Toxxus

Probably.  I generally don't follow entertainment news, or pay attention to things that celebrities say.  I don't use the Twitter machine or anything like that.  But occasionally I'll see a Facebook post about "so and so causes controversy with statement about blah blah blah".
 
Basically I feel that if they want me to pay money to see their movie, it's their responsibility to market it for me.  I don't have any duty to research the context in which she made some statement, or try to understand what she may have meant.  Now, I still saw the film.  I didn't think her comments were so outrageous that I would refuse to watch it.  It came across as just generic "girl power" crap.  But it definitely didn't motivate me to see it.  In the end I trusted Marvel to make a decent popcorn flick, and I didn't feel disappointed.

Strange, her equally successful pilot buddy was acting circles around her with her ability to convey a range of powerful emotions.
 
 
She shoots the man's face on the True Lies poster and leaves Jamie Curtis unscathed. 
The Kree scanning device intones, "Human Male.  Threat level low to none.".
A guy is rude to her so she steals his motorcycle.
 
There were others, but I've already forgotten them.
 
It was beyond stupid.  He's been nothing but lovey dovey to the Flerkin up to this point and the space-cat clearly enjoys his attention; fights on his behalf; recognizes friends from foes; and then out of nowhere blinds him.  Later, they're inexplicably on good terms again.
Sorry, but after something takes your eye you don't continue to let it roam your office in case it wants to be petted and/or take your last eyeball.
 
Dumb as !@#$.  Easily the worst part of the movie.

The easiest way to do it is a transform: person into person without these maladies.  It takes an advantage to make them the same person after the transform, but its a minor or major at most (you're not really changing them very much).  Since transform is automatically cumulative in 6th edition, you don't even have to pull it off in one shot.  Per the rules, healing transforms do not require a "goes away" mechanism; the removal of the transform is basically the victim somehow getting sick again.

Brie felt robotically stiff in most of her acting scenes.  There's a bit early on where she's told to control her emotions and my first thought was, "What emotions?".
 
They could have used a billboard of her with some lip animating software for some of the scenes.  Just. Awful.
 
That and a couple of lame man-bashing bits that seemed like they were thrown for a certain, tiny segment of the audience did nothing to enhance it.
 
The way Fury lost his eye was beyond stupid.
 
All that being said I thought it was moderately entertaining.  Good, but not Marvel Movie good.  My wife and daughter liked it more than I did.
 
Though, at this point, even my daughter is picking up on the Mary Sue schtick in movies.  "She's going to win because she's a girl.  Girls are good and boys are bad.  Girls beat boys at everything! <poke, poke, poke>".

Strange, her equally successful pilot buddy was acting circles around her with her ability to convey a range of powerful emotions.
 
 
She shoots the man's face on the True Lies poster and leaves Jamie Curtis unscathed. 
The Kree scanning device intones, "Human Male.  Threat level low to none.".
A guy is rude to her so she steals his motorcycle.
 
There were others, but I've already forgotten them.
 
It was beyond stupid.  He's been nothing but lovey dovey to the Flerkin up to this point and the space-cat clearly enjoys his attention; fights on his behalf; recognizes friends from foes; and then out of nowhere blinds him.  Later, they're inexplicably on good terms again.
Sorry, but after something takes your eye you don't continue to let it roam your office in case it wants to be petted and/or take your last eyeball.
 
Dumb as !@#$.  Easily the worst part of the movie.

You are seven years older than Jesus.  Deal with it! 

I don't like the idea that criticizing 40 year olds is gerontophobic.  I strongly reject this idea.  Please, please God let it not be true.  You know some people say that 40 is the new 20.

I fully understand and appreciate why someone wouldn't want to be associated with someone like the shooter. However, I wonder if it's really a good idea to give in to the impulse to pretend that such people are other than human, or somehow qualitatively different from us. If we forget that "people like us" have the capacity to commit atrocities, we run the risk of failing to carefully consider the ethics of our own actions, ceasing to police ourselves because we know we're not "one of those people."
 
I strongly suspect that such thinking is a part of the mix that produces these atrocities.

Well, it's a bit more subtle than that. There is a lot of momentum behind lifting up female characters at the expense of the male characters in entertainment right now. We are watching the pendulum of sexism swing past the Equality mid-point and over to the Grrl Power At All Costs end of the arc. It isn't usually very blatant, because the pendulum isn't that far at the extreme end (yet), but it is hard not to detect a certain Making Up For Lost Respect that is woven into the fabric of a lot of movies and tv shows today that appear to be going above and beyond to squeeze as much diversity and female empowerment into the frame as possible. And sometimes the writers seem to feel a need to marginalize men/masculinity along the way, even if only in subtle (but noticeable) ways.
 

