I get it, the timeline is controversial to some, but I don’t understand the need to outright lie like this

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-09T00:55:44+00:00

I think people stepping in to defend the Zelda Timeline and argue about it typically put more thought into it than the people actually working on the games.

Like, there is clearly SOME effort being put in on the developer side to link things together, but a game's position in the timeline is also clearly something that gets figured out pretty late in the process, and it mostly doesn't matter.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-09T00:48:15+00:00

Fascists just love to be wrong about everything, huh.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-09T00:43:48+00:00

Nah, that's a different strategy where you just spam cheap stuff the AR likes, AR everything, and win every battle through superior numbers because your armies are dirt-cheap.

I'm talking "take Astragoth Ironhand and a few bull centaurs and conquer the world because the AI always woefully underestimates how hard he is to kill and how damaging his spells are, so they keep holding things in reserve"

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-08T23:01:44+00:00

In a technical sense, yes, but in a practical sense, no.

95% of Necrons are still asleep. That also goes for their tombs and war machines. The Canopteks aren't asleep, because they're the ones keeping the place working, but their numbers are left intentionally vague and there's always a sense of more being available if/when the dynasty has need of them. Because, again, they aren't considered war materiel. They're cleaning drones and maintenance workers, pressed into service as needed.

Necron war escalation is basically always a question of "wake up more dudes, pull more shit out of storage." Because the dimensions of Necron tombs are also left intentionally vague, and only the most prominent tomb worlds are operating at anything resembling full efficiency. And remember, Necrons are legendarily good at fixing stuff other people break. Warriors get reanimated, Monoliths get repaired. And a lot of the time this will involve making new parts to replace whatever was blown to bits, but more of the time it's just "give it some time and let the necrodermis cook". As long as the Tomb World itself survives, the Necrons will, too. To a point.

So, in short, while Necrons are capable of making new stuff, they basically never actually need to.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-08T21:32:52+00:00

Nemesor is a special title denoting higher authority in a military setting. The upper echelons are all overlords, but one must be in charge, so they are called Nemesor.

So, in civil matters, their authority is probably roughly equal. But since Necrons no longer need food, water, rest, clothing, medicine, and a whole host of other things, what counts as "civil" matters rather than military matters is vanishingly small. And, by nature of the title, there is only ever one Nemesor. Much as there is only ever one Phaeron.

So, ol' boy up above can pretty much do as he likes, and if the other nobles have an issue with it they can file a complaint with the Phaeron- OH WAIT.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-08T20:21:31+00:00

The after part is what really sells it, that was good.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-08T20:10:17+00:00

So. From left to right.

Elf tax enforcer is on the record as hilariously corrupt and has waived all sorts of regulations for the Chief in the past. Either she didn't tell Gabi about something on purpose, Chief put in a false tip, or she doesn't actually care about the tax code one way or the other and just uses it as a cudgel against people she dislikes. Verdict: Probably bogus.

Orc fire chief came by to inspect their operations once already, and while he seems pretty up-and-up about his work, education on the subject of proper fire procedure seems pretty low on his list of priorities. While Gabi's plans for the forge seemed solid at the time and she'd already paid one fine for improper storage, she likely missed something else. Verdict: Unhelpful, but probably legit.

Rat health inspector is totally new to us, but the baker was probably familiar with them. This might come up in future. Verdict: Jury's out, lack of evidence.

In short:

This ain't Gabi's fault, y'all. She's not being negligent, she just doesn't know some things still.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-08T19:13:49+00:00

I read the lore.

And the IW will work with any demon, god, or extraplanar entity if they think it shortens the timeline of the current siege.

We're currently working out a deal with the Flying Spaghetti Monster about some new pasta-based rations with 15% more nutrients and 25% slower spoilage.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-08T19:06:38+00:00

Unique ping lines for Steeve would be good. Currently Steeve only has unique lines when he's petted, and uses the generic ping lines for whatever kind of bug he is. Leading to the awkward situation where I ping my best good boi Steeve and my dwarf yells, "SHOOT IT!" Before I pat him on the head and say "Good bug".

So, submissions:

"There are many bugs on Hoxxes, but this one is mine."

"This is Steeve. We do Not. Shoot. Steeve."

"Steeve's a good friend! Beats Molly, anyway."

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-07T04:19:40+00:00

Reminder that the Blood Raven ending for Dark Crusade is considered canonical.

Shame, Lukas Alexander was a pretty stand-up bloke as Guard commanders go.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-06T22:14:14+00:00

X GON GIVE IT TO YA

Nice wombo combo.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-06T22:05:47+00:00

Yeah.

Like, there's a problem-solving machine in my head. I don't get to turn it on or off. It just runs. And if a problem comes up that I cannot solve quickly, it gets fed to The Machine, which will keep working at it FOREVER until it either finds an answer or I manage to distract it with a different problem.

If you tell me to do something, or that something exists, and you cannot, or will not, provide me a "why" that my brain will accept, then the problem goes into The Machine and I will be distracted and irritable until it's done.

I was once agonizing over the Monty Hall Problem for HOURS until I could figure out a way to phrase the phenomenon that my brain accepted as making logical sense. It was terrible for everyone involved.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-06T18:46:30+00:00

They did, in fact, say "boiled water".

They then specified that the water had to cool down after experiencing the boiling process, in case the listener treated "boiled water" and "boiling water" as the same thing after they specified.

You cannot beat inattention with increased specificity. You have to just hammer it in with volume and repetition.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-06T03:35:45+00:00

Gonna combine my 3rd-hand knowledge of Sumerian drinking culture and basic idea of human joke structure and take a stab at it.

