I'm sure we all know Character X vs Y is all about popularity (probably with one notable exception: Spider-man. He gets his arse kicked every issue sometimes in the most unlikely manner. He's very much like Kick Ass in that his super power is to take a beating). With that in mind Deathstroke (a 'B' Tier character in DC - popular but not Batman, Superman, Flash, Wonder Woman etc levels, where each has had TV series/Films/merchandise forever. That said he's been a bad guy in a TV show and in cartoons so is better known than many others) is, in Game terms, stronger, faster and tougher than even the peak physical attribute human. A 'super soldier' for sure.

The MCU saw Cap get an upgrade in abilities and popularity. It's a win for CA over Deathstroke despite the latter being in the IN/40 Strength range, though it'd be dragged out over a few pages. I'd put Deathstroke as:

F IN40
A IN40
S IN40
E IN40
R GD10
I EX20
P EX20

In the old Marvel terms. I'd put Cap as the same (physically) aside from S RM30 and F AM50. He has more Karma than Deathstroke and also the Shield so Deathstroke struggles to land a blow but skills are probably very similar. Actually in game terms if Deathstroke can get the Shield away then it might come down to a coin flip.

In MEGs terms they'd be pretty much on the same columns for most things though Cap would have the 'Force Shield' power which makes him nigh invulnerable unless you can blindside him or take it away (Limitation: Requires Shield to use). The Block maneuver doesn't apply unless he 'braces' to stop something really big/bad coming at him. At least how I see it anyway, your mileage may vary. Deathstroke can 'Trick shot' to bounce a thrown or fired weapon from a surface to attack from Blindside/Flank and bypass the shield, but that makes it harder and Cap ain't exactly easy to hit.

Cap would have more Hero Points so takes a win there too, but neither fight (MSH/MEGs) is completely foregone. Rolls and tactics may mess things up.

I still think this guy would prevail.



Aside from the popularity thing he's the consummate planner. Plan for everyone, aside from Wonder Woman who he admitted he could find no weaknesses for. Same character as Cap. In his own book battles mooks and struggles against super villains sometimes. In the group books both punch far, far above their weight against Darkseid and Thanos, for example.

Greetings!

Battletech has been corrupted by the Woke BS too? So sad.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Hey, this thread is gonna have cuture war stuff.


I found this video timely considering Battletech was mentioned in the previous Custodes thread.

For sheer curiosity I propose adding to list The Veil by SJK Publishing.

Looks like this stuff is finally getting translated. Setting Guides too.

I forgot to add that the 30 pct, found not only in industrialized countries but even developing ones (Reich reports that as early as the 1990s many Western companies were partly or majority owned by rich people in the latter, including those in the Middle East, and now in China), rely on the 70 pct to earn, borrow, spend, and consume more because their own wealth is dependent on increasing production and sales of all sorts of goods and services.

Meanwhile, more of the 70 pct become richer and take over.

Quote from: Aglondir on April 24, 2024, 10:40:12 PM

Quote from: Domina on April 24, 2024, 10:37:41 AMGC is correct.

Who is GC?
Why is he correct?

Or, more importantly, why is someone  necro-ing a 12 year-old thread?

Quote from: oggsmash on April 24, 2024, 08:44:13 AMDoesnt China still use the "World" standard (as in 3rd world) standard for poverty?  Meaning it might have gleaming shiny cities but its poverty line is on the order of 700 bucks a year or there about?  So I am not so sure the population was lifted out of poverty in the developed world sense.  I think they created some rich people and developed something that looks like a middle class but also have people living in way deeper poverty than anything the USA understands.

I think the international threshold was set by the World Bank, and it's around two dollars a day.

If one uses $10 a day, then the world poverty rate goes up to over 70 pct.

Given that, what should be noted is the degree of change from one period to the next. In the case, of China, most of its people were lifted out of poverty. And it's the same worldwide:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-22956470

That means the size of the total economy of BRICS and the Global South are growing at a very fast rate (two decades vs. a century for the West, and the former will eventually take over, leading to a multipolar global economy.

Also, this has nothing to do with race, cultural superiority, and so on. Rather, increased industrialization and the effects of the Triffin dilemma (the U.S. holds the global reserve currency, which is a double-edged sword: it makes its exports too expensive for most and imports too cheap, which explains why it has had trade deficits since the mid-1970s) will eventually lead to a shift in power, and this time to those who used to be have-nots.

The catch is that that industrialization is based on incredible levels of energy and material resources, both of which are commonsensically limited in a physical biosphere characterized by gravity. That's why the same economies are experiencing the effects of diminishing returns: increasing amounts of energy needed to get smaller amounts of new material and of lower quality.

From what I remember, Tolkien saw Gondor as Avalon, or the England that he missed, with trees, etc. Mordor, on the other hand, is the modern world, with industralization, profit, greed, mechanization, and specialization. That must have been prompted by his experiences of WWI, when he fought in the trenches and where many of his friends died.