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Alhazred posted:Isn't that Lady Shiva? As much as Chuck Dixon has degenerated lately, that was something I always liked about Shiva in his time on the books: she was the best at hand-to-hand, which meant if somebody beat her, it was because they cheated like hell. The Batman I prefer to read is the one who isn't necessarily the very best at anything, except maybe ruthless pragmatism. You gotta give negative fucks to first give a man motor neuron disease, then punch him the gently caress out.
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Cleretic posted:Except for, apparently, Mister Terriffic. Who considers himself the third smartest human in the world What a weird thing to think about oneself. Did they take a test to determine the ranking?
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Lobok posted:What a weird thing to think about oneself. Did they take a test to determine the ranking? I really like the JLU thing where J'onn is the guy on primary Watchtower duty because keeping tabs on the entire Earth and space and all the heroes and villains is an immense task suited to someone with supernatural intelligence and awareness. And when J'onn peaces out, they get Mister Terrific to fill in because he's basically the closest Earth has to offer. So, in short, Mister Terrific probably ran the numbers because he's always running the numbers, and he's smart enough to do it, and he's the kind of guy paying attention to all those details all the time.
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I refuse to believe Batman is smarter than dudes like Dr. Sivana or Will Magnus
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ImpAtom posted:I refuse to believe Batman is smarter than dudes like Dr. Sivana or Will Magnus Has Batman ever invented even one killer robot?
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 Superboy #12 (1951)  Spidey Super Stories #9 (1975)  Terror Inc. #1 (1992)  Batman: Shadow of the Bat #57 (1996)  X-Statix #3 (2002)  Ms. Marvel #3 (2014)  The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #2 (2016)
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ImpAtom posted:I refuse to believe Batman is smarter than dudes like Dr. Sivana or Will Magnus
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Darthemed posted:
I need to figure out how to set a custom no battery image.
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ImpAtom posted:Batman's thing is sort of like Amadeus Cho being the 7th smartest in the world: He isn't the VERY BEST at anything but he's always competitive enough that unless your gimmick is 'literally the best' he's probably as good or better than you. I liked the extension of that idea where each member of the Bat-Family was better than him in at least one aspect. Cassandra is a better fighter, Barbara is a better hacker, Dick is a better leader, Jason understands the criminal mind better, Tim's a better detective, so on and so forth.
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Ghostlight posted:How many times has Batman been apprehended by a 10 year old? I am pretty sure Robin has outsmarted his rear end on multiple occasions.
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Alacron posted:I liked the extension of that idea where each member of the Bat-Family was better than him in at least one aspect. Cassandra is a better fighter, Barbara is a better hacker, Dick is a better leader, Jason understands the criminal mind better, Tim's a better detective, so on and so forth. Demian's more insufferable.
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Alacron posted:I liked the extension of that idea where each member of the Bat-Family was better than him in at least one aspect. Cassandra is a better fighter, Barbara is a better hacker, Dick is a better leader, Jason understands the criminal mind better, Tim's a better detective, so on and so forth. The opposite of Doc Savage's team, who exist to be outclassed by Savage.
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Alacron posted:I liked the extension of that idea where each member of the Bat-Family was better than him in at least one aspect. Cassandra is a better fighter, Barbara is a better hacker, Dick is a better leader, Jason understands the criminal mind better, Tim's a better detective, so on and so forth. And Ace is better at licking his own rear end. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Nov 26, 2019 |
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TwoPair posted:And Ace is better at licking his own rear end.
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TwoPair posted:And Ace is better at licking his own rear end. Ace is better at being a Good Boy.
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hup posted:That part was from Brad Meltzer’s run, actually! Same art team though. You're right, it's been a long time. That same book had another one of my favorite moments - a REALLY pissed off Ollie and.. I think Roy? Possibly Connor.. anyway, they end up tracking down the guy and they both fire arrows at the guy to pin him to the wall so he can't get away. Roy gets him by the fabric of his shirt, Ollie gets him through the shoulder. At the same time they both say "You missed."
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New Leaf posted:You're right, it's been a long time. That same book had another one of my favorite moments - a REALLY pissed off Ollie and.. I think Roy? Possibly Connor.. anyway, they end up tracking down the guy and they both fire arrows at the guy to pin him to the wall so he can't get away. Roy gets him by the fabric of his shirt, Ollie gets him through the shoulder. At the same time they both say "You missed." That dude was Catman who would go on to be fully rehabbed by Gail Simone in Secret Six.
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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #2 (2016) This is basically straight from a time travel scifi novel i cant remember the name of right now. Dude gets stuck in the past and takes out ads like this. May have been done more than once.
