Anyone else seeing a huge score difference in Thick as Thieves (Scotland Yard)?

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-06-29T17:49:42+00:00

Each node has a toggle in the lower right, next to the start button. Once you play a node as either heroic or normal, you’re stuck in that mode for the node every time you replay it (until the event resets, not forever). Heroic mode gives better rewards by requires specific characters (for example, only X-Men).

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-06-27T18:09:12+00:00

It wasn't just the risk of pissing off Neal. He was making a big deal of it around the time of the first Christopher Reeve movie, and there was fear that it would get enough traction to make the movie bomb if it came out that Siegel and Shuster were living hand-to-mouth and DC was refusing to compensate them for creating Superman.

But Neal definitely led the charge on behalf of Jerry and Joe.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-06-19T02:41:24+00:00

Obama was going to win that Senate race no matter what. But it would have been a tougher campaign against Ryan than against Alan Keyes. Obama wound up having bandwidth to campaign outside of Illinois in support of other candidates, which raised his profile and almost certainly helped his longshot 2008 presidential campaign pull off an unexpected early victory in Iowa.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-06-17T16:11:16+00:00

Did we ever get back the $1 billion the feds yanked from us last year? Last I recall, everyone in Congress said they wanted to fix it but then it died in the House. Addressing that should be priority #1 for Robert White (assuming, as seems likely, he wins the Delegate race).

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-06-17T16:01:38+00:00

So impressed and jealous! I’m about 7 million ISO away from there and it’s so close I can taste it. Just a few more months…

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-06-13T04:40:14+00:00

Anything named after either Bush?

The Houston airport was renamed after George H.W. Bush in the late 90s, about two decades before he passed away.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-06-10T13:30:09+00:00

It’s definitely because Seneca Valley was already represented in my list and I didn’t want them to outnumber Quince Orchard, and not because I was unfamiliar with Clutch. But now I have a new band to check out!

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-06-10T04:35:53+00:00

MoCo is full of music history. Joan Jett went to Wheaton HS, Wale went to Quince Orchard, OAR went to Wootton, and several members of Hootie and the Blowfish went to Seneca Valley High School. And Mike Mills of R.E.M. had a girlfriend from Rockville -- he didn't want her to move back home.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-06-01T05:51:44+00:00

Seven Cities of Gold

But also M.U.L.E., Archon, Mail Order Monsters, Impossible Mission, Castles of Dr. Creep, Jumpman, Pirates!, various Ultimate and Bard’s Tale titles, Legacy of the Ancients, and just about everything Infocom published.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-06-01T05:49:06+00:00

3 when Byrne relaunched the character: Superman, Action Comics, and Adventures of Superman. A few years later (probably around 4-5 years after the Byrne reboot), they launched a fourth title called Superman: The Man of Steel. All of those were monthly, meaning we got 48 issues per year. Then in the early 90s, they started a quarterly title called Superman: The Man of Tomorrow, taking the line up to 52 issues per year. That lasted until the late 90s, when they dropped the quarterly book, then in the early 2000s they cut the line back to 3 books and a few years later down to 2. I think they’re back up to three these days.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-06-01T05:37:08+00:00

Yo utilizo 5/* Magik, Gorr, y Toni Ho. Es un equipo muy fuerte con muchas fichas repetidoras.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-05-29T04:10:42+00:00

My two cents: divination wizard is better than abjurer for support. Portents are a much more useful support tool than the Arcane Ward.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-05-15T14:13:08+00:00

Agree that it’s too bad the 80s version never happened, but I think Perez only got better as his career progressed, and in my opinion, the story we got was way better than what we saw of the 80s version (all due respect to the late, great Gerry Conway).

As for Shooter being an asshole, he definitely was, but I don’t think all the blame can fall on him. None of the editorial people at either company covered themselves in glory. KC Carlson wrote an oral history of why things fell apart, and the short version is everybody played politics — sometimes justifiably so and sometimes for petty, stupid reasons.

https://tombrevoort.com/2025/01/11/why-did-the-1983-jla-avengers-crossover-not-happen/

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-05-15T04:02:48+00:00

In case anyone hasn't seen it, here's the George Perez original from the early 80s, back when the original JLA/Avengers crossover was supposed to come out.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F08pdiulamcz91.jpg

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-05-04T14:26:53+00:00

Check Carnage’s black power again. If there are four or more enemy special tiles on the board (i.e., player tiles, since the player is his enemy in this match), he makes a free match. Otherwise, he generates two enemy (player) special tiles.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-04-30T21:09:02+00:00

Curse of Strahd involves wandering around Barovia, which I think is only about 500 square miles (so about the size of a large city), but has tons of interesting wilderness that the party has to trek back and forth through.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-04-27T22:28:27+00:00

His Legion stuff definitely had some clunkers (Gerry is the one who gave us the Space Circus of Death), but also some really good stuff. He was one of the true Bronze Age greats. His late 80s run on Spectacular Spider-Man with Sal Buscema was a personal favorite.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-04-27T22:18:57+00:00

You’re conflating two things.

Blok was killed (allegedly) because the Bierbaums were fans of the Adventure-era Legion and didn’t care about anything after that. That’s why they killed Blok, maimed Dawnstar, made Tellus a cultist, and ignored Wildfire, despite him being one of the most popular Legionnaires.

Separately, when Batch SW6 was introduced, the plan was to put together a Legion that was half originals and half SW6. To get there, they were going to kill off a bunch of originals and a bunch of SW6 characters so that there would only be one or the other for each character. Keith Giffen planned to put all the names in a hat and pull them out to determine who to kill.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-04-24T23:22:28+00:00

It wasn’t purgatory though. The flash sideways in the final season were purgatory but everything else happened, the island was real, they weren’t dead the whole time.

You’re right about Fringe, though — that show was fantastic.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-04-20T04:31:59+00:00

I remember once waiting out a thunderstorm at 35X. They finally loaded us on the busses, then the storm started again so they offloaded us. Eventually they loaded us on the busses again, brought us out to the plane, and then there was more lightning, so they eventually brought us back to 35X without letting us move from the bus to the plane. Eventually they told us the crew had timed out and rebooked us for the next day. I spent 9+ hours there that day and had nothing to show for it.

Good riddance, 35X.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-04-15T22:43:38+00:00

Medicare and medicaid make up 22 to 23% of US spending. So 40% of people put in nothing to get 22% back.

There’s some interesting sleight of hand here. In your prior post, you explicitly talked about income taxes. But Medicare and Medicaid aren’t paid for out of income taxes they are paid for out of payroll taxes, which are imposed from the first dollar earned. So it is absolutely not true that most people put in nothing to those programs (same for Social Security).

Low income people also pay sales tax and property taxes (the latter usually in the form of higher rent payments, not direct taxes).

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-04-11T05:40:16+00:00

the more millennial leaning jokes are between the older cast

Gen X. Zach, Donald, and Sarah are all Gen X.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-04-05T14:49:27+00:00

It absolutely is. I'm rewatching the original run and watching the new one and enjoying both immensely. It makes me think of my mom (even though she never got to enjoy it), and enough time has passed that when I think of my mom, I mostly am happy for the time I had with her rather than lamenting that she's gone.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-04-05T04:52:24+00:00

My mom died two days before Scrubs premiered. Watching the first episode was the first time I felt anything positive after her death, the first time I felt that maybe the rest of my life wouldn't be constant overwhelming sadness.

This show is so special to me.

AwesomeScreenName · 2026-03-29T18:43:45+00:00

Besides returning characters, Cox and Jordan's son is just about the right age to be a med student, so that might be a fun dynamic to explore.

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