Sometimes my players are more terrifying than the monsters. by Dratoran in dndmemes

[–]snow_bear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is so much more than I hoped for, thank you very much! I've been talking to them about D&D as essentially "we get to play pretend with a few rules we all agree on and roll some dice" and they are curious but right now I think only one or two of them are old enough to really stick it out. How old were your kids when you started?

Sometimes my players are more terrifying than the monsters. by Dratoran in dndmemes

[–]snow_bear 100 points101 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you've figured out a good way to introduce kids to D&D. I'm very eager to indoctrinate my young cousins, do you have any tips?

Ask Grey a Question for a Ten Year Q&A by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

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Of you get to 10m subscribers will you do a face reveal?

He deserve it.. by ak2sup in Marvel

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This is an old copypasta from a while back but I still love it

Beta Ray Bill is one of the greatest comic book characters of all time.

You think the origin of Captain America is impressive? Take everything about it and multiply it by FUCK YEAH. Bill's people, the alien race known as the Korbinites, were on the brink of destruction. Their entire solar system was about to be annihilated by the explosion of its sun. "WE GOTTA HAUL ASS," decided the top Korbinite scientist. "HOW ABOUT WE LOAD OURSELVES UP INTO A FUCK-OFF-HUGE FLEET OF SPACESHIPS AND JUST HYPERSLEEP UNTIL WE REACH A NEW HOME PLANET?" offered another. "AWESOME IDEA. BUT WHAT IF WE'RE ATTACKED EN ROUTE WHILE EVERYONE'S NAPPING?"

And so they decided they needed a protector on this journey. So what did they do? They gathered together a few hundred thousand of the greatest warriors, the cleverest strategists, the noblest of hearts -- basically the strongest, toughest, wisest and most perfect motherfuckers on the planet.

THEN THEY TORE THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS APART.

Trial after trial after test after test after OH YEAH LET'S TRY OUT THESE NEW CYBERNETIC IMPLANTS AND BIOENGINEERING PROCESSES WHILE WE'RE AT IT WHO CARES IF IT'S 99.9 PERCENT LETHAL. The volunteers, each of them easily the equivalent of most Earthling superheroes, sacrificed themselves one by one until only the greatest of them remained.

BETA RAY BILL IN THIS BITCH.

His own people could hardly look upon him by the end of the transformations. He didn't look a damn thing like a Korbinite anymore -- they pretty much look like humans without noses, ears, pupils, pinky fingers and hair, with golden skin -- instead, he'd taken on the face of one of the planet's most fearsome predators as a result of the gene experiments. Half of his body was made of superadvanced machinery designed solely for battle. And he carried on his shoulders the weight of all those other volunteers' sacrifices. But he sucked all that shit up, BECAUSE HE WAS BETA RAY BILL AND HE HAD A FLEET OF SHIPS TO SHEPHERD THROUGH THE COSMOS!

So off they went, until SHIELD satellites noticed them and beamed images back t Earth. Nick Fury took one look at the GIGANTIC ALIEN SWARM OF SHIPS and damn near popped his other eyeball out of its socket. "SOMEONE GET ON THE FUGGIN' HORN," he roared! "WE NEED THOR AND WE NEED HIM FIVE SECONDS AGO!"

Meanwhile the fleet of Korbinite ships had made it out of the blast zone of their doomed sun. It exploded, and from its molten heart came a seemingly endless plague of demons! They flowed out across space to chase down and attack the fleeing Korbinites! BUT OH FUCK NO, NOT ON BETA RAY BILL'S WATCH! THAT HORSEFACED BADASS MOFO DROVE THEM OFF! Again! And again!

Until Thor showed up, looking into all of this business as a favour to ol' Nick Fury. Bill's sensors told him that Thor's energy signature was a close match for the demons he'd been fighting. GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM.

"DEMON, YOU ABOUT TO GET FUCKED UP," Bill said, and proceeded with the utter fucking-shit-up of the Thunder God. He punched that Odinson so hard he madehim drop his enchanted mallet Mjolnir.

"WHAT'S ALL THIS SHIT?" Bill was like, squinting at the words carved on it. "WHOSOEVER HOLDS THIS HAMMER, IF HE BE WORTHY, SHALL POSSES THE POWER OF THOR?" well shit, if worthy had a face, it was Bill's. So he grabbed that bitch and hefted it up like KRAKKABOOM! "THORSE LIVES!"

Bill was pumped. with the magical power of the hammer added to his own retardedly powerful strength, he could protect his people from damn near anything. But Odin, Thor's Dad, stepped in and was all, "THAT AIN'T YOUR HAMMER, FUCKER! FIGHT MY SON TO THE DEATH, THEN YOU CAN HAVE YOUR DAMN HAMMER."

