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Fascists use the same tactics militaries, governments and religions have used for millennia, appealing to peoples' need to belong to something greater than themselves, and accusing someone else of being responsible for the bad things in the world. It happens every day, all over the world, with no crazy mind control gadgets, or weird chemicals, or telepaths or anything but a basic understanding of how to manipulate others. How did you think the Nazi party gained power in Germany? Micro-chips in peoples' brains? Magic? Hypnosis? No, they used basic psychology. There are fascist organizations doing exactly the same thing today, even I've seen mention of them and I'm about as disconnected from society as one can be without going feral.

Or Endurance Reduction.

Some random stranger who I've never heard and doesn't think much of our game probably isn't going to be playing with us? I'll try to squeeze out a tear later.

You posted that just so I'd watch Popeye tonight. This is some kind of insidious mind control device at work, isn't it.

Shags? Shags?

I average 5-6 minutes per zone doing it by setting the map to maximum zoom and manually dragging it around to find a badge, then right-click on it to set a waypoint. I'm willing to bet that the time it takes to open the Contacts list, click a badge tip and accept the mission (which automatically sets a waypoint at the badge location) is within 1 or 2 seconds of the time it takes me to do it my way (and i'm even leaning toward it being faster, since exploration tips are always placed at the top of the list, and the dialogue window can be dismissed while traveling). I'm also willing to bet that the reason you've convinced yourself that tips are slower is because you're a stubborn, crotchety old fart... just like me. And that's fine. But this is one of those things that you should at least test before pouring a cement slab over the conclusion. Try it before you deny it.

If it takes you three years to accept a tip, you have bigger problems to worry about than badges.

That's just death. Even if it's eternal death with no afterlife, it's still kinder than keeping someone alive and in chains.

Nemesis/5th Column/Council are the most evil. The others just want to kill, corrupt or pervert everyone alive, but these bastards want everyone to be alive, going about their daily lives without interruption, but enslaved. They want absolute control over everyone's actions, and even thoughts, but they want them to be aware that they're not in control, that they're pawns, that they exist solely at the whim and for the purpose of serving their masters. Subjugation, on every level, is their goal. The utter and complete abolition of freedom. There is no greater evil.

Citing an example of something you didn't like being done as the thing to do doesn't support your position. Nor would shitcanning Pacify "fix" the pool for the majority of people who avoid it, because Pacify isn't what's making them avoid it. The Presence pool is disliked because it has three different status effects, none of which are synergistic, and players are required to take at least two non-synergistic powers in order to work up through the tiers. They don't complement one another in any way, and the Taunt, when it works, actively opposes the goal of causing enemy action to pause momentarily... the pool's a clusterfuck. That's why we ignore it. And before you get any more attached to that Confuse you want, take a long, hard look at blasters' and masterminds' Possess in the new Dark Mastery APPs, which drops a shit-ton of debuffs (30% -Damage, -Defense, -Endurance, -ToHit, -Movement, -Special) on the caster. For 30 seconds. And after having been reported as a bug twice, it still hasn't been changed, nor anything said by the developers regarding this, implying that it's supposed to be that way. You should understand the powers structuring of the game by now, with power pools being at the bottom, so you should also realize a power pool Confuse would have to be even worse. So if you did succeed in having Pacify taken away from the players who use it (which would be a dick move), all you'd get in return would be an even less useful power. You wouldn't be able to stack it with anything (unlike Pacify, which can be stacked with Misdirection), you wouldn't be able to stack it with itself (the APP Possesses don't), and you probably wouldn't even be able to survive after using it, since the self-debuffs would almost certainly be stronger. Intimidate changed to be available at level 4 and Invoke Panic set to one power prerequisite so it wouldn't feel like deliberately hamstringing yourself when you went deeper into the pool. That's all the Presence pool needs.

No.

Pretty sure they would've named him Martha.

I wasn't even trying. Yay, me! 🏆

Found them!

That's a display issue that goes back to when catalysts were added. IO tooltips were never updated to display their real value when attuned. The power's actual stats, and the game engine itself, use the capped IO value.

I have a build capable of reaching 70 mph without a travel power. If I did that with a power set like Electric Armor, or sentinel /Bio, or a Bane, even faster. A Kinetics character can cap Run or Jump speed, for him/herself and everyone else, without travel powers. So while an event which restricts travel powers is plausible, it wouldn't have the expected effect unless numerous other powers, all +Movement set bonuses and all relevant temp powers were also restricted. And it probably wouldn't be a very well-liked event, considering that this is a superhero/villain game, and being able to fly, teleport, leap tall buildings in a single bound or run so fast that you're a blur are kind of a foundation of superheroes/villains. Being The Flash would suck hairy yak balls without super speed, for example. "I went AFK for 4 hours while someone power-leveled me to 50" would be a perfect title for that badge, don't you think?

Sounds like heat buildup to me. Dust buildup, fan not working properly, something blocking airflow. That would be the first thing I'd check.

Oh, yeah. Everyone who's donated to keep Homecoming running.

MCU Sitcom: Death is actually being sent to another universe, and the entire show is them trying to cope with it, but failing constantly because different universe = different rules. Like, Black Widow is arrested for going ape-shit on a robber at the local grocery store, Cap and Stark have to bail her out and she has to discuss her anger management issues with a therapist; Cap is constantly having trouble with the government wanting to suspend his pension because "being dead for a year is a popular tax dodge"; Stark discovers that his legal name in this universe actually is Tony Stank, and he's desperate to change it but runs afoul of bureaucratic foul-ups. Goddamn, I should be a producer. Someone hire me.

This movie sounds like it only needs one more thing now.