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Yeah, but the video also flat-out says, this is a special, targeted maneuver not intended to do real damage with the strike, but via the accumulation. This isn't something Hero recognizes. Also, this works because basic, normal defenses are minimal IRL, and the body does suffer wear and tear and fatigue. In Hero, defenses are typically far higher, and even the defense/attack ratio is much more canted to the defense. Best I can think of would be a Strike with a DCV bonus, with Disable and also -2 for the "uses no STR" restrictive element...perhaps the -1 for half STR, but you're not getting your full STR into the blow from what's being shown there. It can't take the Abort within the rules; you'd have to hold action, and/or even buy Lightning Reflexes with this maneuver to make it more reactive.

Technically, no. Hero System Martial Arts has a section on this. Maneuvers have a basis, such as strike, block, or throw. The problem is that what you're describing sounds like a block and a strike...but block and strike are listed as Exclusive maneuvers. You can't incorporate both into a single maneuver. Also, you cannot abort to a maneuver that does damage, so you've got 2 strikes against it. Is this really a single maneuver, or is it a block and counterstrike? An aspect of Block is that the blocker gets to act first in the next phase, if it's shared with the attacker. This might really be your best bet. The problem trying to simulate martial arts is combat phases. What works smoothly in real life, doesn't do so well because of the phases.

Sports betting is the province of the true masochist. I love watching Scott Van Pelt's Bad Beats segment.

HUNKER DOWN YOU HAIRY DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got pretty darn good at chicken parmesan. (Hint: season the flour...salt, ground pepper, garlic powder, and season the bread crumbs...dried oregano and basil...separately.) I pulled off a very nice chicken piccata a couple of times. Both are breaded...piccata often more lightly. But chicken fried steak is an abomination.

They brought the hammer down fast after OKC, but that was 1995, and neither side supported the action. That would be suicide, considering a daycare center with 19 kids was part of the carnage. MAYBE, someone might claim it was a false flag operation, but even that would, I think, be scoffed at. Flip side: going after the January insurrectionists has been rather slow. So it's not clear to me that the left feels the government can bring the hammer down *now*. This is exacerbated by the inconsistent (at best) punishment of the police. This also points out: the black or Latino portions of the left are VERY much worried that they won't face right-wing militia...they'll face radicalized police. (And I do mean radicalized, not simply racist. Cops who've been taught "it's you or them, so damn sure make it them". Regular thread followers have, I'm sure, seen the training materials to which I refer.) I believe it was CNN today that offered the dichotomy: the right wing media is pushing that right-wing actions are patriotic, and only left-wing actions are insurrectionist. Right-wing protesters get arrested; left-wing protesters risk getting shot. Not with rubber bullets, either. So the failure for a left-wing militia to arise isn't necessarily that positive a sign.

Ewww....gotta feel bad for the Bama receiver. Nice catch right down the middle for a solid gain...plant the left foot, watch that leg bend ooohhh so wrongly. Helped off, not putting any weight at all on the knee. One of those that isn't graphic but is pretty obvious. Kid's walking to the locker room, tho, so that's hopeful.

In case you're a tad cynical about the Daily Beast....this goes back a few months, but it's the same PoS: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/19/walmart-christopher-key-anti-vaccine/ So...I couldn't find any confirmation about Cygnia's story per se...just echoes...this certainly supplies plenty of general corroboration.

This would be much harder to pull off than the USFL, at least in terms of getting high-quality players. In addition to the majors, there's at least AAA, and possibly even AA to consider, where pretty clear paths to MLB and success exist. Also, when would such a league play? The USFL is smartly NOT trying to go head-to-head; the Arena League didn't, either. Would that even be feasible with baseball? No...or, worse, this'd be competing with football. Dream on there.

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To be fair, tho, how many organizations ever seem to retain an interim coach, even when said coach shows significant improvement? To quote Jubal Harshaw: And right now, how many seriously dysfunctional organizations are there? Giants, Jets, Jags, Lions, Bears, Dolphins, Broncos, Washington...that's not exhaustive, just tossing some out. All of em are spinning in place, with another reboot every 3-4 years. Sometimes it seems they kinda, sorta, get it right, but it doesn't last.

Picard wouldn't call the time out with 38 seconds left.

OK, so since the 2nd biggest bombast event is a few hours away... I'd ask who you want to win, but my gut says it'd be 90-10. So I won't. Instead: who do you think will win? I'm going Georgia. It's tough to beat a team twice in a short span. Georgia was embarrassed in the SEC title game. I think they continue what they started in routing Michigan.

And so the carousel kicks into high gear. Fangio out yesterday; today it's Zimmer and the Vikes GM (not surprising at all for both of em), Nagy (also figured)...and Brian Flores from the Dolphins. Impatience? 10-6 then 9-8 with a team that has QB issues isn't that bad on the surface. One change that should be made real soon: designate Rich Bisaccia as the full time HC in Vegas. They went 1-5 after the week 8 bye, but that was also right after Ruggs and Arnette threw their careers away. Coming back to win 4 in a row, beating the Browns, Colts, and Chargers...all JUST missing the playoffs...that's impressive.

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Chargers coach claims it was to change personnel. They knew it was gonna be a run, and wanted to stop the first down. If they'd done that, it would've been at least a 52 yard FG. But to win...it would've required a miss. The Chargers would get the ball at around their 45 but with maybe 25 seconds left and no timeouts. (They would've had to call the last time out or the Raiders would simply run the clock down as they did after getting the first down.) That said, it may have changed the 3rd down play call, to be sure. It definitely backfired. I will also concede that it jarred everyone...like, what? There was clearly a vibe that, ok, the Raiders were NOT going to risk *losing* the game once it got inside a minute, with safe field position. Remember the series...first down at the 45, the Chargers stuffed that run for a 1 yard loss. 2nd and 11 there, is a defensive play call. They got 7...clock running...first thought still being Don't Mess Up! And then the time out. So it's not hard to me to think the Raiders slipped into a kind of tunnel vision/overly defensive mode, and the time out shook them out of it somewhat. Here's a detailed breakdown by Emmanuel Acho:

it's not this thread, it's US politics.

