Lawnmower Boy

Well, I think I've found your problem. If you redact the directions too heavily, they're going to be harder to follow.

Why is Champions used as a measuring stick in the first place? You realize that they are fundementally different products. If not, why not complain that Friends and HERO are not compatible. Or how Pixels and HERO are not compatible. You are stating that they aren't compatible (A point which I think I did a good job at refuting) without addressing the greater point of "why even compare the completely distinct products?" That is like:
 
A - "The Great Spaghetti monster in space is real!"
B - "Why do you think that?"
A - "Because I think The Great Spaghetti monster in space is real!!"
B - "Why?"
A - "Because..."
 
At some point you need to actually address the basic question that is being asked: why compare HERO system to The Flash? Would it be equally okay to compare Monsters and Masterminds? How about Gurps? Would DnD Modern be okay? BESM? Fate? Are all of them reasonable? What do we do when BESM can account for something but DnD can't?
 
 
Why do you assume Grodd will never be able to use his MC? He has already shown that he can. The whole set up for that episode was him getting away with his MC. Even against a member of the team.
 
Cisco created a device to stop his MC but can't give an absolute protection against mental blasts, disorientation, and giant ape fists. So Grodd is still a rival. He is just one that doesn't have an "Auto-win" vs the Hero. And to put this in HERO terms for you since you seem to insist on it: Any GM who builds an NPC with an Auto-win and doesn't allow the PCs to negate that is a terrible GM. Any villain that can out power my Character Physically, Mentally, and is prevented from being neutered is a villain that is wholly uninteresting and the GM is terrible for using it. Are you suggesting that we should have terrible GMs in Champions? ^-^;
 
Lets also address the fact that your point is stupid - yes, absolutely stupid. In the first encounter with the Mental Defense device, the Flash gets knocked about and the device ends up malfunctioning. Thus, his ability to strictly resit Grodd is predicated on him not taking a big hit to the face. And Grodd, while not as fast as The Flash is still able to anticipate his movements to a degree and beat the ever living crap out of him - thus making him vulnerable to the most Game-Overy attack available: a full on Mental Domination via Mind Control.
 
Lastly, lets address your complete disregard for the source material: Heroes always find ways to narrowly beat out their opponents. It is not an exception to the rule that a Hero with some level of gadgetry or with helpers with some level of gadgetry manage to build a device to stop an opponent. No, it is not the exception; indeed, it is quite the opposite. How many times has Tony Stark made adjustments to his suit to defeat foes? How many times has Batman just remembered to bring McGruffin X in his utility belt in order to win? How many times has Ant-Man or Mr. Fantastic create some program or device to win a battle or find a baddy? These are not uncommon. These are expected. If Cisco, Kaitlin, Wells, and Barry were not doing this we would all call them idiots for not exploiting their best tools. And for someone who has complained so strongly that these characters suffer from Dumb Streaks to be demanding that they suffer from Genre destroying dumb streaks is peculiar at best.
 
I get it. Flash isn't doing exactly what you would do if you were the Flash. Too bad. Get over it. But making up excuses to be salty at a show is just mind boggling. And if you are really struggling to watch a show, just quit. I made my two (three?) complaint posts about Supergirl in the Supergirl thread and ended it there. There are people in that thread who like the show. They don't need me going in there explaining and complaining about how terrible a show that is every week. And quite frankly, I don't need that. It is just best to accept such as the way of the world and move onto greener pastures that make you happy.
 
Soar.
 
PS: We have also given a rather clear and obvious work around for Grodd's MC power. You can't protect everyone all the time from Grodd. And it only takes one civilian being captured to rendered The Flash incapable of something.

Daesh (They prefer to be called ISIS, which is a good reason to call them Daesh as any, massmurdering ####heads would suit better ) is claiming responsibility and has issued a statement for the Paris attacks.
 
I don't see France being as intimidated by this as they will be righteously furious. I hope it doesn't bring out some of the uglier things 9/11 brought out in our own government (The inappropriately labelled "Patriot Act" for one), or a new wave of blacklashes against French muslims (Most of whom, I believe, would be horrified by this). I think France is very likely going to step up its actions rather than back down. The term "reap the whirlwind" comes to mind.
 
Time will tell, but for now, if any one on these boards is the praying kind, you may want to send up a few on behalf of the loved ones who have lost someone from this, and for a speedy recovery to the survivors.

GM:  I said 500 pt campaign and you hand me this 3,000 pt monstrosity.  No backsies!
Character:  Hey, what if I play the Martian but his shapechange only allows him to change to Superman?
GM:  You have to have this weakness.  Otherwise, these other idiots (dismissive gesture towards other players) who went with 'smart and determined guy dressed as bat' or 'skilled with bow and friggin arrow' will have nothing to do.
Aquaman's character to Superman's character:  Dude, at least you're not vulnerable to air.

