Trained Psychics versus Talents

Talents are people born with specific psychic abilities.  Some people have more than one Talent, others have rather broad Talents and others have limited Talents.  These abilities work through a combination of biology and instinct encoded on a genetic level.  For most, they do not have to learn how to perform the action so much as they have to learn how control it. 

Stuff about Japan

I have lived in Japan for a little over two years now and I’ve been meaning to get to this discussion for a while now. There are a number of things about Japan that some Americans might be surprised about. Granted, some of this stuff is stuff that applies to much of the world, but still, given the fact that most people grow up in the general area, or at least country, where they were raised, it would still be a bit of a surprise.

What's Wrong with DC fans?

I am not a fan of DC comics. I am not a fan of Marvel comics. Both of them lost me sometime around the turn of the century.

I find them boring, predictable and absolutely unwilling to disrupt the status quo. The storylines are so full of conflicting nonsense that it's hard to get interested in the parts that attracted me in the first place.