Strange, her equally successful pilot buddy was acting circles around her with her ability to convey a range of powerful emotions.
 
 
She shoots the man's face on the True Lies poster and leaves Jamie Curtis unscathed. 
The Kree scanning device intones, "Human Male.  Threat level low to none.".
A guy is rude to her so she steals his motorcycle.
 
There were others, but I've already forgotten them.
 
It was beyond stupid.  He's been nothing but lovey dovey to the Flerkin up to this point and the space-cat clearly enjoys his attention; fights on his behalf; recognizes friends from foes; and then out of nowhere blinds him.  Later, they're inexplicably on good terms again.
Sorry, but after something takes your eye you don't continue to let it roam your office in case it wants to be petted and/or take your last eyeball.
 
Dumb as !@#$.  Easily the worst part of the movie.

Well, the first question is:
How are Poison, Diseases, Blinding and Paralyzation even build?
Without knowing wich powers to counter, we can not counter them. So this goes more into general Game Design and Campaing rule territory, then simple power build.
 
 
Diseases and Poison:
Damage over Time applied to any number of Powers (from Damage, to Transforms, to Drains) would be away to go.
If you make it NND (fitting Live Support), then a simple "LS; Useable on Others" could be that part of the power.
 
My first instict for Blindness would be a Flash. But that is more for Combat Blindness, not "I can not see for hours"  Blindness wich D&D seems to prefer (that falls more into Transform). But maybe a DoT version of Flash could work here, with the same logic as for Diseases and Poison?
 
Paralyzation:
Entangle is usually the first thing. And boy countering that one is tricky.
But there are other possible ways. Look at the rules for having "0 in any Stat". That would allow Drains to become effective Paralysation tools.
 
The simplest way would be to declare "All Diseases are countered by the Restoration Spell" as a Campaign rule. This may or may not give all those Power Builds a Limitation.

This is a good point though I sometimes use the power of the GM screen to make a badly missed roll an "opposed" roll and exclaim that I have rolled even worse and then give the players just enough of a hint to continue.
 
Alternately, I will move a clue to another location and use passive scores such as:  Witcher-guy, you notice with your (PER 15-) enhanced senses that there is the smell of copper and jasmine very faintly emanating from behind the vanity...
 
Just insert whichever high skill rank a relevant character has and give them a freebie while making their investment in the aforementioned skill part of what makes them critical to the team's success.

Brie felt robotically stiff in most of her acting scenes.  There's a bit early on where she's told to control her emotions and my first thought was, "What emotions?".
 
They could have used a billboard of her with some lip animating software for some of the scenes.  Just. Awful.
 
That and a couple of lame man-bashing bits that seemed like they were thrown for a certain, tiny segment of the audience did nothing to enhance it.
 
The way Fury lost his eye was beyond stupid.
 
All that being said I thought it was moderately entertaining.  Good, but not Marvel Movie good.  My wife and daughter liked it more than I did.
 
Though, at this point, even my daughter is picking up on the Mary Sue schtick in movies.  "She's going to win because she's a girl.  Girls are good and boys are bad.  Girls beat boys at everything! <poke, poke, poke>".

Brie felt robotically stiff in most of her acting scenes.  There's a bit early on where she's told to control her emotions and my first thought was, "What emotions?".
 
They could have used a billboard of her with some lip animating software for some of the scenes.  Just. Awful.
 
That and a couple of lame man-bashing bits that seemed like they were thrown for a certain, tiny segment of the audience did nothing to enhance it.
 
The way Fury lost his eye was beyond stupid.
 
All that being said I thought it was moderately entertaining.  Good, but not Marvel Movie good.  My wife and daughter liked it more than I did.
 
Though, at this point, even my daughter is picking up on the Mary Sue schtick in movies.  "She's going to win because she's a girl.  Girls are good and boys are bad.  Girls beat boys at everything! <poke, poke, poke>".

I thought Winter Soldier was about how far you'd go to save a friend.

Yes... it occurred to me afterwards that this might be what they were aiming for... let's not just set the movie in the '90s, but film the movie LIKE IT WAS A 90s movie... and that was a horrible choice.
 