She is at peas now.

"It's a floor wax and a dessert topping!"

There is. And it's "Fire the Gardener".

Apparently the Steve Jobs movie is a flop.
 
Despite all the praise it is getting from Hollywood critics and the like. It's weird, how offended some in the Hollywood set seem to be that folks aren't rushing to see it.
I suppose to the tech gurus out there, he's either a patron saint or the second coming of Edison (As in ripped off folks and knew how to market), but to most folks, he made a big splash, made his millions, and died. Movies about Silicon Valley and so on have been done, so this movie really just sounded...
dull. 
 
Add to this that you couldn't escape the marketing if you watched TV at all. It was so darn pervasive that I know I felt something of a growing contrariness about it. The more times they showed those commercials on TV, Hulu, Youtube etc, the more and more I wished the movie would just go away. Maybe I wasn't alone in having a kind of hype resentment.
 
Is it a good movie? Very likely. Does that in any way engender an obligation on the average movie goer to see something that doesn't interest them in the slightest? No.
But Hollywood (At least many in it) seems to have a hard time realizing that. They bitch and whine about superhero movies and/or action films getting all the love (And they take that money as they whine all the way to the bank). Look, people can love dramas and agree with the critics. To this day, the I am very glad I saw the King's Speech. But sometimes I think Hollywood's movie people aren't just disconnected from the populace, they're actively disdainful of that public unless the public claps and cheers to their every offering they claim is worthy.
 
Why am I posting about this? I'm not sure. Maybe I'm ironically emulating Hollywood by expecting folks to gasp in wonder at the "pearls of enlightenment" I drop here Maybe I'm imagining that disdain and am totally wrong and would like someone to tell me "Dude, it ain't so." Maybe I'm bored.
 
Eh. Still rather be posting than watch a Steve Jobs movie.

In response, someone created this image:
 

So, let's see:
 
i) Crazy lineups at all open checkstands;
ii) "Please Use Next Checkstand" signs at Customer Service.
 
Is there, perhaps, and I am just throwing this question out in idle curiosity, some clearer way for us to intimate that the one manager and four cashiers you can see are all that are available, and that maybe now is not the time to lineup at customer service to get a refund on the wrong size of Rice Krispies you bought? 
 
The question is perhaps more pressing in that I left my (busy) checkstand to walk over and tell you that there would be no-one at Customer Service for about half an hour, and your response was, "But I need to do a return!"
 
Because, and let me be perfectly clear about this, I know you need to do a return. I had a feeling that was the case. I understand. People need to do a lot of things that I wish they could do. They need to run into MacDonalds or the DMV, get through to a live operator at the cable company, book an appointment with a specialist, get across the bridge in less than twenty minutes. Those are all important things that they should be able to do! 
 
But, sometimes, you can't. And if I had to guess what time that might be, I might guess that it was at peak hours. And, moreover, I would guess that, say, the traffic lined up twenty blocks behind the bridge would be some kind of clue that this isn't going to take twenty minutes. 
 
Therefore, I have a proposal. Don't try to use these facilities at peak hours. Or, be prepared to wait, at peak hours. Or, even, and I know this is crazy, consider just how important your errand actually is.

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS
EXCEPT EUROPA
AND ENCELADUS
AND GANYMEDE IO AND TITAN
YOU KNOW WHAT JUST STAY HOME
YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE ALREADY

Admittedly, anyone trying to buy food at Whole Foods probably needs a good brutalization.

All they need is much bigger guns.  We'll supply them with huge guns and they'll surely only use them on each other, and whoever wins will be our allies happily ever after.  Right?

From Let ε < 0:
 
Good reasons for not doing your math homework:   I accidentally divided by zero and my paper burst into flames.   I have the proof, but there isn’t room to write it in this margin.   I could only get arbitrarily close to my textbook. I couldn’t actually reach it.   I was watching the World Series and got tied up trying to prove that it converged.   I couldn’t figure out whether i am the square of negative one or i is the square root of negative one.   I locked the paper in my trunk but a four-dimensional dog got in and ate it.   I took time out to snack on a doughnut and a cup of coffee. I spent the rest of the night trying to figure which one to dunk.   I could have sworn I put the homework inside a Klein bottle, but this morning I couldn’t find it.   I’ve included a reference to the solutions manual, reducing this assignment to one previously solved.   I had too much π and got sick.

The sandwiches were the real heroes.

Be reasonable, now. It's blocking my view of Venus.
 
Won't make it any easier to get those Raise Dead/Resurrection spells we need, either!

But that's where I keep all my stuff!

