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Lawnmower Boy

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    Lawnmower Boy reacted to Clonus in Funny Pics II: The Revenge   
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    Lawnmower Boy reacted to Lord Liaden in Funny Pics II: The Revenge   
    That would've changed the whole course of Starship Troopers.
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    Lawnmower Boy reacted to Starlord in What Have You Watched Recently?   
    Ditto, I thought the She-Hulk finale was really fun, particularly the parts that involved Marvel poking fun at itself and Jen poking fun at trolls and toxic fandom.
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    Lawnmower Boy reacted to Joe Walsh in What Have You Watched Recently?   
    She-Hulk: The S1 finale was just wonderful, at least from the perspective of this John Byrne era She-Hulk fan. I loved it and I hope there's a second season someday.
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    Lawnmower Boy reacted to Drhoz in Campaign Startup Ideas   
    Have been thinking about this one a bit more - if you're wondering what kind of plots you can have in a theme park, consider Niven and Barne's Dream Park novels, Spider Robinson's The Free Lunch, the SHOCC park in Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill's Marshal Law : Fear and Loathing, the current Adventure Zone campaign Steeple Chase, etc. Also every conspiracy about Disney, visiting collections of valuable superhero memorabilia, custody snatches, supervillians looking to collect low-level supers as unwilling minions, supervillians who are just in the park for a nice day out, Mob involvement in the contracting, every possible level of corporate incompetence and malfeasance, union-busting, ride disasters (look up the Luna Park fire here in Australia for a spectacularly awful one ), corporate espionage, Halloween special scares, and the rather odd fact that the rate of superpower manifestation among people that have visited the unnamed park is 80 times higher than in the rest of the population. And despite what you may have heard, the founder's frozen head is absolutely not under the fairytale castle. 
     
     
     
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    Lawnmower Boy reacted to Starlord in Funny Pics II: The Revenge   
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    Lawnmower Boy got a reaction from Hermit in Campaign Startup Ideas   
    Wait. We have to judge the entries now?
     
    ....Open to bribes here. Also, and I'm not saying that I just opened a bag of a nice, artisanal Tennessee coffee here (hand-picked by Joe-Bob Valdez), but I rate Hermit's entry at One Million. And a half.
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    Lawnmower Boy reacted to Pariah in Marvel Cinematic Universe, Phase Three and BEYOOOOONND   
    I read the other day that a second season has already been approved.
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    Lawnmower Boy reacted to death tribble in Campaign Startup Ideas   
    Alright if it is a competition you want
     
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    Lawnmower Boy reacted to Hermit in Campaign Startup Ideas   
    NEO-OTYUGH.
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    Lawnmower Boy reacted to Pattern Ghost in Marvel Cinematic Universe, Phase Three and BEYOOOOONND   
    Quoth Jessica Gao:
     
    "The Jon Byrne comic run was the one that made me fall in love with this character in the first place. What was so great about that run was that it was so fun and light. There was this great levity to it that you weren't used to if you read a lot of superhero comics, because, you know most superhero comics are very action-oriented, very dramatic, a lot of them tend to get heavy. It's a lot of serious men dealing with serious issues. This run of She-Hulk comics was such a breath of fresh air to have this fun, irreverent, female-forward comic about this woman who, even if she was dealing with saving the city or saving the universe, she was doing it with this lightness to her."
     
    And it does seem that it's taken a cue from the Byrne run. It may not have had the best execution, but she's saying she read the comics, and I don't see any reason not to believe her.
     
    I didn't think it was great, but it was OK enough that I'd like to see a second season, but with a little more oversight from someone who understands how to structure a show, and less of an agenda of "well, let's make fun of the guys who don't like female superheroes." It'd be interesting to see something, even from the same crew, with more focus on story and less on sticking it to the haters. Let 'em hate. Make a good show. You can make a good show exploring women's issues without it being a dialog with the most toxic part of your fan base.
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    Lawnmower Boy got a reaction from Trencher in Killiing a lot of zombies from a safe position.   
    Re: Killiing a lot of zombies from a safe position.
     

