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This isn't so much funny as interesting, I admit. But I thought it was interesting enough to post.

[deadpan] Yay. [/deadpan] Time for the Big Red Belt to disappear for three months at a time 'til one of the Big Four PPVs rolls around. Most of the reviews of Extreme Rules called it one of the best WWE PPVs in recent years, and an overall fantastic show ... until the very end. Maybe the Rollins storyline wasn't that hot (honestly, some of the stuff with Becky was kinda cringy), but it was still better, to me, than putting it on Lesnar. On the upside, I had written the Undertaker off, declared him an empty husk who had no hope of ever putting on a decent match again ... from the looks of things, I'm pleasantly wrong. It just took putting him in a tag match with someone who *can* go a while.

So, Trump has said that social media is more influential than the traditional news media. Am I the only one who interprets that as saying 'manipulating the populace is more effective than using facts?'

I'm pretty sure the answer to this is 'no', but has there been any official updates on the Champions Universe timeline? The one in the Champions Universe 6e book ends in 2009, any official goings-on for the last 10 years?

Or we're not pretending and it doesn't. The more I think about it, the more I really don't understand what you're on about. Not having superhuman characteristics does not mean one character is going to hog the spotlight or make everybody else feel superfluous. To grab numbers out of thin air, compare someone 50 STR as his best offense with someone with a 20d6 EB. The former has superhuman characteristics, the latter does not. And yet, in terms of raw offense, which is more powerful? Please explain what 'concept superiority' means in at least some detail.

I did not. I'm going to assume this is a recent retcon or an MCU invention, because she definitely was not in her original comics incarnation.

According to Trump, Elizabeth Warren is 1000/24ths Native American (or 'Pocahontas', to use his racist words). This makes her 42+ Native Americans. Our 'stable genius' of a president, folks. Doesn't even have a third-grader's knowledge of how fractions work.

Only if the players choose to do so, and mine don't think like that.

It makes sense, for starters. It also fits the comics better. Most superheroes don't have superhuman characteristics, unless that's an aspect of their powers. If you're a well-trained normal, your characteristics should reflect that, IMHO. Black Widow or Hawkeye would not, IMHO, have any superhuman characteristics. Ant-Man would only have them as a side-effect of Growth. Iceman, Cyclops, Human Torch, Invisible Woman, Batman, Green Lantern (human ones, anyway), Green Arrow ... on and on and on, and that's just in general. Most Bricks shouldn't have superhuman DEX. Most blasters and martial artists shouldn't have superhuman STR. This is also going to apply to the villains, as well, if that was a question. Also, 6e seems first edition where it's even possible, due to decoupling figured characteristics. In my first Champs game, 26 DEX was bottom of the initiative order and I've often thought that was absurd. Having a strong character concept doesn't require having a strong character mechanically. Again, looking at the source material, you've got Ant-Man and Thor hanging around together and it works just fine. Not everybody has to be a powerhouse, everyone just has to be able to contribute. And besides, a 60 STR and a 12d6 Blast still do the same damage, the second character's STR attribute is irrelevant. 20 CON and 8PD would suck if that 8 was their entire PD score. There's going to be Combat Luck or Resistant Protection. I've been playing since 1989, I understand the concept of attack/defense ratios. Smaller numbers are also just, in my experience, easier to deal with, and if nothing else, the points not spent on out-of-character attributes get spent other places. All that said, you do raise some tersely-worded valid points, and given me things to thank about, thank you. To the second response, I'm the only person in the group who knows how to put a character together, so all the number-crunching is on me. EDIT: Looking through the Solo villains book, it looks like most villains in there follow the 'no superhuman stats without a reason' principle. Blowtorch, NCM. Alchemica, NCM. Ambush, Buzzsaw, Capt. Chronos, Doubledealer ...

Two things I'm pondering for the new game that I fear might generate unforeseen issues, one mechanically, one more narrative. 1. What I've heard called 'Normal Characteristic Maxima' Champions; the characters don't get beyond-NCM characteristics without a justification. The main thing I think of is that lower-than-typical CONs mean more Stuns thrown about. Anything else anybody can think of? 2. I wanted to mimic an episode from the Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon and have the Champions 'killed' (no bodies, of course), and the PCs are recruited as the New Champions. The problem is, I have only three players, and it seems like one would be replaced with at least close to the same number of heroes. I was pondering the idea of each player having two characters. Not at the same time, though, but choose whichever one they wanted to use on a 'mission-to-mission' basis, but that seems pretty cumbersome. Any thoughts on that potential issue?

As if we needed more proof, but it's blindingly obvious that 'Fake News' is Trumpspeak for 'didn't kiss my ass', as he's suddenly turned on Fox News for criticizing him.

And that systemic, institutionalized racism is still taking place today.

Remember, during his campaign, he said he was going to abolish the Supreme Court? That was another one of those moments where I couldn't believe that wasn't the end of it. In any sane country, demonstrating knowledge that poor of civics and the concept of checks and balances would have been shooting yourself in the foot. Here in Rednekistan, it was a fekting selling point.

Some has to say it. BLAME CANADA! BLAME CANADA!

Gotta love the fact that Evangelicals want Trump around when he broke one of their god's Top 10 No-Nos (Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery). Someone also needs to tell these people that our First Amendment trumps (ha ha) their First Commandment.

Yet.

So, now the inevitable things in life are death, taxes, and Trump acting like a petulant fifth-grader?

According to Trumpty-Dumpty's speech yesterday, our history books have been incomplete. The line should be 'One if by land, two if by sea, three if by air', since he said the US forces took over the airports during the Revolutionary War.

Trump reminds me more and more of Emperor Kuzco from The Emperor's New Groove every day. "It's all about ME!"

My first thought was actually 'f**kwit' ...

I hate to say it, but I really can't think of what the answer ... er, question ... to this one might be.

I thought he already was defective.

Trump's up to his usual tricks, those tricks being 'easily disproven lies', claiming that Obama 'begged' North Korea for a meeting and they refused. Former National Security advisor Susan Rice flat out called this claim 'horses**t', a statement Former deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes, national intelligence director James Clapper, and Gen. Michael Hayden, CIA director under W and for the first few weeks of the Obama administration, all backed Rice's statement. For as much as people complain and joke about politicians lying ('His lips are moving!'), Trump gets off scot-free about it. I'm sensing an odd non-logic here ... "We voted for Trump because he's not a politician, and politicians lie, so Trump must not be lying because he's not a politician'. Never mind that I can guaran-goddamn-tee you that while a big-businessman isn't an elected official, they damn well play politics.