Hermit

Atlanta Has Successfully Raised 50 Million To Provide Homes For Homeless

Big news in Salt Lake City:
 
$150M donation from Huntsman family to help establish mental health institute at the U

Yup. I know a lot of Christians who read "custodianship" or even "Guardianship" as part of the "Dominion of all the Earth" so hence pick up trash or the like.
Good to see it getting even more steam against Clime Change specifically though

Apology not accepted. I want my free Pogo-themed entertainment now, and am even willing to put up with talking to fish to get it. 

Friend: "Miss Cleo died the other day."
Me: "The psychic from TV in the 90s etc?"
Friend: "Yup."
Me: "Wow...sad...." *pause* "Do you think she saw it coming?"
Friend: *Laugh slips out, quickly replaced by tutorial glare*

1776 (1974)
 
A great musical about the struggle for the Continental Congress to Declare Independence.

Sleeping Beauty 1959
When three fairies gather to bestow blessings on a baby princess, an evil fairy arrives and gives a blessing as well. That the baby will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday. Thus the audience are introduced to Malificent, one of fictions most awesome bad guys. This is the only Disney villain that says anything about Hell as she tells the prince that he must fight her and all the powers of Hell as she turns into a dragon. The good fairies also battle as they make the princess a pink and then a blue dress and back again.
There is something in the voice and the appearance that makes Malificent great.

As a villainess, animated Maleficent puts Angelina Jolie's version to shame. That Maleficent isn't simply misunderstood and abused. She is the true Queen of All Evil, reveling deliciously in her cruel, vindictive, ruthless wickedness.
 
The official Champions villain, The Shadow Queen (Champions Villains Volume One: Master Villains), is very clearly inspired by Maleficent, as well as the Queen in Disney's animated Snow White.

I never know what to say in situations like this. But Lady P and I are pulling for you, Hermit.

Finally started watching The Good Place, I'm about halfway through season 1.  Enjoying it a lot.  Was just going to watch an episode or two, but I got sucked right in. 

Murder by Death: Five famous detectives are invited to a country house for dinner and a murder. (DVD)

You can call the police the very second she gets behind the wheel and tell them she's driving without a license and says she doesn't care if she hurts someone (danger to others) and see where that goes.

Have you ever read comics? Or superhero movies? Ideally a campaign works like that.
 
Or, to put it in a rather trivial fashion: The Nefarious Plot of Dr Nefarious requires the PCs to do a few things in order to prevent it. Along the way, they encounter the Red Herring's plot in its early stage. So when the PCs have defeated Dr Nefarious, they still have to deal with the next villain.
 
And so on and so forth.

This fortune is more private than any email you will ever receive.

What I got from Obama's statements is that he's found the self-professed "woke" are (a) often feeling smug and self-satisfied that calling out problematic behavior and statements is enough, without recognizing the need to take further action; (b) that they are rigidly judgemental, not accepting that flawed people can also be good people, and that you can still share values with people you disagree with.

Given that reality, I give Jason props for looking for inexpensive but innovative ways to build momentum for the Hero brand: Hall of Champions, Champions Now, Character Creation Cards, PDFing older materials... he definitely hasn't been sitting on his hands.

It was glorious!  I haven't watched Baseball in decades and suddenly I think I'm a Nationals fan
or at least a fan of their fans!
 
 

Yeah, Iuz's message was the first I heard of WaPo's screw up. I feel sorry for the guy  who wrote the article. I don't know what editor changed the title on him but geez. They changed it again, but the damage to their rep has been done.
 

Seriously, Washington Post? Really? They actually deserve the scorn they're getting on this one. The #WaPodeathnotices tag is hilarious. 
 
Adolf Hitler, passionate community planner and dynamic public speaker, dies at 56.
 
Scar, political idealist and leader of Pride Rock who made history by integrating the lion and hyena communities, is dead after a coup d’etat.
 
