unclevlad

The only "conceptual" crowd funding effort I've backed was for Champions Now. IIRC, that ran long. Otherwise, it's been product-based...generally watches, one of my other hobbies. Even here: different projects have seemed to be at different levels of development when the campaign kicked off. Some have worked great; some, not so much. Sometimes I think it was inadequate development...one guy had a very interesting idea, but his first attempt at the special, central, unusual element *bombed* and he had to go back and get that redone. Then there were some serious logistical breakdowns, that likely were based on inexperience. Got the watch, but IIRC, about 15 months late. And lousy communication. The backers were not happy campers. Another one got metaphorically bitten by the snake in the box. Standard movement, that was fine...but he'd promised to make a small, standard enough tweak. The problem is...it required a part, that could only be obtained from someone OTHER than the movement supplier. (Don't ask. It's complicated.) They said no. SO he had to scramble to find enough of those parts...which took 3-4 months. I always felt the guy behind the campaign probably felt hosed, but there could've also been other issues. Either way...that brand has never released another watch. Oh wow, that's one I forgot...the Remix Mini. First KS I ever backed. It was supposed to be a micro-PC running Android. Got a refund on that one. And, yeah....the amount of front-end work on a product KS is insane. On a creative one, it might look to be more back-end but I'd bet that's a trap, big time, as CRT suggests. There's ALWAYS more work to be done to nail a creative project than you see at first glance.

It is said, go not to the Hasbros for answers, for they will say yes and no....

Is this practical? Yes, it might've worked with the later-stage MCU, but that level of success is HARD to achieve. That level of movie also comes along only a couple times a year. And, if the books have to be subsidized, they're eating up the HARD to obtain movie profits. Movies are an extremely expensive gamble to begin with...so suggesting they'd have to subsidize a possible secondary revenue stream seems like the accounting side is just going to *cringe.* And so will the stock market, if the profits aren't up to snuff. Secondary concern: this feels like a long-term strategy...years, even decades to pay off. THAT doesn't work; these days you've 1 or 2 quarters. I'd also say that DC *can't* try this...their debt load is simply too high. They need to funnel a major portion of their revenue streams into debt service; subsidizing is just not practical.

LW's point got me thinking... If you want to do this, how about penalty skill levels with improvised weapons? I'd be fine saying they're 1 point for HTH or Ranged, separately, 2 point levels for both. These would be penalties based on the improv weapon's deficiencies.

The upside? From the story: Specifically, the guy with the obscene and misogynistic sign...who we presume is there with his kid. Like the guy said...feel bad for the kid.

Going into the bottom of the 8th, the Dodgers are up 12-4 on the Brewers, in Dodger Stadium. Not surprisingly, then, the Brewers use a position player for the bottom of the 8th, and the Dodgers use one for the top of the 9th. That's the 90th and 91st time a position player's been used this year...setting a new record. With a) nearly 1/4 of the season left to go, and b) when the games just playing out the string...both teams eliminated or hopeless, and c) the September call-ups are MUCH more limited again this year, so you won't have the massive cadre of young pitchers you want to take a look at

Thanks. Interesting. It got introduced, it got sent to committee.......and that's the last anyone's heard of it. Both Houses, BTW. While it's possible something will happen, there isn't much time left. They don't reconvene until after Labor Day. https://ballotpedia.org/117th_Congress_legislative_calendar Scroll down a bit for the week-to-week calendar.

You may remember that when Kobe Bryant's chopper crashed, there was a massive uproar because officers on-scene were allowed to take photos of the bodies...and then shared them around. Both were violations of department policy. His widow sued. Today, she was awarded $14M for the emotional distress involved.

End of a cool story. https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/shaquem-griffin-nfl-football-retirement

For a non-brick for HTH, that's largely true, but there's the occasional oddball...full sheet of 1" plywood, for example. For a brick, you get cars. And for ranged, by and large, everything becomes mostly just a brick...with all sorts of variations. Unbalanced and not aerodynamic are more likely to matter...throwing a half-full champagne bottle accurately would seem to be tricky.... Or a cleaver. Or, of course, in honor of Ed Ames...a tomahawk....

