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Re: Ctrl+V Murdoch Mysteries: As the CBC run starts, the episode starts off quickly with the Anachronism of the Week, a radio controlled airplane a good 20 years in advance of its time that has crashed in Toronto, leaving two dead bodies behind, one of them being a porcine crash test dummy. Crabtree reminds me of Castle now. After all, he's a sensational novelist who loves to weave fantastic theories at the start of a case. No, Crabtree that is not a pig-shaped alien. It's a pig. The only thing he lacks is the fortune and fame. To make the debut of the series on CBC they bring back some recurrent characters. The Evil Canadian Spy. The Evil American Spy. (The adjective is perhaps redundant because clearly there will never be a non-evil spy on this series.) And to top things off, there's The Most Suspicious Man In The World. He doesn't always drink beer, but when he does it's Highly Suspicious. Since this is his fourth or fifth go round with Pendrick, and the last time Murdoch ruined the poor fellow by arresting him on charges that were as always, false; Murdoch only briefly suspects him this time. But Brackenreid is of course immediately suspicious of the poor guy despite the total lack of any reason to be. Some very amateurish blue screen work, incidentally... Also there's a stupid sub plot about Brackenreid considering going off to fight in the Boer War just to be all historical and stuff. Deception: This is still a pretty stupid premise. The Daily Show/Colbert Report Wait, what was that about Gerard Depardieu? Castle The first thing I wondered was whether dead divorce lawyer had represented one of his wives.

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Re: What "Pulp" have you read lately ? It's set in the era, but it owes more to the X-Men than Doc Savage, Fu Manchu or even Dashiel Hammett.

Re: Golden Age Resources: Superweapons of WW II All I know is that the man upon the stair who wasn't there, and wasn't there again today was called "Yehudi" Oh wait, I found something. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-yeh1.htm

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Re: Golden Age Resources: Superweapons of WW II It was more a matter of failing to only use BCs in appropriate roles. They were designed to only hunt smaller ships, which the Bismark was not.

Re: Golden Age Resources: Superweapons of WW II Let us also remember the wacky Allied weapons, real and fictional. The bat bombs. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/old-weird-tech-the-bat-bombs-of-world-war-ii/237267/ The Tesla Death Ray http://davidszondy.com/future/tesla/teslaray.htm The robot planes of Operation Aphrodite (which succeeded in killing a future president of the United States)

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Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Worst idea for a team-up ever. http://oi43.tinypic.com/2efua6b.jpg

Re: A Thread For Random Links The Martian Manhunter's awesome rogues gallery. http://absorbascon.blogspot.ca/2007/08/martian-manhunters-rogues-gallery.html

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Usually Campaign City is a place which, while not perfect, is a place where the heros and their law enforcement allies have the upper hand for the most part. But how does one go about creating a city where heros are the true underdogs and supervillains run the show without much fear of a national government and its military? Option 1: Hold the city hostage with a nuke. Seen in Dark Knight Rises. An inherently unstable situation. You will leak hostages, it cuts the city off from the commerce it needs to feed itself, and the national government will sooner or later decide that it is time to roll the dice and blame the resulting catastrophe on the villain, who is after all the one who set off a nuke. Also even your colleagues may not relish living under a constant sword of Damocles. Option 2: Enclose the city with an impenetrable barrier. The result is cannibalism of course unless you also provide a super-science means of feeding everyone. Option 3. Take advantage of the national government being somehow disabled, even if it wasn't you who did it. In the middle of an alien invasion or a red-state/blue state civil war both sides may choose to leave dealing with a city defended by supervillains for a later date. If the rest of the nation has been depopulated by some kind of nuclear holocaust or super volcano, the concept of "supervillain" may become nearly meaningless. Option 4. Take covert control. The national government isn't sending in the troops because they don't know that the city cops and administration are on your pay roll and you are quietly framing and/or murdering any wanna-be heros. Option 5. Convince the federal government to abandon the city by, say, environmentally contaminating it or turning it into a place of exile for troublesome people. Option 6. Build it outside the territory of any national government

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Re: What makes a great Iron Age campaign setting? Cloning technology and other forms of necromancy so that players can indulge their murderous fantasies even when they are trying to kill an enemy on their character sheet.

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Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities I doubt that. She was in hospital with her belly cut open.

Re: Mortal Kombat characters? They nerfed the more powerful superheroes.

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Re: What makes a great Iron Age campaign setting? Geezers. Good Iron Age comics had a sense of history. While there were always some elderly supervillains, there were never any superheroes and former superheroes who were near or past retirement age save for the JSA in the Bronze Age, and they rarely even made it into middle age until the Iron Age.

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Re: What makes a great Iron Age campaign setting? The Greatest Hero In The World...corrupted by his position and it's pressures and turned into a menace.

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