New robot can simulate a self-image, learn what it is.

As above, we all know they have started, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Jillibrand, (sp?) and others. I know you guys are dems and it is going to be a big field for you, but lets see if an independent can get a more centrist view maybe.

Then again, he could just fuck your side over like Ross Perot did HW's reelection chances.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/...t-n2540559

It's been so long since I posted here that not only had I forgotten my password, but I couldn't recover it since my old email doesn't even exist anymore. n.n; So, new account.

Hi folks! I see the whole forum migrated while I was away. How've you been?

Bob, there's a Where I Read of The City Beyond the Gate beginning on RPGnet if you want to see and/or chime in.

-- Sam
"I dreamed I stopped existing for eight months!"

It's really good. Netflix is just knocking it out of the park with their animation team. Beautiful artwork and a compelling story.

In this reboot Carmen is more a thief who target's thieves. Very cartoony villains but damn things can get dark quick. Some nice twists as well. 

Anyway check it out.

Has anyone seen this yet?  I've only watched the first episode.

HOLY.

SHIT.

You know how PMMM took the Mahou Shoujo genre and cranked the cosmic horror to eleven, but not until after it lulls you in for the first few episodes?

This show's WHAM! episode....  The very first one!!!

I'm strapping myself in for this one folks.  Mr. Bones' Wild Ride this is not!!!

I just had a thought (after seeing some of the discussion of Doug Sangnoir's powers over in the Drunkards Walk forums) - esper powers are pretty much superpowers. And it's rare that somebody gets to choose his or her own superpowers.

So... Does anybody want to take a chance on a random powerset? Epsilon lent me his copy of Villains and Vigilantes a while back, I've still got it, and it has rules for random powers generation. I'll ignore the "powers from gadgets", "powers from training", and "weaknesses" rules and just go with the innate-powers rules.

If you have D&D dice, you can use those for generating the random numbers. If not, well, random.org is a perfectly good source of random numbers.

The process:

1. Roll a d6 (or tell random.org to give you a number between 1 and 6). Add 2 to the result.
   
2. Roll that many d100 (or tell random.org to give you that many numbers between 1 and 100).
   
3. I'll consult the random powers table and see what the numbers correspond to.
   
4. If a power needs rolls on subtables, I'll tell you what numbers are needed.
   
5. I'll tell you what the random results came up with, and you get to drop two of the results and make the rest work together.
   

Let it die, let it die
Lay it to rest and let it lie
Let it die, let it die
It's time to say goodbye
I don't care what they're going to try
Star Wars is over
It ended with Return of the Jedi

Well, almost definitely.

I think.

Mind you, I've already given Bob permission (and a royalty-free license) to use anything I post to the forum.


"There is one thing that disappointed me, though."

"Oh?"

"When all of you arrived for the start of the school year, I overheard some of the students talking about a Dada professor. I was loking forward to meeting him, until I realized that 'DADA' was an acronym and they were talking about me."

Hermonie gave me that look of annoyance that only a teenaged girl can reliably pull off. "Did you really think Hogwarts would have an arts department?"

"You never know." I turned on my helmet mic so I'd get a bit of reverb in my speech. "It Can Happen Here!"


(Doug's quoting "Dough for the Do-Do", of course. While that's more surrealism than it is dada, who's going to correct him?)

I was idly leafing through the AD&D 2nd Ed. Players Handbook, and paused to read the specifications for the 6th-level Cleric spell Heal.  "...wipe away disease and injury ... blindness ... heals all points of damage suffered due to wounds or injury.  It dispels a feeblemind spell.  It cures those mental disorders caused by spells or injury to the brain."

I wondered, still idly, how Doug's "I'm Alive" would stack up against that in terms of power, given that "I'm Alive" will also repair people's clothing.  And then I thought again about the curing of mental disorders, and ... oh, Emperor on Earth, Neville's parents....

Finally, I'm about to hit episode 4.

It'll all be offscreen, with Usagi giving Doug an after-action report... but in that episode Usagi originally beat the crap out of a set of musclemen at a gym with just her raw senshi abilities.  Imagine how she'll do with training.