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Thanks everyone. ^^ Eric, if you find the time, I'm sure an additional review is appreciated to spread the word.

If you'd like to see more women represented, encourage the women in your life to participate.

I honestly try to get my wife to play anything. Monopoly Deal is the closest I can get her to my type of cards. Roleplaying is right out and so are my favorite board games. But she is my Editor In Chief!

As all little girls do when you scare them..she screamed for her Mom. Got me grounded for a weekend, but at least I got the satisfaction of knowing she didn't sleep for two nights...lol

I just wanted to stop by and thank everyone there at Paizo for these generous donations to our company! We'll be coming by to do free tire rotations for the whole office sometime in the next couple weeks. This was a totally unexpected gift!

So you're saying if I buy a case of minis today, it'll come up on my credit card bill as "DESPINOS TIRE SERVICE MANSFIELD", and I can tell my wife the $300 was for new tires?

AWESOME!

It's getting close to Superstar 2012 time. And I am getting excited. For those who don't know, I'm back in the fold as a judge this year. Woohoo!

Can't wait...

Clark

As some one who was skeptical of the OWS movement when it began, I'm impressed by how it has shifted the economic narrative in the US from national debt to income equality. The movement has its problems (the attraction of "professional activists," hipsters, anarchists, and other social piranha), but raising awareness about our country's third-world income disparity is a great achievement.

Schools need a blanket "leave me the hell alone" order from some kids to the others. The kids are required to be there, they don't have a choice, they shouldn't have to interact with people or put up with someone elses hangups. Its not free speech when you have a captive audience.

Removed a post and its replies. We really, really, really are tired of the edition war nonsense. Play the games you want to play, and don't denigrate others because of their preferred game system.

Personally I think Marvel having two seperate universe the regular MU and the Ultimates to me was actually a smart move.

I really do think that the Ultimates universe came around for two reasons;

1) To reconceptualize the characters so that they could be made more 'cinematic' for eventual movie adaptations. Hence we have an Iron Man design that looks more like Ultimate Iron Man, Sam Jackson as Nick Fury instead of David Hasslehoff (shudder), Captain America wearing his strappy Ultimate uniform instead of the 'chainmail' (that was always drawn as scalemail anyway), Hawkeye and Black Widow as founding Avengers, etc.

2) To allow writers who are current fan-favorites, big fans of deconstructing heroes (and never remembering to build them back up afterwards, since their only real talent is petulantly destroying decades-old properties that better writers have created), and hate, hate, hate the idea of 'good-guys' or 'superheroes' to write their beloved dystopian jackbooted thugs and violent jerks and sociopathic freaks, without actually getting their hands on the 'real' Captain America, Hawkeye, etc.

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And yeah, I think DC would have benefitted from doing the same thing. Instead of turning Wonder Woman into a head-cutting-off hardcore pragmatist (she who came to 'man's world' as an ambassador of peace, to show us a better way), they could have taken the uglier storylines of the last decade or so, and put them into an 'Ultimate DC' line, where Superman is a disaffected emo alien, who is more terrifyingly in his very real sense of alienation than inspiring, and Wonder Woman comes from a sword-happy martial culture and Batman likes to break legs by way of teaching someone a lesson and Dr. Rape (sorry, Dr. Light) likes to sexually assault and / or murder supporting characters and teenaged heroes.

There's been a number of writers in the last decade who seem to virulently loathe the entire concept of the superhero, and have taken every opportunity they've been given to tear down, deconstruct and 'dirty up' every character they've gotten their hands on.

Deconstruction is a valid storytelling tool, when it's used to build someone up, after tearing them down. But these deconstructionists seem to always forget to fix what they've broken, leaving me with the impression that they are just upset that creators decades ago have crafted lasting characters, and all they can do is smash other people's toys in frustration, as they lack the ability to create anything so lasting, so inspiring or so iconic.

I removed some post. It'd be great if the edition wars could stay dead.

Even if the edition war died, the undead I think would still fight it. :)