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Perhaps start by NOT making Dr. Doom the villain and use one of the, I don't know, 100s of other villains in their pantheon? Its probably one of the most annoying thing about the last one with Kate and Mara is it would have been a perfect opportunity to use Blastaar as the villain from the Negative Zone, thereby setting a future Annihilus.

I've seen a lot of opinion pieces on social media about how the Broncos may be or should be trading up to take JJ.
 
To every one of these, without fail, I remind folks that the last two quarterbacks the Broncos traded up to get were Paxton Lynch and Tim Tebow.
 
I have precisely zero faith in the Donkeys fixing their quarterback situation through the draft. As I have commented before, the best quarterback the Broncos have ever drafted is probably Jay Cutler.
 
If the Broncos can pick up Michael Pratt or Spencer Rattler in the third round, that's probably the best situation. They can spend their first round pick on an area of greater need. And yes, there are areas of greater need for the Broncos right now than quarterback, strange as it sounds.

I think you missed a step or two there.
 
First you have to buy your butler as a Follower.
 
Then the butler buys the Galactica, then the Galactica buys its Vipers, then the Vipers buy their pilots as followers.

https://theneedling.com/2024/02/19/professional-pickleball-and-5-other-sports-to-follow-instead-of-letting-the-mariners-disappoint-you-again/
Professional Pickleball and 5 Other Sports to Follow Instead of Letting the Mariners Disappoint You Again

I'll grab Ted Kord. I always liked him the best despite how DC has treated him over the years.
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Congratulations!
 
I'm sure Aaron is smiling.

It's done. ~136,451 total words.

Now that just sounds like a challenge.    I don't suppose you could post a sample for us to mull over?  Unless he used personalized shorthand or a non-English language to take notes in there's probably someone on the forum who could decipher at least part of it.

I try to not be a strait man when it comes to economic jokes.

I don't always roll a joint.
But when I do, it's my ankle.

I don't always roll a joint.
But when I do, it's my ankle.

Historically, peasants were compelled to be in mostly unorganized militias to fight for whichever lord's land the peasant happened to live upon.
 
And the peasants used whichever farm implements they had as weapons: scythe, pitchfork, etc.
 
I don't know who here has actually swung a scythe but it's significantly heavier than a spear. And peasants routinely swung a scythe from sun-up to sundown when harvesting their grain.  
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythe
 
So my personal feeling is that STR minimums are fairly wrong in FH, that the STR stat is unrealistically low for normal people, or that peasants weren't normal people. 

Playing D&D 5e
 
My halfling character had been lost for decades in the astral planes with a handful of cantrips and no companionship. So he kept his clothing together with Mending spells and kept himself clean, and otherwise amused himself, with Prestidigitation. And he built up decades' worth of unrealized comedic potential which spews forth in a somewhat uncontrollable fashion.
 
After coming back to the prime material plane, he teamed up with several others for adventures including a female Firblog druid (who is being played a first time rpg player). As something of an OCD habit, he uses Prestidigitation to clean himself and his companions anytime the story indicates they might have gotten dirty.
 
Our travels brought us to an abandoned temple where we encountered some rather large spiders (of course everything is rather large from my perspective but that's neither here nor there). After killing a number of spiders, we located an intact egg sac and determined we'd likely have time to get it back to town and sell it before the spiders hatch. But the egg sac was up high on a wall and the firblog was the only one tall enough to reach it...but she refused because she's scared of spiders and touching the egg sac is icky.
 
But through a lot of cajoling, we convinced her to take down the egg sac and drop it in  my backpack.
 
As soon as it was done, the player turned to me with a horrified look on her face and pleaded, "Prestidigitate my hands! Prestidigitate my hands!"
 
Without missing a beat, I cast Prestidigitation and told her that her hands are now purple (the spell is highly versatile and besides cleaning things can make change colors).
 
The player gets this even more horrified look on her face as she realizes that not only are her hands now purple but her hands are still dirty from touching the egg sac.
 
"Clean my hands! Clean my hands!"
 
"Oh, okay, I can do that," in an innocent tone of voice and I clean her hands.
 
"My. Hands. Are. Purple!", very unclear whether this is in character or not.
 
