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Re: Outside the Box powers Teleportation: Not usable only to escape enclosed spaces (must be a nearby open space to teleport to).

Re: A Thread for Random Videos

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. I was painfully aware from my teen-aged years on that we lived well within the blast radius of anything sent to destroy the local military bases, one of which was Mather AFB.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos Possibly the funniest of the classic Tom and Jerry cartoons. YMMV http://youtu.be/e3v2aBUCOck

Re: Speed Zone? I'm posting just to get a seat at the discussion from the start. I think the Speed Zone was a half-[biblical beast of burden]ed attempt to give us a mechanic that could do all the neat stuff speedsters do in the comics, but at such a prohibitive cost and with so many warnings that most comments I've heard about it are along the lines of "I'd never approve a character made with this power in MY campaign world unless I were mentally deranged."

Re: Outside the Box powers

Re: Outside the Box powers Is that the one where the alien looked like some sort of giant mosquito? When it wasn't inside anyone, anyhow.

Re: Fort Knox Has Been Robbed "You don't say? Well, when it's been stolen, call me back and we'll talk." *Click* (I actually don't have any heroes who'd do that but it's the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title.) Actually, except for Agent D. or Lance O'Bannon, T.S.C., not many of my characters were much good at this sort of investigation.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore Must be my Southern heritage asserting itself, but that looks/sounds delicious.

Re: Creepy Pics. I can 't see anything. Neither neat nor creepy.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore Compared to nearly every other entry in this thread, these are nearly health food. Unless, of course, you intend to consume them in ridiculous quantities. If so, carry on!

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? John-Boy Walton as a Luke Skywalker ripoff was a hard sell. I still saw it in the theaters anyway. Even then, there was nothing on TV.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Watched "Theodora Goes Wild", a 1936 romantic comedy about a small-town girl who writes a popular risque novel under a pseudonym. Monday Mom & I watched Megamind, then several episodes of The Johnny Carson Show.

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Re: "Neat" Pictures Real or glurge? ETA: Not glurge!

Re: A Thread for Random Videos I wish I'd found this three weeks ago! http://screen.yahoo.com/sketchy-hobbit-unexpected-christmas-220820662.html

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Sesame Streetcar Named Desire "Today's episode is brought to you by the letters W, T and F!"

Re: Golden Age Resources: Superweapons of WW II

Re: Superhero settings vs People with Powers settings Another thing: in the majority of Superheroic settings*, it's generally agreed that superpowers are beneficial to society in some way despite the loose cannons, while in PWP settings, the jury is either still out as to whether powered people cause less harm than they prevent. *IME. YMMV.

Re: Superhero settings vs People with Powers settings I've always felt that PWP stories have less-rubbery science and less-overt heroes and villains. The heroes and villains are largely unknown to the general populace. The actual existence of powers is either completely unknown outside the powered community or outsiders hold "superpowers" in the same sort of skeptical disdain as the Loch-Ness Monster, Sasquatch, or the Abominable Snowman. There may be some unpowered "true-believers" who have met or at least heard about these mysterious individuals with superpowers, along with some opportunists who don't believe in anything but an opportunity to sell powers-related merchandise (books, "artifacts", seminars, etc., just like any good moneymaking cult). Superhero settings usually include more fantastic origins than PWP. How many PWP stories feature someone who is transformed by a nuclear explosion (Hulk), Rocketed to Earth from a Dying Civilization (Superman), or a "god" (Thor). Also I think Supers are definitely in the "wear distinctive outfit" camp, whereas in a PWP setting, everyone wears pretty-much what normal people might under similar circumstances.

Re: The cranky thread

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares 13 Monkees An attempt to clone a popular singing group from the '60s results in a worldwide pandemic, forcing scientists in the future to send an agent into the past to stop them. Miracle on Elm Street Santa VS Freddie Kruger: "You were always a naughty boy, Freddie/ It ends tonight!"

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore I'm still trying to figure out of Fast Food has always been this awful or if my tastebuds finally got up the nerve to tell the truth?

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Today was a Mom-day, so we watched Ball of Fire (Barbara Stanwyck & Gary Cooper) and some TCM featurette about Christmas movies.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos http://youtu.be/_jOG52PoZs0