Honest, it was among the first results for an image search titled 'natural disaster'...

[ps238principal]

Comments

[anonymous]

I shouldn't tempt fate, but I can't help thinking that the only thing Japan is still missing is Godzilla... the way their luck's going, it's only a matter of time.

[ps238principal]

There's certainly enough radiation. The news about the reactors is alarming to say the least.

[jedisoth]

I wonder how many Japanese people think these are the End Times? I'm sure there are parts of the country where it would certainly look like it right now.

Volcanoes

[anonymous]

'parently some Mexican chap called Montezuma had a calendar which predicts Earthquakes round about now.

Mind you people who bang on about that also bang on about the Mayan calendar and the end of the world and Nibiru coming and so on so...

hav fu

M

Re: Volcanoes

[ps238principal]

Every time I hear about the Mayan Calendar, I want to find a way to include it in the old Aztec D&D adventure, "The Lost Shrine of Tamoachan." The players would find a calendar that someone could roughly decipher as ending on the day they arrived, with lots of glyphs showing the most hideous things happening to the players. :)

Re: Volcanoes

[anonymous]

Have you read 'The idiots abroad' one of the Fabulous Furry Freak Bros comics, coz that has that plotline in it.

M

Turtle Weapons

[ext_431278]

Switchblade comment notwithstanding, that's a Naginata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naginata

Also, Kama not comma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_(weapon)

Regarding the Wolverine rule, it's basically the same reason the A-team could go through thousands of rounds and no one gets hit.

Re: Turtle Weapons

[ext_431278]

Adding a moment of geek pedantry...

While sais are often depicted as daggers (Elektra in Marvel Comics, for example), a real-life sai is a blunt weapon designed for punching, blocking, and trapping an opponent's weapon.

Armitage

Re: Turtle Weapons

[ext_431278]

Agreed that sai are traditionally and correctly blunt. Also, I just need to mention that the TMNT (in the original pulp comics) were quite a bit darker/edgier/bloodier than they turned into in the show/movies. The edged weapons *did* cut and even kill. And yes, the comics also used sharp sai, as I recall.

Re: Turtle Weapons

[ps238principal]

Oh, yeah. I can still remember a lot of the pages where the turtles had been quite bloodied by whoever they were fighting.

And again, while I'm not for a bloodbath in a kids film, the second TMNT film had really been given the 'no violence' treatment to the point where in one instance, Michelangelo abandoned his nunchaku for a pair of large, linked sausages.

[vulpisfoxfire]

Looking at the current PS238...cute Wild Cards reference? :-)