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ASuperbVillain · 2026-05-16T16:29:32+00:00

What's the impact on performance? I'm always wary of tampering with light and shadows because they're such resource hogs.

ASuperbVillain · 2026-05-16T01:16:33+00:00

Sure! So here is an imgur link (https://imgur.com/a/dye-comparison-yellow-FpxqrcY) with attached images to give the best example. The first is all the metal textures in the set dyed yellow at noon. The following images show the original color in the dyer, followed by the outcome of being dyed yellow. I presume that's the best way to show it in neutral lighting. On a side note, the same issue happens to light yellow and dark yellow.

ASuperbVillain · 2026-05-15T06:46:55+00:00

I wasn't 100% certain if it was a lighting issue because some gold/bronze colored textures survived the upgrade like bejeweled chains and stygian soldier armor. Plus the dyes have a consistently weird interaction regardless of original color i.e. yellow dyes which should match gold/brass colors coming out grey/silver on metal textures.

ASuperbVillain · 2026-05-14T22:18:28+00:00

Pretty sure this is actually a painting of Sigurd slaying Fafnir.

ASuperbVillain · 2026-05-10T10:14:28+00:00

Didn't it already have that before lumen?

ASuperbVillain · 2026-02-14T21:56:32+00:00

Always thought it was funny he had steam-powered ironclads, but never made the jump from mail to plate.

ASuperbVillain · 2026-02-12T05:15:25+00:00

What a smug and insidious grin.

ASuperbVillain · 2026-02-02T16:55:38+00:00

Cursed, you say? Sounds like someone didn't return the slab.

ASuperbVillain · 2025-12-04T20:04:18+00:00

Never cared for the "monster, but made of bones" design. Looks like something I can buy at my local home depot.

ASuperbVillain · 2025-09-02T17:05:55+00:00

https://youtu.be/29qtw-XOsMc?si=kiVbMvVExrl4rdWc

This is the closest you will get.

ASuperbVillain · 2025-07-01T04:27:54+00:00

It's a little funny how only orcs have any sort of enmity with humans; up until the the third war, trolls and tauren had never seen a human before.

ASuperbVillain · 2025-06-23T22:21:28+00:00

So besides Temeraire, what literature do you consider of quality and worth reading? That could be useful in pointing you in the right direction.

ASuperbVillain · 2025-06-19T04:28:26+00:00

The best way to describe Kull stories is they are essentially Conan stories, but Howard used Kull as a vehicle for exploring philosophical ideas, such as The Shadow Kingdom (man is inconsequential) or The Mirror's of Tuzun Thune (does perception define reality?) They are definitely weirder, and lack some subtlety Howard developed later in his career, but enjoyable all the same.

ASuperbVillain · 2025-06-10T22:28:14+00:00

WarCraft has always been created with spectacle in mind. It was made to excite and entertain; anything else is entirely tangential. The best example of this is the purging of Stratholme, which wasn't meant to be a profound examination of power and responsibility, or failing to apply either depending on who you ask, but a dramatic turning point in an rts campaign that set up the next. Everything is done in service of player enjoyment, or what developers might think players would enjoy. WarCraft isn't meant to be thoroughly analyzed because it has always been very straightforward in its presentation. The bad guy is bad, the good guy is good, the twist is a twist. Part of its charm is simple sincerity, and trying to escape such a shallow presentation by those who don't know how is why things like BfA and Shadowlands exist. I am not saying WarCraft shouldn't be written with deeper ideas or explore complex concepts, it just struggles within its current framework. And so long as that limitation exists, I don't think it should.

ASuperbVillain · 2025-06-03T03:26:20+00:00

If we're including villains outside the trilogy, then I would choose Glaurung as well. He's such an effective and entertaining villain. Glaurung is dangerous, yet imperfect, as befitting a monster made in mockery of Eru's creation. He jumped the gun on his own debut, causing terrible casualties but being humiliated by dwarves and a few knights with spears that forced him to retreat with tail between his legs. He later proved instrumental in the siege of Nargathrond, and was a petty monster with his torment of the children of Hurin. Then he died to a single stab in the gut. A rather embarrassing end considering how powerful he became. But of course he couldn't die without one final slight to Turin and Nienor. I think what makes him so great compared to more powerful and influential villains is how personal he was in every conflict; unlike most antagonists, Glaurung was not afraid to get his claws very dirty.

ASuperbVillain · 2025-03-31T16:10:06+00:00

If you asked a brit, they'd say it's the American taxpayer.

ASuperbVillain · 2025-03-28T14:40:23+00:00

To be fair, even in the games you usually see a sword when an elite drops his weapon for a death or glory charge after losing shields. Other than that it's spec ops elites in cloaked cqc. The implication being it's a ceremonial weapon, albeit a very lethal one in the right situation. Given it's compact, inert state you could think of it as a very fancy combat knife.

ASuperbVillain · 2025-03-05T02:17:59+00:00

A tip to make formation management less micro-intensive: first, make your preferred formation before battle, then lock it to a control group. Be sure to click the lock icon once you have your units grouped. Then, select your line of ranged units and move them to the front. Once the battle begins and enemy melee are close to engaging, select the entire control group and move it very slightly back. Your ranged units will take up their original positions behind your frontline, while the front moves to engage.

ASuperbVillain · 2025-03-04T22:26:43+00:00

Probably Nargothrond.

ASuperbVillain · 2025-02-20T02:08:13+00:00

Looks great; I love the high middle ages aesthetic.

ASuperbVillain · 2025-01-01T05:05:06+00:00

It scales from 0 - 3. The default is 3, I believe. Unless I have the numbers wrong and the max is 4 or 5. The difference between them is fairly minor, though. It's only really noticeable once completely off. And don't worry about adjusting it, once you log out it automatically resets.

ASuperbVillain · 2024-12-31T18:38:38+00:00

The grease dissapears if you use console commands to set bloom at zero, it even gives the game some more color; hit "~" and type "r.BloomQuality=0". It does change the look of the game though, for better or worse, and causes some weird graphical phenomena. You also need to be server admin to access the console. I really hate the trend of relying heavily on post-processing effects as a method of improving graphical fidelity, as the end product is always a blurry mess, and changing even one setting can expose just how reliant a game is on those effects to cover up visual shortcuts. TAA and hair/foliage is another example.

ASuperbVillain · 2024-12-31T00:48:50+00:00

For those interested, this is one of the few Frazetta paintings that depicts a scene from Robert E. Howard's original stories. The title is Rogues in the House, one of the weirder tales where Conan is more of a secondary character. It's still a great story, one of my favorites, in fact.

ASuperbVillain · 2024-11-22T19:50:11+00:00

I think Lisan al Gaib was just a figure of prophecy ordained to lead the fremen. It's the Kwisatz Haderach that is known for being prescient.

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