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They should be able to find soba noodles everywhere. Most Japanese food is exelent. (IMHO)

Man, I hope they don't mess this up. I really liked the comic back in the day...

Just watched Shadow, and bone. I don't think I am the target audiance. But it was well done.

You did me some harm, I purchased a fresh from the oven Italian bread loaf, and filled a saucer with Olive oil, Balsamic, and a couple of cloves of crushed garlic. By the end of the day...no loaf of bread!

About the right size.....

Space Monsters, gotta be...

BAT-sponges!

I think Aaron Alston had the "Hero net" as a concept Way back when. In my own games I expanded on the idea with the Heroic Examination, and Registration Org. (HERO) a federal agency that ran the HERO.net and maintained records on registered members. Want to join our team? Lets check Hero.net Hmmm lots of property damage, and you don't have insurance...sorry. Hero reg. allows members to have their Super ID be a legal person, so you can buy insurance, testify in costume etc....

In fact Dutchess Enterprises offers a fully secure cypher FM radio system at a very good price.....

But in a Super universe, they would Have to change. Yeah, as long as the politics match, it could work. On the radios, there is a thing called operational security, so moving to a more secure means just makes sense. Bad guys can own radios just as much as good guys. I could easily see Viper monitering the police radio, then launching ops when something "big" happens, because both the police, and the supers will be busy.

But could a area crowd fund a vigilante? Maybe... SF really is in melt down mode. But just like Tony, internet giants might have super powered security that is Totally Not the founder of the company.

Yeah just an example of how the comic book world is frozen in amber. smh. In my own games I have a government program that is kinda like the suicide squad, but not so extreme. It would cost millions to contain a super, so finding ways to "redeem" them would be a real cost savings. Use "reformed" villians to hunt "wild" supers.

Put together a pitch, gather a team of euthusiasts and look for funding. All dreams start out as impractical, until they're not.

Yeah I could see Super Bounty Hunters become a "thing" Dr Doom has diplomatic immunity, etc so stopping a rampaging super might be worth posting a reward. Such things are currently used with serial kidnappers etc. Again crowd funding. A badly beset city might have fed up citizens crowd fund up a bounty on the local Viper Nest...? You either go with the change, or get left behind....always been that way.

The Bounties are paid by the Governments, City, State, or Federal, as needed, and possibly overlapping. JJJ likely has a standing offer for the capture of Spidey. And who saved lives while your hero was busy?

The Avengers is a NGO, and is a limited liability company/Corp.. Also laws can be passed or reinterp. such as "good samaritan" laws that are on the books in almost every state (if not all) A Super Hero universe has had to deal with "Super" issues for awhile, and things can be put in place. Uber, and other companies have already provided the ground work. In a "real" world, having amature supers is a very poor model. It would be vastly better to have "full time" supers. Not only can they train and learn better, but they would be far more available. How much crime was commited by Spider Man's rogue gallery while he was off in Europe?

Ragnarok season 2 not as good as season 1, but I still enjoyed it.

How would Supers work with social media? How many followers does Spider Man have? Working as a free lance reporter? Soooo last century! How about Crowd Funding? Smaller towns might crowd fund some supers, it's good for business!

It seemed like it was meant to be pre-war, just on the cusp. Japan was in China, Sky Captain might have been a flying tiger...?

So I got to see my girl today, for the second time since Pandemic. And I was talking on how much the world has changed, and how comic book universes have not kept up. And I mentioned that I thought the Avengers Project would have moved to a Gig economy model after MCU movies. And she really liked that idea. If you join Avengers, you can down load an App, that works like Uber, Door dash etc. Bank robbery within 5 blocks, are you available? Heroes can be paid bounties, and docked for excessive damages. And make a living as a full time hero, And live a private life, if wanted. What other changes should the Comic book universe contain? Do you wish to Tip your hero? Did He/She arrive in time? etc...thank you for helping Avengers become a better service!

Yeah, you have no need for the fancy.

As my great grand used to say "Stupid is a Capital Crime"

For cooking? No real diff, the heat kills any extra flavor. But when the oil is used for other things it does make a diff. Expensive is for bread, and salad. Cheap is for cooking.

The battle between Orlanth, and Yelm!

Hardly "high tech" but still a cool video.