Hee. You're old, Herbert. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pNQYHvhnms

Woo-hoo! The Fantastic Four relaunch! It's my favouritest comic book of all time, finally re-imagined the way I've always wanted it to be! As camera-friendly, sexy young people,* only not too sexy, to save money for . . . special effects or something! It's by that studio that's done such a good job of all the other Fantastic Fours! It's coming out the week after the August long weekend, when all the big summer blockbusters are often sometimes also still playing in large markets somewhere! It's only a week after the season's Adam Sandler vehicle! It has .. that guy! And that girl! And Doctor Doom. Maybe. And it's by a director who made an interesting movie once! The trailers and stuff have been all sepia, just like Sucker Punch! And speaking of trailers, there haven't been any to over-expose the product in, like, forever! Which is good! Because reasons! (And if that already wasn't enough to make you super-love the new movie ["super" is a pun! {Two layers of parenthenses, I'm so excited! No, three!}], it gave me a reason to say 'because reasons'!)
 
 
 
...There. See? People are excited.
 
 
*No offence to Kate Mara, who is clearly qualified to be a movie actress due to the way that she has come up from a hardscrabble, working class family of NFL team owners, and has previously played That Pretty Girl in Iron Man 2. But Jessica Alba she ain't. 

Woo-hoo! The Fantastic Four relaunch! It's my favouritest comic book of all time, finally re-imagined the way I've always wanted it to be! As camera-friendly, sexy young people,* only not too sexy, to save money for . . . special effects or something! It's by that studio that's done such a good job of all the other Fantastic Fours! It's coming out the week after the August long weekend, when all the big summer blockbusters are often sometimes also still playing in large markets somewhere! It's only a week after the season's Adam Sandler vehicle! It has .. that guy! And that girl! And Doctor Doom. Maybe. And it's by a director who made an interesting movie once! The trailers and stuff have been all sepia, just like Sucker Punch! And speaking of trailers, there haven't been any to over-expose the product in, like, forever! Which is good! Because reasons! (And if that already wasn't enough to make you super-love the new movie ["super" is a pun! {Two layers of parenthenses, I'm so excited! No, three!}], it gave me a reason to say 'because reasons'!)
 
 
 
...There. See? People are excited.
 
 
*No offence to Kate Mara, who is clearly qualified to be a movie actress due to the way that she has come up from a hardscrabble, working class family of NFL team owners, and has previously played That Pretty Girl in Iron Man 2. But Jessica Alba she ain't. 

Ok let me see if I can get this straight. She manufactured outrage where there was none? Or she used the very real, alarmingly aggressive reaction to her opinion on women in video games to become famous? Thereby having her address posted on the internet, having people threaten to harm her physically and sexually...and this was her plan from the beginning? It's all a sympathy rap? 
 
Here's what I know about her. She crowdfunded her video series. Therefore there was a number - a rather large number of people willing to donate money for her to buy dozens of games and critique them. She was NOT a person who was famous before this. She was, as you said, an anonymous critic at a second rate magazine. So the fact that she funded on her rather lofty goals says something. There were people willing to put up over $200,000 (in admittedly small increments) to see her views on sexism in video games. It might not be a majority of gamers but it was more than one wealthy individual - she had hundreds of people interested in her project. 
 
The minute she started her campaign she started getting attacked. The MINUTE. And when she funded the attacks increased and became more personl I remember this because for a few dark months in 2013 I subscribed to r/gaming and they lost their collective poop. She had yet to release one video, mind you. 
 
in fact, the attacks originally centered around her being a "scam-artist" because she hadn't produced a video within two weeks of her funding. They called her a thief and a fraud and crowed that she'd stolen the money and gone away. 
 
And then she put out her first video. Oops. Ok well then she's an attention whore! I mean we called her a thief but she made good on her offer. Great. She's still bad. And then they got some wonderfully pretentious "Professor" to "Destroy" her videos. And he countered her criticism of Princess Peach being nothing more than a prize to be won with, "She is a PRINCESS! She's special! Girls should want to be a princess!"...and thus made her argument stronger. 
 
Look, I've seen all of two of her critiques. And I played Dead or Alive in bounce mode so I harbor a bit of guilt I don't agree with her or anyone on all issues, and even if I thought she was the biggest attention whore out there (I personally think that's the Kardashian clan, and if we're going to stay in technology Kim Dotcom.) she is a critic doing what she is paid to do and therefore her voice is worth as much as any other critic out there (ie Not much) but there's really been no reason for the outrage and vitriol blasted in her direction. Unless you count being a woman reason. 
 
I can find her sanctimonious and not get much out of her videos without resulting to threats on her person but there are quite a few who can't and THEY are the reason she's famous. Not because she's a sanctimonious, self-satisfied critic of a form of entertainment but because the lunatic fringe of that form of entertainment couldn't be talked to like that by a woman. There are Thousands of Pop culture and game critics who didn't get threatened like she did who didn't have a firestorm erupt and they said much the same things she did. 

Flashdance Gordon

I'm not complaining. I'm talking about this.