csyphrett

he does embody the seven sins so i guess that's something
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he does embody the seven sins so i guess that's something
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Thanks, Dan. I have been interested in this movie and watched the trailers and the easter egg things. The fact they brought back the Iron Giant is like whoa.
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The stacks being blown up in the trailer is the overt beginning of that.

Oh yeah...that was a major part of it.  It's been a while, but from what I recall, the latter...half?...quarter?...of the book was mixed between real-world and the Oasis.

There was a TIger Man from Atlas Comics.
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Commissioner Gordon was helping to fight an alien invasion by decoding messages on food in a supermarket. I woke up as he was grilling cheese to read it.
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Heard on the radio
Woman learns that her husband is taking their house in a divorce settlement. Decides to burn it down. Winds up with fourteen charges of arson since she burned down nearby houses too.
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Watched Jumanji 2
 
It was really good. I also liked the solution to the game at the end
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Kubo's Village
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Cupid, Draw back your bow and let your arrow go straight through my lover's heart for me
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Who will do a March draft? I am assuming that the rest of February will be tied up with voting for me for the Vhan draft.
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Catching Up.
Option #2: 
Rounding out the Zoo Crew, Rova Barkitt aka Yankee Poodle
 

 
 
Team rounded out we can now deal with the events!
 
Card: 

 
 
And Captain Carrot's distraction regarding Wonder Wabbit seems to doom the Earth. Distracted, he is whooped by Thunderbunny and captured.
Missing their most powerful guardian, the Zoo Crew's ability to protect Earth C is rapidly disintegrating.
 
 
But when all things look dark. There is a light in the fog.  And when evil is on top it's time to root for....
 
The Under Dog
 

 
Final Option Pick. 
 

Metroville
Colonel Braxton Bragg looked over his post from the height granted by the shoulder
of the Enforcer robot he used as his command vehicle. His men moved with purpose.
Vehicles and armor were positioned to shoot at the target in the center of the ring of
steel he had thrown up.
 
No one fired. Everyone was ready to fight, but Bragg had ordered a siege after the 
first attack had ended in destruction for most of his armor and a warning had been
issued in the air by a glowing symbol in the sky.
 
None of the buildings in the new city had been touched by the fighting as far as he
could tell.
 
He didn’t know what the response would have been if his men had hit one of the
buildings with their energy weapons and missiles. He had a feeling he didn’t want to
find out.
 
He contemplated the city and thought about the orders that had brought him here.
A city had appeared in the middle of nowhere. Nothing uncommon about that. Whole
peoples had been transplanted to the Earth from the various Ley storms that roared
along opening gates to anywhere. Things had settled down, but monsters and
inhuman creatures still showed up that needed to be stamped out.
 
The city, Metroville, had landed close to the Coalition held territories. Chi-Town had
ordered Bragg’s division to take it over, clamp down on any civilian population, kill
anything not human enough, burn anything that wasn’t useful to their science
division.
 
The initial assault seemed easy enough to do. A wall surrounded the towers, but there
was an absence of weapons pointing away from the city. The plan was a flyover with
Samas and bombers to soften the target while giant bots like his Enforcer and mobile
artillery pieces punched holes in the walls for ground forces to swarm in and take the
city block by block.
 
Anti-magic forces were to be moved in as quick as possible to shut down a magic
response to the invasion.
 
Everything went wrong as soon as the first Samas pilot fired his railgun at a target
over the wall.
 
A wall made of the same repeating symbol of a cross with a loop at the top leaped
into existence to protect the city. The railgun bullet was stopped cold by the field.
Bragg ordered his armor to attack. The combined firepower should have punched a
hole through the wall at ground level with his psychics trying to suppress the magic
with their minds.
 
Something resembling a pink blur came out of the city and his vehicles turned into
debris as he watched. His own Enforcer had an arm ripped off and used to trip the
giant robot.
 
“WE DON’T WANT TO FIGHT, BUT WE WILL DESTROY ANY FORCE THAT
ATTACKS THE CITY,” said a voice in the air. “THIS IS THE ONLY WARNING
YOU WILL GET.”
 
After that, Bragg pulled back to ring the city with replacements for his division. He
had requested more troops to fill out the living wall he was constructing. Engineers
had been flown in to design a barricade to keep the city residents from leaving, and
any forces inimical to the Coalition outpost out.
 
Samas flew day and night to keep flying machines from the city so it couldn’t get
supplies flown over the wall.
 
The problem was the city was built on a nexus point and the occasional storm
attracted monsters to the area. His psychics and dog boys were kept busy running
down predators while the regiment kept an eye on the city.
 
