Tenzhi

Threads may not be able to make you go bald, but assertions can, in fact, be bald - or baldly made, as the case may be. The term is most commonly applied in the context of hair, but it does have broader applications. In this case "baldly" would be synonymous with "openly".

My favourite Green Lantern. Ah, well.

And to create a cheeseburger, a barbecue grill is best - but <insert fast food of choice> is more convenient. We live in a world where convenience is more powerful than quality.

Nope. My draconic approach to gaming has recently taken a more dogmatic turn.

I used to love visiting various shops and finding new and unusual systems to absorb. H.O.L. (and Buttery HOLsomeness) are some of my favourite such tidbits. But alas, the comic book stores began to carry less and less in that vein, and the few stores that were purely game-oriented began to stop carrying RPG books in favour of family/board games, miniature/tactical games, and CCGs.

Every time I contemplate this, my mind begins to sing snippets of "Video Killed the Tabletop Game".

It might be an illusion of the still image. In motion that could have been a mere glance. Of course, if Matt Smith is as much of a goofball as he's come across thus far, it might *not* be an illusion at all.

Oh, good. At least I've continued to not be missing anything worthwhile.

If the only non-human perspective around is one conceived by humans imagining a perspective different from their own, it becomes moot whether that perspective is really non-human or just a human pretending at non-humanity.

That's how it was simply laid out way back when I was in grade school, but by the time I was in high school it was about the conflict of the protagonist - which wasn't always a human, and wasn't always in conflict with other humans, "the wild" (which is what we had called "Nature"), or God. In other words, the "Man" in the breakdown isn't literally a human with human motivations.

To hear some tell it, DC stories are about the motivations of gods and aliens, which is why people (and apparently some writers) can't relate to (or create good stories with) their characters. And that's the context I'm going along with.

I don't really see the point, but if I had to go into it briefly, there is a particular category of manga/anime that I consider a guilty pleasure called "slice of life". Many of the sorts of mundane day to day life problems that go on in those stories are exactly the sort of thing that I tend to dislike elsewhere.

Why did I click and remind myself? Why?!

Like I said: not high enough for me to even jokingly consider it as turning an Immob into a Hold. At 50% it could be a joke.

In this case, the "few" that I can think of are more prominent and/or numerous than superheroes I can think of:

Who regularly wear saloon girl outfits.
Who have the brain-in-jar motif going.
Who use tai chi-esque energy balls.
Who regularly fight crime in bridal wear.

If I put more thought into it, I could probably come up with more items that have been added to the game which are exhibited less quantitatively and/or qualitatively in the superheroing business. But that would be getting away from the initial point in order to needlessly justify a desire for something to be added to the game.

You're still shootin' wide. Boring, or 'mundane' if you prefer, human motivations are generally not my cup of tea (there is at least one area of exception, but for the purposes of this discussion such is moot), but good stories centred on them are certainly possible in any medium with good writing. I wasn't really saying anything about them one way or the other. What I was saying, essentially, is that good writers don't necessarily need those to be a focus, nor do they need to inject those motivations where they don't necessarily belong.

The problem I often see with the handling of DC characters, is that writers overcompensate and become focused on these petty concerns and it either serves to make the stories dull, or provides such an overwhelming dull contrast to the superheroic bits that the fantastic becomes the absurd.

As I recall, it's not at a percentage that's high enough for me to even jokingly consider it to 'turn an Immob into a Hold'.

Swooning girls can do magic for movies, as they generally have more power over their SO's entertainment choice than vice versa. The only good part of Titanic was when DiCaprio sank beneath the waves. I put that movie on the same mental shelf as Dirty Dancing and the Twilight movies.

I love that they worked in a sumo. One of my PnP superhero characters was a sumo-ninja.

As someone who has been a fan of the series since about the only way to get it here was bootleg VHS at comic cons, I gotta say that Kai - being the original DBZ series digitally cleaned up and edited for MUCH MUCH MUCH better pacing - is superior. It's a shame, however, that they stopped at Cell. I would've liked to have seen the Buu stuff sans the overwhelming need to unnecessarily drag things out.