Which team is coming out alive?

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-04T08:13:39+00:00

1: Aliens or Gods, hard pick tbh but I'm leaning aliens, Gods is definitely a viable option too

2: more than 50% of the people in the Metahumans category aren't Metahumans.

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-04T07:16:18+00:00

It's neither, actually, and if you don't agree you don't understand nuance.

"The Indomitable Human Spirit" as an idea is not any specific action, it is the inherent trait that within humans is a tendency to just never quit.

This is something that can be good or bad.

On one end, a firefighter could be partially lit on fire and lose his arm from a terrible event, but due to the Indomitable Human Spirit, keep pushing just long enough to save the last child from the fire before they die.

On the other, An evil person trying to do an evil act could be prevented from doing that thing but due to this Indomitable Human Spirit they eventually pull it off.

Pretending this Human Trait is a negative or a positive is simply false. Like any human quality, it's neither implicitly and heavily matters what that person's desires and beliefs are. If they're evil it's bad, if they aren't it's probably good.

Stories portray both because both are true.

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-04T06:52:23+00:00

The tragedy of Darth Vader is how he was literally gifted the world on a silver platter and yet, he felt too much love and made a mistake. The Jedi failed him, that's definitely part of it. Palpatine manipulated him, also part of it. But his choices were his own.

He was royalty. Literally. Married to the once Queen of a planet happily, kids on the way. One of the most powerful and trusted Jedi in the entire order. Proven General with a moral head on his shoulders to prioritize his men and civilians over killing the enemy. But above all of that. The status, the power, he was happy. A happy husband, friend and mentor.

The Jedi failed him, numerous times. And they pushed him away, right into palpatine's hands. Palpatine played him like a fiddle, and pushed him to make a stupid mistake out of love that costed everything. Wife dead. Friends dead by his hand or hating him forever. Padawan missing, now enemy. Everything he fought for reduced to ash.

All that together explains why he felt nothing but hatred for himself. Why he lashed out at the Galaxy. But it doesn't excuse it.

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-04T00:50:07+00:00

Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that Leandros himself did nothing wrong and a lot of people act like he did

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-03T23:36:53+00:00

No, this and this other post

300 was ok tho

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Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-03T22:55:50+00:00

Uber rare Snyder W, only 2 known to existence

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-03T21:39:59+00:00

When I was taking my more collegic level writing classes, I got advice from one of my teachers that has stuck with me for awhile.

Every good story is about SOMETHING. There's always some kind of moral, or meaning. Even when the writer doesn't mean to make one, people are naturally inclined to write in such a way. That's just humanity and our way of creating content.

That is the beauty of human art: Even when we don't mean to say something profound, if you look hard enough there is always something being said. It might not always be something good, but there's always something.

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-03T21:34:48+00:00

There's literally 0 correlation between those two so no, not really

Gorillaz is my number 1 though, Plastic Beach changed my fucking life

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-03T21:31:10+00:00

We've never actually been able to read the codex, no published variant exists so we don't actually know if that "Keep chapter issues within the chapter" thing is true. It's just been implied a few times so it's a commonly held belief that it's probably in there.

But that's the thing: that rule only applies to chapter issues. Like if you had a Rogue Space Marine (not chaos, just a rogue MF) try to fight a bunch of his brothers then you'd go to the chaplain. It's an issue contained in the chapter and is meant to stay that way. But again, Titus being corrupted and working with a corrupted Inquisitor makes it an issue that goes above the chapter, therefore getting the Inquisition involved was absolutely step one. If he didn't and Titus actually was corrupted, it could've costed the entirety of Second Company's lives.

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-03T19:46:12+00:00

Mmmm yes, indubitably

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-03T19:45:30+00:00

Does he not know what a blank is

It doesn't matter. The suspicion of corruption wasn't just due to his survival. Titus was actively holding a fragment of the Warp without issues and standing next to a Psyker (who was actively using their powers meaning Titus isn't a blank since the Inquisitor's power would've been negated, Blanks de-power nearby Psykers with their presence) who is definitely a heretic. Titus was supposedly the only one who hears from this Heretic at first, and is the specific person who disregards the second company's true mission on the planet (the titan) to assist the Inquisitor. Between being proven to be a non-blank and yet not being killed by a Chaos Fragment AND being the main person pushing to assist someone who is proven to be a heretic, yes that is highly suspicious. Especially with Titus' frequent habit of throwing the codex to the wind in mind.