The first time a giant monster appeared, Bragg had readied to fight. Another giant
from inside the city killed it and took it into the sky after a fierce battle. The colonel
had been glad to stand down, but requested more armor in case another one showed
up.
 
The situation had stabilized for the last few months. People were getting into the city,
trading and leaving, and slipping away through the lines. Some settled down inside.
He had managed to get in two spies who sent reports on what was going on. They
painted a picture of a populace ready to fight for what they had, but growing their
own food and helping their neighbors. Troublemakers and predators who slipped
inside the city were hunted down and dealt with ruthlessly. A dragon terrorizing some
of the local ranchers was found with a hole where the front of its skull should be.
 
Bragg wondered what they had that could kill a dragon with one punch. That would
be great for the Coalition if it was a weapon they could take from the city.
 
The Battle of Metroville started with Bragg ruminating on what had gone on before
and what he could do to carry out his orders. His superiors had read and seen
everything he had sent. They still wanted him to crush this city somehow, and kill its
leaders.
 
They had the luxury of living in Chi-Town, and didn’t care how many of his men they
wanted him to sacrifice.
 
He heard Dog Boys howling and looked around. What was going on?
 
“This is Metro One to Pack One,” he said into his helmet radio. “What’s going on?”
 
“The packs are picking up a heavy influx of magic energy coming down the pike,”
said Pack One, a psi-stalker named Kolchak. “Pack leaders and Auxiliaries are
reporting danger signals.”
 
Bragg heard a bell ringing over the camp. He knew that sound. He had heard it when
the giant had appeared to attack the city.
 
Metroville was going into emergency mode.
 
“This is Metro One to all units,” said Bragg. “Mount up. Launch air elements. Get
ready to repel the enemy. I repeat get ready to engage.”
 
Everywhere he looked men rushed to get to their machines so they could fight. Crews
not on rotation grabbed armor and weapons to suit up and defend themselves. One of
his psychics caught fire to power up.
 
“Message from Geddis,” reported Sgt. Harridan. “Should I read it in the clear?”
 
“Go ahead, Sergeant.” Bragg climbed into his machine, hitting switches to power it
up.
 
“ALARM SOUNDED. STOP. CIVILIANS URGED TO SHELTER. STOP.
BATTLESTATIONS. STOP. DIMENSIONAL FORCE INVADING. STOP.”
Harridan made a sound at the end. “Dimensional force invading?”
 
“And it’s big enough to worry Metroville,” said Bragg. “All units brace for attack.
Kill anything that comes through a rift.”
 
Lightning played in the air. Holes opened above the encampment. Holes opened at
ground level. Then soldiers appeared. Everyone paused because the two armies hadn’t
expected to meet each other.
 
Bragg was quicker off the mark than his counterpart on the other side.
 
“Fire!,” he ordered through the net. He triggered the miniature missile system in the
torso of his robot. Ground troops flew from the impact. Energy weapons burned the
air as the armies exchanged fire.
 
“Star Fox is go,” sounded over the net. A squadron of four jet fighters joined the CS
elements in the air. Enemy fighters and troop ships blew apart under weapons fire.
“We’re clearing the air. Coalition elements look for stragglers.”
 
A pink stripe joined the fighters. The invaders suffered equipment losses as their
aircraft came apart under the flying thing’s touch.
 
“Metro One,” said Harridan over the net. “A giant monster is coming through the
biggest rift. Forward elements are sending reports. They are engaging, trying to keep
it on the other side of the rift.”
 
“Fox One,” said the lead pilot for Star Fox. “Commencing giant bombing run.”
 
Bragg used his rail gun on a low flying transport. It flew overhead as enemy fire from
ground forces chewed on his robot’s legs. He dropped a rocket on that patch of the
enemy with a satisfying thump.
 
His troops were surrounded with most of the armor pointing the wrong way. At least
the robots were able to turn around to support the ground troops. Air cover was
engaged with the enemy. Whomever cleared the sky first had the advantage.
 
Star Fox’s planes cleared a firing lane for their leader as he shot three spherical
torpedoes into the biggest rift. The overriding flashes blinded anyone without eye
protection.
 
“This is Metro One,” said Bragg. “Clear enemy forces as fast as you can.”
 
“We have negative impact here,” said Fox One. He pulled away from the rift instead
of flying through to the other side. “I repeat the target is still coming.”
 
“All CS elements, concentrate fire into the rift,” ordered Bragg. “Do not let that thing
through.”
 
He punched an enemy troop cart while firing all of the missiles in his shoulder
launchers. He didn’t worry if they were on target. Any damage done to the other side
of the rift was good.
 
