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I don't think "annoyed" or "embarrassed" are the main reason Susan is blushing right now. Something else starting with an "a"....

I did similarly. I had characters with deep stories, sketches of stories and experiments in powerset combinations. As I contemplate a midlife shift from the tech sector to writer, I find my pen and paper RPG characters and my CoH characters are a great reserve of story characters.

I can't recall having any arguments with my characters, but that's partially because I generally just let them do whatever they want, and partially because when I do have a particular outcome in mind I'm not afraid to go back in time and play around with the course of history (i.e., rewrite/revise) until I find one with the results I want. (Although changing history does have it's risks; it's amazing how easy it is to create plot holes that way...)

I vaguely remember reading suggestions that the human radio signal has already gotten quieter than it once was. That is certainly at least somewhat plausible. Between developing more and more sensitive radio receivers (so we don't need to broadcast as loudly in order to hear ourselves), using directional antennas for efficiency (so we aren't broadcasting equally loudly in all directions, just as loudly as we need to in the direction we care about plus some quieter slop), and replacing some of our necessarily-loudest broadcasts - e.g. transatlantic communications - with cables and fiber-optics (so those transmitters are turned off).

Also, again, it presupposes that radio will be the go-to method of communication of any sapient species. Humanity has used radio transmissions for only about a century. It remains possible that some technological development will supersede radio as means of communication at some point. Tightly focused directional transmissions of some kind might become possible or desirable. This is not to say that listening for radio is futile, merely that there might be different things to look for as well that we simply have not thought of as yet. The Freefall webcomic posited another possibility to look for. Mind you, personally I am with Winston on that one.

Oh Lord. I just realised. Kevin is a teacher. He is a teacher from an older system of magic. He can single-handedly revive an entire system of magic that has been dead for centuries. Or maybe single-wandedly.

I loved this spell as well. I'd spam it endlessly. There was this one time where I was really badly hurt after a massive fight and then a monster I'd missed started to come for me and I thought, "Well, I'm toast." Then somewhere in the distance there was a squeak as some creature died from residual charged bolt spam and I leveled up, instantly returning to full health and mana. And then that monster was toast instead. I still resent Blizzard passing my character the idiot ball at the end of the game, though. They could just as well have had some surviving NPC do it, but nooooooo.

I think I'm married to her.

Totally agree. How can I completely clean the dungeon when the enemies keep reappearing? It's so untidy ...

I have a headache that isn't responding to my drugs, I stubbed my toe and I have two kinds of butt hurt. I'm calling it a day and going back to bed.