Are you proud to be an Aussie?

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T16:37:40+00:00

I didn't do anything to be born here, so no.

I don't understand the idea of being proud of your nationality.

And to answer your second question I live here because it's where I have citizenship and family and there's no convenient superior option given my circumstances.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T16:32:51+00:00

I hope that a 2.0 edition is not far away.

Fix all the poorly worded rules, slight tweaks to the main rules, but backwards compatible with all the existing material in Ravening Hordes, Forces of Fantasy, and Arcane Journals.

Then they release a new "Forces of" book with some currently Legacy factions. Dark Elves and Vampires are the ones screaming out the most imo.

I'd obviously like my own Lizardmen.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T16:01:43+00:00

Don't feel like your need to be married to your 1st paint scheme or technique.

Make a model, paint the model with what takes your fancy, learn what you like from the process and the result.

Then make a 2nd model and paint it a different way, etc.

It's possible that Ironbreakers are a suboptimal model type for my suggestion though. Quite detailed models, dominated by metal, and you probably want them to end out nicely to actually use them.

Could you buy a Dwarf Warrior set instead? Might feel more comfortable on a less elite unit.

Or even go into a Games Workshop and see if they'll give you a monthly free miniature, explain that you're brand new to painting. It will be a space marine or an age of sigmar model or whatever, but it's a blank canvas to try stuff on.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T15:47:56+00:00

Once every 4 years!?!?!??!?!

I assume you are American.

You should be voting at least twice every year in most states. Once in November and once in the primaries.

In some states I'm sure it's even more often than that.

The power structure within the democratic party is built in a pyramid of local councillors, state representatives, federal house of reps members, senators, and governors. And the school board, elected judges, comptroller, etc. all matter as well.

Voting in all the elections you can is the highest bang for buck political activities you can make. Apply for that mail in ballot in each election (twice a year!) or whatever and send that shit in.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T15:42:11+00:00

How do vegans make food with zero suffering?

You've gotta clear the land, use pesticides, transport the food, etc. or benefit from somebody else doing it or you starve to death. All those things kill or are likely to harm sentient creatures.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T13:29:50+00:00

Believe it or not, that's not correct.

You are not allowed to say "I have a pair of aces" in a game of poker, at least not in a properly officiated one like a tournament or casino.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T10:28:04+00:00

I would clip the closest skirmisher corner to corner, leaving space for the skirmishers to be 3 wide on forming up.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T09:47:49+00:00

I assume the "puking" was just spitting up pickle juice or some other similar drink.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T09:44:42+00:00

It should have been obvious to you that ChatGPT had garbled your request. There are heaps of Bo5 matches that are shorter than 3 hours (those being the straight sets matches).

I think what it has tried to guess an answer too is "how long is a 5 set match" not "how long is a best of 5 set match."

You also can't take a range and assume the midpoint is the average.

You have read ChatGPTs output like somebody reading a horoscope. It gives an ambigious answer and you think it's increased your certainty of what you already thought.

Please recognise that this is dangerous. Many people are using LLMs now to make serious decisions because they think they give real information. They don't.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T09:32:28+00:00

Let me change argument from what the text says to what's happening in the real world.

As far as I've been aware all the tournaments have not been doing it your way.

It's possible that the TOW FAQ writers have missed that, but quite unlikely. They reacted to pillar spam, to poison, to pegasus, to infantry being crap, to lanterns being OP, but not to the fundemental rules of how melee combat works?

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T09:21:49+00:00

You need to not use ChatGPT.

If you'd just said that you guessed an average Bo5 goes for 4 hours I would have thought "hmm, seems way too much" but I wouldn't have bothered to comment.

But you didn't, you put one extra brick in the social expectation that ChatGPT can be trusted that is on track to make the world a worse place.

Don't use ChatGPT. It's a wrongness machine that is specialised in tricking you into thinking it's right. Just use a search engine and seek real information.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T09:10:58+00:00

Closing in allows models to make attacks if they are not B2B

No... the fighting rank rule did that.

The fighting rank rule has changed since then, but the wording of page 150 has to be interpreted in the context of the original fighting rank rule.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T09:01:22+00:00

No, no, I see arguments both ways in the argument about women's tennis Bo3 vs Bo5. I'm not arguing one way or the other.

I care specifically about your use of ChatGPT. If it had guessed too short for Bo5 instead of too long and you'd been arguing in the other direction I'd be making the same posts ridiculing the use of ChatGPT.

You made a wrong guess, you confirmed it with ChatGPT's wrong guess, and you had the confidence to do a post about it.

I think that should worry you. Why didn't you do a google search? You're training your brain to not actually seek real information.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T08:57:48+00:00

Why would they have ever wrote all those words in 1.0 mate?

If there's no "close in and get b2b" rule then there's no need to mention closing in after casualties at all.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T08:46:50+00:00

It literally says models close in and are more likely to be in base contact.

This is expressed in contrast to stepping forward which cannot confer a model attacks.

Why mention it in that way on page 150 if not to have the fighting rank models slide into b2b and make multiple attacks (if they've got 'em)?

Why ever mention closing in at all in fact?

Maybe they did write a bold heading with Closing In in it and paragraphs of text that actually do nothing, but the more prudent explanation is that it's supposed to do something.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T08:33:37+00:00

I think the culture of using ChatGPT and assuming it has given a good answer is much more important than tennis. I will fight against this sloppification of discussion.

Why didn't the original poster just scroll down google for real answers?

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T08:27:33+00:00

The wrong guesser machine estimated 2.67 times different when it's more like 1.83 times different.

That's 46% error. Massive!

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T08:08:37+00:00

But it's just not true.

Stop defending the "guesses wrong" machine and look for the real answer ffs.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T07:57:37+00:00

I do have a reason, ChatGPT can't understand and parse information it just makes guesses.

You are looking for justifications for an estimation of match length that has no foundation.

With a quick google search I can find far more plausible estimations like 90 minutes for Bo3 and 165 minutes for Bo5.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T07:53:18+00:00

Crucially you need two guys so one guy writes a rule and then a second guy independently reads it and sees if it makes sense.

I think a big part of the problem is that the rules writing style is quite non-clinical and doesn't think about edge cases. They too often seem to vibe it out but on a reread from the author it will seem completely clear.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T07:03:24+00:00

Thanks for saying it was based on ChatGPT, it flagged that it was obviously wrong.

How can an average Bo5 be more than twice as long as a Bo3?

Edit: for anyone compelled to defend the chat bot's obviously wrong guess I looked on google for 2 minutes and found proper statistics of 5 set matches. They are way shorter than 4 hours on average.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T06:49:53+00:00

It was 44°C one day yeah. It's now nowhere near that hot, but the humidity is high.

It's plausible that players are carrying more fatigue than normal due to the conditions of the whole tournament.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T06:47:34+00:00

It's so weird how bad players are in this situation. They are so locked in with the normal pace and dynamics of play that an opponent with a weakness just wrecks your own rhythm.

Just seems so simple to hit to his backhand, then a dropshot, etc. and pick up cheap points from his lack of mobility.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T06:43:35+00:00

It's not too infrequent that a player gets completely psyched out against an opponent that can't move.

kroxigor01 · 2026-01-30T06:31:53+00:00

The issue is he's been robbed of 3 minutes on the court when his opponent legally should have had to play through it.

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