one - but Discovery is honestly the best show to really explore the ideas. The mirror universe culture deserves to lean a little more towards the PG13 / M -14 side of the fence. As for the light sensitivity - it's a neat quirk and it hasn't been seen before because it hasn't been thought of before. Like the purplish or albino glitter armor Klingons with their brutal looking ships. New ideas aren't bad. New shows don't replace the shows you already saw and love. Put each show in their own universe and you'll be happier. Or don't watch it if you don't like it. Good rules for any fandom really. As for the plot specifics - yes, this finally does 'excuse' Lorca and I really, really, really hope it was the plan all along. It looks like it. It feels like it. I just hope it wasn't a writer four or five scripts in and said 'hey, you know what would be cool?' I hope the Empress does keep her word - that she IS a woman of honor like the Prime Georgiou was. That she is as she was only with the ruthlessness and amorality dialed up to 11. The best mirror episodes play out with the characters being able to see how they could have become their mirrors if their situation was different. I hate her (the point) but I hope they dump L'rell with mirror Voq. I hope her and infiltrator-Ash's arcs are played out (and that Ash comes back as normal, as I liked him) and she goes away. I liked the traditional Klingon death yell as she 'killed' Voq in Ash and hope it's not another trick - but she cracked really, really easily as soon as he was beamed into the cell, so...

I'm glad I stuck around because I liked last night's episode much better. Despite the Barry being in jail thing.

I've ended campaigns (from both sides of the screen) by throwing a (what's known in the SRD) Mage's Disjunction spell. Another TPK I was victim to involved a vampire mage (in a Ravenloft game) casting Anti-Magic shell... like the Black Dragon V fought only much worse. In D&D you can plan all you want but it ultimately usually comes down to: 'You've had all night to plan. What do you do?" "Kick in the door and react accordingly!"

I internalise songs for most of my characters or NPCs - and I use them to help keep them 'true' to themselves when faces with a choice. I do tend to reuse them, however, based on archetype. A few samples: Peaceful Warrior - calm, confident, power at the ready but reluctantly used. Piccolo's theme - Dragonball Z original dub - Bruce Faulconer Hidden Power - quiet but with a near perpetual smirk, knowing something that their enemies don't know. Itching for an excuse to show them what. Power Tripping - Teenage Monster Magnet Aggressive Warrior - In your face all the time. First to pick a fight, last to leave one . Brash. Overconfident. Reckless by Judas Priest or Headstrong by Trapt.

I expected nothing less from the Democrats - it's still a move more suited for a playground than the White House and yet another thing which erodes the dignity of the office, the executive branch, and even the party associated with them. Just like President Trump himself doing an end zone touchdown dance on twitter afterwards. I would suspect, though, that if these 'assurances' aren't in motion by the next deadline and the Republican party can't get its affairs in order to get a unanimous vote that the Democrats might shut things down for a little longer. Maybe. I wonder how things are going over in the alternate world where Kasich won the nomination and election?

I think each arc starts strong and then falters - so technically episode 3 or 4 of any given arc. (So do most comic book arcs, though - so maybe Agents really is the most faithful depiction out there?) I don't find that particularly affects my like of the show, though - the actors / characters pull it through for me no matter what plot-line the writing team hits with a dart thrown at a board - and even weak episodes are watchable. ... I just realised I just also described how I feel about Star Trek, Star Wars, and their various spin offs. Huh. (Except Voyager: Threshold and Tuvix. Those episodes need to be pulled from syndication.)

Changing the White House comment line voicemail to blame the Democrats entirely for the shutdown *despite having enough Republican seats to pass the vote without Democratic support*? Stay classy, executive branch. (And maybe try getting your own house in order) https://www.snopes.com/white-house-comment-line-trump/

And now I'm done with Oreos. I guess in 76 pages something had to get me eventually.

The new animated Godzilla film on Netflix. Art was good and the G-Man himself was treated as the unstoppable force of nature fans beg for - but it definitely suffers a pacing problem and entire scenes are filled with literally made up words that are being strung together in a way that would make technobabble masters from any Trek series get crossed eyes. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing indeed. First 15 minutes and then once they get back to earth - if I watched it again that's what I'd do and I feel like I would lose nothing.

Clairsentience for object reading is established in the book but you have to ask yourself what the point behind the reading is? If it's to get information about a situation that otherwise couldn't be gained *as well as* power the multiforms then it's Clairsentience. Could they read a carpet to find out the time of death of someone who was found dead on it vs touch the carpet and gain the knowledge needed to operate an industrial carpet loom? If it's just to use the multiform I'd probably go with it's just a Limited or Conditional power "Must have appropriate object" on the pool or power. It could be disposable focus as well but focus implies something that sticks around or that can be acquired with various difficulties - I like conditionals better for temporary effects.

