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You're talking about policing, though, looking for a guy who stabbed a guy outside the chippy. The hunt for a superman wouldn't be policing of that kind. It wouldn't be "Well we went around to a couple of shops and the council's cameras and one undertrained civilian assistant (not a police...

If Superman is constantly doing mach 9 in atmosphere cities with windows will no longer exist, people will have heart attacks, pets will die and so on. That's just horrible! The US did testing of overflights by supersonic planes on a daily basis in like, the 1960s I think (I forget which city)...

Because I've failed to go to the cinema enough (bunch of films I still have to see which I think might have beaten Sinners for me, Bugonia and One Battle After Another among them), Sinners is also the best new movie I saw in 2025. Most enjoyable new movie I saw? That's actually also Sinners for...

But do they want to? It's absolutely in the interests of any agency that regards itself as protecting a specific nation-state (like MI5/6 or the CIA and other US intelligence agencies) to get someone of that power "on-side" with them. I don't see any situation where they don't bend over...

It does vary a lot though, and when Superman is smart, he's usually "just" a technical genius (and I think sometimes a linguistic genius), as in like, really good at understanding and using/building Kryptonian tech, which, being real, is simply a plot convenience (as is the linguistic element)...

That... isn't true. As far as I know, anyway. Why, exactly, do you think that is true? Do you want to cite an article or something? Do you think security cameras and drone cameras are all IR? Because I can assure you that most non-phone cameras have an IR filter (specifically to block IR), and...

That is a very good point. I think the cameras would still let them track you down, but that would probably prevent any DNA-based approach unless you got into a fight with another super (if there even are any).

If people had hurt my friends/family in order to try and exert control over me? I have no doubt, sadly, that I could hurt them, especially if it was essentially effortless. I don't think that's bravado or internet tough guy (it might be, who knows), it's about personality. I've never punched or...

Yup exactly. And at least in the UK (and I imagine most other surveillance states) if police or other arms of the state try to investigate you they're going to get scary notices coming up on their computers essentially saying "Don't look into this further, don't talk to anyone about it, your...

Not disputing this, but it's interesting that you're stating this as a fact rather than just a reasonable assumption - in general terms, how do we/you know this to be a fact? Like, an article about it in a marketing research journal or Forbes or HBR or something? I used to be in knowledge at a...

Realistically against a modern surveillance state (US, China, UK, either Korea, much of Europe, Russia, etc.) I don't believe you could maintain a secret identity from the intelligence services of the state and other states for terribly long unless you had a full-body costume which didn't...

Okay these two have been added to my list because they sound like something I'm missing!

I mean, there are a lot - Shadowdark, Daggerheart and PF2 are probably the most prominent, but we're in a golden age if you want a game that's a lot like D&D, but caters to a more specific taste (there are the close 5E-likes, like ToV and A5E, but also Cairn, Draw Steel!, OSE, WWN, 13th Age 2E...

I dunno, I feel like WotC were actually at-odds with the overall RPG-playing (including super-casual) social media climate, not like, violently so, but they weren't in-tune with it. Like, games like Daggerheart or Shadowdark seem much more in-tune with that than WotC. The increasing pure...

The sheer lack of context I have for this is amazing, especially as to why Mistborn might now involve a Star Empire lol. Don't tell me anything! I'll find it out when I need to!

Such a Cormyr-ass thing to do! Always with the bureaucracy, always with the charters! smdh (I kid but goddamn, I swear if 3E hadn't come out one of my 2E campaigns would probably have involved with the very high level PCs overthrowing the Obarskyr dynasty out of sheer annoyance with them...

I don't think so personally, I think it's much more likely it was the result of the particular risk-averse corporate leadership being worried that it wouldn't fit with D&D's ultrasafe image. I don't think the social media climate is overall more positive re: the particular issues Dark Sun...

I'm not sure why competence would be an issue. Changes of corporate leadership are almost always accompanied by some changes of direction. It's incredibly unusual for them to not be, in a corporate environment, frankly. So I doubt it's "can't follow it", what's much more likely is "have a...

MorningLightMountain remains one of the greatest antagonists in SF I swear. Also probably one of the most frequently-referenced fictional characters between my wife and I lol.

Well, too bad I'll never get to see that lol because the digressions in book 3 were just a step too far (but I did finish the book, I'll give him that!). When he put out the first book I had six RL friends reading it. The last gave up after book 4. Maybe he can do an experiment in condensing...