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An unexpected silver lining during the height of the mask wearing/everybody obsessively washing their hands days was that the incidents of ordinary colds and flu plummeted. Now that people (including myself) have been slacking off they are returning to normal levels.
   I mention this because I currently have a bitca of a cold, and with my respiratory problems it’s a real pain in the a$$.
Keep wearing your masks, friends. 

My first thought when I entered this thread was the short-lived and very enjoyable "Invisible Man" that Sci Fi channel- back when it gave a crap- used as a lead-in to Farscape.
 
His powers worked because an artificial gland produce a chemical that he could willfully secrete through his integumentary pores.  As it was pouring over him, the effect was streaks of invisibility that got more intense and more spread (he was literally sweating invisibility juice), and in a formulaic pattern reminiscent of the Turbo Boost button in Knight Rider, twice per episode we got to watch as he sweated himself to invisibility.  And why not?  If you have an actor who can sweat green screen, Baby, you _use_ that!  You use it _hard_!   
 
 
Now I understood immediatetly that this is _not_ what the original question was,a but it was a nice example of not being "all at once invisible," and I would bet all your dollars that were this presented as a character, not a single person here saying that OP can't just do this thing he wants to do would not only fail to bat an eye, but would suggest to the Player that his chosen SFX could let him shave points by taking the power limitation "extra time" or "delayed effect."
 
 

One of the better remembered bad ripoffs was “Battle Beyond the Stars”.  A jump on the bandwagon Sci-Fi epic starring Richard Thomas (John-Boy from TV’s Waltons) looking for space mercenaries that included...Sybil Danning, George Peppard (pre A-Team) as Cowboy and most notably Robert Vaughn playing pretty much the same character as he did in Magnificent Seven.

There are any number of political websites on the web.  Please do not try to turn this into one.   This conversation is about Monetary Systems in a Fantasy Post Apocalyptic World.  If you want to discuss your views about gun control....take it elsewhere.  At least to a more appropriate thread.

You killed my father, prepare to dye...
 

The setting is the Winter War. A battalion  of Soviet infantry is making its way through the wintry pine forests of northern Finland. When in bivouac one night, far off they hear someone shout:
 
"One Finn is worth two Russians!"
 
The commander of the unit sneers and sends off two of his men to deal with the shouter. After a while, a fire fight can be heard in the distance. Then a shout:
 
"One Finn is worth five Russians!"
 
The commander scowls and sends off five men to deal with the shouter. A more intense fire fight is heard. Then:
 
"One Finn is worth a hundred Russians!"
 
The commander is really annoyed now, and sends off a hundred men to silence the shouter once and for all. A fire fight breaks out in the distance, lighting up the silent forest with a hellish glow. Then silence.
 
After a while, one of the detached Russians can be seen staggering back through the snow. When close to the camp he shouts:
 
"Watch out, comrades! There are two of them!"

Fox meat IS a bit gamey

I would find it hard to believe that you two aren’t on a few lists somewhere.

I would find it hard to believe that you two aren’t on a few lists somewhere.

Grandparents my a$$.  I stood in line to see Star Wars in 1977.  And then I got back in line to see it again!

Let's start by putting these people in cages

Getting back to the digression....  Hasn’t the Trope/Cliche about Hollywood Producers, Directors and Actors ALWAYS been that they were screaming louts, bully’s and sexual predators?  This stuff goes all the way back to the Black & White era. The stories about Jack Warner of Warner Bros. alone have filled books. 
   Isn’t it a little disingenuous of society to say “Oh how horrible” now like it’s such a big surprise that rich & powerful men with the control over somebody’s livelihood would act this way?  
  And to take an unpopular viewpoint...I’m getting a little tired of the story of how some seemingly intelligent young actress puts herself into a dangerous situation with a known a$$hole and seems amazed when something awful happens.  This is like the many stories where someone climbs into the cage at the zoo with a large wild animal and gets mauled. The animal gets destroyed and said idiot goes on the morning news.
  At some point there has to be some level of personal responsibility.  If I’m driving down the road at night and someone dressed in black leaps in front of my car making a Tik-Tok video about scaring drivers then if they get hurt I’m the one charged and paying their hospital bills.  Gwynith Paltrow was the child of a movie director and an accomplished actress. Shouldn’t she have been clued in enough to to know that taking a late night meeting with Harvey Weinstein was a REALLY BAD IDEA!   Yes he’s a swine, but there’s somethings a smart person just doesn’t do.
  I agree that these behaviors must be dragged into the light, protested against, legal charges filled against....but please just stop acting surprised.