This movie also asked no hard questions... it had no thematic heart. What was this movie about? Winter Soldier asked about fear and safety at the expense of freedom, Black Panther was about isolationism, tribalism, colonial diaspora, etc., Civil War was about responsibility of power and making wrong decisions, Wonder Woman was about acknowledging that humanity really is shitty but there are things worth fighting for... Captain Marvel was about nothing... what... maybe checking the fan-service boxes for pop-culture references and the shallowest, most superficial "grrrrl power"... while sanitizing it of any thing remotely weighty or emotionally resonant. Heck, Ant-Man & the Wasp was WAY better and even at second billing, Hope Van Dyne had more emotional resonance (she wants her mom back) and toughness (You'd never have been caught... now THAT'S a line!)... than CM had.
 
And if the Skrulls really were happy homemaker refugees... then why did they even try to kill Danvers at the phone booth or copy Coulson and attack Fury. That made no sense at all at that point, because their Leader already knew that CM was special after hooking her up to the machine. Heck... why leave that last Skrull to get butchered for no reason by Yon-Rogg? What did that serve?

This movie was made for lowest common denominator, bland, avoiding controversy or complexity of any kind mindsets. This, along with the awful "bro humor" of GotG are supposed to be the future of Marvel? No thank you.

Yes, but the Anti-SJW crowd, does;'t beat you with bike locks.

Wow it was bad.
 
I'm sad to say, but Marvel made its first really bad movie. (I've not read other comments in this thread, yet, but I will.)
 
The writing and directing were the level of a bad after-school special. The Action scenes were badly staged, the plot was... pointless. Everyone, not just Larson, was stiff and awkward, with dialogue that was completely flat. The movie lacked heart in every way... I honestly shocked that this was allowed to be released. It didn't know if it wanted to be Guardians funny (it wasn't) or Avengers dramatic (it wasn't) or Ant-Man heartfelt (it wasn't)... it was a mess.
 
My wife was very unhappy. She wanted... badly... to like it and said, "Like thirty minutes in, I realized, I just didn't care about any of it. It was so stiff and just... whatever. I kept saying, "But this is Captain Marvel!" and am just SO disappointed."
 
So bad... I'm frankly amazed Feige let this be released.

Italian politician who was against mandatory chickenpox, measles, polio, etc. vaccinations comes down with chickenpox.
 
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/434838-italian-politician-who-opposed-making-chickenpox-vaccinations

When emotions are running high immediately after a tragedy isn't the time for politicians to make sound policy decisions. That's how the US got things like Japanese internment camps and the Patriot Act.

“I leave it to the experts.”
 
I had a colleague send me a number of articles on tax reforms a couple of years back. One came from the UK, which was well along a reform strategy.  In amongst the usual motherhood statements was a comment that the tax system had become so complex that only experts in the tax system could grasp it. 
 
That meant only two groups could really understand any proposed changes.  One were the government treasury experts.  The other was the public practitioners.  The latter tended to be dismissed as advocating for their wealthy clients if they disputed any proposals.  That left the senior bureaucrats in charge of the tax system.
 
In theory, they were overseen by Parliament, but in practice the MPs could not read the tax law, as it was or as it was proposed, any better than anyone else, so how could they oversee the tax system?  The reality was that they could not, so tax matters were not governed by democratically elected representatives, but by the senior civil servants.  Is that democracy?
 
That was, frankly, a pretty scary read.  I see it in Canada when our MPs and Senators clearly do not understand the detail of the legislation they are asked to vote on.  The US has it in reverse, I think, where Congress and the Senate write the broad strokes, but the IRS is left to fill in the detailed regulations.
 
I don’t know the answer, but maybe it starts with a refusal to pass any legislation that the government member cannot read and understand.  Not be told what the bureaucrats say it means, in a view from 30,0000 feet, but actually read and comprehend the detailed legislation.
 
But even if that is the answer, getting there from here will be a major challenge.

So, I've been thinking about it. I believe in:
Small and limited government.. Robust protections for individual liberty. Equal opportunity but not equal outcomes or officially sanctioned favoritism. Fiscal responsibility and balancing the budget. A muscular yet more carefully considered defense.  Free markets and commons with intelligent but circumspect regulation. Friendliness and good faith across the aisle.  If that makes me a philosophical conservative and political dinosaur, so be it. 

Secession.
 
Because that worked out so well the last time.
 
Personally, I'd expect to see a revolt inside California (northern vs. southern) before the state pulls put of the Union.
 
On the other hand, if California is going to leave anyway, maybe the rest of the country can at least get something out of it. Maybe we can sell it back to Mexico, or even to Spain.
 
How much could we get for California, do you think?

My issue at the moment is with calling 49 percent of the country racists.   That is the key problem I have had with a lot of liberals (not all, I want to be careful how I put it, not to be like what has been done to me)

Like it was before.