Mmm...can't seem to find what you're talking about. There's a bill related to leaking information, but that isn't limited to the Justices per se, and it's rather more specific than general "stupid things." AOC is trying to push for the impeachment of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh for perceived lies during confirmation...but that's AOC, who's about as partisan as it gets, and still doesn't seem to fit....

I won't argue the facts; I'd argue the interpretation, but that discussion will risk getting this board closed.

https://www.mlb.com/news/oneil-cruz-hardest-hit-ball-tracked-by-statcast-by-highest-exit-velocity a) a 6'7" SHORTSTOP? b) exit velo of 122 !!!!!!!! He thought he'd hit it out but it hit just below the top of the Clemente wall, which is 21' high. Usually, not running hard because you make that assumption...is bad. But when you crush one like that...yeahhh, ok. 122....bloody insane.

IMO it's a better model. That said, it's a lot slower at the table. RAW makes it...mostly pretty simple and quick. And the Wall Body chart is *really* shaky, IMO. 1 meter of stone has 11, 2 meters has 13? Feels like this is for cracking that much, but it doesn't make sense in terms of BODY to be removed.

Oh, we get it I think, but a) it's not worth 3 points. Improvised weapons are a desperation move, particularly in Hero, because of their *massive* limitations in most cases. Or they're patently obvious...like a brick using a car. b) if anything it's not DEX, it's INT. Grabbing an item is trivial. Being aware enough to recognize something can be used...and HOW to use it...is INT. And even then, it's not worth spending 3 points, IMO. Player: "I wanna find something I can throw at him, to knock that wand out of his hand." GM: "So not too big, decently balanced to throw. You look around...make an INT roll." (possibly PER instead) And if he makes the roll, he'll find something. Makes it by a bunch, it' fits VERY well...no negative modifiers. Is this really something you expect to be used so much, that a skill is necessary?

Sorry, I stopped reading when the writer spewed "DC Comics has been in dire straits due to its SJW and woke agenda"...

Anything we hear from a conspiracy podcast is worth the flick of the lighter needed to burn the paper the script is on...but when we get to the management failures, that's got a lot more concrete backing. I've never thought the problem was money...rather, the consistent misallocation. The Angels have the 10th highest payroll at $170M...but a lot of it is in some terrible contracts. Justin Upton was likely overpaid when he was signed, and his contributions fell off a cliff for the last 3 years. That's $27M they're eating this year. Pujols' contract was at least 5 years too long. Anthony Rendon had great numbers in 2019, but also had missed a fair amount of time. One can argue this is bad luck to a degree, cuz he's missed SO much time the last 2 years, but it's also a big risk of buying mega-pricey free agents. They're still paying $13M to Syndergaard. I'm not sure Moreno is the problem per se....rather, the people he's installed. EDIT: Over on MLB.com, there's an article about what might be the hot stories in the offseason. Part of the comments: according to MLB Pipeline, the Angels have the worst farm system in baseball. https://www.mlb.com/news/farm-system-rankings-2022-midseason?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage And this is AFTER San Diego raided theirs so heavily for their deals. It's also telling that their ranks have been going down...21, 25, 24, 28 (2020 midseason, 21 pre and mid, 22 pre), and now 30th. And it's not like some other teams who've dropped because those minor leaguers are now playing...or, at least, if it is, they're not helping.

Which bill is that?

But this is an application of tunneling that is a form of attack. That's the problem. It's *not* costed right for that purpose. And yeah, I get where you're coming from, but a) all I need do is go to 6 PD and 12m...24 points instead of 22. b) the player goes back to my argument earlier...my 8 PD, 6m can't get through 6 BODY, 6 DEF??? It goes through 3x that much *as tunneling* so you're just making a bizarre translation. For that matter, your suggestion says "tunnel through ANYTHING" 20 PD, 6m wouldn't get through. So the mechanism of just having the movement rate relate to the BODY of the entangle is inadequate. Why shouldn't tunneling relate to how fast you can remove BODY? You can roughly translate "the BODY you can move through each phase" to meters. You can adapt...if your tunneling works on 10 PD and the material only has 5, perhaps it adds +3 (half) or +5 (full difference) to the BODY of material removed each phase. You should be able to move faster through chalk than through granite.

