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Hence the truly Pharaonic cola with high alligator content and a bite to it, Croco-Cola.

Bet the next question is "Wait... Who's WRITING these darn spellbooks? Is it someone malevolent trying to turn the world into a magical free-for-all brawl with heroes and villains?"

Well, I know how to code and I know unity, but I can't do art to save my life and ... I don't understand what a parkour computer game would actually entail ...
 
If we did make it it would have to be a squirrel character with a physics tail ... 

If we go by the average of ages my family has died, the summit would be less than 40. Lord knows we've started greying well before then.
That said...

This was the entire creed of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What made Buffy the most effective Slayer ever wasn't her being particularly powerful. It was her ability to form a team around herself and make use of its talents.

A few comments about characters and power level.
Relative power level of characters is mainly relevant in a heavily action-oriented comic. This is not what EGS is. EGS is a sort of supernatural slice of life where characters, their development and the social challenges they face are of far greater importance than any action scene. In both 'Sister' stories, the villain (Goo, Abraham) was backdrop to the character development. In Painted Black, Damien's near invincibility was mainly important because of the effect it and his sociopathy had on the other characters. More recently, the power levels of the characters proved completely irrelevant when Ashley settled the conflict by use of a well-aimed football and a few well chosen words.
EGS is an intelligent comic. It is not Liefeld-esque action where power level acts as a substitute for plot and characterisation. Again and again we see how thinking wins out over raw power. There is no danger of power levels ever shoving a character aside as long as it is inspiration and cleverness that ends up saving the day. And even Lord of the Rings, with Gandalf chosen as example of someone 'overpowered', ended up having the day saved not by power but by two acts of mercy and the simple dedication of hobbits, the true everymen of Middle-Earth.
Comics and stories that let power level dominate them are of a completely different breed. I am not saying that they are necessarily bad, mind you. They can be, but this is most often due to lazy writing or the author falling too much in love with their Mary Sues/Marty Stus. In order for power levels to truly get out of control, the individuals in question must not only have vast power but also unusual reach in time and space as well as at least semi-omniscient knowledge. A Superman is not a problem as long as he can be distracted or mistaken. But if you give him the ability to go anywhere in no time as well as full and constant knowledge of what is happening, he becomes impossible to compensate for in any way that makes sense.
A good example of this was the Forgotten Realms as marketed by TSR. They had a bunch of NPCs called the Seven Sisters as well as Elminster himself. All of them were, individually or together, near or completely invincible. They could all teleport and several of them had impossibly powerful divination spells. TSR's stated purpose was to make a world where 'good always won' so as to not worry parents about what sort of game their children were playing. What they created was a world where no action taken had any meaning whatsoever because even if the world were coming to an end, Superelminster and his Super Friends would always swoop in to save the day. By removing evil's ability to pose a threat, the Gods of Evil themselves held all the menace of Team Rocket or possibly of Ellen back when she thought she was evil. And at the end of the day, any actions the player characters might take would at best be viewed with indulgent amusement by the TSR-driven Mary Sues of the Realms because the PCs had saved them like thirty seconds of light work by saving the world.
But this is not EGS, and arguing about 'overpowered' characters makes about as much sense in Dan's stories as it does to discuss character development in a Liefeld comic.

Didn't I say she would know it was irrational?  Sometimes feelings happen, whether they're logical or not, and I can definitely see Susan recognizing such feelings are happening, and consciously working to not let them affect her actions.

Pretty much everyone nerds out about something. It's just that nobody admits it's nerding out when the "something" is sports, auto mechanics, or a few other select subjects.

If God had meant for us to be nude in public, we would have been born that way!

It's adorable to see Diane geeking out like this, even if she does deny it.
How she justifies seeing this film to Lucy, despite it's "dorky" origins, is interesting though. It's because it is a big-budget blockbuster. In other words: it is commercially successful.
Too many people sadly think like this. For them, films and other artforms are only worthy of respect if they make money, not because of what they mean for the audience. It's such a pitiful way of thinking.

