As the thread states, i keep losing my Mids file for this build  I found it today at work while moving MP3s from a USB drive i use in my car (which is awesome if your car has it).  I am saving it here so i don't lose it again!

Hero Plan by Mids' Reborn : Hero Designer 2.6.0.3
https://github.com/ImaginaryDevelopment/...o-designer

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Shizuru Final: Level 50 Magic Controller
Primary Power Set: Mind Control
Secondary Power Set: Sonic Resonance
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Concealment
Ancillary Pool: Soul Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Mesmerize

• (A) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (13) Decimation - Damage/Endurance
  
• (13) Decimation - Damage/Recharge
  
• (15) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (15) Decimation - Chance of Build Up
  

• (A) Accuracy IO
  

• (A) HamiOeroxisome Exposure
  
• (17) Superior Overpowering Presence - Accuracy/Confused/Hold/Immobilized/Sleep/Stunned/Terrorized/Endurance/RechargeTime
  
• (19) Superior Overpowering Presence - RechargeTime/Energy Font
  
• (19) Superior Will of the Controller - Recharge/Chance for Psionic Damage
  
• (27) Lockdown - Chance for +2 Mag Hold
  
• (29) Apocalypse - Damage
  

• (A) Impervium Armor - Resistance
  
• (7) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (9) Impervium Armor - Psionic Resistance
  

• (A) Impervium Armor - Resistance
  
• (9) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (11) Impervium Armor - Psionic Resistance
  

• (A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
  
• (11) Winter's Gift - Slow Resistance (20%)
  

• (A) Apocalypse - Damage/Recharge
  
• (29) Apocalypse - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (31) Apocalypse - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (31) Apocalypse - Damage/Endurance
  
• (33) Apocalypse - Chance of Damage(Negative)
  

• (A) Coercive Persuasion  - Confused
  
• (33) Coercive Persuasion  - Accuracy/Confused/Recharge
  
• (33) Coercive Persuasion  - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (34) Coercive Persuasion  - Confused/Endurance
  
• (34) Coercive Persuasion  - Contagious Confusion
  

• (A) Fortunata Hypnosis - Sleep
  
• (34) Fortunata Hypnosis - Sleep/Recharge
  
• (37) Fortunata Hypnosis - Accuracy/Sleep/Recharge
  
• (39) Fortunata Hypnosis - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (39) Fortunata Hypnosis - Sleep/Endurance
  

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO
  
• (17) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Hold
  
• (39) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (40) Basilisk's Gaze - Recharge/Hold
  
• (40) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge/Hold
  
• (40) Lockdown - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge/Hold
  
• (43) Lockdown - Chance for +2 Mag Hold
  

• (A) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (21) Impervium Armor - Resistance
  
• (21) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (23) Titanium Coating - Resistance
  
• (25) Titanium Coating - Endurance
  
• (27) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
  
• (23) Kismet - Accuracy +6%
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  
• (25) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (43) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
  
• (46) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
  
• (46) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
  
• (48) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (48) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
  
• (31) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All)
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
  

• (A) Superior Will of the Controller - Accuracy/Confused/Hold/Immobilize/Sleep/Stun/Terrorized
  
• (48) Superior Will of the Controller - Confused/Hold/Immobilize/Sleep/Stun/Terrorized/Recharge
  
• (50) Superior Will of the Controller - Endurance/Recharge
  
• (50) Superior Will of the Controller - Accuracy/Confused/Hold/Immobilize/Sleep/Stun/Terrorized/Endurance
  
• (50) Superior Will of the Controller - Accuracy/Confused/Hold/Immobilize/Sleep/Stun/Terrorized/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Aegis - Psionic/Status Resistance
  
• (36) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (36) Impervium Armor - Psionic Resistance
  
• (36) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance
  
• (37) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (37) Unbreakable Guard - +Max HP
  

• (A) Range IO
  

• (A) Ragnarok - Damage/Recharge
  
• (42) Ragnarok - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (42) Ragnarok - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (42) Ragnarok - Damage/Endurance
  
• (43) Ragnarok - Chance for Knockdown
  

• (A) Expedient Reinforcement - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (45) Expedient Reinforcement - Accuracy/Damage
  
• (45) Expedient Reinforcement - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (45) Expedient Reinforcement - Endurance/Damage/Recharge
  
• (46) Soulbound Allegiance - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
  

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Flight Speed IO
  

• (A) Panacea - +Hit Points/Endurance
  
• (5) Numina's Convalesence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
  
• (7) Miracle - +Recovery
  

• (A) Jumping IO
  

• (A) Performance Shifter - EndMod
  
• (3) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge
  
• (3) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy
  
• (5) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
  

I have come to think that debate is agnostic to truth; it is a contest of rhetorical skill, no more or less.

