BoloOfEarth

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team!

Has anyone done an updated list of all the charaters on the list and the hero list yet?

Eep! Six months! I didn't realize it's been that long. I'm in the process of updating my list, but I have about 25 pages to enter. Yikes!

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

NT: Other implausible world-conquering hordes.

Cancer's students. Seriously, how're you gonna conquer the world if the best grade you can get is a Q+?

Re: A Thread for Random Videos

Whereas, for teen angst, my generation had...

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team!

I'd better do this before Lucius does!

Dromedan, the team brick, is a hunchback mostly covered in fine tan-colored hair. He feels considerable lower back discomfort standing erect, so he usually moves on hands and feet, where he resembles a camel (hence his name). He's not the strongest or the toughest one around, but he's strong enough and tough enough to handle most foes, and he certainly has considerable staying power.

In the Days of Destruction, he represents Wednesday (aka Hump Day).

Re: "Neat" Pictures

Not enough mirrors on the scooter.

 

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"I'm sorry, officer, I didn't see him. He must have been in my blind spot."

Re: "Neat" Pictures

I dunno. Could be a Republican presidential candidate.

Jumping the shark... yeah, I could see that.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

NT: Times when suddenly encountering a polar bear would be really' date=' really inconvenient.[/quote']

 

In a gun store. "They said everybody has the right to bear arms, so I'm gonna arm this here bear!"

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team!

The female mentalist known as Daymare can tap into targets' minds to put them into a daydream-like state that gets progressively more dangerous the longer they remain inside it. After a while, the target can suffer lethal damage from the illusory attacks. Strangely, Daymare's powers seem rather muted at night -- at best, she can create normal nightmares that are frightening but decidedly non-lethal.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

New Topic: More fun things to do with duct tape!

Use it to tape up all the ducks you can find, explaining that nobody pronounces the "t" in "duct."

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

NT: Really bad ways to celebrate Easter

Go to the local Easter Egg hunt and replace their eggs with dyed and decorated uncooked eggs.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

NT: The real reason John Carter was marketed so badly.

Their target group was Martians.

NT: Really, REALLY bad ideas for celebrating St. Patrick's Day.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

The University of Aruba Syphilitic Conquistadors. (They wanted a name that would inspire fear in the locals.) The University of Aruba - Where knowledge is king and clothing is optional!

 

New Topic: Unforeseen consequences of Eurostar fighting VIPER in your home town.

(Using Detroit as my childhood home town, though I grew up in the suburbs) Both sides get mugged and all of their foci get stolen.

(Using Dexter as my curren home town) The little old ladies from church harangue Fiacho and the VIPER Nest Leader, getting them to not only stop fighting but to also volunteer to work at the Easter Breakfast.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

NT: Things that are so bad, Cancer would rather grade lab reports than do them.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

Slam his fingers in a door -- again and again and again and again!

"...then spend, One More Minute, with you..."

NT: Things Cancer would rather do than grade lab reports. Hint: It's a really low hurdle.

Argue politics, religion, gun control, and dropping COM and Figured Characteristics on the NGD boards. Simultaneously.

Re: Can be used as...

What precedent are you referring to exactly?

The ability to trade one form of movement for another which is never simultaneous?

I think he's referring to the advantage you can add to Flight allowing it to work as Swimming.

Re: "Neat" Pictures

Pop Quiz Time!

 

Who is this?

 

Rue McClanahan

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster

Distress calls are always simple' date=' easy to memorize, easy to repeat, easy to recognize. Because there are few things worse than saying "I need assistance" and having the answer come back "What did you say?"[/quote']

 

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster

You mean it doesn't stand for "Attend Church / Deify Christ"? I thought if you play AC/DC songs backward, you hear Psalms...

Oh, wait, that was Deathtöngue. Sorry, my bad.

Re: "Neat" Pictures

I love how FDR's mech includes his wheelchair.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster

Repped, of course.

This should be cross-posted in the Snooki is Breeding thread.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

Centipedemobile rides for everyone!

 

New Topic: Musicians that would also be great superheroes (and why).

Katy Perry. As to why? Magic Cleavage Window.

New Topic: Really bad casting ideas for the actors (and their roles) in a Justice League movie.

Re: One shot convention adventure ideas

Dave Mattingly has run some excellent combat-oriented convention games -- Champions BYOB (Bring Your Own Brick) and Monumental Battles are the two that spring easily to mind. Since you're talking more for newbies, BYOB would be out, but something along the line of Monumental Battles could probably work. (Caveat: although I've played in BYOB and seen Dave's writeups for the various Monuments battling, I've yet to play a game of MB.)

Last year at GenCon, Mike Surbrook ran an excellent Left 4 Dead Hero game. Not Champions, but it seemed to run fairly easily and was a lot of fun.

Lots of other fun one-shot games I've participated in, most with fairly complex plots that may or may not fit what you're looking for. Unfortunately, I've yet to get up the guts to actually run a convention game, so my advice here is fairly limited.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster

Well' date=' no. But that boy took some solid hits, picked up a magic sword, and handed the bad guys a whoopin'[/quote']

 

Yep. My eldest has a t-shirt that reads: "Neville would have done it in four books."

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster

Not at all sure. We speculated but never really heard. And he picked up the charade a few years ago again at a comic book forums. Fred seems to have some issues.

Issues? More like subscriptions.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster

Okay. I came to the boards after all the "Rachel and Kara" stuff' date=' but can anyone explain it to me?[/quote']

 

Short version: A guy named Fred Bittick pretended to be two hot lesbian gamer chicks over quite a long time, using pics from a pr0n site for themselves and "befriending" numerous people on these boards. When Fred's deception was finally uncovered, there were a lot of bad feelings.

 

Here's the thread where the deception was first explained, around page 2 or so.