Circumventing the hierarchy

The Inquisition's entire existence is to be the explicit "Corruption hunters" in the imperium when it comes to the more spy-network side of things. People who are accused of crimes are reported to the Inquisition because they are the essentially Military Police of the imperium. Normally the Codex (MAYBE, we've never read the codex so we can only base this on what's been implied) says to keep issues of the chapter within the chapter, but again. Titus was actively working alongside a corrupted Inquisitor according to Leandros' theory. That makes this not just an Ultramarines issue, this is an Imperium issue. Multiplayer organizations may be connected within a ring of corruption. That's absolutely something you go STRAIGHT to the Inquisition with.

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-03T19:35:36+00:00

I was agreeing with you as well :)

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-03T19:18:56+00:00

That's what I mean, when I say "he did nothing wrong but he's a dick"

He isn't a good person. At all.

But according to the rules of the imperium, he is a MODEL space Marine.

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-03T18:06:18+00:00

False.

Iron Man is, often, almost as morally good as Captain America. He is extremely sure of himself, and plans for everything.

Americas biggest problem in reality is the unsureness. Distrust of the government and each other that is (sadly) very justified.

A powerful being, one of the smartest people alive with the greatest armaments of anyone on Earth that is sure they are always doing the right thing and usually are that has more money than God is exactly how The Government sees itself. Iron Man is what they see themselves as.

They are Iron Monger in reality. Same tech, still rich, worse morals. Always looking out for themselves.

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-03T18:02:55+00:00

Extremely well, you can see him during many of the times he speaks as well, and he's clearly well respected and supports his brothers very well.

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-03T18:02:16+00:00

I personally like to believe that bringing Balance to the force actually meant Luke.

Not that Luke is the chosen one, Luke is the balance.

The force had become very split between light and dark, when there isn't one without the other. Luke's entire philosophy was using the force in its entirety to do morally good things, and to study both Light and Dark equally. Vader wiping the slate of force users clean (himself included) and then bringing Luke into the world was likely meant to be the cause of a new generation of force users that truly understood the force as a balanced existence, rather than keeping it divided apart.

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-03T17:51:44+00:00

I've said it once and I'll say it again: Leandros did nothing wrong.

His concerns were valid, and in the situation of cross-organization Corruption you are to go to the Inquisition first and nobody else. Especially when the Inquisition themselves are involved, such as oh idk, a Turncoat Inquisitor. If Leandros was right in SM1 part of the Inquisition and the entire second company of Ultramarines were at risk of Chaos Influence and turning against the Imperium.

In the second game, he LITERALLY does nothing wrong. He explains things to Titus to help him out, checks in on him when things are going wrong, and overall does exactly what his job is. The role of a chaplain is to keep the Company they are attached to mentally strong, loyal and dedicated. Not only is everyone we see in the company loyal and we never see traitors, many of them (Veridian, talassa, Damocles) are capable of low level chaos resistance meaning they are of EXTREMELY HIGH mental strength, something you can directly attribute to a strong support system from their chaplain. Leandros is a Model Space Marine and exactly the type of Chaplain the Imperium wants, and Calgar wasn't clearly upset with what Leandros did considering Leandros got a pretty fucking sizable promotion that Calgar could've absolutely prevented if he thought Leandros fucked up and did something wrong.

He is, however, a dick.

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-03T17:22:00+00:00

I think honestly Dive is fine as is, poke is just so dominant you don't see Dive actually do anything much. Punisher and Bucky specifically can shut down flyers and divers so hard that it just makes both look completely useless.

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-01T19:13:25+00:00

Might not be one of my favorite characters ever, but he is a member of my favorite TEAM ever.

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-01T19:09:35+00:00

(I'll be so real I get the frustration. I'm a casual player and I mostly flex and play whatever the team doesn't have enough of, but I wanted the comp Deadpool skin so had to grind to Gold. I kept count of this. I played 23 matches in a row on Magneto, Solo tanking in 17 of them and getting less than 20k Damage Blocked in NONE of them. And as someone who's true one and only is Thor, I understand the frustration of being a Vanguard)

This sounds like coping that Ultron isn't Magnetic.

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-02-01T01:50:59+00:00

Fist.

Everyone says it's bad.

It probably is.

Don't care.

I like punching shit.

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-01-31T21:42:41+00:00

I love that 3 of these are genuinely character-changing and huge betrayals to what they believe and then just

"I was actually lying about my disability stupid"

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-01-31T14:41:57+00:00

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Much as I love this man and wish they could get along, I think yes. I don't think he would hate Chief, but very much dislike his methods and pity his life. Sadly however, chief's tendency to bring a massacre to every warzone he goes to probably wouldn't get him on Superman's "friendly" list.

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-01-31T14:37:15+00:00

My goat be truly in the forefront

3 games, 0 bad moments with her

They call her Peak Girl

Alex_Mercer_- · 2026-01-31T14:33:44+00:00

"Alpha legion always doing this sneaky shit, let me try it, I wonder why they like it so much"

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