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Comcast has a few apple tv shows for free this week. So I can see the first season of Ted Lasso. I love it. My wife and I watched the first 6 episodes last night and she is making me wait to watch the rest with her. It's a heartwarming comedy about an American college coach hired to coach a UK football team. It turns out the owner wants him to fail. But he does not know that and is determined to succeed. But his idea of success is not winning but having a team of happy, well adjusted players. It's got some football in it, but is mostly behind the scenes in the office and the locker room. Although it has good variety, and some are at publicity events and other things.

The law says a state can choose not to go to DST but cannot choose to be on permanent DST. Allowing that requires a law being passed.

We'll have to see it. Ever since Barbie and the Island Princess my daughter loves red pandas. And Pixar movies are often as good as the Barbie movies, so it's worth a watch.

People in Washington don't want to get rid of DST. We want it permanently. DST is the time during summer when it stays lighter later. We hate standard time in winter when it is dark before we leave work.

The general assumption is that Mr. Fantastic will be in the MCU soon and they didn't want two characters with the same stretching powers. And the inhumans and terrigen mist is not a thing in the MCU. Just in AoS. So tying her to Captain Marvel with Kree technology probably fits better in the MCU. The whole thing made me think off Never Have I Ever, a funny Netflix show about an Indian girl in high school in the U.S. (I know Kamala is from Pakistan). In NHIE she has a cousin named Kamala. My daughter loves Kamala so she will probably love the show. It looks entertaining enough. Clearly Marvel is pushing for young female superheroes as hard in the MCU as they have been in the comics. That may help expand their market. They don't need to be bigger, but its Disney so they can always get bigger.

I didn't know anyone else knew Lovejoy existed. We did a rewatch this past year, we need to get the last season from the library to complete it. A fun show. So different from anything else I've seen. Tink is a fantastic character.

Never heard of it. It must not match my interests in their rec engine.

I just haven't cared about pool powers other than movement. But they revamped the pool sets so I finally decided to check them out. Acrane bolt looks like a great attack for my controllers who are low on damage. The ward toggle seems good for my controllers and defenders who do not buff an ally, to make someone a pseudo tanker when we don't have a real tanker. Is it good enough to be worth slotting for healing? What other powers should I be looking at for filling gaps?

R2D2 is a top rebel agent

I haven't seen the ads for it. We normally buy the lego games a year after they are released so they are cheaper.

I am hoping for Rebels but expect it to be Clone Wars.

We have probably most of the Lego games. Star Wars 1-6, Marvel Superheroes 1 and 2, several Batman, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings. The only one we have not really liked was LotR. We did not get far. The early levels were gimmicky rather than the normal sort of open level with puzzles, and we got lost in the between levels and could not figure out how to find the next level. So we gave up.

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I second this. I like AR for the animations and general abilities. The snipe is just much slower than other sets and I hesitate to use it in combat because it takes so long.

so everyone will be on a bio break?

I will have to check it out. The only superhero novel I have read is the Reckoners series - which is people hunting down supervillains, not actually superheroes. Are there other good ones in the genre?

My view on power creep is simple. Taking the top tier builds. Anything that makes them more powerful is power creep. Anything that makes other sets more powerful but not better than the top tier builds is not power creep. I would love to see power decreased dramatically - but that would mean nerfing top tier sets and IOs. Not leaving underpowered sets languishing out of fear that they will become better.

I agree. But those should be the powers you get at higher levels. The ones you get at lower levels should be the core powers you use all of the time. Dark gets Tar Patch at level 1 and Darkest Night at level 2, and Howling Twilight at level 6. If instead they got Shadow Fall, Petrifying Gaze, and Fearsome Stare at first it would make sense. But getting a power at 2nd level that you use for AV fights feels wrong. Rad gets Radiant Infection at level 1 and Enervating Field at level 6. I would think those would be core powers to be used all of the time.

I play mostly controllers. So I am using control powers rather than damage. I can see if you are a defender and debuffing is what you do that you take the time to put in the debuffs.

I love the dark defender set. But I find that I almost never use tar patch or darkest night. They take so long to apply that I just do not find them worth it. Tar patch I can use from around the corner, so I use it on builds that have a rain I can drop around a corner,. Darkest night I use on AVs and that's basically it. My problem is that the start of the fight is usually the most important. If you survive that, the rest is more of a grind. Fearsome stare is great at the start - to hit debuff and fear and it applies quickly. I play almost exclusively in the 10's and 20's, no 40+ game, no IOs. So this is not a question of the enemies being defeated too quickly for debuffs to matter. This is a question of the debuffs taking so long to apply they miss the crucial start of the fight and are not worth activating compared to other powers I can use. Are people using the long activation (over 2 second) debuffs on dark, rad, and other sets in normal gameplay?

<Being among - if indeed not the most herself - the top spellcasters in Middle Earth, she had no real need for sword and armor. > Was Gandalf a weak spellcaster who needed a sword? Or is the argument that she did not need a sword so she should not wield one more to do with opposing equity and equality than anything that can be found in the Tolkien writings?

Gandalf fought with a sword.

I just finished The Vampire Academy first book. It's vampires at school, but more action and intrigue than society although there is that. I am also reading The Twenty Sided Sorceress series - urban fantasy. Similar feel to Kate Daniels series. I am having a hard time finding good sci-fi since I finished The Academy series - nearish future space exploration and pretty hard sci-fi (Priscilla Hutchins) and the Murderbot Diaries (about a security cyborg who goes rogue). If you like magic and mystery, I also just finished the Esther Diamond series. Which is about a stage actress in NYC who discovers that magic and monsters are real. Each book is a mystery with her investigating a different type of monster. They are very funny. for autobiography I just finished The Boys by Ron Howard and his brother. A very entertaining book. It has no big story, just tons of little stories about their lives as child actors through their adult careers.

The more I see of this the less interested I am. It seems like the goal is to make it confusing and tedious rather than a superhero show. Maybe that's just hype and how they think they can sell it. Grimmud is worse than grimdark.