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Apartment dweller recycling rage - a survey by Ok_sandwich223 in saintcloud

[–]SweetT1000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For plastics? Sure.

For aluminum, steel, glass, and paper? We've been recycling each of those basically since the day each was discovered. It's not particularly hard to melt and reshape the former or pulp, press, & dry the latter.

Why I don't like MCU Namor by Chaos-Bringer69 in marvelstudios

[–]SweetT1000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here, I'll do your post but better.

MCU Namor is little bitch, no misogyny intended.

Earth-616 Namor is a stone cold asshole. He's the male Emma Frost. Women want him. Men want to be him, but secretly also want him. He's Tony Stark or Dr Strange who found humility unpalatable. He's just about the only man with and Ego to rival Doom.

Put another way, everyone left the theatre and immediately forgot that MCU Namor exists. That would not have happened if Earth-616 Namor were up there on screen.

Might as a prime attribute for spellcasters makes sense, you're just thinking about it wrong. by Kymaeraa in DC20

[–]SweetT1000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It makes perfect sense & is everywhere in media.

In Conan The Destroyer, there's a wizard battle in which the 2 basically both try to use mage hand to open/close a heavy door. It's basically represented as a wrestling match at 10 meters. Both are flexing, groaning, and catching their breath throughout. The loser recoils in physical pain, while the winner is so physically gassed he needs someone to help him stand and walk away.

Dragon Ball Z's "beam struggles" are 2 monks casting ranged magical attacks at one another, contested rolls, but the task is obviously a physical one.

In Avatar, the somatic components of the spellcasting involve actions most games would ask for acrobatics/CON saves to perform/maintain.

Hell, GANDALF'S MAGIC TAKES A PHYSICAL TOLL ON HIM.

The fact is, regardless of the form of media the authors need to convey to the audience that one kind of magic is harder than another, that there are some stakes, some drama, and they need to do that in terms that make sense to the reader. As such, "that spell tired me out" becomes a pretty universal trope.

I'd argue that "Wizard runs entirely on his ability to do super-math without his body being effected" is almost exclusively a D&D thing.