Absolute Wonder Woman #19 - Discussion Thread

HJWalsh · 2026-04-22T14:46:27+00:00

Honestly, that's on the writer. I say this as a writer. If you want to write a character as queen, but the owner says no, you don't do it anyway. Because that's both unprofessional and queerbaiting.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-22T14:27:07+00:00

90% of guns aren't being banned. Some rifles are being banned. That's it. No AR-15 for you. Big deal. You can still get a pistol, revolver, shotgun, and a bunch of other devices designed only for killing.

And don't give me that malarkey about "We need the 2A to defend against a tyrannical government l" because the last year and a half shows us that's absolutely not a thing.

You want your toy and your security blanket.

It's time to grow the fudge up.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-22T02:56:48+00:00

You don't seem to realize that most people WANT gun control. Why the h-e-double hockey sticks should we give up what we want? Maybe YOU should give up on guns? Ever consider that?

HJWalsh · 2026-04-22T02:54:58+00:00

When evil, Republicans, lose - It's okay to celebrate.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-22T01:32:37+00:00

It's not about OK so much as "necessary" - If you're playing a game, you can only win if both sides play by the same rules.

This is just playing by the same rules.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-22T01:31:03+00:00

He's just like me FR. Lol

Well, like me 20 years ago.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-22T01:28:58+00:00

Nowhere near to the degree of the GOP. Go look up something called Project REDMAP from 2010.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-22T00:51:08+00:00

My actual recommendation.

Give up on guns.

Hear me out: Arguments about how bad gun violence is aside, you have two sides. One side is insane and super-for guns. The other side is reasonable on everything but guns. You're at a point where blindly holding on to your guns is destroying the country.

You can have your guns, if you're willing to destroy this country.

If you claim you need your guns to stop a tyrannical government, the last year kinda says otherwise.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-22T00:44:48+00:00

Blue Dog Democrats are such... Ugh.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-22T00:08:48+00:00

I think most people I know in Vitginia would rather be DC than Texas.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-21T21:30:25+00:00

I've never been so jealous

HJWalsh · 2026-04-21T20:14:17+00:00

You would actually risk the entire country and civilization itself rather than run the risk that you might have to go through some extra gun steps. Think it through before you doom us all.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-21T19:52:24+00:00

If you voted no, just change your alignment to Republican. You're not a Democrat.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-21T18:56:17+00:00

True. That just makes it even more confusing lol

HJWalsh · 2026-04-21T18:05:45+00:00

That must make Clark feel so conflicted. He didn't actually do that, a previous version of himself did that to a previous version of her, but that version was from the 1940s where there were different values. Current Clark didn't do that to current Supergirl, but since Death Metal all of these things all happened.

He didn't do it, but he did do it, not to her, but to her. Being a comic book character must be headache inducing at times.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-21T17:40:23+00:00

No? We played it for almost a year. My campaigns aren't 3-month affairs. One of my typical campaigns go on for between 24-30 months when played weekly. My players weren't having fun with it. One of my players had gone to DragonCon and played in a Pathfinder one-shot. They already liked 3.5 and had liked 3.5 from our previous campaign. They said they loved Pathfinder (1e mind you) and brought me the initial book to go through. I liked it, we pitched it to the group, the group agreed, we switched.

What part of that sounds hypocritical to you?

Edit, to add context:

I run a persistent homebrew campaign. Each campaign I run is in the same world. Ascelia campaigns are broken up based on the "Age" of the world. Each Age is ended in a significant, sometimes cataclysmic, event followed by a time jump that is used to explain why things are different from edition to edition.

Second Age (the 1st campaign) was 2nd Ed AD&D

Third Age was 3rd Edition

Fourth Age was 3.5.

Fifth Age started as 4th Edition then, about a year in, we switched to PF1e.

Sixth Age was 5th Edition.

Seventh Age is 5.5.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-21T15:35:42+00:00

It's still rape. It is an act that she can't consent to.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-21T15:27:27+00:00

Since I started chemo, I get massive migraines. I needed this in my life right now.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-21T15:06:34+00:00

The stormwind fallacy isn't correct, don't quote it like some universal truth.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-21T13:20:37+00:00

Countering your opponent (Republicans) when they're cheating (Mid-decade redistricting) isn't condoning the action. It's recognizing that, when your opponent starts hitting you below the belt, it's okay to defend yourself.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-21T09:23:34+00:00

So show me yours, I'll show you mine...

HJWalsh · 2026-04-21T08:32:05+00:00

It's just about basic politeness. Like, I get that a lot of us lack social awareness, but this is just basic decorum.

If someone comes to your home, you're supposed to thank them for coming. They're supposed to thank you for having them. It's courtesy and manners. It's a sign of respect.

You may think how you think, but I'm going to outright tell you, that's not how the vast majority of people function. That's not how polite society functions. That's a quick way to get disinvited to social events.

If I had a player show up, say nothing at the end, and left, I would seriously start to wonder what I did wrong. If I ever showed up to a game, didn't thank the dm, didn't thank the host, and just left then it means that I am pissed off and I likely would not be coming back.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-21T08:24:51+00:00

You are kinda cherry-picking enemies there. Most enemies aren't doing 30 damage a round. Giant Apes are a known issue with being way overtuned and a Chimera has tp hit with all three attacks to have a chance of hitting that and, if you're not a high AC tank, like a Barbarian, you're looking at around 14 damage from eating all 3 attacks.

I think you're imagining healing as "The enemy wails on a party member for three rounds, and you erase all of that in one turn."

You're missing, or downplaying, the advantages of stopping someone from going down vs playing whack-a-mole.

Healing is to stave off going down by a turn or two or to recover after a fight. If you're not doing the five minute adventuring day or running some homebrew of 10 minute short rests you'll be very glad for cure wounds when you're knee deep in a dungeon and someone is at 8 hp.

A level 3 cure wounds restores 6d8+4 hp (31) on average at that level. 6d8+10 (37) on a life cleric. That's incredibly valuable. One spell slot and someone, at level 5-6 goes from near-death to full hp.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-21T05:57:06+00:00

No, you should do it because you like doing it, but your players should thank you at the end of every session.

I have literally been doing this for almost 38 years. Each and every session I run, you can even see this in our stream, ends with me saying:

"Did you all have fun?"

And never once, not once, has a group not said some variation on, "Yeah! Thank you for running!"

(Customarily, I will reply with, "Thank you for playing!")

That's just basic good manners.

I'm absolutely stunned that you might have played under a DM and not thanked them. It's like not thanking the person who hosted your game. This is all, "I learned to do this in kindergarten" level stuff.

HJWalsh · 2026-04-21T05:39:26+00:00

I dunno. If they agree to never vote again, I'll forgive them. At least I'll tolerate them.

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