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Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Rocky and Balboa The exciting adventures of a feisty flying squirrel and his punchdrunk pugilist friend. Balboa: "Hey Rocky! Watch me punch a rabbit outta this side of beef!" Rocky: "Again?" Balboa: "Nothin' up my sleeve... Presto!" *punches hanging side of beef and Rocky falls out of it.* Balboa: "That does it! I need new gloves!"

Re: Yes, but what about the other guys? The power to make wishes come true can lead to every other PC in the campaign becoming redundant, if handled improperly. Personally, I'd go for the really big VPP with the limitation that you either have had to think (write) the wish out in advance or otherwise "done it before". In other words, the player better have some preliminary wishes in his arsenal that he has already submitted to the GM for approval, and the GM had better work with that player before play begins to ensure these pre-wishes are suitable for use in this game. He might also want to watch the Fairly Odd Parents and come up with his own version of Da Rules. Read Larry Niven's "All the Myriad Ways" to get another take on the "Many Worlds" theory. I once had a character who was loosely based on that theory and the protagonist from the Strange Luck television series. His schtick was that he subconsciously caused the the best available outcome from all the possibilities (within his multiverse) to occur in HIS universe, at least within the ability of his power. At the time I simulated that by giving him 12 dice of luck, but neither the GM nor I could figure out how to exploit such a power. Nowadays I'd just use luck as the special effects of a suite of powers. Altering reality over a large area is a difficult, if not impossible task. Of course, if the EDM-ing guy could get transport to the asteroid and had temporarily acquired the assistance of the Bureau of United Mad Scientist's (B.U.M.S.) they might use super-science to temporarily augment his ability to warp spacetime in the vicinity of the asteroid just enough to make it miss.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos Snake regurgitates whole hippo!

Re: "Neat" Pictures I'd rep you but I must spread some. Back in the early '80s my Mom and Dad decided to plant a vegetable garden in their back yard. Everything was thriving, but for some reason they never saw a ripe cherry tomato. At this time, my parents also had a dog we had gotten from the pound. Heidi was a Dachshund-Cocker mix. The result was a dog that looked like a miniature Irish Setter. One day Dad was weeding the garden while Mom was preparing lunch. Mom peeked out the window and discovered the reason for the absence of ripe cherry tomatoes. Dad was kneeleing down doing the weeding, and the dog was following along behind him sniffing at the tomatoes. Whenever she came to a ripe one, she picked it off the vine and ate it. Later that day, my dad bought some chicken wire and made cages to go over the tomato bushes.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine Because I couldn't resist and I wanted to anyway, Here's the "uncensored" Zapp Brannigan. Yes, his man-skirt is extremely short, yet his modesty remains intact. Methinks Zapp hath less about which to boast than he thinks.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine The following pictures, words, pictures and words provided by: The the Department of Redundancy Redundancy Department "Keeping you overly- and under-informed since 2222, and MMCCXXII!!" Firebrand: The world must have been an especially oblivious place when a guy with that sort of physique could run around in a translucent pink outfit like that and nobody blinked an eye. Zapp Brannigan's Myspace picture (photoshopped by Kiff Kroker, under duress.) I shortened his Manskirt in post-production. Links: The New Super Team More Futurama guys. The preceding pictures, words, pictures and words provided by: The the Department of Redundancy Redundancy Department "Keeping you overly- and under-informed since 2222, and MMCCXXII!!" Coming soon! The picture you don't want to see! Fat Brannigan!

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Star Trek: Wrath of the Nerds!

Re: Classic Comic Book Characters How about showing us Captain America, then (about what? 1942-ish?) and now.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos F-15 lands on a wing and a prayer:

Re: Super Transportation Boeing 507 (Derived from the Boeing 377 shown above)

Re: "Neat" Pictures One of mine. I always seemed to make the top ten on You Can't Do That on Star Trek (now defunct) but I never made the top three.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine Fabrique du Herois needs jodhpurs.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine Now, cut that out!

Re: Super Transportation Super-Stratocruiser During the 'forties, the Patriot Squad was given a crashed Boeing Stratocruiser and given free reign to restore and modify it to their purposes. They essentially tore it apart and remanufactured it, ending up with a much larger plane (the Stratocruiser's fuselage is 10' in diameter while the Super-Stratocruiser's diameter is 13' 8") with more powerful engines that could run on diesel oil or kerosene (though at a slight altitude and speed penalty when using kerosene). Post-war, the Patriot Squad was provided with a refurbished Boeing 307 Stratocruiser. Boeing dismantled, then rebuilt the Super-Stratocruiser to examine and duplicate every part for production as the Boeing 377 Super-Stratocruiser. After production began on the Super-Stratocruiser, Boeing returned the old plane to the Patriot Squad, and began paying royalties on the design. Boeing continued to provide the Patriot Squad with aircraft through 1968, when most of them retired. The Super-Stratocruiser remained in production for many years, though once Boeing introduced its 707 Jetliner, the Super-Stratocruiser was largely utilized as a cargo plane. The fact that it could run on Jet Fuel was something of an advantage, as it was considerably less expensive per pound than the Avgas other piston aircraft used.

Re: Super Transportation The Justice Bunch's* Star Cruiser: * A little help please? I'm running out of cool supergroup names (assuming I haven't already) and I'll draw you a super-transport so your (approximate) specifications if I use your suggested name.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Mr. Bean's Holiday Inn

Re: Scientists claim warp drive is possible Thanks for the clarification (it's been a while since I've learned what little I know about transfinite numbers). My point, however, was that to accelerate a particle of any mass whatsoever to the speed of light would require all the mass and energy in the universe (provided, of course, that our universe is truly infinite) including all background energy and the mass of the particle itself, which would then be one or more photons travelling at exactly the speed of light. Of course, since there would be no frame of reference to measure the velocity or location of that photon (or photons) it's "speed" would be irrelevant. The photons (if there are more than one) would be travelling at C relative to one another, but photons always travel at C. If there was one photon only, there would be no frame of reference to measure by, and the exercise would be pointless and destroy a perfectly serviceable universe. Don't do it. I keep my stuff here!

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine

Re: Famous People Super Heros Sure! He's the Doctor Doolittle of seafood!

Re: Scientists claim warp drive is possible

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine Can't... rep... Egyptoid..! Would someone rep this guy for me? Never heard of it until I was stationed in Korea with a guy who had. I finally saw it in the late '90s on TVLand, and loved it. I wish it were available on DVD.

Re: Scientists claim warp drive is possible All these arguments against FTL travel seem to boil down to "it doesn't make sense if that's what really happens!" I suspect that if FTL travel is actually possible, our understanding of causality is flawed when it is used to describe special cases (such as time travel and FTL travel). Just as Newtonian physics is perfectly adequate for describing and predicting most events that do not approach the speed of light, so is Einsteinian physics for describing the universe more accurately in both the mundane observable world and the near-lightspeed regime. Newtonian physics does not account for relativistic effects at high velocities. Einsteinian physics breaks down when asked to predict results where Velocity > C. Just as Newtonian physics breaking down when applied to extreme cases did not render Einsteinian physics invalid, perhaps some unexplained (thus far) aspect of the physical universe allows for events to appear pre-cause for some observers and not others, just as the stationary trainwatcher sees events aboard the train in a different order than the train passengers do?

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares A story about a real-estate agent in the far-flung future: Lots In Space!

Re: "Neat" Pictures It's Carp-Girl from Oklahoma!

Re: Super Transportation