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"Beware: They really are out to get you."

It's really sad that it had to come to that over there. I think Trump is a cancer on the country (and his adopted party) and actively campaigned for Hillary. But if a site is going to allow US political discussions to take place at all, I don't see how banning words supporting every action an administration could possibly take is going to be helpful toward having an honest conversation about what's happening in the US. For example, I wholeheartedly supported the administration when they got rid of Steve Bannon (formerly the White House chief strategist).

After everyone in my house did early voting, we stopped getting political phone calls. Don't know if that'd work in your area but you might consider it next time around.

Are you absolutely sure one of your main characters wasn't elected President in 2016? That would explain so much!

BTW, I really miss "Jane's dot com" being a free resource on the internet. Going behind a paywall has made it a lot more difficult to track what's going on for those of us who are interested in what's happening in military capabilities around the world but who don't feel compelled to spend a lot of money for the information.

A better comparison might be the US's Independence-class littoral combat ship (shown in the first picture below). The US no longer has corvettes or frigates. Comparing Independence class littoral to the Swedish Visby class corvette. Complement: 40 core crew plus up to 35 mission crew vs 43 Length: 418 vs 237 Displacement: 3,104 metric tons vs 640 metric tons Draft: 14 feet vs 7.9 feet Speed: 44 knots vs 35 knots Range: 4300 nautical miles vs 2500 nautical miles The Independence class carries much better defensive electronic warfare capabilities (decoys and spoofing to prevent being hit by enemy fire) than the Visby, much better armament, and carries up to three helicopters (usually one Seahawk and two Fire Scouts). The Visby is probably the perfect size, capability, and draft for the Swedes. They're protecting their home waters rather than trying to project power abroad. They don't need ships with helicopter capacity because they're operating more often than not within range of their own airbases. And they don't need the range to travel half way around the world. For comparison purposes for those of us who don't have much naval experience, both the Independence class and the Visby class are much smaller than a destroyer, which is what most people think of when they think of small naval ships. A fully loaded Arleigh Burke destroyer in its lightest configuration (first deployed in 1991), for example, is about twelve times the displacement of a full Visby (which is 705 metric tons full and 640 empty). I think that's an Arleigh Burke in the background of the picture of that Visby. You could compare the styling of the Visby to the styling of the US's Zumwalt guided missile destroyer (first deployed in 2016). It's a little longer than a Burke and requires fewer crew members to operate (shown in the second picture below).

They haven't completely given up hope since upcoming seasonal windstorms still have a marginal chance of clearing enough of the solar cells to get the thing operating again.

You could allow a SPD of 12 if the character has huge flaws such as very low defense and/or a very weak attack. I don't think a player would be satisfied playing a character like that and the other players at the table would be irritated at all the extra phases that PC would get. ==== One of the SPD charts, I think 4th edition, had a SPD 5 overlapping all five of its phases with someone who had a SPD 8. So I built a character who had a base 5 SPD. Then I gave him a +3 SPD which had an activation roll of 11 (which cut the cost significantly). At the beginning of the three phases where a SPD 5 and 8 don't overlap, I rolled his SPD activation to see whether the character could act that phase or not. The mechanics of it worked smoothly and it made the character more unpredictable than he would have been otherwise. It worked well for a villain and would have worked, I think for a PC if that campaign had actually happened as planned. I did worry that it was borderline abusive since the activation limitation cut the cost in half but allowed the character to have the extra SPD around 60% of the time. That doesn't matter so much with most powers but with all the advantages which having extra SPD created, it was a cause of concern. If someone wanted to buy enough extra SPD to act in every segment but with all the extra SPD having an activation 11-, I probably wouldn't allow the character: the cost savings (reducing from the 120 points example in the original post down to 60 points). would probably allow the player buy enough skills or powers to do degenerate things.

Strange has also receives continuing training in the martial arts from Wong. One of the quotes from the comics is Strange saying about Wong, "In some areas he's my servant, in others, my master".

Why would Thanos get within 100 lightyears of him much less within melee range? Thanos controls reality. The only reason Saitama has superpowers is that Thanos still allows it.

That's pretty much how I do it. It's more of a pain than it's worth to the story many times because you are gimping some players' characters or enhancing others, which can easily cause problems in a group. But it can be thematically appropriate for encounters with god-like beings or headquarters of powerful groups which suppress the power of opposing groups.

Maybe their body armor just has fully invisible power effects so that they're really getting hit but it looks like the attack missed. ?

If Sonora met Loma Linda, they could become a power couple!

That's sad on so many levels.

Very sad to see the Dodgers lose again (which is something to say for a Rockies fan). Anyway, on to next year. The Texas Rangers and the Baltimore Orioles were two of the worst teams in baseball last time around.* Which of those two team do you think are more likely to make the playoffs in 2019 (or barring that, which will have the better record)? *Assuming you consider what the American League does to be "baseball".

What I would really, really like is a free guideline PDF detailing how to contact HERO (or its sub-contracting companies) and work out an arrangement to write content for them. I'd like for it to include everything from initial contact, what preliminary work to need to have done in order to make a successful pitch to the company, preferred word processing program (if any), recommended length for various projects, contact information for artists who've done work for HERO in the past (or however that's done), and answers to any other questions which are usually asked. I'd also like to know if the company reveals to prospective writers how well similar products have sold in the past. I've had a poor track record of actually getting paid for non-gaming content which I've created so it's kind of a sticking point for me that I get paid something, eventually rather than getting promises and no check ever being written (or promised staff jobs which never materialize).