Metroville stood inside the ring on two legs made of conglomerated buildings. It
flexed arms, as fists formed. A humanoid face rose from the chest of the thing.
The silver and red giant appeared beside the robotic city. Glowing eyes regarded
the rift as he fell into a fighting stance.
 
A giant thing three hundred feet tall came through the rift, pulling itself with its front
legs. The face resembled a bat’s. Its skin was gray and leprous looking. Something
fell off of it and attacked some of the nearby Coalition troops until they put it down
with laser fire.
 
Metroville opened fire with hundreds of kinetic and energy weapons on the giant
beast as it rushed toward the transformed city. The giant tried to get in the way, but
he was brushed aside. He had to leap so he didn’t fall on top of the forces still
fighting on the ground.
 
Bragg slumped in his control chair. How did they fight something like that. It ignored
their firepower easily. He didn’t see any way to stop it from killing all of his forces
unless he called for a withdrawal.
 
Some of his men were still fighting. He idly watched lasers and missiles being poured
into the thing. He couldn’t give up. There had to be a way to kill that thing.
 
A bald man appeared on the shoulder of the city robot. His cape whipped in the wind.
He leaped at the monster, swinging his fist at the creature’s head. The monster flipped
over and lay dead after it hit the ground.
 
Bragg let out a cheer. The tide had been turned instantly. He ordered a search for
survivors as the rifts closed on the invaders’ home. Technically he had helped the
enemy, but he was sure his report would not reflect that at all.
 

Metroville
Colonel Braxton Bragg looked over his post from the height granted by the shoulder
of the Enforcer robot he used as his command vehicle. His men moved with purpose.
Vehicles and armor were positioned to shoot at the target in the center of the ring of
steel he had thrown up.
 
No one fired. Everyone was ready to fight, but Bragg had ordered a siege after the 
first attack had ended in destruction for most of his armor and a warning had been
issued in the air by a glowing symbol in the sky.
 
None of the buildings in the new city had been touched by the fighting as far as he
could tell.
 
He didn’t know what the response would have been if his men had hit one of the
buildings with their energy weapons and missiles. He had a feeling he didn’t want to
find out.
 
He contemplated the city and thought about the orders that had brought him here.
A city had appeared in the middle of nowhere. Nothing uncommon about that. Whole
peoples had been transplanted to the Earth from the various Ley storms that roared
along opening gates to anywhere. Things had settled down, but monsters and
inhuman creatures still showed up that needed to be stamped out.
 
The city, Metroville, had landed close to the Coalition held territories. Chi-Town had
ordered Bragg’s division to take it over, clamp down on any civilian population, kill
anything not human enough, burn anything that wasn’t useful to their science
division.
 
The initial assault seemed easy enough to do. A wall surrounded the towers, but there
was an absence of weapons pointing away from the city. The plan was a flyover with
Samas and bombers to soften the target while giant bots like his Enforcer and mobile
artillery pieces punched holes in the walls for ground forces to swarm in and take the
city block by block.
 
Anti-magic forces were to be moved in as quick as possible to shut down a magic
response to the invasion.
 
Everything went wrong as soon as the first Samas pilot fired his railgun at a target
over the wall.
 
A wall made of the same repeating symbol of a cross with a loop at the top leaped
into existence to protect the city. The railgun bullet was stopped cold by the field.
Bragg ordered his armor to attack. The combined firepower should have punched a
hole through the wall at ground level with his psychics trying to suppress the magic
with their minds.
 
Something resembling a pink blur came out of the city and his vehicles turned into
debris as he watched. His own Enforcer had an arm ripped off and used to trip the
giant robot.
 
“WE DON’T WANT TO FIGHT, BUT WE WILL DESTROY ANY FORCE THAT
ATTACKS THE CITY,” said a voice in the air. “THIS IS THE ONLY WARNING
YOU WILL GET.”
 
After that, Bragg pulled back to ring the city with replacements for his division. He
had requested more troops to fill out the living wall he was constructing. Engineers
had been flown in to design a barricade to keep the city residents from leaving, and
any forces inimical to the Coalition outpost out.
 
Samas flew day and night to keep flying machines from the city so it couldn’t get
supplies flown over the wall.
 
The problem was the city was built on a nexus point and the occasional storm
attracted monsters to the area. His psychics and dog boys were kept busy running
down predators while the regiment kept an eye on the city.
 
The first time a giant monster appeared, Bragg had readied to fight. Another giant
from inside the city killed it and took it into the sky after a fierce battle. The colonel
had been glad to stand down, but requested more armor in case another one showed
up.
 