Osama bin Laden, real estate developer and devoted father dies at age 54
 
Jeffrey Dahmer, lover of exotic cuisine, dies at 34
 
Edit: (love this one) Bane, city planner who overcame physical pain to level the playing field, dies at 37

Donald Trump was roundly booed when he attended Game 5 of the World Series, as well being greeted with chants of, "Lock him up!" On an admittedly petty and spiteful level, this pleases me. Trump is overdue for a taste of what his country thinks of him outside of his Fox News, MAGA rally, White House sycophant bubble.

"A man is known by his enemies. My greatest foe was the superhero Dr. Stalwart. An intellectual giant among ungrateful dwarfs, he never took his full due from the bleating population he saved time and time again. His own studies in bio chemistry allowed him strength to match his intellect, a boost that lasted for days. I enjoyed our little contests of genius and power. The few times I had him at my mercy, and they were embarrassingly few,  I found myself either sparing him so I might gloat or else arranging a 'death trap' to test his resourcefulness. It was a test he always managed to pass. I see now that I savored the hunt more than the trophy, the contest more than the prize. Let puerile jokes about my mental state commence, but you will hear me out. Dr. Stalwart did not die by my hand. He did not die saving lives in some natural catastrophe. No, he was outed a facial recognition program for the government's new classification program funded by the government set up by a corporation and lastly, leaked by some greedy intern who sold the information to a shady news source. This forced him to retire last week for the good of friends and families... and under legal pressures. I am sure many of you delighted in your rush of dirty laundry. Last night, in the news, his death was finally reported. He was killed by two junkies hoping he still had access to his treatments thinking it would be a 'super high'. Killed in his sleep. Killed.In.His.Sleep."
 
The screen flickered, showing two figures scrambling through a large technomaze chased by winding mechanical arms with electrified tips.
 
"If either or both of these men survive, I will help them go cold turkey in a rehabilitation program under my tender care. I suspect it won't come to that. The government official who took the campaign money from the company that wanted the Facial Recognition program contract was in good health and did not last long. The lobbyist for the company and five of its stock holders died even quicker. And the reporter , well, I have something special planned for him. Don't misunderstand, each of these death traps has a way out. I made sure of that. But you'd need the intellect and courage of a man like Dr. Stalwart to find them. They won't. And I realize that worthy foes will be a vanishing breed soon, unless I do something. So? I have. By now, superheroes all over the country, and soon the world, will be receiving the schematics and samples of my Cryptomask Technology. The brilliant among them will be able to reverse engineer it. Others? Well, I did what I could to match their preferences. It's not a trap. It's not a trick. Consider it a sign of respect from a dragon to knights in a world full of grubby peasants. Why you care for them,  I will never know, but at least you will be spared the envious mobs torchlight shoved into your faces. Cryptomask will superimpose false faces on photographs, cameras, digital and otherwise. Thus rendering them all useless. You can set it to blank if you like, but currently, the device imposes the face of Frank Jeffries aka Dr. Stalwart, my enemy, my rival, and the only person on this planet I respected. I am retiring save to keep making sure the technology of anonymity outraces that of identification. Monsters are meant to fall to heroes and vice versa. It is only fitting that when the rabble try to peel back the helm they see the face of the man they murdered through their envy. Now, for your viewing pleasure, let's see if these two men surprise me."
 
Sounds of screams as one of the junkies clearly does not make it.
 
June 2013, all channels overridden by the villainous mastermind Master Apep
 
 

I don't think it was teh bunneh...to give a bit of credit here, this is likely just advanced planning on Trump's part, though it is giving away his intentions in regards to the Mexican-American War (we never said we'd protect the southwestern states forever).  Once he renegotiates the peace treaty and pulls our troops out, Mexico will have control over Texas, Arizona, Utah, California, New Mexico, and Nevada.  It is to be assumed that western Colorado will be used as a bargaining chip by Pence during the cease fire negotiations.

We're building a wall in Colorado.  We're building a beautiful wall.  A big one that really works that you can't get over.  You can't get under.