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As I recall, he had some issues in Ragnarok as well. There's a scene where he's planning to jump out of their ship onto Bifrost and Hulk out on the way down and have a Big Hero Moment stopping Fenrir and, well... doesn't. At least not for a while.

Nah, I was referring to the Aberrant RPG where the Novas have "superpowers" that are all basically unconscious manipulation of "Quantum" which is basically reality-warping magic. That's basically a fix for all the "If you think about it..." aspects of various super powers. If you have enough...

That's just Quantum Strength :)

He did use the gay wedding cake as an example earlier, and given the circumstances I think I actually agree with the verdict there. The way I see it, if a gay couple goes to a bakery and says "We want to buy that cake", that shouldn't be an issue. The baker should not have the right to decline...

Sure, you'll find plenty of puritans who want to ban books and other media containing explicit descriptions or images of straight stuff. But that bar is set a lot lower for LGBTQ+ stuff. You won't find anyone trying to get a book with a kid with a mommy and daddy banned, but one with two daddies...

I've been looking around for maybe half an hour and I can't find what regulation that is supposed to be? Most regulations I can find regarding payment processors have to do with technical issues like fees, not being forced to provide equal access. I'd love to have something I can point to when...

There's some info in this BlueSky thread that looks useful:

Hmm. I don't know about "dark energy" or "dark matter" in Marvel (though I know it was a Big Deal in the Alternity RPG back in the 90s). What they do have is Darkforce, which is energy/force from another dimension and which is primarily used by Cloak (whose body is normally intangible and a...

As an individual, I totally can. I can spend my money wherever I choose. As a business, I have an obligation not to discriminate based on various things. I can't refuse service to black people, for example, or relegate them to a separate part of my business. And if I'm running a business that...

I see your point, but the correct avenue to attack that would be to try to influence Steam to change their policies, not to influence Mastercard and VISA whose job is to enable people to pay for things they want to buy. In the long run, this is the kind of thing that will influence platforms to...

That's because fully attrition-based games are dull. Individual encounters often don't pose a challenge, because their job is to wear you down a little so the fourth or seventh or tenth encounter actually becomes dangerous. That's why healing surges in 4e was such a genius move – they allowed...

Speaking of which, Jenna Ortega makes for a great slightly-older Wednesday Addams. I'm not sold on the rest of the recasting (it is hard to top Raul Julia, unless you are Anjelica Huston), but she is stellar in the role.

They kind of did that with the 13th Doctor, and the results were... not great. That probably had a lot to do with Covid though. I have little to no connection to classic Doctor Who, having started with the 2005 reboot, but I like having variety in the stories. I don't mind two-parters (which...

Mostly this, but sometimes I get an esprit d'escalier moment right after posting and edit the post to add additional stuff. I pretty much always mark that though. Something like "Edit: Just thought of bla bla bla"

I don't think I have ever played D&D or any other RPG in a store. The closest is at a gaming club that's open to the public, and we pretty quickly moved that campaign to the home of one of the players because it was pretty annoying to play in public. I've also played at cons, but here in Sweden...

Sure, but you don't need to get in particularly deep on the Planet and/or Historical Period of the week. 16th century Venice with fish vampires, go. Archaeological dig on a planet orbiting a black hole, go. Planet-sized library haunted by flesh-eating shadow swarms, go. The settings in Doctor...

I haven't seen Murderbot, but I think it's fairly essential to Doctor Who to be pretty episodic – the Doctor and their Companion(s) show up somewhere, get into trouble, and solves said trouble. So to me, it is important to develop the characters, but not necessarily the setting.

Thor: Ragnarok? I mean, the core plot is a remnant of the past showing up to take over the seemingly good kingdom, and in the process revealing its sordid history and that the reason it's so rich in comparison to its counterparts is that they used to run around kicking everybody's butt and...