austenandrews

Re: Help me write a spell... Half the magic characters I've seen who could blow out a wall still couldn't climb out of a slimy pit. Because they spent all their points on wall-blowing.

Re: Physical might: Strongest characters in comics and other media, and benchmarks Am I mistaken or are all of these characters riffs on Superman of some stripe or other? Kind of funny. For top brick, I'd call it a tossup between Superman and the Hulk.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible?

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? Me-ow!

Re: Steampunk weapon designs Neat. That Nerf gun gets a lot of action, doesn't it?

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? An alternate way to look at it would be, if the Earth was covered by "jungle" what would it look like? What could you do to areas like Antarctica or the Sahara such that you could plausibly call them "jungles?" Solve that and you have a planetwide jungle, though obviously it won't be the same jungle everywhere.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible?

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? I'm sure Lucas didn't put a lot of thought into it because that's not how Star Wars works (and criticizing it by slinging numbers makes about as much sense as criticizing a Bugs Bunny cartoon with physics). But yeah, a planetwide city doesn't mean a planetwide city center. Cities generally have more way low-density than high-density areas and no shortage of zero-density areas.

Re: Star Wars licence news... I haven't intersected with hardcore SW geeks in several years, but I thought the reception of the Clone Wars cartoon was generally positive. Certainly the gaming geek crowds I frequent online generally like it. The "movie" was dumb, but mainly in that it was three TV episodes strung together, and not even particularly good ones for the series. Mind you, I'm sure there's the usual segment of nerd-ragers who hated the CW movie with every fiber of their midichlorians and therefore refuse to accept anything remotely associated with it.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? Sure, but when you're linking to scientific information, a Lego-based webcomic probably isn't the image of credibility you're looking for. If the guy has the calcs written out somewhere, link to those.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? a) If you're going to cite something as realistic, you'd do yourself a favor by picking something other than a cheesy Lego-based comic strip. Show me how he got his numbers. This should be interesting.

Re: Star Wars licence news...

Re: Toons And Tunneling, of course.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible?

Re: Toons

Re: Toons Cool. I remember playing in a Hunter Planet game back in the day. Fun stuff.

Re: Toons Would you have to fail an INT roll? That could be a fun build. I've been kicking around an idea for a Toon Hunter game (toons become real, and turn evil) but I hadn't started puzzling out the numbers yet...

Re: Sound Generator Could Kill Humans at Ten Meters They told us what they wanted was a sound that could kill someone from a distance.

Re: Toons In HERO it is.

Re: Star Wars licence news... Wait, they've covered material that hasn't been produced yet?

Re: Star Wars licence news... I'm not sure I really agree. Granted the market isn't big, but the Clone Wars cartoon is going gangbusters with new, cool material and there's the live-action TV show on the horizon.

Re: Favorite Marvel 'What If?'

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? Exactly. Naturally we can conceive of ways to combat contraband fauna. The question is, would such measures even be worth it? With tens of billions of people coming and going, countless folks will eventually bring their pet rats and cats and birds and bugs and whatever else and some of them will get loose. (And that's discounting illegal transports, which will likely be uncountably numerous.) People are messy and there will be plants to eat and the animals will gain a foothold. At what stage does somebody do the math and figure out that quarantine measures can be reduced without an unacceptable increase in wildlife? What's the price point at which it's no longer worth it to attempt a vermin-free planet? Sure, we can talk about scenarios where custom plagues eradicate everything nonhuman or a giant computer monitors every life form or whatever. Personally I'm talking about a city that acts like a real city, chaotic and organic and messy and bigger than every other city in history combined. I don't see that measure of control working in such an environment.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible?

Re: Solar Systems Like Ours in the Minority "Yyyyeahhhh... about this 'fire' thing. I'm gonna need you to file a TPS report with the Innovation Committee before I can approve that project for the discretionary spending bucket. Some concerns have been raised about potential safety issues, so we'll have to propose an agenda item for next quarter's Workplace Safety Recommendation Taskforce..."