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I can see the concerns about how he in some ways seems upstaged, power-wise, by others in this movie. OTOH I agree that challenges like the kaiju were less about his power being limited and more about the dilemma of beating it while simultaneously not letting it kill anyone or destroy too much...

My recollection from PatW is that Fletcher Pratt's naval wargame (started 1937, first published 1940?) was one of the earliest sources for the concept of units accumulating points of damage. I've attached an image of a ship damage chart from this game. The numbers on the left indicate the...

Old Pizza Huts with the faux-Tiffany lampshades and so forth, I think were part of the design trend which gave us TGI Fridays, and sprang out of fern bars? Phil Edwards has a recent video I watched this week on this whole design trend of kitschy restaurants and the generational shift.

Well, there is also apparently the issue that the primary purpose of the UCC is to "perfect" and confirm for the knowledge of other creditors who owns what, in the instance that not all parties are aware that the reselling entity is selling stuff on consignment. Whereas anyone doing business...

I really need to get off my butt and run or play His Majesty the Worm. I picked that up a while ago, and it's both beautiful and very cool. The other one on here that I'm quite excited by and want to pick up is Mythic Bastionland.

Benches were all taken when I arrived last night, so I started with three sets of machine pec flies. I think I should have added a fourth or some drop sets, though. After benches opened up I did three circuits of dumbbell behind the head skull crushers (keeping the weight increase though being...

Two threads in as many days where a guy who blocked me for I-have-no-clue-what-reason is being an trollish annoyance. It's nice when the trash takes itself out!

Including one billionaire in particular who has conceived at least 14 children with at least 4 different women, and possibly many more.

Last night I went back for more, but kept it pretty short. Also went pull-focused, with three sets of cable rows (dropping weight slightly and adding a few reps, trying to focus on stricter form than I do with heavier weight), a couple of sets of lat pulldowns, and three sets of cable lateral...

Last night I had a good session - three circuits of dumbbell bench with drop sets, dumbbell inclined curls (and actually added reps for the first time in forever) with drop sets, dumbbell skull crushers (added a little), and dumbbell seated lateral raises (also a slight increase). Then three...

A fun article on disease in OD&D vs. AD&D. https://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2012/02/damn-you-gygax-part-1.html

Concur. When I use dumbbells I always reference the weight per dumbbell. Same with machines which report the per-hand weight (like a supine press or shoulder press). Though I don't usually record weights in this casual chat. (I log those in a workout chat with a couple of my brothers).

Historically diseases kill a lot more people in war than enemy soldiers, sure, but I think that's orthogonal to the point under discussion. Grossman makes some extremely strong assertions (“everything you think you know about war is based on 5,000 years of lies”) about the vast majority of...

Absolutely. And similar data showing that for casualties caused by infantry squads it's normally the machine gunner who does the bulk of the damage.

Yes, I think Grossman still made unsupported arguments from the other data points, too. Low accuracy and lethality rates can also be a consequence of inaccurate weapons and deliberate suppressing fire, for example.

That was a dropped thread in this movie, remember. When Lex says he's going to find another victim to threaten to get Supes to talk, and muses aloud that Kent could be a good choice.