https://digg.com/video/unhappy-teenager
Why Being An Unhappy Teenager Is Good For You In The Long Run
author: Bill G.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/5929404
I feel like someone is writing Pneuma fanfic.
https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2085
author: Doyce T.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/5929750
Doyce T. said:
I feel like someone is writing Pneuma fanfic.
I spent time thinking about what a personhood examination would look like in this world. For example, what is personhood really measuring? The ability to integrate into a society and the responsibilities that go with that, on both sides. The analogy I had was a flock of birds. Fly with us, and we’ll help you find food, shelter you from predators and each other, and so on. Sometimes you have to follow the flock, sometimes you’ll lead it.
It also suggested that there’s a continuum or scale. “Fully-human” on one end, “incomprehensible” on the other, with specific tests (“do you experience human-like emotions?”, “do you recognize emotions even if you don’t experience them?”, and so on) pegging you somewhere on that scale. That doesn’t necessarily affect the rights granted you, but is something that (for example) would be presented as evidence if you found yourself in court.
This is also one of Leo’s lasting shames, because he was afraid enough of AEGIS taking his friends away, and ignorant enough of law, that he never really got their rights nailed down properly. When AEGIS agreed to work with him, he sort of assumed all this would be handled. So now he’s intent on doing it properly - and not just for Pneuma, but Otto, and Ghost Girl too if she’s not already covered and wants legal recognition.
author: Bill G.
url: Community Forums: General Inspiration Thread | Roll20: Online virtual tabletop
Today’s swag hauled in from Imgur.
Alex Ross art dump: https://imgur.com/gallery/NmdN9
1925 Rolls Royce Phantom. This is SOME super’s car: [https://imgur.com/gallery/jfpNo
](https://imgur.com/gallery/jfpNo)Edit: this should be top comment on the Alex Ross gallery. “Why does it look like they’re fighting to solve the mystery of who stole all of the contrast from the universe.”
author: Bill G.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/5930020
This is also one of Leo’s lasting shames, because he was afraid enough of AEGIS taking his friends away, and ignorant enough of law, that he never really got their rights nailed down properly. When AEGIS agreed to work with him, he sort of assumed all this would be handled. So now he’s intent on doing it properly - and not just for Pneuma, but Otto, and Ghost Girl too if she’s not already covered and wants legal recognition.
I’m pretty sure, when this came up in-game a few days ago (Menagerie time), Jason either offered his (the QF’s) assistance or shot a note to Barbara to look into legal situation. Leo’s not alone in trying to tackle this.
I don’t know that we’ve established that there even are “personhood” examinations. In a world visiting meta-aliens (or even just aliens), there must be some legal framework established for their autonomy. Has a machine intelligence gone through that previously? Are Pneuma and Otto (and now Numina) so extraordinary that the question of their personhood is unprecedented in the US or world legal system? (This might also be something where different countries have gone different routes, too.)
author: *** Dave H.
url: Community Forums: General Inspiration Thread | Roll20: Online virtual tabletop
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/0…
The Transgender Scientist Who Changed How We See the Brain - someone whose work Leo probably knows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
46 minutes of why you should never talk to the police. An interesting view on telling the truth vs. doing the smart thing when it comes to the police, how the law operates, and more. Relevant for our current personhood discussion.
author: Bill G.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/5932419
Alexis Noriega makes and sells animatronic wings that can expand and collapse. Good for all your feathered-flying super needs. http://www.thecrookedfeather.com/
author: Bill G.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/5951121
https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/the-worst-part-of-d…
The Worst Part of Dating an Older Guy Is His Texting Habits
author: Bill G.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6007641
Bill G. said:
https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/the-worst-part-of-d…
The Worst Part of Dating an Older Guy Is His Texting Habits
Cool article.
As far-earlier-than-Millennial, I dearly wish texting (etc.) had been around when I was in the dating scene.
author: *** Dave H.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6008131
The way I imagine Jason’s nanites project imagery to him (Li’l Alycia. Visions. Etc.)
