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Sometimes, I get the blues, most times I just need the blues.

Best concert I ever saw was in Tampa, FL on a long ago July 4. The Beach Boys opened, Starship did a set, then Whitney Houston sang most of her first album. After the music, there was a laser light/fireworks show played to the 1812 Overture.

Q: It's a catchy tune about not giving up, and Gloria Gaynor's got a great set of pipes, so what's not to love about it? A: Nobody believes what you say, it's just your jive talkin' that gets in the way.

Generally speaking, longer barrels equate to higher muzzle velocities which has a greater effect on delivered energy (as has been mentioned). Do I have a point? Honestly, I'm not sure. Developing a damage rating for a weapon is less realistic than developing a damage rating for a cartridge. The optimum solution would probably be some cross-reference table indicating both. In either case, I personally feel it would slow things overly much.

Q: Yes, the anteaters are fascinating, but it's a big zoo so who's up for the Monkey House? A: I've got no reason to care about the poor souls in GITMO.

Does it sound better if I've used the villain? Beware the Dolphinator! In Florida, a mutant is born with the ability to hold his breath a long time. As soon as he could toddle he would sneak off to the beach, often spending hours playing in the riptide and turning up miles from home. His father, in an attempt to understand and bond with his son, builds a set of strap on fins and streamlined face mask. They work well, and as Alloyishus (just go with it) uses them he comes up with many ideas for improvements. Eventually, he leaves home decrying the plodding landlubbers and takes to the ocean full-time. Usually, the Dolphinator doesn't bother anyone (although he has been known to engage in aggressive herding with other dolphins). His occasional forays ashore (usually to repair his fin prosthetics or have some film developed at the camera kiosk) invariably involve theft of some sort and he is wanted for several of these acts. His primary attack form involves a full move through with his (now almost unbreakable) pointy face mask. It looks silly on land, but in the water he is quite formidable.

What you have proposed is logical and even-handed. I would ask, however, why you are equating watt-seconds and grams. You're listing payload size as examples for energy. That relationship usually involves Einstein's equation. In other words, accelerating a BB to relativistic speeds would completely blow your carefully plotted examples.

I thought it required more than a question mark to make a question?

Q: Have you met that Larry Flynt character? A: That's why JFK Jr. and I hate what the internet age has done to magazine sales.

And why was it necessary to explain that the woman "swallowed whole by a python" didn't manage to survive. I would think the headline would be more notable if the woman survived being swallowed by a constrictor.

Q: What did the critic's say about Arthur Curry's stand-up routine? A: I’m really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it’s kind of in-between. It’s like a Mach piece, really.

Inception of Twilight Gladiator Watchmen Titanic Tangled Triangle Thor Twins Seven Uninhabited Cars Maleficent Frankenstein Armageddon I think Hollywood avoids one word movie titles because people make lists like these.

Q: We received your designs, but why is the envelope marked SWAK? A: Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane, ain't got time to take a fast train, lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home, my baby, just-a wrote me a letter.

Q: What do I do with these genetically-engineered talking pigs? A: That'll do, pig. That'll do.

To think, I wasted my time watching Mushi-Shi when I could have been enjoying the quality of Braven.

Q: Surely you can't be serious, could you fly this plane, and land it? A: I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.

I've got four working PC's, sitting idle, loaded with Debian, all hardware functioning. I picked them up by visiting a nearby industrial park on a day when the county was offering 'free electronics recycling'. If you wait till a line forms, and then walk down the line with a cardboard sign that reads "SERVICEABLE COMPUTERS WANTED", you're likely to find some business disposing of last year's models. I brought home six, had to gut two for spare parts, but the result was four working PC's. Hope this helps, and if anyone can figure out a way to take any of these PC's off my hands (without ANY money involved, because these were literally liberated on the way to the dump) I would be happy to have them gone (the ones I use are a little newer).

Yes, I read that, spent a few seconds in thought, then discounted it and continued to apply the rule I decided was properly defined. Unfortunately, I have a tendency to respond (in posts) as if everyone on the internet knew everything there was to know about me and my relationship with whatever subject is being discussed. No, the therapy doesn't cost much. When I went through CC, I found nothing I would personally use. In this case, applying that rule to multiform means a 400 point character using the multiform ability is automatically weaker than a 400 point character that doesn't use the ability. I didn't want any of my players to think they were being penalized for suggesting the GM should keep track of more than one character for any player that wanted to use some specific power. I still struggle against evolving into the sort of GM that would do this, but, when your the GM, IYG.

Q: How do you plan to defeat the nefarious Dr. Hoover Head by catching fish? A: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.

Pardon me, but this is incorrect. 6E1 pg 266: "The character’s true form can have more points than his alternate forms, or his alternate forms can have more points than his true form (before or after accounting for the points the true form pays for Multiform)." If the 'true form' is built as Billy Fungolad with Multiform to transform into Commander Wonder, I think the alternate form would have more points than the base form; however, if the 'true form' is built as Count Notchocula and the alternate form is a mobile mist it's almost certain the base form will have more points. So, no, Multiform doesn't expressly prohibit you from having a better alternate form than your base form.

Q: Why is my marriage license signed by Rev. Moon? A: That wasn't income, those funds were manna from heathens. I misspell (and regret) nothing!

This has always grated on me, a little, as the system indicates this is permissible for an axe, but not allowed for a club. Axe: Hand-to-Hand Killing Attack Ranged: An HKA with this Advantage (or Range Based On STR) still gets STR bonuses to damage. This is a good way to build HTH weapons characters can throw (such as some axes). It’s an exception to the general rule that a character must always use a Power’s Advantages when he uses a Power. Club: Hand-to-Hand Attack Ranged: A character may not apply the Advantage Ranged to an HA (except possibly when building throwable HTH Combat weapons in Heroic campaigns). To build such an attack, use Blast with the Range Based On Strength Limitation (and other Limitations, as appropriate), or buy the weapon as a normal HTH Combat weapon and use the Throw Combat Maneuver to inflict damage with it as a thrown object. So, we get two questions from this: What is it about Hand-to-Hand Attacks that suggests they don't benefit from the points added to STR when they are thrown? What is it about Hand Killing Attacks that prevents them from being used with the Throw Combat Maneuver to do damage?

Similarly, the proper way to re-purpose your Volvo* into powered armor would be with a variable power pool. So if that sentence were to end "other powers or power frameworks can do", it would probably be clearer. *Those of us with Volvo envy will just have to settle for transforming our vintage Ford Pintos.

Q: What was Trump's Napa Valley press conference about? A: I only hope I've gone too far.

Making the weapon OIF so it returns to the hand upon disarming is interesting, but 'thrown weapon returning to the thrower' is just a special effect for a blast attack. If there's a chance the thrower can't catch it the blast attack can have a limitation (requires a roll, burnout), otherwise it's just an effect.