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Watchman Mk. IV

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  1. And guaranteed one of them for whom money isn't the prime motivator will scurry off to inform his boss.
  2. I'll watch The Dark Knight for Heath Ledger's iconic performance, but the other two are meh to me (although Anne Hathaway in latex is a draw).
  3. OK, I'll give it another day and then decide. Plenty of entries for this one.
  4. They obviously overstate some things for comedic effect (the Tot Court skit in the above show, for example), but I haven't encountered any of the basic facts that they've gotten wrong. Got any cites for that?
  5. Bluejay appears at least as early as the BBB (basically a winged-powered-armor wearer, p. 20 of the campaign book section) and also as a NPC in Champions Online. I'm not sure about anything older than that; those books have gone the way of all things.
  6. Cowboy #4: Fee 'The Kid' Herod Anybody catching my theme yet?
  7. I have similar reservations. Also, there's the fact of inevitable character obsolescence that turned me off to it.
  8. The answer is both simple and obvious: just say No (or go back to the drawing board). I'd slap those down in about a second and a half. No game-breakers allowed.
  9. Sorry about the delay...here's some art from a guy I'm pretty impressed with, Eryck Webb:
  10. "I don't have a drinking problem. I drink, I get drunk, I fall down. No problem."
  11. Cowboy: The Sundance Kid. (The one who can shoot.)
  12. Hmm...Barbary Coast time. San Francisco, 1855.
  13. Cowboy (or Eldritch Abomination, depending on who you are): Marshal Jim Duncan, aka The Stranger, aka High Plains Drifter.
  14. Approval of regulation always spikes when there are gun-related attacks. The difference here is that, instead of people just forgetting it, the kids are pushing it. They're the future, and they're not going to forget about it. This one came home to them in a much more personal way.
  15. Move By is the preferred option anyway, for the better OCV modifier and reduced return damage.
  16. A note on Exit Stage Left: there are a number of versions on it that I prefer to the original studio songs. I don't know whether it was down to Rush's producers on the early albums or just a stylistic thing with Geddy, but some of them seemed a bit primitive. By the time Rush had had some years to perform them on the road, they'd tightened them up a bit. Closer to the Heart and The Trees/Xanadu come immediately to mind there. (Of course, it helped that the entire audience was doing background vocals on Closer to the Heart.) Also, YYZ had that ridiculously awesome Peart solo. He is rock's first (and only) true percussionist. Buddy Rich and John Bonham got nothing on him. It's even more impressive when you consider all the physical issues he went through when on tour, which I didn't fully understand until the documentary that recently came out about their last tour.
  17. Pretty much the same here. The lowering of defenses (DCV, EGO) to me is all-or-nothing: either don't resist so as to let a friendly's 'attack' get through (i.e., Aid) or go full defensive...but you pay the price by having the effect apply to every attack on you for that particular phase. If it's a continuous power that needs to attack every phase, you're stuck with that lowered defense until you choose to go full defensive again. As for SPD, you can simulate the same effect simply by delaying phases.
  18. No wonder. I didn't follow them very closely; I always thought of them as Yes lite, and I'd never have likened them to King Crimson.
  19. Substitute Fly By Night and Exit Stage Left for Hold Your Fire and you've got my go-to playlist.
  20. Nice little rescue power for getting people out of the burning building and into Archie.
  21. So I'm guessing that opponents would go too if they got within range in time. (Just hope they're not half-in and half-out; then you're talking about a Stargate transporter.
  22. The tactics I was referring to have to do with passing bills in Congress when only a majority is needed rather than a supermajority. (Although I'd love to see the Senate refuse to even interview a SCOTUS appointee, even though that won't have a chance to happen for a while.)
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