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[WP] When he was 8 years old, Bruce's parents took him to play a baseball game. His team lost badly. The memory marked him so he dedicated his life to the study of baseball. Until one day he returned to be a symbol for Gotham, a master, genius baseball player. He became the Batman.
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[WP] After aeons, the stars are right once more. So the Old Ones plunge toward Earth again, to reap and thoughtlessly trample humanity underfoot. But they approach a changed solar system, colonized by endless fleets of drones under an unfathomably powerful AI dedicated to protecting us.
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[WP] You knew the company you signed up with for your WFH gig was in a different time zone, but you've just realized that their present is over two years in your past.
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[WP] You began as a local sky deity in the bronze age desert, but your adherents kept growing in number. Thousands of years later, much has changed. You are now responsible for all the Earth and the endless universe. The pressure is tremendous.
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[WP] The enemy's champion can't believe how well you're doing in the duel against him. He doesn't know you can return to a selected save point each time you die. You've actually fought him hundreds of times.
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[WP] You began as a local sky deity guiding patriarchs through the desert wilderness, but your followers kept growing in number. Thousands of years later, much has changed. You are now responsible for the Earth and all the endless universe. The pressure is tremendous.
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[WP] Considering your family's access to parallel universes, you don't understand why your daughter is dating this guy instead of the alternate versions of him who've got it much more together.
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[WP] Ninjas and barbarians suddenly attack your school. Everybody else, understandably, flees. But not you. Because while everybody was partying, you were studying the blade.
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[WP] Gods draw their power from faith. You began as a local sky deity guiding refugees through the desert wilderness. Your followers kept growing in number. Thousands of years later, much has changed. You are now responsible for the Earth and all the endless universe. The pressure is tremendous.
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