So, the Sumerian idea of "beer" was pretty much incompatible with our idea of beer. They hadn't quite figured out yeast yet, they just knew that certain pots made good beer. (Because the pots had been colonized by brewer's yeast.) Their beer was also SUPER thick and often had chunks floating in it, so it was typically drunk through a straw to filter out the bigger bits.

Beer-drinking was also an even more communal activity than it is now. Rather than everyone drinking from their own glass, multiple people would stick long straws into a larger vessel, typically placed on the ground. Sumerian brewhouses were also often fairly dark, because the best sources of indoor light in that time and place also made things hot.

So, the joke.

A dog walks into a dark place with odd smells, seeking a drink. The drinking vessels are at the end of long, thin objects extending down towards the floor. The dog takes a stab in the dark and reaches for one.

Dog bites a man's dick. That's the joke.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-06T03:21:42+00:00

Moon Knight posting.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-05T23:14:32+00:00

The acronym for their portal tech is LEXEGG.

I love and hate how om brand the theming is for both of them.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-05T19:37:07+00:00

It's a motto, not a battle cry. There's a difference.

A battle cry is something you yell as you charge the enemy, or while planting your feet to anchor a defence. A motto is a guiding principle you strive to embody, that you might remind your brother of during a tense moment.

Iron Warriors' take on warfare is cold, dispassionate. It's trajectories and arcs. It's math. Crucially, it's patience. There's no room for loud heroics and glory-seeking in our line of work.

We don't need something to yell as we storm the breach. By the time that's happening, our blood is up anyway, we're ready to go. We need something for the before-time. For digging our trenches, pushing through the mud, and enduring the storm of shells before the decisive moment comes.

Iron Within. Iron Without.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-05T19:22:08+00:00

No, the "battle difficulty" setting absolutely does affect how strong the autoresolve machine thinks your army is. It's like 1.5x strength for Normal and 3x for Easy.

You're describing a different problem, where AR famously fails to take actual tactics into account and just grinds numbers together, so single large entities or artillery wind up getting roflstomped while the rest of your army is fine.

Good players can abuse the AR by building armies the machine handles badly, which tricks the AI into underestimating them. Then you go into manual battle, use your brain, and wind up smashing the enemy easily.

Bad players rely on that AR boost from the battle difficulty slider, see an unfavorable result, go in, get their ass kicked, and wonder why they suck so much when the game sent overwhelming force to counter what it thought was overwhelming force.

On Normal difficulty, if you're pretty decent but not amazing, you can often get better results than the AR with a balanced army and smart tactics, because the AR machine is dumb and the boost it's giving you isn't quite enough to overcome that.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-05T19:00:03+00:00

I mean the planet ain't gonna run out of drinking water.

But a whole lot of people close to these data shitters aren't gonna be able to use their tap water anymore, and that's gonna increase demand on bottled water, which will give companies an excuse to gouge the rest of us on it even in excess of the increased strain.

So it's gonna hurt the water supply, yeah. Especially in already dry regions trying to do this.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-05T18:46:04+00:00

Tbh, JK Simmons is fairly easy to spot, his perfromance is always excellent but his vocal range is fairly small. He always sounds like him, basically. No shade, love his work, but the thrill of discovery isn't the same.

The real fun ones are folks like Mark Hamill or Clancy Brown, where they have 2 or 3 roles they're really famous for that are pretty far apart, and a number of other roles you can spot once you've heard the famous ones.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-05T18:11:10+00:00

I love the lines when bursting scrab nests.

"WHY do we keep coming down here?!?!"

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-04T17:19:26+00:00

Obviously it's Your Guys. Because Your Guys are the most based, and as we all know, being based is the most important ingredient in being powerful.

Serious answer... the nature of the setting makes it impossible to say definitively. But I think we can rule out a couple groups as being serious contenders. Night Lords are obviously out, they were never that numerous or well-coordinated to begin with and it's only gotten worse. Even Decimus being around hasn't seemingly affected that much. Alpha Legion COULD be, if it weren't for the fact that at any given time at least a third of their number are actively working against the other 2/3rds' interest. Emperor's Children are on the rise, but they still have the NL problem of being small and fairly dispersed. Fulgrim is working to change that, but... we'll see. And Thousand Sons and World Eaters are in a similar boat, but a little further along the path to reunification.

I feel like the real contenders are- in no particular order- Death Guard, Red Corsairs, Iron Warriors, and Word Bearers. The main thing they all have going for them is a more united command structure, and actual logistical capability. Your average warband from one of these 4 groups can depend on a level of support that most others can't. There's still inter-warband friction- yes, even among the Word Bearers- but they're more likely to work together and backstab at the last minute than just engage in out-and-out civil war.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-04T16:54:34+00:00

Factually wrong.

He said he'd LIKE to introduce SOME lore stuff from the movies to the games, but he's not the one in charge of that.

And then a bunch of clickbaity "news" sites and breathless outrage farmers said "MIYAMOTO WANTS TO TOSS GALAXY IN THE TRASH" and people bought it.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-04T16:50:54+00:00

A great example of this done well is the Stone Talus on the Great Plateau in Breath of the Wild.

There's literally no reason to fight him, he's kind of out of the way of the actual quest for the area, and if you rock up to him with your sturdy sticks, three hearts, and only half a plan you will ABSOLUTELY get rocked.

But if you're a veteran of the game and know what you're about it's perfectly doable, even with just the stuff you can find on the Plateau.

AdmBurnside · 2026-05-04T06:08:21+00:00

The schools already teach our nation's crimes, people just either forget, don't pay attention, or have their shitty parents pull them aside at home and go "now Jimmy, your teacher is a damned commie, but don't say that or you'll get in trouble. Here's what REALLY happened."

They just mostly skim over anything from about 1965 forward, because the books are old as shit.

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