That at least tries to connect things, but figure...if I have 4m of Tunneling through 8 PD, I can tunnel through 4 meters of reinforced concrete in a phase. If we equate reinforced concrete and stone? That's 15 BODY, extrapolating the Wall Body table out one step. (6E2 172.) The tunnelihg would get through cast metal plates...same hardness, 8. And 2m of *that* has 19 BODY. Mind, this is making a case that tunneling is defined very, very badly. By the same token, redefining it in terms of BODY per phase would add a fair bit of complexity, to a power that isn't taken very often, it seems to me. And there's still the huge cost mismatch. +1m movement is 1 point, and has no restrictions. +1 BODY (with no additional PD/ED) is still 5 points.

These are your counters? Italy: possibly. I don't recall that aspect that well, but the Italians were turning against Mussolini, and overthrew him. Germany: ok, so all we have to worry about is ethnic genocide, and the solution is leaving the country a smoking wreck, with another 5 million or so dead from the conflict Russia: Stalin's "credited" with killing about 700,000 political opponents, and thousands more...artists, writers, etc....were sent to the gulags, with many thousand more dying. And...how have things changed? Stalin died in '52. The Hungarian Revolution was crushed in '56. Czechoslovakia, '68. The occupation of Afghanistan. Chechnia. Georgia. The current action in the Ukraine. Doesn't seem "gone" to me. China: Mao's Great Leap led to a famine that is estimated to have killed 30 million people. It doesn't look like there are particularly good estimates relating to deaths of politically unreliable people, but it's in the millions. And even post-Mao, again, it's rather difficult to say the Chinese have relaxed their grip on the people. RATHER the opposite, in fact. So far, you're batting .250 at best.

But that's an ALL TIME starter-backup pair of QBs.....

Tunneling works through material up to its PD limit...but it doesn't care about BODY. It's got a movement velocity instead. Attacking the Entangle is in the rules, 6E1 216. It's -3 OCV, but the entangle itself is DCV 0, so it doesn't matter much. SFX comes into play, tho, quite a bit, so specific entangles may be different. And that's before the different advantages you can tack on. Entangle gets to be pretty complicated.

Not the same tactics. They've never had a Supreme Court that's not only stacked in their direction, but tied to a such an extreme literalist interpretation basis. There's never been as much effort, I think, to indoctrinate. Liberty University's stated goal is to build conservative leaders for the next generation...and do you realize they have 100,000 students? It's not just old men, either; DeSantis is 43. They've got 3 Supreme Court justices under 60. Boebert. Greene. OK, to a point these 2 might be the next Palin...loud, noisy, essentially meaningless in the long term, but they're SO extreme...and still got elected. Plus, we probably don't have the time to play through the cycle, even if it does change. I don't think we're at the bottom yet...I'm more worried we're not close. 2022 isn't looking great for Congress, the Republicans will have largely completed their purge, and whether it's Trump, DeSantis, or someone else, every 2024 Republican Presidential candidate looks to be another disaster...WITH Congressional control. How many environmental rollbacks will there be? Everything suggests we can't avoid serious damage *now*...and we have to move forward quickly to mitigate things because any such measures will take a long time to work. And as problems grow, societal pressures will do nothing but increase. Progress becomes far harder when simply getting by becomes much more difficult. And we've never had the media that creates, then reinforces, polarization. The reach has never been this great, this pervasive, this easy. No, the collapse is not inevitable.

IMO it's REALLY hard to argue that Jimmy Haslem's actions haven't done extensive damage to the league...but he'll never be punished. Same with the Texans, from what's been reported. For those who don't remember: SMU football was completely barred from competing for 2 years due to repeated recruiting violations, and *massive* lying to investigators...including the AD and University President. IIRC from a 30 For 30 about it...no practices, no meetings, no NOTHING. Took them 20 years to get back to a bowl game. But hey, Mr. P, they didn't do it to the Bengals, when they had a BUNCH of players doing things that would draw extensive suspensions now, so they're not gonna touch Haslem. Fine with me, we ALL get a team we can hate on. And we can offer Cygnia our heartfelt condolences for being a victim of this atrocity.