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Here you go, unclevlad: https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-11-microsoft-local-account/

What? Killgrave is a great guy. The best!

I spotted a Rintrah!

He was actually a really nice guy. Explained to me how he added bracers to Namor because he couldn't draw wrists very well. This was after explaining that he dropped out of art school because they wasted time doing stuff like drawing bicycle chains in detail. Yeah, silly art school: Teaching you how to look at something and draw the detailed contours of it! Though I can't say I didn't like him. Friendly, polite guy. I'm going to guess you haven't met . . . William Shatner.

1. Sean Connery, actor 2. Art Adams, comic artist 3. Jessica Alba, actress 4. Jae Lee, comic artist 5. Ron Lim, comic artist

Many people think time is linear, but . . .

Plus, she's Salma Hayek. I mean, plus, she's part Lebanese.

Well, they failed to disappear that one. Amazon has it available on Kindle. 😁

*Rimshot!* Welcome back!

Quick reaction force is just military jargon for ... a force that can react quickly. Probably doesn't merit caps in this context, as it mentions they are the Oathkeepers' (organization) QRF.

Both major factions in the US were on this track long before Trump ran for office. He's more of a symptom, IMO. He's what you get when you get the government you deserve. The US left civil discourse by the wayside years before Trump. Yet, during all of those years, the reasonable people, who could still manage to disagree amicably, and would point to the louder elements on their "side" of the political spectrum and say "that's not me" . . . didn't get off their behinds and vote.

Trailer looked promising. I just hope they don't have four episodes of him trying to remember who he is and two of him being Moon Knight. Hawkeye managed to avoid the pacing issues of the other Disney+ Marvel shows, so I'm crossing my fingers.

I like how the second guy here says that he can't wait to see what CD Projekt Red does with an unlicensed property . . . Cyberpunk 2077. Yeah, totally original universe that isn't licensed right there. Credibility as any kind of expert on the genre went out the window with that one. He just did a bit of reading on the internet and made a profanity-filled rant video for hits. Also, I always want to punch people the second I hear the word "cuck" come out of their mouth. My take: I've never played the Witcher games. I've never read the books or stories. I've seen the show. When I watched it, I didn't say, "Hey! This reminds me of Elric." I've read the Elric saga five or six times. I don't care about the superficialities, numerous though they may be. It looks like less of a direct rip off of Elric, and more of a grabbing of random tropes (buff potions before combat, monster hunting, etc.) from pop culture generic fantasy, a la D&D, Warhammer, that were themselves already borrowing heavily from Elric and other sources. It's about the execution, the particulars. Ideas are a dime a dozen. It would be very interesting to see an analysis from an IP law attorney, but just for academic reasons.

I don't mind tax and spend. I just mind tax and waste. And tax and fraud.

So, I Doubt It, Abby. A sitcom about a wealthy society lady and her surly manservant . . .

Kingpin's suits are bullet and cut resistant. Plus, he's extremely tough, and able to move around when he's seriously injured. So, in the one scene, he probably took some internal damage that he was pushing through, and he was acting a little concussed too, IMO.

I was just responding to your comment on raw numbers there. Of course, there are a lot of other factors in play. I don't really see a full-blown civil war happening anytime soon, but there are enough extremists (future moderates, if things keep going the way they have been) out there to cause real problems.

There are about 696,000-697,000 police in the US. There are about 336,000-337,000 National Guard members (including support units) in the US. There are about 1.3 to 1.4 million active duty military personnel in the US armed forces (including support units and those deployed around the world.) A single million people acting up at once is a catastrophe of unheard of scale. Just 1% of the population is 3.3 million people . . . we'd be in deep doo-doo if that many people started acting up all at once. Could they actually overthrow the government? Probably not, but not for lack of bodies, even at those numbers.

Smart, low PER guy: Low INT, buys up INT-based skills or skill levels. Smart, low INT Skill guy: Low INT, buys up PER rolls with one or more senses. A High INT isn't required to represent an intelligent person. In hero, INT is more like mental agility, quick-wittedness in the moment, perception, etc., so you could easily have a 10 INT absent-minded professor type, with high skills who's brilliant, but doesn't think fast on his feet. So, what you're trying to accomplish is already built into the system.

Yep, a true master of both pickin' and grinnin'.

Greyhound - My Champions Online Speedster Blue Streak - Speedster with a potty mouth (I think we have a Herophile on the boards who has a character with this name) Barnstormer - Flying Speedster focused on Aerobatics Faster Blaster - My father-in-law's City of Heroes character (he didn't like thinking up names )

Note that once you've saved the file to another format, you can then print it to PDF by selecting the "Microsoft Print to PDF" printer option from your list of printers, if you're on a Windows PC.