The situation had stabilized for the last few months. People were getting into the city,
trading and leaving, and slipping away through the lines. Some settled down inside.
He had managed to get in two spies who sent reports on what was going on. They
painted a picture of a populace ready to fight for what they had, but growing their
own food and helping their neighbors. Troublemakers and predators who slipped
inside the city were hunted down and dealt with ruthlessly. A dragon terrorizing some
of the local ranchers was found with a hole where the front of its skull should be.
 
Bragg wondered what they had that could kill a dragon with one punch. That would
be great for the Coalition if it was a weapon they could take from the city.
 
The Battle of Metroville started with Bragg ruminating on what had gone on before
and what he could do to carry out his orders. His superiors had read and seen
everything he had sent. They still wanted him to crush this city somehow, and kill its
leaders.
 
They had the luxury of living in Chi-Town, and didn’t care how many of his men they
wanted him to sacrifice.
 
He heard Dog Boys howling and looked around. What was going on?
 
“This is Metro One to Pack One,” he said into his helmet radio. “What’s going on?”
 
“The packs are picking up a heavy influx of magic energy coming down the pike,”
said Pack One, a psi-stalker named Kolchak. “Pack leaders and Auxiliaries are
reporting danger signals.”
 
Bragg heard a bell ringing over the camp. He knew that sound. He had heard it when
the giant had appeared to attack the city.
 
Metroville was going into emergency mode.
 
“This is Metro One to all units,” said Bragg. “Mount up. Launch air elements. Get
ready to repel the enemy. I repeat get ready to engage.”
 
Everywhere he looked men rushed to get to their machines so they could fight. Crews
not on rotation grabbed armor and weapons to suit up and defend themselves. One of
his psychics caught fire to power up.
 
“Message from Geddis,” reported Sgt. Harridan. “Should I read it in the clear?”
 
“Go ahead, Sergeant.” Bragg climbed into his machine, hitting switches to power it
up.
 
“ALARM SOUNDED. STOP. CIVILIANS URGED TO SHELTER. STOP.
BATTLESTATIONS. STOP. DIMENSIONAL FORCE INVADING. STOP.”
Harridan made a sound at the end. “Dimensional force invading?”
 
“And it’s big enough to worry Metroville,” said Bragg. “All units brace for attack.
Kill anything that comes through a rift.”
 
Lightning played in the air. Holes opened above the encampment. Holes opened at
ground level. Then soldiers appeared. Everyone paused because the two armies hadn’t
expected to meet each other.
 
Bragg was quicker off the mark than his counterpart on the other side.
 
“Fire!,” he ordered through the net. He triggered the miniature missile system in the
torso of his robot. Ground troops flew from the impact. Energy weapons burned the
air as the armies exchanged fire.
 
“Star Fox is go,” sounded over the net. A squadron of four jet fighters joined the CS
elements in the air. Enemy fighters and troop ships blew apart under weapons fire.
“We’re clearing the air. Coalition elements look for stragglers.”
 
A pink stripe joined the fighters. The invaders suffered equipment losses as their
aircraft came apart under the flying thing’s touch.
 
“Metro One,” said Harridan over the net. “A giant monster is coming through the
biggest rift. Forward elements are sending reports. They are engaging, trying to keep
it on the other side of the rift.”
 
“Fox One,” said the lead pilot for Star Fox. “Commencing giant bombing run.”
 
Bragg used his rail gun on a low flying transport. It flew overhead as enemy fire from
ground forces chewed on his robot’s legs. He dropped a rocket on that patch of the
enemy with a satisfying thump.
 
His troops were surrounded with most of the armor pointing the wrong way. At least
the robots were able to turn around to support the ground troops. Air cover was
engaged with the enemy. Whomever cleared the sky first had the advantage.
 
Star Fox’s planes cleared a firing lane for their leader as he shot three spherical
torpedoes into the biggest rift. The overriding flashes blinded anyone without eye
protection.
 
“This is Metro One,” said Bragg. “Clear enemy forces as fast as you can.”
 
“We have negative impact here,” said Fox One. He pulled away from the rift instead
of flying through to the other side. “I repeat the target is still coming.”
 
“All CS elements, concentrate fire into the rift,” ordered Bragg. “Do not let that thing
through.”
 
He punched an enemy troop cart while firing all of the missiles in his shoulder
launchers. He didn’t worry if they were on target. Any damage done to the other side
of the rift was good.
 