I feel a little bad for the Chargers. 4th and 10 *3 times* on the drive that tied it at the end of regulation. 4th and 9 on the drive for the tying FG in OT. Raiders also showed a great deal of grit; the 3rd and 8 pass to the sideline, that got them the first down in Chargers territory, was a heckuva throw. And hey, I generally dislike the Raiders organization...but not the current players per se. Given the circumstances of this season, hey, making the playoffs is pretty awesome. EDIT: and last thought on all this. Big THANK YOU to the Jags for teaching the Colts that no one can be overlooked...because without that, there would've been no real drama tonight.

OMG..... Chargers have the most insane high-wire act to drive to a touchdown WITH NO TIME LEFT. Extra point TIED IT. I was thinking...could they MAYBE go for 2....but they chose not to. Antacid consumption in the Pittsburgh area has probably just skyrocketed. EDIT: this is turning into the most fun football game in YEARS. ULTIMATE CHAOS!!! 4th and 6 from the Raiders' 23 for the Chargers. They have to kick to tie. IT'S GOOD!!!!!! You can tell I'm not from Pittsburgh. 4:30 left. The tie is no longer on the horizon, it's at the back gate. EDIT: SOOOOO CLOSE!!! The game ending kick was good. It DID look like maybe the Raiders weren't gonna do it...3rd and 4, 40 seconds left, at the Charger 39, but they ran the ball for about 10 yards. That let em call TO with 2 seconds to go, with a makeable kick. NOT kicking would've been VERY debatable, in that the chance of a bad result and Chargers win was *remote*.

I suspect fanbases generally dislike it. I can't find anything more recent than this...but I don't think it's happened since 2016 anyway. https://www.buccaneers.com/news/four-times-the-1-pick-was-traded-14802842 Note that trading up has itself been a mixed bag. EDIT: my, my, my, my, my. OT is ENTIRELY in the realm of possibility at this point. Hey, if the tie is a legit, tactically correct outcome? Awesome!

It might be hard to report on, though...or confirm. Death Takes a Holiday was originally a play; the 1934 screen adaptation, which apparently was fairly faithful, is listed as a romantic drama.

Tarnished? Pulverized. the uproar would've made the NBA scandal (the ref fixing games) look like nothing more than an admittedly missed call that cost a game. I'd put it as worse than the Black Sox scandal, honestly.

In what manner would an intervention by anyone help that situation? I'll concede that a fractured US would risk a global depression; I'll even allow as such would be HIGHLY likely. But how would, let's say, a NATO attempt to stabilize improve anything? Also given HOW the US is split politically, stabilization would be a logistical NIGHTMARE. On the surface, you'd put Texas as overwhelmingly Trumpist, if things fall apart. At the level of state government, it probably would be. But Trump only took 52% of the vote. On the flip side, 1/3 of the California vote was for Trump. I suspect that the more detailed vaccination-rate map might be a better indicator; it often does correlate, at the county level, to the vote count in that county, AND is a strong suggestion of how the residents of that county feel...how much they buy the right-wing liars. That is a stand-in, admittedly weak at this point, to the degree to which a county has become radicalized. But even then, it's not county by county, it's finer-grained. The NextDoor app I'm on, includes my subdivision and multiple neighboring ones. It's calmed down *some* but there's still a significant, LOUD, minority of "it's all lies, it's all a fake" types. This would literally split neighbors...even families. I think if you asked any military officer of notable rank, this would be a NIGHTMARE scenario, if not the absolute worst-case one, for an intervening/peackeeping force. It would likely be worse than the missions in Bosnia in the 90s, and after the fall of Iraq. And US troops in Iraq had a VERY hard time. A NATO intervention in the US, large enough to actually DO something, would also invite Russia to move into eastern Europe. It was a long time ago now, but this is an analytical paper worth a read: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/decision-to-intervene-how-the-war-in-bosnia-ended/ Oh, and here's the state-level election map: https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/president/

If their team makes it in, why do they care if the Steelers get in or not? OTOH, knocking off an OLD!!! rival is always sweet. And if such collusion happened? NFL would fine each time some huge amount...however much they could...and strip the highest possible draft pick they could. And hey, maybe rule the game a double forfeit. They BOTH lose. Believe the Colts would be the #7, with Steelers #6. The last thing I want is OT in this game, personally, with the clock winding down with no resolution. If it comes down to, let's say, Chargers take the OT kickoff, burn 6 minutes and kick the FG...then Raiders have a 4th and 8 at the Charger 10 and choose to kick...well, OK, there's probably no one arguing about collusion. Collusion would be something the league would LOATHE wholeheartedly. Mind, I'd be perfectly happy to have the Steelers out, if it could be done cleanly, but personally, I think their presence in the playoffs is an eloquent statement on the state of the game.

Is there such a thing as anti-momentum? Packers, Rams, Cards in the NFC; Pats and Bengals in the AFC. All lost. KC probably should've lost. And both the Rams and Cards losses *hurt*. Rams fall to #4, and have to face the Cards...rather than the Eagles or Saints. Cards loss locked them into the 5; a win would've given them the division and the home game...against the Rams, but still. Rather be at home. We're also going to have 3 teams with 9 wins in. In a 17 game season, that spells a lot of mediocrity to me.