It would be as if the abdomen was a pointillism painting.

or 4. The distance shown in the TFG's manual would have shown the range in whatever unit of measurement Uryuoms use, and Tedd just converted it into feet probably by measuring the beam himself, though considering Uryuoms have been on Earth for at least a couple generations, an Uryuom>Earthling conversion system has likely been figured out and now we have metric, imperial, and Uryuomocco.

The so-called "good-aligned" pronouns are old and broken.  More concerned with maintaining the status quo than accurately expressing ideas.  Impotent at best, hypocrites at worst, they remind me of the Jedi Council.

I'm with Dan here: Not everyone cares about what gender they are, but for those who do care? Show them the respect they deserve.

Eh. Back in the Pharaoh's day, CDs were made of clay, inscribed in Coptic cursive and they played them on alligator drives. (You made the alligator open its mouth, inserted the CD (clay disc) and then forced the jaws closed again. Then you used a watermill for the power to spin the disc. (This drive system resulted in alligator dentists making a lot of money.))

That's the whole point of trigger warnings, really -- to allow people to discuss sensitive subjects, yet provide a layer of protection for people who might be harmed by those discussions.  The alternatives would either be total censorship, not allowing discussion of those topics at all, or having discussions come up without any warning, potentially causing severe harm to people who have already been severely traumatized.  They're the opposite of saying you shouldn't bring up a subject!
There's an old and cynical saying, "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."  The version that would apply here is, perhaps, "Never attribute to malice what could be adequately explained by people genuinely needing protection."  Give people the benefit of the doubt.  You'll find you're living in a better world when you see it from that perspective.

Even though I disagree strongly, I respect the courage Dan has shown here.
I was raised to believe that those who claimed to prefer "mild" seasoning were culinary wimps.  I may have been wrong about that broad generalization.
But I still contend that those in the highest levels of the food service business have done a disservice to their customers by not including Spicy AND Sweet as a standard option.

This is something I have learned about moderating: it is, in essence, purely negative. It can restrict and shut down but it cannot on its own contribute or improve. Positive contributions all stem from the posters themselves. For that reason I try to exercise as much restraint as I can.
I have more than once been criticised for moderating too aggressively or being too restrictive. I regret that but I must rely on my judgment and experience, imperfect and incomplete as they may be. I do not wish a return to the toxic state these forums once suffered from and if I see anything even resembling a step in that direction I intervene, preferably with a gentle nudge but with direct action if I have to.
That being said, I repeat that the current positive state of the forums is to be credited to the posters here and I am glad to see people having such a good time.

Well, having a moderator who cares about maintaining calm discussion (in the sense of "steer discussions back to civility when they start to stray", as opposed to "immediately shut down any discussion that starts producing flames") makes us want to maintain the environment as well. It's sort of like how when one is in a relatively well-maintained place, one is more likely to spontaneously pick up a random piece of litter and thus contribute to the cleanliness, as opposed to a place that is much more dirty. Basically, an inverse "broken window effect".

CDs do have two advantages over LPs that have nothing to do with sound quality
1.  They make decent roadside and dance hall reflectors
2.  While an LP can sail farther if thrown Frisbee style, a CD can be thrown with greater speed and accuracy making it a superior annoyance weapon.  (You DID hold on to all those AOL CDs you received in the 1990s as an ammunition stockpile.  Didn't you?)

Trigger warnings and content notes are there to protect readers and users who may suffer from trauma related to the topic. The fact that certain people mock them or deliberately misuse them in an attempt to discredit them does not change that. I have friends who benefit from and appreciate properly applied content notes and I am convinced that if properly used, they add to the safety and comfort of vulnerable users.

Hopefully you're not saying that while someone's arguing with you, that could be counter productive.

We should get these people to the argument clinic
 

and then as a twist (almost) nobody sees coming, Sister 3 turns out to be about Grace and Vladia.