Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Thomas Shey]

The Acquisition Tango. Once DC won the lawsuit, they were sitting pretty. The courts had pretty much said, anybody who was sufficiently Superman-like was an infringement, and by that point every comics company had tried their hand at a knockoff. So, there was a great sell-off, with DC acquiring other titles very cheaply from tiny comics companies that didn't want to get sued. It's not where they got all of their Superman knockoffs, but it's how they got a lot of them.

Though there obviously were some accepted "okay, you're primarily using it for parody purposes so if you don't push it we'll let it pass" cases such as the Squadron Sinister (or the much more obscure Champions of Angor at the other end).

 

[RealAlHazred]

Though there obviously were some accepted "okay, you're primarily using it for parody purposes so if you don't push it we'll let it pass" cases such as the Squadron Sinister (or the much more obscure Champions of Angor at the other end).

Squadron Sinister was Marvel, who were probably too big to easily threaten. Champions of Angor looks like it was DC.

 

[Scribe]

So yeah, I dont drink. There are multiple reasons for this, but as I sit back and witness whats going on right now, I can only IMAGINE that I wish I was in a nice cozy personal library holding a scotch, with a fire going, watching the numbers go the wrong damn way.

 

[prabe]

So yeah, I dont drink. There are multiple reasons for this, but as I sit back and witness whats going on right now, I can only IMAGINE that I wish I was in a nice cozy personal library holding a scotch, with a fire going, watching the numbers go the wrong damn way.

I do drink, and it's not helping (me).

 

[Scribe]

Going to be a tough one to stay on the right side of the law today.

 

[Mad_Jack]

The most powerful superhero character I ever ran in one of my games was Ordinary Guy. He had the singular power of being able to take out of his backpack anything that he might conceivably put into it. The group needs some sort of climbing rig? He can pull it out of his backpack. "How did that get there? Did you buy it?" He could pull out a bunch of receipts for the climbing rig. He might even have a vague memory of maybe putting that stuff in there, but trying to pin the memory down or put it into sharp focus just made it fuzzier; he might even have imagined it.

Heh - I was that guy back in my Rocky Horror days... I had a reputation for being able to pull half a show out of my Rocky Bag at a moment's notice. Sewing supplies, duct tape, electrical tape, gaffer's tape, makeup, hand props, extension cord, whatever you needed to solve your emergency...
Just like Ordinary Guy, there were times I'd pull out some random object and have no idea how it had gotten in the bag since I was pretty sure I hadn't put it in there.

When people asked me what I kept in my bag, I'd tell them, "One of everything. And two of everything else."

For reasons I won't go into, I learned at an early age to screen background sound between relevant and irrelevant, even when sleeping; I'll utterly ignore even relatively loud sounds (such as music or construction) without paying it any conscious attention, but even fairly soft sounds my mind doesn't recognize will catch my attenion.

(This is why I often have a problem sleeping in strange places for the first night or two; my mind hasn't sorted what sounds it should pay attention to and which not yet, so it tends to pay attention to everything.)

Same here - unfamiliar sounds from across the street or even down the block will bolt me awake from a dead sleep.
I also have that thing where, when I get tired, I start losing my ability to filter out the "unimportant" stuff and end up getting overstimulated.
Also makes it tough trying to fall asleep when I can feel the weight of the sheets and the clothes I'm sleeping in, and the air flowing across my skin, and the birds chirping across the street, etc., etc...

 

[overgeeked]

I don’t know how I forgot that for some reason you bend over backwards to read whatever I say in the worst possible light. Don’t worry, won’t happen again. Back on ignore you go.

 

[prabe]

Man, there's nothing like watching an argument where both sides are arguing in bad faith.

(Not you, @overgeeked -- I'm pretty sure you're not in the argument I'm talking about.)

 

[RealAlHazred]

I don't argue in bad faith. I argue in bad facts. But my opinions trump facts...

 

[Thomas Shey]

Man, there's nothing like watching an argument where both sides are arguing in bad faith.

Yeah. You don't see it super often, but when you do--ugh.