Disney has been hit with repeated boycotts over the few couple of decades because their properties did something which was controversial to the Religious Right. And each of those boycotts fell apart before having any dramatic impact on Disney revenue. I'm sure by now Disney has a feel for how far they can push things. Disney is very careful of it's brand But I think they could continue churning out Deadpool movies indefinitely under the Fox label as long as they don't try to bringing him fully into the MCU with big name crossover events. I mean, you couldn't have Cap and Iron Man appearing with Deadpool but you could probably have half of the sixty X-Men, their students, and splinter groups show up at some point or another in a Deadpool movie and never miss them out of the main part of MCU continuity. And if you wanted any of them into mainstream MCU continuity at some later point, you could change the actor and costume and most of the audience would never know the difference. Right now, they play up the Marvel Studios angle on Marvel movies rather than "hey, this is Disney". In the Infinity War movie, Asgardians were killed by the hundreds, many of them obviously tortured. The soldiers of the Wakandan army were ripped up by alien invaders. Thanos got a freaking huge sword stuck through his chest then half the sentient population of the universe was wiped out. That's getting away with a lot which would be objectionable to a G-rated family-oriented company. Getting back to Deadpool, I'm not a real fan of "cursing for the sake of cursing" in movies anyway. They could drop out most of the F-bombs and other language in Deadpool and improve the movie experience for me. In my opinion, there should be a time and a purpose for cursing and a time limit for how long the cursing continues rather than having it drag out hoping some people in the audience will find the length of the tirade to be amusing.

Article I Section 8 is a list of powers which are granted to Congress. Article I Section 9 is a list of things which Congress is prohibited from doing or which Congress can only do in certain circumstances. Trying to argue that the leader of the executive branch is able to do something which is specifically included in the list of things which Congress can do but only under certain circumstances...that's a crap argument from a Constitutional standpoint. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the civil war. Lincoln deported to foreign countries various newspaper editors who editorialized against him even though they were natural born citizens of the United States. And you shouldn't be able to find the ability to do that in the Constitution either whether by the president, congress, or the courts. If we're going to take "what a president got away with in the past" as the gold standard for what is allowed constitutionally, Trump could deport without trial almost all the people who run US-based media companies because Lincoln did it. Then Trump could order the detention of all the Democrats in concentration camps "in order to protect the country" because FDR did it to the Japanese with Executive Order 9066. Honestly, the reason we have a Constitution is so that crap like that can't happen. It's to our shame that we as a country have allowed violations of the Constitution in the past. But in my opinion, shameful blatantly unconstitutional acts of the past are not a valid argument to allow such violations in the future. 2 cents

Not in 7th edition.

Out of curiosity (since Netflix isn't the service I use at home), do they have a way to measure how much you enjoyed or didn't enjoy a program which you watched and do they have a list of shows which you would like to see but haven't yet got around to watching?

To start off with, the only branch of government which can suspend habeus corpus is Congress (the legislative branch, Article 1 Section 9 of the US Constitution) so it was a really stupid out-of-the-blue question to ask the White House Press Secretary (the executive branch). I'm not surprised that Sanders was caught off-guard by the question. I doubt she has enough on the ball to know what habeas corpus is, whether habeas corpus can be suspended, and which branch of government might have the power to do so. A standard non-answer of "we aren't ruling anything out" is the right thing for a person in her job when she's caught off-guard since otherwise she'd either be making policy herself (one way or the other) or just giving a blank deer-in-the-headlights look to the cameras while standing there like an idiot (someone queue up the list of Sanders' "blank look" photos). Anyway, there's no way that Congress would consider doing that now. For one thing, Congress isn't going to be in session until after the election so there'd be no reason for any Republicans to do a grandstanding vote which would never pass into law at that point in time. Now if Congress were in session and it was two months before the election, Trump might talk some Republicans into informally proposing it as a publicity stunt....

Isn't the whole point of Netflix is that you can watch whatever you want, whenever you want? I think it's difficult to measure viewing habits of people, even for Netflix, when there's no reason for viewers to watch a particular show at a particular time. I often watch worse series because they're so forgettable that I might otherwise forget they exist if I didn't watch them immediately while stockpiling episodes or even full seasons of much better series so I can eventually binge watch them (maybe even repeatedly). I don't think someone could easily guess what I like to watch based on a snapshot of what I've been watching...and maybe not even based on six months of what I've been watching.

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I won a microwave oven back in 1984 when getting a microwave was a big thing. About 10 years ago, I won a trip for two to Utah for a 2 day race car driving experience at a school to train professional drivers. I didn't want to go so my wife and niece went. Of course that was during the time that I was spending 8-10 hours a day online entering various contests. The only other vaguely big thing I won during that time was $500 in Pampers diapers for my great-niece and nephew.

I use aluminum foil on several windows with a southern exposure. On glass doors with a western exposure in a room we use for storage, I use foil to supplement the built-in blinds which don't seem to cut the heat at all when used alone. Some cats do like the sound and feel of aluminum foil so don't be shocked if the cat completely shreds your 45 seconds of hard work and makes you start all over again. I use blackout curtains on the windows on the west side. They work at least as well as the foil and look better to passing motorists. If you want something a little more upscale, you can buy sheets of the sturdy foily stuff like they make car sunscreens from and cut it to fit the size of any window, whether home, car, or RV. I've done that to fit the side windows of the car for when we've had to stay a few hours at roadside rest stops.