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I would reckon that he probably has a fair bit of knowledge about Kryptonian science by way of the Fortress, but that doesn't necessarily translate to knowledge of Terran science/technology. He can build/repair the robots in the Fortress, but that doesn't mean he knows how to change a hard...

Sure, Steam provides a license agreement when you "buy" a game. But laws can override that kind of thing. For example (from a different sector), EU law specifies that all workers are entitled to a contiguous 11 hours of rest per 24-hour period as well as another 24 hours of contiguous rest per...

Second best, after this one:

I think there's a cooler version of that victory, where Superman outsmarts Lex instead. Lex is giving verbal commands to Ultraman, which Ultraman then carries out. But that has a delay – Lex gives verbal commands to his minions and the minions forward them to Ultraman. That's like a second or...

What? Who said that?

My impression is that Morrus learned a lot from that. Back in the day, as you note, ENWorld had a lot of custom code, much of which had been hacked together by the late Michael "Spoony" Morris who was volunteering as admin. He eventually left ENWorld amidst some animosity, which meant there was...

Shareholders and executives should be kept as far away as possible from running companies. Leave it to the employees who actually know how the business works.

Going the other direction, I am reminded of GURPS Technomancer, a setting that takes place in the modern world (well, modern-ish – it was made in the 90s), but where nuclear detonations have infused the world with magic – first the test detonation at Alamogordo, and later a much larger Soviet...

I would not classify them as metacurrencies. Metacurrencies, as I understand the term, are mostly Doylist in nature – they tend to represent things like luck, fate, and such, and with a few exceptions (e.g. TORG possibilities) they aren't things the characters are aware of. For example, in...

In 5.0, healing magic (at least cure wounds) didn't affect constructs (or undead for that matter). In 5.0 they were humanoids, however, so that was a moot point. I don't think 5.5 has any such limitation on healing magic though. Back in 3e, warforged were an exception to how cure X wounds...

Because warforged aren't made to specs. There's a lot about them that the designers have no idea why it's there. They have some control over what happens, but a lot of what's going on with warforged is throwing stuff at the creation forge and see what comes out.

That's not true. What we do have is a 14-day "right of withdrawal" period for anything bought "off-premises" – online, mail order, doorstep sales, and so on. Some countries extend this to 30 days, but the EU minimum is 14 days. There are also many exceptions, such as personalized or...

Warforged didn't have darkvision or low-light vision in either 3e, 4e, or 5.0. Why should they start having it now?

Bahston also has a pretty distinctive accent. I'm not sure if it's a more general Massachusetts thing or if it's specific to Bahston. On the topic of supers, I'm hoping that when they get around to doing X-Men and hopefully including Emma Frost, they'll have her speak in a very refined voice...