This is more about them out there than us in here.  “Is calling it an Arena Game really a bad thing for them?”
  For a very long time I’ve been noticing/complaining to friends about/ranting about the glacier slow change from games that were about interacting with friends around a table pizza & beer style with a game that had human (Elf, Orc, Dragon, Alien, etc.) emotional responses built into it.
   From the first time someone tried to get me interested in World of Warcraft, I looked at it and said “I go gaming to be with people.” Talking through a headset to strangers and thinking it’s a relationship is like calling the people on FaceBook your friends. I had seen Magic:The Gathering start to come up but everyone still had to sit around the same table for it back then.  All I see now are new ways to keep yourself amused while you’re alone at home. Even what’s called RPG’s now like Arkham Asylum contain no actual roleplay. Only chasing around on a preplanned story you can only win or lose at.   Try having your Batman call a temporary truce with Penguin and Two-Face so the three of you can go after the Joker. It can’t be done. The human element has been eliminated.
   Marvel’s new game could do very well with players who only want to match up stats and not have to/get to portray the characters they are representing.
    I feel like a dinosaur looking up at the pretty comet about to hit and wondering how much time there is left.

“You know cow mutilations are up 10%.”
              **********************
 “What do you want?”
   “Peace on earth, good will towards men.”
”We’re the United States Government....WE DON’T DO THAT!!”
   ”Tell him you’ll try.”
       ************************************
”You could have anything in the world, and you’re asking for my phone number?”
  “Yes.”
”555-1234”     (I couldn’t remember the number, what do you expect at 3:43 am?)

This is more about them out there than us in here.  “Is calling it an Arena Game really a bad thing for them?”
  For a very long time I’ve been noticing/complaining to friends about/ranting about the glacier slow change from games that were about interacting with friends around a table pizza & beer style with a game that had human (Elf, Orc, Dragon, Alien, etc.) emotional responses built into it.
   From the first time someone tried to get me interested in World of Warcraft, I looked at it and said “I go gaming to be with people.” Talking through a headset to strangers and thinking it’s a relationship is like calling the people on FaceBook your friends. I had seen Magic:The Gathering start to come up but everyone still had to sit around the same table for it back then.  All I see now are new ways to keep yourself amused while you’re alone at home. Even what’s called RPG’s now like Arkham Asylum contain no actual roleplay. Only chasing around on a preplanned story you can only win or lose at.   Try having your Batman call a temporary truce with Penguin and Two-Face so the three of you can go after the Joker. It can’t be done. The human element has been eliminated.
   Marvel’s new game could do very well with players who only want to match up stats and not have to/get to portray the characters they are representing.
    I feel like a dinosaur looking up at the pretty comet about to hit and wondering how much time there is left.

This is more about them out there than us in here.  “Is calling it an Arena Game really a bad thing for them?”
  For a very long time I’ve been noticing/complaining to friends about/ranting about the glacier slow change from games that were about interacting with friends around a table pizza & beer style with a game that had human (Elf, Orc, Dragon, Alien, etc.) emotional responses built into it.
   From the first time someone tried to get me interested in World of Warcraft, I looked at it and said “I go gaming to be with people.” Talking through a headset to strangers and thinking it’s a relationship is like calling the people on FaceBook your friends. I had seen Magic:The Gathering start to come up but everyone still had to sit around the same table for it back then.  All I see now are new ways to keep yourself amused while you’re alone at home. Even what’s called RPG’s now like Arkham Asylum contain no actual roleplay. Only chasing around on a preplanned story you can only win or lose at.   Try having your Batman call a temporary truce with Penguin and Two-Face so the three of you can go after the Joker. It can’t be done. The human element has been eliminated.
   Marvel’s new game could do very well with players who only want to match up stats and not have to/get to portray the characters they are representing.
    I feel like a dinosaur looking up at the pretty comet about to hit and wondering how much time there is left.

Carry on my wayward bun
There'll be peas when you are done
Lay your weary bread to rest
Don't you fry no more

Four engineers get into a car. The car won't start.
 
The Mechanical engineer says: "It's a broken starter".
 
The Electrical engineer says: "Dead battery".

The Chemical engineer says: "Impurities in the gasoline".

The IT engineer says: "Hey guys, I have an idea, how about we all get out of the car and get back in".

“You know cow mutilations are up 10%.”
              **********************
 “What do you want?”
   “Peace on earth, good will towards men.”
”We’re the United States Government....WE DON’T DO THAT!!”
   ”Tell him you’ll try.”
       ************************************
”You could have anything in the world, and you’re asking for my phone number?”
  “Yes.”
”555-1234”     (I couldn’t remember the number, what do you expect at 3:43 am?)

“You know cow mutilations are up 10%.”
              **********************
 “What do you want?”
   “Peace on earth, good will towards men.”
”We’re the United States Government....WE DON’T DO THAT!!”
   ”Tell him you’ll try.”
       ************************************
”You could have anything in the world, and you’re asking for my phone number?”
  “Yes.”
”555-1234”     (I couldn’t remember the number, what do you expect at 3:43 am?)