Video showing a model of Hogwarts with interiors made out of LEGO blocks.

The reason I've taken so long to start up the Forum Competition is that I couldn't decide what challenge to start with.  So I gave up and went with an old favorite, the example for which some of you might have seen in the thread where I first discussed the competition.  So, may I please bring you:

Competition #1:  What I Should Have Said/What I Said

1. “Look, there’s a lot of traffic, and he’s probably stuck in a meeting all day and didn’t get your message, or he’d have called. I’m sure there’s nothing to worry about.”
2. “Maybe he’s dead.”

Above, esprit d'escalier striking with a vengeance.  Competitors are invited to contribute a thoughtful, well-composed comment... and what you actually said instead.

Inspired by (hell, practically copied wholesale from) [url=http://nymag.com/tags/new-york-magazine-competition/]the New York Magazine Competition[/ur], this forum hosts what I intend to be biweekly challenges which will take wit, cleverness and occasionally a twisted sense of humor.

The format will be simple: I will start a new thread with the name of the competition, a sample, and a brief explanation of what the challenge is. Forum members make their submissions by posting them to the thread, and eventually we will decide whose entry was best. Feel free to make more than one entry; I'm not going to lock people down to one idea and force you to pick when you have multiple inspirations.

The original competition offered, if I recall correctly, a year's subscription to New York Magazine as the prize for winning. I don't have anything offer except eternal fame and glory among the few hundred people who read the boards.

That said, let us be off!

People seemed to like the last politically-flavoured "how to" that I posted, so here's another. This time, I'll let a pro to the talking.

.... Because Nancy Pelosi just announced that the House would begin a FORMAL impeachment inquiry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/us/po...trump.html

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Okay, I'm writing a passage for the new and my research fu has failed me.

In episode 6 of the first season of Sailor Moon, Usagi ends up facing down the youma-of-the-week in an amphitheater or arena of some sort where concerts are held.  She gets there after a drive with victim-of-the-week Yusuke Amade.  Now given how often locations like these turned out to be real places or thinly-disguised versions thereof, I'm trying to find a period-accurate amphitheater or arena that I can reference by name.  (I'm currently using the Roppongi Hills Arena, which is a short distance north from Doug's apartment and NW from the market street, but it's an anachronism; construction started on it in 2000.)  

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

For nigh unto fifty years, New York Magazine had a feature (curated for most of that time by the late Mary Ann Madden) called simply the "New York Magazine Competition".  It first came to my attention in the 1970s when I stumbled across a paperback with the picture of a pair of immaculately trousered legs sticking out, upside down, from an inkwell on the cover, and the intriguing title Maybe He's Dead.  It was a collection of Competitions and their results.  I bought the book, which I still own, and it remains a favorite to this day.

Basically, Ms Madden would post a challenge that usually encouraged imagination, clever and creative wordplay, and/or a twisted sense of humor. She would get submissions from the magazine's readers, and then post the results a few issues later with a new competition.  To give you an example of what it was like, here's the titular competition from the book, and its winning entry:

From Competition No. 366, “What I Should Have Said / What I Said”:
1. “Look, there’s a lot of traffic, and he’s probably stuck in a meeting all day and didn’t get your message, or he’d have called. I’m sure there’s nothing to worry about.”
2. “Maybe he’s dead.”
—Cynthia Harrison, Rockville, Md.
(There are a few more examples in the article linked from Mary Ann Madden's name above.)

One of my favorites was "The Kangaroo Joke", in which she provided the old joke about a kangaroo going into a bar and getting overcharged for a vodka martini, and then challenged the readers to retell the joke in the style of a famous person. I can still recite the Edgar Allan Poe pastiche which recast the joke as "The Raven".

So, for quite a while now, I've been thinking of creating a "Competition" board, harvesting a few hundred or so of my favorites from Maybe He's Dead and the other Competition books I have, and posting them there once a week or two for the incredibly creative and imaginative denizens of the DW Forums to have their merry way with them.

Would anyone be interested in playing?