Well, as a former First Order soldier he might have deduced that like all movie villains the one in the middle is always the leader. Was there any guarantee the Walkers wouldn't shoot him down since he was moving in a straight line towards a very obvious target? Or that he wouldn't have melted from the pre-charge (like the doors themselves started to)? It was not a well thought out plan (of course). I'm glad Rose saved him from it.

True, but If he really wanted to make a difference he should have rammed the Command Walker and killed Hux and Ren instead. Or they should really consider installing ejection seats in their vehicles so he could eject at the last minute and wipe the cannon out and maybe live (until a Walker stepped on him out of spite. Really, any of the board Walker gunners could have blown them apart after they crashed).

Sure, but their opinion between voting days means absolutely nothing. Like him, hate him, be indifferent to him - Trump will be gone in no more than 8 years and America will move on. Kim has the sword of Damocles over his head where if he stops demonizing the world his people could realize how badly they have it and turn on him. Kim has to keep this rhetoric up for the rest of his life and then whoever he appoints heir will as well, and so on and so forth.

Heroic sacrifice has cost the Resistance too much. Finn's death would only have saved the base for a limited time - I'm sure that the Walkers and bombers (to say nothing of orbital bombardment) could have eventually brought the mountain down on top of them if they couldn't get through the front door (an inherent problem with invulnerable front doors but vulnerable walls.) Basically if everyone kept killing themselves for the Resistance there would be no more Resistance... which is pretty much how it played out: They needed to regroup and learn to fight smarter instead of harder. It was a pretty major point and the closest thing Zombie Dameron got to an arc. Fun comic though.

Thicker barriers are mainly a tactical decision to block off more area with a single use and take enemies longer to Tunnel through or escape with Teleportation, really.

Last nights episode was the only episode in the series so far that I actively disliked to the point of considering not tuning in any longer if this is how this arc is going to play out. I found it thoroughly un-enjoyable with Ralph's speech to Joe being the exception: Even the metahuman of the week subplot felt phoned in.

The yellow could serve to be a shade or three lighter but I don't mind the design overall.

Doctors have a medical term for people who rely on the natural cycles method: Parents.

Not saying to unilaterally disarm - just to keep things conventional: North Korea has a large enough standing army and enough hardware to decimate the peninsula as is and nobody seriously wants to inherit the mess that is North Korea through annexation or conquest, regardless: Their paranoia has been unjustified for decades now. Pushing the nuclear ambition agenda serves no other point than to keep the attention and condemnation of the world upon them so they can play the part of martyr-hero and tell their people 'see? We're so awesome that the world fears and respects us' to remain in power.

Sure they do: knock it off. If they'd knocked it off 10 or 20 years ago nobody would care about them in the slightest any longer. They'd be just another 2nd or 3rd world country that gets ignored by policy unless it draws attention to itself. Trump would be railing against someone else, if he were even president in a different climate. Being ignored, though, would lead to its people getting a chance to stop and think about just how badly they're treated. Kim, like his father, must rattle his saber or risks losing his head.

In my opinion characters like this are best represented by a VPP - Multiform Only with some sort of time limit. They also have great potential to slow the game down dramatically or obsolete team specialists - it depends on if they get to keep the sword after they find it and thus can multiform into the master swordsman at will or whether each 'read' is meant to be a dramatic and fairly unique thing (grab the sword while defending the museum, beat all the bad guys, give the sword back to the caretakers vs 'This might come in handy later) The GM should be doing most of the work for this power and have multiforms ready to VPP into so the player doesn't need to either be told ahead to design a form to use in the session or try and build a whole new character in the midst of one just because he disarmed the bad guy and grabbed his Magic Sword. That's a lot of trust between player and GM - but it's trust that could be rewarded by saving points by making the VPP not only multiform only with some sort of timed limit but also applying the full No Conscious Control (-2) so the GM decides entirely when an object is 'readable' and what happens when it is. Complicated but rewarding (but complicated).

Presence attack is another power that I roll into the 'binary' category. At heroic human levels (8-20) it's perfectly balanced - you can get use it to get momentary advantages against opponents of weaker will from time to time. "Super Presence", however, (presence taken above human maximum in a super hero game) is one of the Mutually Assured Destruction buttons in my campaigns. It can easily be worse than mind control for a few phases. The only real trick is not being strangled by the GM for remembering it exists and using it every chance you get.

True enough. My family used drive a fair distance to fill 4 litre bottles from a spring near Altes Schloss. It was definitely nice tasting water and nobody ever got sick from it.

Because it is resisted by half the targets strength heroes that do a Grab maneuver have a *ridiculously* good chance of success. If you're a superior combatant (+2 ocv over the target's DC) and have a strength of greater than half the targets it is almost always the best thing you can do with your half-phase (the 'almost always' clause mostly being if the guy has friends, who will happily pummel your now halved DCV).

A very large amount of the world's population drinks 'raw water'. Many die. "Our water is too clean - it weakens our immune system!" is about as first world a problem as I've ever heard.