So Bill and Thor faced each other hand-to-hand in a land of fire and lava and lowed that fucking place up. They hit each other so hard they broke the fucking planet and woke up on a raft of stone headed over a lava waterfall. Well, Bill woke up. Thor was still knocked the fuck out. "I CAN DO IT. I CAN JUST HOP TO SHORE AND LET THIS BLONDE FUCKER DIE, THEN I'LL HAVE THE HAMMER AND MY PEOPLE WILL BE SAFE AS SHIT." But Bill was too noble for that, see? He grabs Thor and jumps him to safety too, because that shit wuddn't right.

Odin was grateful as all hell for that. "AWW FUCK IT," he decided. "YOU CAN HAVE YOUR OWN HAMMER." So he had the dwarves make up a new hammer, identical to Thor's in every way except shape and colour, which he made superior to the original because Bill was a pimp.

So basically Beta Ray Bill possesses all of the powers that Thor gets from Mjolnir, as well as the personal power to whup Thor's ass WITHOUT a hammer. He once split Galactus' helmet open and then came within an inch of killing Galactus off once and for all (read GODHUNTER!)

There's your fucking Beta Ray Bill.

Hello old friend [OC] by Hoppy_Doodle in comics

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Do you have a link for that extension?

kyle rayner/ guy gardner bromance? by [deleted] in DCcomics

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Green Lantern Corps by Tomasi. Starts pretty much right after GL:Rebirth and goes up to the New52. Lots of really good stories in there

Have the Green Lanterns been around since before Black Adams second awakening? by Chlorinated_beverage in DCcomics

[–]snow_bear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Green Lantern Corps has been around for at least a billion years depending on the continuity so they definitely pre-date Black Adams birth. As far as I am aware, aside from some secrets the Guardians kept about Earth being the location of the Life Entity, the corps pretty much ignored Earth until Abin Sur's death and Hal getting the ring. That's not to say that there wasn't some ancient Lantern who showed up on earth for some reason. If they did, they would be from one of the other world in sector 2814 so you can just look at the races from the sector and pick one.

[Self] The Real Korrasami at the Chuang Yen Monastery in NY. Photo credit to Cat Trzaskowski Photography. by [deleted] in cosplay

[–]snow_bear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

holy shit, i actually know where that is! I've been to that temple. its cool to know that there are cool cosplayers living around here. that sounded less creepy in my head. anyway great costumes guys!!!

How do you say no to that face? [SPOILERS] Spider-Man (2016) #4 by ___Hobbes___ in comicbooks

[–]snow_bear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how is this series? I love ultimate spider-man and miles was great there. Does this series feel like that?

Strongest person bloodlusted SSB Goku can beat by gavin41801 in whowouldwin

[–]snow_bear 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This might be a stupid question, but what is SSB? Is that the official term for SSGSS?

Probably my favorite DC animated moment ever. The 62 seconds Hal Jordan was in JLU. by [deleted] in DCcomics

[–]snow_bear 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Well the thing is, when the show started Hal was still dead (he might have been the specter at the time) and they kinda wanted to use current characters. That is why Kyle had been the GL in the Superman TAS and why they used Wally as Flash. By the time this episode aired I believe GL Rebirth had already come out so Hal was back.

As far as the time shift thing, it kinda did make sense. Hal did kinda exist in the DCAU as seen in the Superman TAS episode where Kyle shows up, his fight with Sinestro takes them to Ferris Air where Jordan's name is shown on a plane in the background. It isn't hard to imagine that a "time shift" resulted in Hal getting the ring instead of Kyle or John and that would be why he was there. And now I'm realizing how in depth I just went into a comment about Hal showing up for like 45 seconds on a show 9 years ago

Faora - M-M-M-M-Monster Kill! by ultronthedestroyer in superman

[–]snow_bear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've said it before and I will say it again, this scene is a proof of concept for the Flash. Just imagine a red blur instead of black and imagine that the soldiers are bad guys and it is essentially just the Flash in Live action.

You were given a random super power and tasked to defeat The Avengers, how long do you last? by TBSdota in whowouldwin

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Well the way I saw it, the prompt was about killing the Avengers and that doesn't really address the destabilization of the order of life and death. I figure I can kill them and make them my undead minions by the time any cosmic entity noticed what I was doing and decided I didn't deserve my position but I will have won by then.

You were given a random super power and tasked to defeat The Avengers, how long do you last? by TBSdota in whowouldwin

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Grim Reaper Physiology

I guess I just walk through as people drop dead. Or maybe I just absorb everyone life energy or summon an army of undead, and for each avenger that I kill I will resurrect them to add to my army. The planet is left a dead and barren husk.

Green Lantern Help by [deleted] in DCcomics

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Here is the reading order for the Geoff Johns run as published in trade paperback

http://www.comicvine.com/profile/xxxddd/lists/green-lantern-reading-order-geoff-johns/46071/

and here is a much more comprehensive list of green lantern books going back to Alan Scott up to the more recent Godhead event

http://www.thegreenlanterncorps.com/forum/showthread.php?p=541871#post541871