Metroville stood inside the ring on two legs made of conglomerated buildings. It
flexed arms, as fists formed. A humanoid face rose from the chest of the thing.
The silver and red giant appeared beside the robotic city. Glowing eyes regarded
the rift as he fell into a fighting stance.
 
A giant thing three hundred feet tall came through the rift, pulling itself with its front
legs. The face resembled a bat’s. Its skin was gray and leprous looking. Something
fell off of it and attacked some of the nearby Coalition troops until they put it down
with laser fire.
 
Metroville opened fire with hundreds of kinetic and energy weapons on the giant
beast as it rushed toward the transformed city. The giant tried to get in the way, but
he was brushed aside. He had to leap so he didn’t fall on top of the forces still
fighting on the ground.
 
Bragg slumped in his control chair. How did they fight something like that. It ignored
their firepower easily. He didn’t see any way to stop it from killing all of his forces
unless he called for a withdrawal.
 
Some of his men were still fighting. He idly watched lasers and missiles being poured
into the thing. He couldn’t give up. There had to be a way to kill that thing.
 
A bald man appeared on the shoulder of the city robot. His cape whipped in the wind.
He leaped at the monster, swinging his fist at the creature’s head. The monster flipped
over and lay dead after it hit the ground.
 
Bragg let out a cheer. The tide had been turned instantly. He ordered a search for
survivors as the rifts closed on the invaders’ home. Technically he had helped the
enemy, but he was sure his report would not reflect that at all.
 

I have seen reruns on Kids Click after Tombstone Territory.
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A shutdown didn't have to happen, but the Republicans don't want to make deals. It doesn't matter what they say, they're running things. They wanted to run their tax plan more than they wanted to fund the rest of the government. If they hadn't done that, they could have rammed a budget through first with reconciliation and then had to deal with their tax plan being delayed especially since the tax plan was so bad even people who benefited said what are you doing?
 
The only people who benefited were people who didn't need tax cuts but said they would quit donating if they didn't get them.
 
Trump's revolving mind and tiny twitter fingers aren't helping. The belief is Miller and Kelly are fighting against immigration reform which means they are counseling him to be a dumbass and he's like sure, I can do that.
 
The question is how many more people in the White House, or connected to Trump going to be indicted. His campaign manager, Manafort, and Manafort's partner are gearing up to fight charges of money laundering, Flynn signed a deal in the summer, and Bannon, McGahn, and Pubus all share the same lawyer and have been asked to explain things.
 
If Melania exercises her prenup over the payoff to the porn star Trump did, we might even see a divorce happen before Trump leaves office.     

My second protagonist is One punch man.
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A shutdown didn't have to happen, but the Republicans don't want to make deals. It doesn't matter what they say, they're running things. They wanted to run their tax plan more than they wanted to fund the rest of the government. If they hadn't done that, they could have rammed a budget through first with reconciliation and then had to deal with their tax plan being delayed especially since the tax plan was so bad even people who benefited said what are you doing?
 
The only people who benefited were people who didn't need tax cuts but said they would quit donating if they didn't get them.
 
Trump's revolving mind and tiny twitter fingers aren't helping. The belief is Miller and Kelly are fighting against immigration reform which means they are counseling him to be a dumbass and he's like sure, I can do that.
 
The question is how many more people in the White House, or connected to Trump going to be indicted. His campaign manager, Manafort, and Manafort's partner are gearing up to fight charges of money laundering, Flynn signed a deal in the summer, and Bannon, McGahn, and Pubus all share the same lawyer and have been asked to explain things.
 
If Melania exercises her prenup over the payoff to the porn star Trump did, we might even see a divorce happen before Trump leaves office.     

I can not blame the Democrats to use that little bit of Power they have to get the Dreamer thing sorted out.
 
They want something solved that the Republicans could hae solved anytime in the last year.

The Rose Dragon is the team's biggest asset. This pink beast leaves a path of destruction despite only being the size of a chihuahua.
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I would like to pick RIFTS Earth for my location, and Rasputin from Hellboy as my general.
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Aldo Blaney is Chromatic. He has seven powers that correspond to seven colors. Additionally his skin is metallic so he is tough in a fight without any additional power.
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Watched Coco. Thought it was pretty good. Listening to the soundtrack now.
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I saw Shetland on PBS with an antenna. Luther and Dr Blake are also on. They ran Death in Paradise too but it's off the air.  Luther is pretty gritty and deals with psychological problemed villains, and a troubled hero. Dr. Blake is an Australian medical doctor in the fifties helping the local police solve crimes. Death in Paradise are fair play mysteries but the first two head inspectors were quirky as Columbo, the third guy isn't as quirky as his predecessors, but he's just as smart.
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