"Well, you know, the color only lasts for an hour. Here, let me," and I cast Prestidigitation again. "Now your hands smell like apples."
 
"I don't want my hands to smell like apples!"
 

Decide which of the existing superhero roleplaying systems you want to rip off.
 
Figure out why people liked it.
 
Figure out why people hated it.
 
Figure out why it went out of business.
 
Do the right things while avoiding the wrong things.

Also can't be considered a win for Putin.  If nothing else, he lost a LOT of face.
 
I wouldn't be remotely surprised if there's a vial of polonium with Prigozhin's name on it already.

I didn't love the Green Lantern movie, but did like it, to the point that I bought it on DVD (at a significant sale price, mind). I'm particularly fond of how the power ring constructs were presented.
 
Chris Evans as Johnny Storm, and Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm, were to me the strongest parts of their FF movies. They inhabited the personalities of the comic-book characters very effectively, and their relationship was note-perfect.

Has barely been twelve hours, and Wagner is already two-thirds of the way there.

It is scary how fast Wagner is moving. I remember how Putin planned to race forward in a three day sprint to Kyiv and take over. Obviously that failed, spectacularly.
 
However, Prigozhin's Wagner might just take Moscow in that time.
 
Mind boggling and oddly ironic.
 
EDIT: Well, that was anti climatic

Dearly Beloved, We Are Gathered Here Today in the sight of god to preheat the oven to 350...

I've speculated here before about the differing incentive structures between small towns and big cities, that create different worldviews. But the June '23 Scientific American has an article in the "Mind Matters" column about research finding differences in how liberals and conservatives see the world that are even deeper than I thought. It goes beyond morality all the way down to ontology -- what people believe the world fundamentally *is.*
 
Psychologists Jer Clifton and Nick Kerry find the strongest correlate with conservatism is what they call "hierarchical world belief": that existence falls into clear, distinct, and ranked categories. A world of bold, black lines. And these distinctions and rankings are real, and terribly important. Liberals tend to score less in this worldview: categories are blurry; the lines are, metaphorically speaking, dotted or in shades of gray, and the distinctions are more likely to be seen as arbitrary or even silly.
 
As Clifton and Kerry note, you can see why conservatives freak out so much about LGBTQ+ issues. If you see gender differences as innate, fundamental, ironclad and laid down by God before the beginning of the world, suggestions that the categories are just cultural accidents, a spectrum of possibilities, with overlap or movement between them -- well, you might as well be saying that up is sometimes down. Or abortions: If you think human life has a distinct and definite beginning, you see this very much unlike if you think humanness develops gradually with no distinct and definite threshold. And immigration, of course, involves literal lines as well as the all-important distinction between Us and Them.
 
Several of these boundaries, long generally accepted in Western culture, are under assault at once -- politically, culturally, even scientifically. Clifton and Kerry hopefully imagine that recognizing this difference in worldview can help people communicate and persuade past those differences. Author Clifton's example is trying to persuade a conservative to take a more inclusive attitude to transgender issues by pointing out that "a small but consistent portion of babies are born with atypical genitalia and arbitrarily assigned a sex at birth, which suggests the line between male and female is not always perfectly clear." Persoanlly, I think the human tendency to respond to falsifying evidence by doubling down on beliefs makes this as counterproductive as calling the conservative stupid or bigoted. As the senator recently said, "I don't want reality!"
 
Trump tells his followers what they most want to hear: that they are radically separate from other Americans (and potential Americans), superior for that separation, hated by their jealous and evil inferiors, and therefore justified in hating those rivals in return. That's a drug of the mind that few people ever kick -- or could ever want to.
 
It doesn't help, though, that our two-party system plays into the hierarchical worldview. Even if a fair number of Republicans are tired of Trumpian antics and feel the paranoid nihilism of his movement, not many of them likely can bring themselves to vote for a party they see as a hive-mind trying to make their children into transgender Socialists who hate God, the white race, and the flag. Be cause it's not possible to imagine Democrats as a blurry, shifting coalition of diverse interests with all the party discipline of a herd of cats.
 
Anyway, it's an interesting article. I recommend it.
 
Dean Shomshak