Another way to look at balancing basic defense levels (to attacks vs PD/ED) is to determine the number of hits from an average attack it would take to KO the character. If it varies too far out of the norm, bring it back in line. Let's say the average main attack for characters is 10d6 in the campaign, with some lower damage characters sitting at 8d6 and higher damage characters at 12d6. That gives average rolls of 28, 35, and 42. So: Average Character with 25 defense: At 30 STUN: 8d6 (28) Takes 3 pts per hit, 10 hits to KO 10d6 (35) Takes 10 pts per hit, 3 hits to KO 12d6 (42) Takes 17 pts per hit, 2 hits to KO At 35 STUN: 8d6 (28) Takes 3 pts per hit, 12 hits to KO 10d6 (35) Takes 10 pts per hit, 4 hits to KO 12d6 (42) Takes 17 pts per hit, 3 hits to KO At 40 STUN: 8d6 (28) Takes 3 pts per hit, 14 hits to KO 10d6 (35) Takes 10 pts per hit, 4 hits to KO 12d6 (42) Takes 17 pts per hit, 3 hits to KO OK, I'm not going to run this for every level of STUN possible, but it's pretty apparent that 25 is a high average defense when the offense average is 10d6. This campaign is going to have fairly long fights. (Consider also that the first round happens on Segment 12, so everyone gets a post segment 12 Recovery after the first round, further lengthening the fight.) Contrast this with the Big Blue Book write ups, which is a "campaign" that has similar average attacks of around 10d6, with a few 12d6 main attacks and fewer 8 or 9 DC attacks. Seeker goes down in 2 hits from a 10d6 or 12d6 attack with his 15 PD, Obsidian can soak up ten 10d6 attacks and 4 12d6 attacks with his 30 PD (but only 4 and 3 with his 20ED), Quantum's 22 def and Jaguar's 19 def both soak up 3 10d6 attacks and 2 12d6 attacks, while Defender's 18 defenses soak up 2 from either, same as Seeker. So, how does 40 DEF guy look? Let's assume since he wants to be tough that he has at least 35 STUN: 8d6 (28) can't harm him on average roll. 10d6 (35) can't harm him on average roll. 12d6 (42) 2 pts, would take 18 hits to KO. And since he's going further than usual off the average, some more: 14d6 (49) 9 pts, would take 4 hits to KO. 16d6 (56) 16 pts, would take 3 hits to KO. So, unless he's facing the glass cannon, he's looking pretty good for achieving his goal of being nigh-invulnerable. Unless someone Entangles him and shoves him into a swimming pool. He's also going to be pretty ineffective with an 8d6 attack against an average character as seen above. But that's just the basic stats, what else is he putting on his character sheet? Personally, if someone's pushing the base numbers very far out of the norm, I'd limit them somewhat in other areas to limit system abuse. For this character, I'd limit his exotic defenses to one or two (Mental Defense, Life Support, Flash Defense, KB resistance, etc.), probably one. So, he can have some Mental Defense so that mentalists don't just steamroll him and he can be an effective blocker, or have some KB resistance to help with bricks, etc. But his defenses shouldn't be allowed to cover every base. Maybe let him take some broader defenses but require a Vulnerability to compensate? Things like this should be considered. A far as offensive effectiveness, let him take some Martial arts, but enforce the 40 AP limit. The various Martial attacks with a "target falls" effect will make him a more useful combatant, as will Grabs, etc. If you're using the expanded list, I think there are options that would help with body guarding. (I'm kind of fuzzy on the rules for taking a hit for someone else, but I'd look into those rules if someone was running a character like this, and make sure they understood them.) If his offense is coming from his STR, he could also buy a Brick Tricks MP at 40 AP, which would give a great deal of versatility. What I wouldn't do is let him build a completely ineffective character. That's why I suggested limiting further exotic defenses above, then followed with beefing up his offensive capability. Letting the player dump all his points into various defenses while not putting any points into offensive (or movement) capabilities will make for a lot less fun character for both him and his team. The concept isn't terrible, really. If he's running STR as his attack then it's not like a 40 STR character is exactly a wimp, is it? It just happens to look that way due to the high average defense values in the campaign. (If you analyze the BBB characters, it's basically a 10d6 average attack campaign, but 50 pts worth of PD/ED is brick level.)