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    Maintaining your secret identity

    If you've the skills to do so anonymously. I don't know about you, but if I tried it, I'd probably inadvertently leave a trail that could lead any decent security agency right to me.
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    How does that apply for red sun / yellow sun? We are still talking about the real world here aside from this one individual, so we only have access to the one sun. Even finding out about this person being solar powered would be a stretch, since Superman doesn't just power down at night, he has...
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    Spoilers Falllout season 2 discussion

    Still very much up in the air, but it's starting to feel very much like either a House or Yes Man victory outcome. The NCR are down to just a couple of Rangers in the region, but the Legion aren't much better off - that small divided camp seemed to be pretty much all there were. Victor still...
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    Unless you're Flash and can access the Speed Force, flying or running at supersonic speeds will generate sonic booms. And while it's not commonly covered in fiction, running that fast is likely to leave a distinctive trail of fractured tarmac. That can potentially open a new can of worms...
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    General video game discussion

    Yeah, just took many pieces to juggle for it all to be polished. In my current playthrough I decided to take out the foundry first before going after Gortash, and despite that I still got a message from the Elder Brain afterwards congratulating me on taking him down and bragging that it had...
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    EN World What you thought a thread title said.

    Now it's truly open sauce.
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    General video game discussion

    The thing that gets to me about act 3 is just how densely packed everything is. It makes sense, it's a city, but it feels like I can't go ten feet without encountering something else plot-relevant that I should poke into. It makes it very hard to stay on-task with anything. Heck, even in...
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    EN World What you thought a thread title said.

    That's SIR Idris Elba Not actually misreading it, but every time it catches my eye, my brain does a moment of trying to work out what the acronym is.
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    General video game discussion

    I'm getting into the endgame in my current BG3 playthrough, but the game is starting to feel a little flaky, conversations not launching correctly and characters triggering the same conversation twice over. There's so much to explore in the Lower City, but at the same time I feel like I should...
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    One thing to bear in mind with this you-as-ordinary-person-gets-superpowers scenario is that if a kryptonite equivalent does exist, you probably don't know about it. Neither does anyone else initially, but between you as average guy with powers versus a whole world's worth of secret research...
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    It's worth noting that Superman does seem to take serious damage from being thrown into the ground by Ultraman, and seemingly not even at supersonic velocity - it's how the Ultraman fight finishes, leaving Superman struggling to get to his feet. So yeah, this Superman can come to harm from...
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    Yeah, too late on the edit. I got mixed up as to whether I was quoting you or Umbran.
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    I believe you suggested to reference this year's Superman movie for his power set, and in that one Lex obtained the DNA to create Ultraman by scouring Superman's battle sites for stray hairs. I don't think conventional bad guys are going to knock stray hairs or skin off him, but I do think he's...
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    Yeah, but that "wealthiest most powerful" part doesn't apply to most of us in our public personae, and won't unless you're intending to go full supervillain and do some heists, so we only have the "beating criminals" part going for us. That said, I wonder what the easiest legal way is for a...
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    Armoured MMA

    MMA = Medieval Martial Arts in this case?
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