Lee

silly

tarantula 

Shreveport Mudbugs (Formerly a WPHL/CHL minor league hockey team). Go 'Bugs!

rollercoaster

Scientist

Indeed. A car is just a thing. It can be repaired or replaced. A loved one can't.

I, too, am glad she is going to be okay. All the best.

adder

Hattfield

10 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

Holy Crap! What if dark matter is actually ether?!

 

The whole universe would fall unconscious... 

Klingons

Lirpa (weapons used in TOS episode when Spock goes through Pon Far)

maim

On 5/8/2012 at 12:56 PM, Enforcer84 said:

I shall call him, "Log-Man."

I assume, given the other parts of the thread that he'd be a natural log man. So shouldn't that be Ln-Man? 

(Sorry, my math geek came out for a moment. He's going away now...)

Lee

hearth

5 hours ago, archer said:

I've never allowed haymakers with ranged weapons or spells.

I would allow it with a thrown ranged weapon (e.g. a dagger, rock, javelin, etc.). It seems to me that winding up for some extra power in a punch would be similar as doing so with a thrown weapon. I might cap its effect, though. I wouldn't allow it for bows/crossbows/firearms (except see below), because their effect isn't (directly) based on the character's strength but on mechanical advantage or chemical explosives. Winding up (I don't mean with a windlass ) in those cases won't change the mechanics of the (cross)bow or the chemicals.

Magic is one of those special cases. I might allow it in some situations--especially ones where I would allow someone to push the spell.

2 hours ago, Greywind said:

Haymaker with ranged weapons is simply taking the extra time/effort into a well-aimed shot. Particularly if hit locations aren't being used.

I hadn't thought of it that way. I could certainly see it if hit locations aren't being used. Would you allow the use of Brace and Set maneuvers (I consider those "aiming"), too?

7 hours ago, pawsplay said:

- Rally: Aid END

Interesting. I always thought of "Rally" as a morale action and would therefore have used Aid EGO (for overcoming detrimental morale effects or increasing morale going into a bad situation), but END is a good choice, too. I wonder what I could call the EGO version to differentiate them? Maybe Inspire, Encourage or Urge?

progressive rock

till

Einstein, Albert

kilt

A honey badger (the animal) is also known as a Ratel. You might be able to use that name.

Also, they (Marvel) can't copyright or trademark the name "Honey Badger". The term existed long before they came up with the character and is therefore "prior art". They can copyright/trademark the character concept (their particular depiction of the character). If your "Honey Badger" is too close to the same character concept as theirs (and it sounds like it is), they you're right to stay away from it. Instead, if you were creating a cute, furry children's character that looks like a badger or weasel and loves honey and in no way resembles their character, you should be okay.

Now, having said that, if Marvel wanted to be chippy about it, they could sue anyway (over the cute one) knowing the only similarity is the name and they'd lose at trial, banking (pun intended) that you wouldn't be willing to spend the money to fight them.

IANAL, but I did extensive research in this area years ago and this is what I remember about it. Things may have changed, so YMMV.

5 minutes ago, BoloOfEarth said:

Beer.  Can't stand the stuff.  In my 20s I  had two friends who tried desperately to get me to drink beer.  The smell made me gag, and the taste was even worse.  They kept saying, "It's an acquired taste."  I replied, "Why the heck would I want to acquire it?!"

This. Absolutely this. In fact, I can't stand the taste and smell of any alcoholic beverage and I've tried many. They all taste the same to me. The only exception is that fruity, frozen slushy thing...oh yeah a frozen daiquiri. An old girlfriend got me to try a peach flavored one, and the peach flavor was great, it was just ruined by the alcohol. She kept insisting that "there's hardly any alcohol in it!" Then what was the point of putting it in there in the first place? I'd rather have just the peach flavored slushy/slurpee/icee sans the other crap. She, nor any of my friends at the time could understand it.

Oh, that old "it's an acquired taste" thing is usually only used for stuff that tastes horrible and no one in their right mind would eat/drink except that it's a social convention (caviar comes to mind...yuck!). 

Yay! The stuff we ordered from Amazon is finally here!

No, C stands for Cookie. That's good enough for me. 

Roddenberry