The whole video is… fine, but I’m jumping right to the visual presentation info: https://youtu.be/0lSMsFIxjhs?t=2m26s
It’s quite useful for a SGHG… if you can figure out how to control it. 
author: Doyce T.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6008324
Doyce T. said:
The way I imagine Jason’s nanites project imagery to him (Li’l Alycia. Visions. Etc.)
The whole video is… fine, but I’m jumping right to the visual presentation info: https://youtu.be/0lSMsFIxjhs?t=2m26s
It’s quite useful for a SGHG… if you can figure out how to control it.
Makes sense.
My quick impression from the first minute or so after the cue is that we are talking nanobots on a molecular scale that can actually infest a blood stream, nervous system, etc. My idea of Jason’s bots are a bit more macro than that, but that they are essentially hijacking / back-channeling through the mental channels that control the bots to instead project images (sounds, etc.). That doesn’t mean that Jason could create illusions in others’ heads, even with a push, unless he was able to duplicate whatever it is that Byron did to allow him to control the bots. (I’m trying to stay away from Chip In Skull, as that’s already TMed in this campaign). Maybe it’s just a personal, highly complex, low-power broadcast from the nervous system, something that others couldn’t easily hijack or imitate.
On the other hand, he can create real dummy material and figures out of the bots, complete (it appears) as color. So there’s that.
author: *** Dave H.
url: Community Forums: General Inspiration Thread | Roll20: Online virtual tabletop
Exactly. Agree on the size, mental signal stuff. And color shifting.
I even toyed with the idea of having Numina ask for 30 kg of Nanobots instead of the hard light projector, but hard light won me over as more poetically apt and 75%less horrifyingly bad an idea.
As horrifying ideas go, though, it probably would have worked
author: Doyce T.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6009006
I like it for how “your mind can become my body” will cause Jason to melt down, but I wanted to see if it would emerge organically as a suggestion.
author: Bill G.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6009027
Pish. As if additional causes can’t be trivially found to make Jason melt down.
I don’t know that it was ever my intent to have Jason become (among other things) the Sweat Drop / Nose Bleed Schoolboy trope in the campaign, and I actually _do _have plans to bring him to some emotional equilibrium at some point – but it’s still a lot of fun to play with.
(And, yes, the nanobot thing for Numina would have been wonderful, horrific, suggestive, and all sorts of comedy gold, so I’m just as glad I never thought of it. Though given that Jason considers them a Doom, he probably wouldn’t have done it. That said, I’m enjoying where this is going as is.)
author: *** Dave H.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6009557
I don’t know about the nosebleed guy, but the sweatdrop? Totally. (But I think everyone gets a turn at this one - especially Charlotte, when the boys get up to shenanigans.
Hell, I bet the Ponies have the same problem.
author: Doyce T.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6009568
*** Dave H. said:
Though given that Jason considers them a Doom, he probably wouldn’t have done it.
author: Bill G.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6009957
The biggest source of Jason’s Doom is that his Doom is attached to his Nemesis, and you can’t identify who is Nemesis actually is.
author: Doyce T.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6010031
Doyce T. said:
The biggest source of Jason’s Doom is that his Doom is attached to his Nemesis, and you can’t identify who his Nemesis actually is.
Now that’s an interesting observation.
(Also, Bill, thanks for that LOL moment.)
author: *** Dave H.
url: Community Forums: General Inspiration Thread | Roll20: Online virtual tabletop
https://outofthiscentury.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/…
The Greatest African American and Afro-American Martial Artists in History
It also mentions an extraordinary black fencer, Saint-Georges, who I am absolutely sure inspired a character in GURPS Supers.
author: Bill G.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6042371
Fun Story: I went for a walk with my roommate today to a nearby shop he’s applying at. While perusing, I found these and my first thought was “Harry probably loves these.”
author: Mike
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6048177