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During World War II, thousands of experienced postal employees left to serve with the military. To offset the loss, in May 1943 the Post Office Department began a zoning address system in 124 of the largest cities. Under this system, delivery units or zones were identified by one or two numbers between the city and state — for example, Birmingham 7, Alabama — so that mail could be separated by employees who did not have detailed scheme knowledge. Twenty years later, the Department implemented an even farther reaching plan, the Zoning Improvement Plan (ZIP) Code. The social correspondence of the 19th century had given way, gradually then explosively, to business mail. By 1963, 80 percent of all mail in the United States was business mail. The development of the computer brought centralization of accounts and sent a growing mass of utility bills and payments, bank deposits and receipts, advertising, magazines, credit card transactions, mortgage bills and payments, and Social Security checks through the mail. Yet while mail volume grew and while the Post Office Department had been at the forefront of advances in transportation, the methods and much of the equipment used to sort mail in thousands of Post Offices remained the same as in Benjamin Franklin’s day. A better way to sort mail was needed. In June 1962, after a study of mechanization, the presidentially appointed Advisory Board of the Post Office Department made several recommendations. One was the development of a coding system, an idea the Department had considered for a decade or more. A number of coding programs were examined and discarded before the Department selected a system advanced by Department officials. Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced that the ZIP Code would launch July 1, 1963. Preparing for the new system involved a realignment of the mail system. The Post Office Department had previously recognized that new avenues of transportation would open and had begun to establish focal points for air, highway, and rail transportation. Called the Metro System, these transportation centers were set up around 85 of the country’s larger cities to deflect mail from congested city streets. The Metro concept was expanded and eventually became the core of 552 sectional centers, each serving between 40 and 150 surrounding Post Offices. Once these sectional centers were delineated, the next step in establishing the ZIP Code was to assign codes to the centers and the postal addresses they served. The existence of postal zones in the larger cities, set in motion in 1943, helped to some extent, but in cases where the old zones failed to fit within the delivery areas, new numbers had to be assigned. By July 1963, a five-digit code had been assigned to every address throughout the country. The first digit designated a broad geographical area of the United States, ranging from zero for the Northeast to nine for the far West. This number was followed by two digits that more closely pinpointed population concentrations and those sectional centers accessible to common transportation networks. The final two digits designated small Post Offices or postal zones in larger zoned cities. The ZIP Code began as scheduled. At first, use of the new code was not mandatory for anyone, but in 1967, the Department required mailers of second- and third-class bulk mail to presort by ZIP Code. The public and business mailers alike adapted well to its use. n
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One More Fat Nerd posted:
I thought of Asimov's The End of Eternity where they find someone lost in time because he puts out an ad mentioning nuclear power or something similar. There might have been more, I guess.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Let's learn about the history of ZIP CODES! Doeasn't that just sound great, kids?! This might have been a joke post, but I actually found it kind of interesting
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Johnny Aztec posted:Snip Cross-posted to PYF Historical Fun Fact
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Johnny Aztec posted:ZIP codes
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Vincent posted:Demian's more insufferable. Serious answer, Damian's more ruthless.
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Isn't that just copied and pasted directly from the USPS website? Like even with the little stray "n" at the very end?
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Endless Mike posted:If something like this was tried today, Republicans would fight it hard, claiming it's the mark of the devil and state's rights and whatnot all while claiming the Post Office is a waste of federal resources and really why don't you spend more and use a nice private company like FedEx? Hahaha, Republicans will never admit that private solutions cost more. They'd just say that this is an example of the Federal Government illegally subsidizing your postcards to grandma.
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The Lone Badger posted:Ace is better at being a Good Boy. https://twitter.com/kibblesmith/status/1199392678976348160
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Plastik posted:Hahaha, Republicans will never admit that private solutions cost more. They'd just say that this is an example of the Federal Government illegally subsidizing your postcards to grandma.
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Archyduchess posted:Isn't that just copied and pasted directly from the USPS website? Like even with the little stray "n" at the very end? I thought he was going to cap it with a gamer word but changed his mind in the last minute.
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 I wasn't sure if I should get excited about Annihilation: Scourge, but drunken Richard Rider, Cosmo, and Annihilus is a team I can get behind. From Annihilation: Scourge Alpha.  Miguel takes on the Tweenage Irritable
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One More Fat Nerd posted:
"Replay" by Ken Grimwood has almost this exact scenario except he's reincarnating in his past body and living his life over again and trying to find others doing the same.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Let's learn about the history of ZIP CODES! Doeasn't that just sound great, kids?! Thank you!
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I was sad to see Kibblesmith's Loki go. It was a little inconsistent but overall I enjoyed it.  From Loki #5.
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Unkempt posted:"Replay" by Ken Grimwood has almost this exact scenario except he's reincarnating in his past body and living his life over again and trying to find others doing the same. There's a recent novel with a similar plot called The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and it's terrible.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:I was sad to see Kibblesmith's Loki go. It was a little inconsistent but overall I enjoyed it. I love the idea that they tried to jail a god and he just stuck around for the fun of it. Loki is such a good character when written right.
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Push El Burrito posted:I love the idea that they tried to jail a god and he just stuck around for the fun of it. Loki is such a good character when written right. I feel like Thor should have shown up at some point and said, "you have to know the only reason he's still here is because he wants to be, right?"
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Dillbag posted:There's a recent novel with a similar plot called The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and it's terrible. I have literally never heard anyone say that about that seriously amazing book. Everyone, this guy is a big moron go read it, I loved it.
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