     
    Here's the problem again. The parameters of zombiedom as we understand them say that this situation is easy to avoid with some forward planning. Zombies re mindless things that, per our actual understanding of human physiology, can't even home on sounds, much less find their way through locked and barricaded doors. If the writer/GM is on the side of the zombies, however, these things change.
     
    But let's back up for a moment: if the narrator is on the side of the zombies, any part of that can change. There is nothing the players/characters can do. There are comic books where Thor becomes a zombie, and movies where dismembered hands crawl up your clothes and choke you to death. If the PCs are in a position proof against anything but a tank, the zombies can show up driving a Sherman tank. If the PCs have a Sherman, the zombies can have a Leopard 2.
     
    This is how stories work to maintain the narrative. It's not how a fair post-apocalyptic zombie RPG ought to work at the point where the PCs embrace the "rebuilding civilisation" stage of things. At that point, the zombies have to stop developing new powers as the story requires and recede into the background as menaces to be overcome. All campaigns have their natural stopping point. If your PCs want to end their last session looking down on a peaceful New Uruk, with the crops in bloom, their best girl at their side, that's what you give them, as opposed to a mounted horde of Mongol-Zombies riding down with fire and sword.
     
    There are two branches to this meditation. The first is the old "crapsack world" problem, where the rules of existence are stacked against the players, and nothing they can do is going to change anything. If your PCs want to play in a crapsack world, by all means make the zombies invincible.
     
    Second, there is the "little red dress" problem. According to this paradigm, the zombies are invincible except against the character in the little red dress --the protagonist. Nothing that supporting characters can do will prevent them from falling to the zombies one-by-one, while the character in the little red dress can kill a mall's worth of zombies with a katana in 90 seconds of hyperkinetic, lovingly-shot bullet-time action. This makes for fun movies, but, as a picture of the world simply enables narcissism.
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    Lawnmower Boy reacted to Cygnia in And now, for your daily dose of cute...   
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    Lawnmower Boy reacted to Starlord in Funny Pics II: The Revenge   
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    Lawnmower Boy reacted to death tribble in Campaign Startup Ideas   
    I'll give it a shot
     
    New European Order- Orthodox Tactical Youths Undergoing Gene Hormones.
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    Lawnmower Boy reacted to assault in Campaign Startup Ideas   
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    Lawnmower Boy got a reaction from Christopher R Taylor in Campaign Startup Ideas   
    Now do NEO-OTYUGH. 
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    Lawnmower Boy reacted to DShomshak in Campaign Startup Ideas   
    This is a lot like an old fill-in campaign of mine, UNICoRN (United Nations International Criminology Resource Network). In my campaign world, some countries had more heroes, or would-be heroes, than they needed; others had a shortage. So when supervillains start causing trouble in, say, Togo, the government asks UNICoRN for help and UNICoRN tries finding volunteer heroes to respond. I encouraged players to make heroes who were low-power and a bit goofy, such as American Ninja (ninja suit is also flag suit!) or Insectomorph (a.k.a. Bug-Eater Man... don't ask). These were not Earth's Mightiest Heroes; they were All We Could Get On Short Notice. Sometimes they fought similarly loopy villains. At the other extreme, some adventures got very dark (sometimes even on purpose). The "headquarters" consisted of a small office in the UN building with a file cabinet, a rolodex, a phone, a secretary and a morose Brazilian bureaucrat in charge of it all.
     
    Alas, I didn't get a chance to run the adventure in which the goofier villains (such as Baroness von Boom and Commander Coleoptera) formed a revenge super-team called CAToBLEPS (Criminal Alliance To Beat Law Enforcement Personnel Soundly).
     
    Dean Shomshak
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    Lawnmower Boy reacted to Starlord in Funny Pics II: The Revenge   
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